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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1925
Page
2
Fort Worth and Chicago cattle hog and sheep prices are listed with ranges for various classes. Fort Worth reports cattle, hog and sheep totals with steady to higher figures for calves, fat cows, and hogs, while Chicago shows active hog and cattle markets with new highs and diverse price bands.
Cattle 500 and calves 200, steady with steers 7.50 to 9, cows 4.50 to 6.50, veal top 10, hogs 6,000 active with top 11.25 and most 10.60 to 11.20, sows 10.40 to 10.50, stock pigs 7.50 to 8.75. Sheep 2,500 slow, lambs to 16.75, wether lambs 8.0.
East St. Louis hog sale Feb 20 saw about 11,000 head sold with prices rising to a top of 11.50 per cwt. Bulk traded from 11.30 to 11.45, pigs 9.50 to 10, packer sows 10.15 to 10.25.
Prices paid by the Amarillo branch of Swift & Company on the printing day for hens roosters capons and turkeys with weights and unit prices. Butter eggs and filler goods listed with market value and packaging notes.
Wheat No 1 hard at 1.80 per bushel. Maize 1.76 per 100 pounds. Kafir 1.65 per 100 pounds. Oats price noted. Cattle 1,000 head higher. yearling and heifers 6.50 to 9.50. beef cows 4.50 to 5.50. light weights up to 13. Sheep 1,800 head no early sales.
Hogs 700 head sold higher with top $11.15 and bulk from $10.90 to $11.10. Cattle 400 head were nominally steady.
Oklahoma City market notes show 1 500 cattle active with calves strong and stockers steady. Hogs 2 000 trades higher with top around 11 50 and bulk from 10 50 to 11 40.
The page details futures and spot prices across commodities. Wheat, corn, oats, and rice quotes appear with bid ask ranges and closing values, alongside New York and Chicago stock listings for major industrials and rail firms.
The Texas Ranger force shrank from 51 to 28 members under Adj. Gen. Mark McGee on February 20. Twenty one privates, a captain, and a sergeant were discharged. five captains remained and Capt. J. W. Aldrich stayed as quartermaster. Names of those cut will be released after notice. Future ranger deployments will occur only on county official request except in rare cases by the adjutant general and governor.
Mrs. Joe Brown buys the City Fruit store at 106 East Fifth Street from J. C. Stevens and will run it in the future. Brown, now in wholesale fruit and vegetables, previously owned the shop. The newly painted store opens tomorrow with a flower souvenir for visiting ladies and Rainbow 1000 Island dressing advertised.
Eight teams open district No 1 play with Canyon routing Hereford 88 to 12 and Dalhart edging Canadian 28% to 27 in a fast first round. Four preliminaries today, semis Saturday morning, finals Saturday afternoon at the new gym. Tulia Hedley Spearman and Panhandle also field teams. Buffaloes face Trinity University Tigers tonight and Saturday night.
Fifty three Dempster company employees in Texas will be guests of Bob Emmett at his home 1801 Tyler Street Saturday night for an annual banquet. Emmett will serve as toastmaster and J. O. Guleke and other speakers will address the gathering.
Anderson Russell aged 80 and a 16 year Amarillo resident died at 12:30 PM at 210 Kentucky Avenue. Survived by wife, son J C Russell of Amarillo, daughters Mrs R L Griffis of Paris Texas and Mrs A H Lindsay of Amarillo, brother W A Russell of Benton Arkansas. Confederate veteran and Presbyterian. Blackburn Funeral Home Anto parts to handle arrangements.
Thirty-one carrier boys of the Am arillo Globe attend a Mission theater party tonight. They are guests of Ross Rogers, manager, to mark the Globe's first anniversary. The program features Harold Lloyd's Now or Never with a short comedy and a news reel.
Police say Mrs Lina Van Dyke of Lancaster and a man believed to be Ralph Souders died in the woman's apartment last night. They are believed to have taken poison in a suicide pact.
Austin February 20 Eighteen prison officials led by commissioner J A Herring were recommended for discharge today before the joint prison investigation committee by Mrs J A King chair of the prison advisory board.
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