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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1925
Page
2
Kansas City and Chicago market notes show cattle and hog prices with gains and declines across regions. Oklahoma City and Wichita detail lower cattle, steady hogs, and assorted prices for steers cows calves and veal, reflecting regional demand in mid February.
The data outlines May and July wheat bids around 1.88 to 1.89 with small fluctuations and September at about 1.47. Corn futures for May and July hover near 1.22 to 1.34 with varying daily percentages and settlement hints, showing modest volatility across contracts.
Amarillo Cotton & Grain and American Smelter shares noted in a brief stock listing. BPXCHANGE and Alex Hyman & Co. of New Orleans are listed among traders with no major price moves disclosed.
Poultry items listed include heavy hens under four pounds by Ib. Hens Leghorn hens springs and broilers old roosters ducks and geese borers turkeys No 1 turkeys old tom and packing stock butter entries noted for sale or inventory.
A partial table shows wheat and maize prices with basis details plus a list of company names including American Locomotive General Motors Studebaker and Westinghouse among others, alongside crude references to oil and steel firms and rail lines.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Jane Kirk 73 died Monday at her daughter's home 1710 Taylor street were set for 3 30 PM this afternoon at the residence with Rev Cd F Jenkins in charge Burial followed at Llano Cemetery by Griggs Undertaking Company Survived by two daughters Mrs Ledford and Mrs Ada Sewell of Amarillo A longtime Baptist church member
Requests from Mrs. J. Roy Smith and other mothers seek publication of a second year feeding schedule. The Globe will print the schedule in its Sunday edition, based on Cornell home bureau extension service guidance and Mrs. Sloan Kruser’s careful twin girls regimen.
Washington committee handling President Coolidge's inaugural reduced all expenditures to minimum and abandoned proposals to erect stands along the march route.
Joseph Williams a 60 year old bank messenger for the State Bank of Wellston was accosted on a street car in St Louis today beaten and robbed of 7600 in cash. The three robbers made their escape.
Telegraphers employed by the Missouri Pacific railroad received a $15 monthly wage increase in a ruling issued by the United States railroad labor board yesterday.
The House passed a $7,787,910 finance bill for eleemosynary institutions for the next biennium marking the session's second finance measure. Senate amendments to a bill creating another federal judicial district in Oklahoma were accepted and go to the president. A sleet storm in Texas caused widespread ice damage with five thousand miles of wires and over two thousand poles brought down. repair crews worked nonstop through Christmas to restore service.
Tokyo replies to a diet interpellation that American naval maneuvers do not constitute a threat. It notes public opinion on the plan but says Japan does not view it as hostile. The Singapore base by England is not deemed a menace, with naval ratio noted as 100 to 42.
A modern version of the turtle and hare tale unfolds as a dog team and an airplane race to Nome from Nenana amid a diphtheria serum shortage. The dog team with 480,000 units leads, plane attempts to lift off at Fairbanks yesterday, both aimed at delivering serum to the Arctic town.
U S Senator elect Rice W Means of Colorado formerly a lieutenant colonel of infantry is cited by the War Department for gallantry in action during the Spanish American War. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions against Spanish forces at Manila.
Jacob Cable of Butler Pennsylvania marked his 107th birthday at his Butler County home. Born October 15 1817 in Whitestown he recalled enlisting for Civil War service in Pittsburgh but was rejected due to his height.
Thomaston Ga February 19 W J Pearson a cotton mill worker began life in prison in Upsom county chain gang after rejecting a judge’s grant of a new trial for the murder of his cousin Mrs Thomas Morgan last August. Attorneys reported the defendant did not approve of the decision and asked for the original verdict to stand.
Bob Ames travels to Austin to represent sportsmen before the legislature. As Izaak Walton League president he opposes Rep. Dewey Young’s push to close the ten day prairie chicken season in Wheeler and Gray counties. Local flocks in Gray and Wheeler are described as plentiful and increasing, argued as reason against a closure.
EE. BF. Voss deputy regional scout executive and Thomas H. Nelson Amarillo scout executive, under Panhandle council chairman L. C. White, will tour Wednesday visiting Hereford Tulsa Silverton and Happy to promote the proposed Panhandle scout council.
A T Renfro announces his connection with the Gaut Land company as salesman. He is a pioneer in Amarillo and the Panhandle and enthusiastic about Amarillo real estate development this year. Renfroe contributed to securing the White Way and viaduct on Fast Tenth street and now serves as secretary of the Tenth Street association recently organized.
J L Faubion faces another forgery trial in district court after a prior conviction and three year penitentiary sentence. Additional indictments loom from alleged loan activities tied to the Hamon Whittington Mortgage Company in this city.
Announcement from San Antonio based Finck Cigar company reveals a new Amarillo branch with H. C. Pool in charge and making his home there. Finck Cigar is among Texas’ largest cigar manufacturers.
