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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1925
Page
2
Chicago markets reportDecember 9 shows hogs 26 000 head uneven prices with packing sows 9.25 to 6.60 dollars killing pigs 11.85 to 12 dollars heavy hogs 10.75 to 11.95 mids 10.85 to 11.20 lights 10.95 to 11.55 cattle 20 000 head steady prices steers 8.50 to 10.50 choice yearlings 1 vealer 10.50 to 11.50 sheep 14 000 head steady fat lambs 16.50 to 17.00 feeding lambs 16.75 to 17.10.
Market notes from St. Louis and Kansas City report cattle hogs and sheep activity with price ranges. Cattle at St. Louis 4 500 head bulk hogs 9.00 to 11.05, sheep 1 500 head lambs 14.75 to 16.15. Kansas City prices include cattle 19 600 head calves 2 000 slow, hogs 9.00 to 11.05, grain and feed costs for wheat corn oats. Also Kansas City cash grain figures with wheat around 1.71 to 1.81 and corn 0.75 to 0.81 per bushel.
Cattle runs total 1 900 with slow trade. Yearlings at 8.59, fat cows from 5.75 to 4.50, top 5. Calves 9. Hogs 400 head slow with bulk trading around 10.95 to 11.15 per hundredweight.
Cattle around 1000 head, prices lower for steers at $8.80 and fat heifers up to $7.30, cows $4.15 to $5.50, hogs 16000 steady with top $11, sows $9.50 to $9.75, sheep 200 head higher with lambs at $15.50.
Fort Worth cattle run totals about 2 600 head with calves and beeves trading 4.25 to 8.25 dollars, stockers 4 to 8, fat cows 3.50 to 5.50, heifers 2.50 to 8.50, yearlings 4 to 9.75, bulls 3 to 3.85, calves 3 to 54. Hogs 500 head steady with bulk 11.50 to 11.65, sows 10 to 11, pigs 9.50 to 10.50. Sheep 500 steady with lambs 15 to 15.25, feeders 12 to 14, yearlings 10 to 12, wethers 7.50 to 8.50, ewes 6.50 to 7.50, stockers 3.50 to 6.50.
The commission postponed a decision on a grade 3B raw milk issue as R C Pool seeks more data and fights over classifying pasteurized milk. Heated exchanges occurred among Pool Jeff Bartlett and City Inspector C G Spencer. Street closures near schools and fire station bid approval plus tax adjustments and paving contracts were also decided.
Judge W E Gee calls Lions program Tuesday the most nonsensical Amarillo event. Grand jury indicts Frer Neal for robbing Northern Harris grocer store. Neal jailed. Ruth Southern granted divorce from George Southern. Postmaster McDonald notes Christmas rush. Tyler to complete twenty year post office record January 1 1926. Bob Clark urges Sunday gospel safety preaching. teachers to warn children about street dangers. Juries in Simmons vs Commercial Investment Company linger. suit for 20000 alleged due to alleged rough treatment. J. J. Stricklin thanks Northwest Texas hospital staff after appendectomy. compliments Dr S P Vineyard. Bill Smith travels to Lubbock for Mistletoe Creamery plant. jury excuse due to business trip. An Amarillo shopper leaves store over profanity. prefers vendors who do not swear. Dr A H Lindsay awaiting Mayo hospital exam. may undergo head operation. Mrs Anna Ogden's 23 pound tumor removed. improving at St Anthony’s Sanitarium. Mrs W H Brummett returns from Glen Rose improved. J W Brodie plans 2500 dollar dwelling on North Johnson. African coal mines output rises. efforts to cut costs continue.
Dr. Gould cites coal reserves of 53 billion tons and gypsum at 133 billion tons supporting long term output. He ranks Texas first in new wealth, with Pennsylvania second and Oklahoma third, noting inexhaustible oil and gas in Oklahoma and Texas and a Panhandle gas field discovered in 1905.
Hazel a white shorn hen valued at 5000 leads 3500 entries in the seventeenth annual Midwest poultry and pet show opening today at the Coliseum The event features new classes including a featherless Chinese chicken and a meat producing turkey The show is broadcast on WLS at 7 PM and includes entries from Texas and Ohio based exhibitors
Walter Cecil Ham, nine, son of Mrs. A. L. Shinn, died after a membranous condition. The family lives at 904 West Twentieth Street. Funeral services are planned Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Shinn home, with burial by Griggs undertaking and Rev. George Irvin presiding.
Special telegram from Washington reports Captain R S Wilson chief engineer of the bureau of roads said there was no shortage in federal funds for Texas roads. Walter Blackburn G T Oliver W L Askew and others are in the oil field today to witness spudding in of the Centerfield well.
Social notes report Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Willborn will return to their home at 1618 Madison street from Mineral Wells tomorrow. The 1925 club hosted a bridge luncheon with prizes for top players and a packed guest list.
Lockney welcomed Panhandle guests including Floydada Plainview Turkey and Quitaque for the Chamber of Commerce banquet. Officers were elected A B Brown president and other leaders. The event celebrated the Fort Worth and Denver City railway contract to Floyd County and pledged regional cooperation to boost Floyd County and the South Plains.
A L Steele a 39 year old tool dresser died last night in a local hospital after an appendicitis attack. The body will go to Bristow Oklahoma by Griggs Undertaking Co. Surviving relatives include his sister Mrs Edward Rainay of Pampa and brothers J H Steele Bristow Edward Steele Tulsa D B Steele Vernon Theodore Steele Chicago Clarence Steele Sapulpa one more sister Mrs Kenneth Miller Oshio Missouri. He was a member of the Masonic order.
Word from Amarillo reports the death of Billy, 12, son of Bert Mars of Fort Worth. Billy underwent surgery recently. he was known as an unusually bright boy with many friends in Amarillo and the Panhandle. The Mars party had come to Amarillo to purchase cattle.
President Coolidge outlines a projected 1927 surplus and urges Congress to pursue further tax reductions while avoiding new large expenditures. He notes cooperation with the Ways and Means Committee, eyes Coast Guard expansion funding, and warns against expanding federal road commitments beyond primary and inter state highways. Public funds conservation remains a focus as refunds rise from 90 million to 151 million dollars.
The Crume Killough and Wolfram suite is leased by the firm and completely remodeled. Offices are being refurnished with new equipment. An operating room and two wards for local and general anaesthetic patients are connected. T. A. Atkinson, previously dangerously ill, is much improved.
Count Ludwig Salm Von Hoogstraetan files for separation from Millicent Rogers Salm, claiming desertion and seeking American court protection and child custody. Millicent, in Palm Beach with son and her parents, offered no comment. The couple wed January 8, 1924, then lived apart after a troubled courtship.
Sheriff deputies seized six gallons of corn liquor and thirty bottles of beer at a second hand store during a morning visit. Brice Floyd was arrested and jailed on liquor charges. Floyd had a prior liquor conviction with an eighteen month penitentiary sentence and an appeal pending before the higher court.
Proceedings list motions overruled and cases affirmed reversed or submitted across districts including Marion Machine Foundry versus Peck and Leath versus Prince. The roll covers banks, rail and oil firms, construction concerns, and a city bank case, with set for submission date noted and locations across Ye Texas counties.
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