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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1925
Page
2
In Kansas City market totals for cattle hogs and sheep show mixed demand. Cattle: 10,000 head with calves 2,000. prices range from 4.25 to 12.00 per hundredweight for various classes. Hogs: 6,500 head steady with bulk sales around 10.85. sows and pigs quoted at 9.85 to 12.45. Sheep: 8,000 head lower with fed lambs at 16.00 to 16.45 and yearlings 12.50 to 13.60.
(AP) Oklahoma City on December 8 reports cattle runs at 1400 head steady with fed steers $8.25 to $9.50, cows $5 to $5.50, heifers $5.50 to $7.50, stockers and feeders $3.25 to $4.25. Hog prices rise with 1100 head trading to a top of $1.76.
In Chicago and vicinity the latest market roundup shows hogs at various cuts: packing sows 9 to 10 dollars, killing pigs 11.75 to 12, heavy hogs 10.75 to 11, medium hogs 10.95 to 11.15, light hogs 9.60 to 11.50. Cattle listings total 14,000 with prime Christmas yearlings at 12.50, choice yearlings 11.7 to 12, fat steers 8.75 to 10.5, vealers 11 to 11.59. Sheep total 15,000 with fat lambs 17 to 17.35, fat ewes 9.25 to 10.29, feeding lambs 17.25 to 17.60.
Fort Worth markets report cattle 5700 head including 1500 calves with steady to mixed bids. Hogs 1000 head lower. fat cows and calves show varied ranges. Kansas City wheat and corn prices listed with grain bids across No 2 and hard wheat and corn futures.
New York stocks opened with railroad shares strong led by New York Central Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern. Industrials gained on motors with Chrysler and Hudson up over a point while some issues edged lower in the orderly advance. Pennsylvanias price jumped to 53 1 2 the high since 1917 amid broad rail strength and favorable earnings outlook.
Amarillo grain market reports No. 1 hard wheat at 1.56 dollars per bushel and kafir at 1.90 dollars per hundred pounds, with maize priced at 0.96 dollars per hundred pounds.
Thirty students in the colleges poultry department attended the Tri-State Poultry Show in Amarillo receiving judging guidance. Poultry class enrollment has risen over 400 percent in three years and many aim to become county agents or home demonstrators. The group may tour a Hereford hatchery this quarter with practice birds from top Texas farms and Major Burton, a sophomore, overseeing the college poultry plant.
The council of ministers approved Senator Victor Henry Berenger as France's ambassador to the United States. He is to relieve Emile Daeschner in Washington with six monthly renewals. Berenger has long been a leading financial authority and budget reporter for the French senate finance commission.
The Amarillo district Methodist ministers and district stewards met with Rev. W. M. Lane the presiding elder and outlined plans for the coming year. Visiting pastors and stewards attended the lunch hosted by Reverend Lane.
The article discusses a split among congressmen over unifying the air service and notes Buckner’s arrests of a major rum ring, highlighting government complicity in bootlegging. It describes tax bill provisions aimed at broadening public acceptance, with public figures fearing tax disclosure and arguing for relief to both small and large earners.
A brief notice urges readers to invest through the Community Chest as the prudent choice for financial safety and communal support. It highlights the fund's role in backing local services and charitable programs.
The president urges continuation of existing policies with tax relief, warns against extravagant spending, and supports extending approved measures. He favors selective service mobilization, stronger air power, agricultural marketing aid, centralized action for the merchant marine, railroad consolidations, and enforcement of national prohibition with state cooperation.
The Lockney chamber of commerce plans a jubilee banquet to celebrate a Fort Worth and Denver City railway contract that extends lines into Floyd county from Estelline. Gen. John A. Hulen and Capt. R. Wright Armstrong will speak, with Floyd county residents and delegations from Plainview and Floydada attending. Forty-five Floyd county men pledged to secure the right of way as construction awaits Interstate Commerce Commission approval.
The president calls for regulation to improve railroad relations, supports inland navigation, and urges strong water power development. He favors Alaska expenditure reviews, Philippine governor powers ahead of independence, civil service classification for postmasters and other agents, and a mothers pension law as a model for states.
Clarendon mourns W. M. Stevens seventy seven who died Monday at his home after a long illness. Born in Georgia he came west in the early 1880s. Survived by six children including Mrs B R Hooks Amarillo and three sons in Detroit Dalhart and Roswell. Funeral at First Baptist Church with burial in Clarendon.
Santa Claus inspires a project in the manual training rooms where students in wood work make ducks elephants and other toys from waste wood. Professor Robert Donald leads the effort with students cutting patterns assembling wheels and painting bodies for Christmas Day gifts for children.
The article describes using in front of business houses flag sockets to hold small Christmas trees decorated with electric bulbs. A move will be started to encourage firms to place trees in the sockets during Christmas week, creating a festive display and shared holiday spirit. The piece asks who will initiate the idea by placing a tree in their flag socket.
Pansey Peck a stenographer aged 32 died in a local hospital from poison. She is survived by her parents Mr and Mrs Hal Peck of Corsicana. The note mentions good sisters and a Merry Christmas wish from the Associated Press.
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