Ewell Nickell was acquitted by a district court jury this morning after a fifteen minute deliberation. The case, moved from Armstrong county where the prior jury failed to reach a verdict, ended with a not guilty verdict on the hog theft charge.
Austin February 10 state treasurer delivered a 500000 check to the department of education from general revenue under legislative appropriation. It ranks among the largest single warrants issued by the treasurer, leaving the general fund near deficit ease and set to rebound with additional deposits in coming days.
The Misses Willie and Rosa Taylor left Sunday night for Chicago and New York to buy ready-to-wear millinery novelties and gift goods for their establishment.
Dr Sun Yat Sen, famed Chinese public figure, was reported by the Associated Press from Peking to be growing steadily weaker today after an operation for cancer two weeks earlier.
Heavily armed police with machine guns guarded the approach to the federal supreme court in Leipsic Saxony as sixteen alleged German Cheka members went on trial for murder and terroristic plots financed from Moscow. Eleven defense lawyers sought a change of venue claiming judges oppose Communism, with Knut Rosenfeldt defending Alexander Skobolosky aka Helmuth Gereff, accused of delivering orders from Moscow to Berlin and leading plots against Reichswehr head General Von Seckt and others.
London February 10 The Old Bailey sentenced W P O Leary to eighteen months and J D Mc Gough to fifteen months for misdemeanor under the official secrets act. The men were arrested after an alleged plot to blow up British battleships and submarines was unearthed. Irish Republican army intelligence officers were alleged, though Irish political quarters denied knowledge of them.
O. V. Vernon secretary of the Board of City Development will travel to Hutchinson Kansas this week to confer with Kansas State fair officials about fair dates in Kansas and West Texas. A minor date change is hoped to help form a schedule for large carnival circuits, aiding regional events.
Eighteen students from the agricultural department of West Texas Teachers College visited the Mistletoe creameries yesterday. They were shown through the plant and explained its workings. About twenty-five groups visit the Mistletoe plant each year.
Garages filling stations and other businesses may call at the Board of City Development to obtain large Texas highway maps for free. The Texas highways department recently mailed 100 maps for distribution and interested parties should visit the board's rooms in City Hall.
Amarillo men Pipkin E. Voss and T. H. Nelson are slated to speak at a father and son banquet in Canyon Tuesday night. W. J. Flesher chairs the event and has asked Mr. Pipkin to address the topic America's Greatest Asset.
The February 7 issue of the Texas Commercial News features Amarillo on its front page with wheat field photos and multiple inside pages. Much of the publicity was prepared by H. E. Bozeman, former publicity director of the Board of City Development.
Bankrupt prices on entire stock of the Home Beautiful furniture store at 706 Polk Street including gas ranges and refrigerators. The Panhandle Panhandle store will move into the brick building being erected in Panhandle by J Ray of Amarillo. completion expected by March 1.
Funeral services for Harris N. Dawson age 43 who died Sunday at his home north of the city were held at 2 pm Tuesday in Griggs Undertaking chapel. Rev Dunn of Nazarene church officiated with pallbearers L J Ingraham D P West M D Oliver C Hurt Ray Grissom and Bert Stenson. Burial followed in Llano cemetery under Secure Benefit association auspices. Dawson battled pneumonia and is survived by his widow and four children. He had worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone here ten years.
M B Oates agricultural agent of the Fort Worth and Denver City railroad will be in Amarillo on February 18 for a conference with Harmon Benton and James A Bush about an intensive agricultural development program. The plan covers five or more surrounding counties and aims to create experimental and demonstration farms, promote diversified farming, and raise high grade stock.
The Panhandle Plains Historical Society will hold its annual business meeting and banquet at West Texas State Teachers College in Canyon on Friday February 13. Judge Thomas F Turner of Amarillo serves as president. Readied relics may join the society collection as pioneers attend and plans for the new year are outlined.
London February 10 Parliament resumes after seven weeks at holiday break with both Laborites and Liberals ready to assert privileges against the Conservative majority. Expected debates focus on key issues as the opposition seeks to check government actions in the public interest.
Wichita Falls Texas February 10 reports say hatching grasshoppers on southern slopes and in warm sheltered spots. Farmers organize to combat another plague as fields fear damage. Local effort includes use of Globe want ads to recruit help.
The Houston Street Methodist church, serving Johnson Street east, announces plans to build a new church near Tenth Street with an estimated cost around 15000. Pastor Zoro B. Pirtle says East Side growth and the need for classrooms and an auditorium drive the project as area developers anticipate a building boom after the Tenth Street viaduct opens. The church will form a building committee this week and invites aid from church members and city business people.
George Mageard heads to Dallas for a manager conference of Mistletoe creameries for a week to ten days. Ed and Mrs Hardin depart for Mexico City for about a month. Amarillo Country Club hosts strong golf with Charley Hoovers posting 77 79 80 81. Local hunting tales include Canyon coach Oscar Eckhart and geese, pheasants, and coveys. Izaak Walton League to start a big membership drive with a WDAG broadcast next Tuesday night.
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