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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1928
Page
2
A mixed Amarillo column notes changing attitudes toward children and the loosening of girls freedom, the Kiwanis sparrow question with expert input, a high school box social by the Orphan Birthday club for the Home, local ads, and a joke about Scotch Fourth of July celebrations and house numbers at The Globe office.
A reader compares timelines for a potential Amarillo airport and a Methodist college, then critiques a Morning News piece on Al Smith and the Presidency. The letter asserts preachers should separate church from politics and urges a simple biblical sermon each Sunday, hinting at continuation on page fourteen.
Candidates and the public are invited to an ice cream social in the yard of San Jacinto Methodist Church this evening hosted by the Sunday school class of C. T. Davis.
About 200 laymen and families from Panhandle towns gathered in South Ceta canyon for the Northwest Texas Methodist Laymen conference despite rain. Services by Dean Boyd M. McKeown ran through Sunday, with tents used or shelter found in the tabernacle. Tulia church ladies provided meals for attendees at Palo Duro canyon site.
Funeral services for W M Cates 51 prominent Amarillo furniture man found slain in store balcony will be held Wednesday at 4 pm from the Madison street home with Rev R Thomson presiding. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Survived by widow two sons two nephews three sisters and a brother. active and honorary pallbearers listed. J P Ewing returns from Shattuck where he recently underwent an operation.
K C Streets drove two spirited cattle into a steel garage at Fifteenth and Grand. Twenty patrolmen dogged another steer on the North Side near city hall while tying the animal to a pump and dispersing to pursue additional cattle. Hucksters at the scene resisted.
A cowman recalls Panhandle cows stampeding in Kansas City after a cattle shipper, a newcomer from Kansas, tried to market his herd amid dry spells. He believed rain would fail and faced the cattle’s unrest as they loaded for shipment.
City Market crowds joined late arriving watchers in chasing a herd of Hereford cattle through downtown. Cattle roped near the post office and an animal slipping into a drug store added to the chaos as sirens and bystander alarms echoed. Police warned officers could not patrol residence districts until downtown danger subsided. A separate crash at 39th Street and Troost freed hogs from a truck, halted by bystanders in a vacant lot. The cattle were feeders consigned to Marceline, Missouri.
The CANDIDATE- Children’s Home in Amarillo invites the public to a meeting where women and girls will ring donation boxes. Children from the home perform songs while Amarillo Pasti vers provide music. The Globe News plans to announce Tunney Heene round by round results. Judge Gee will preside and Old Tack will bid for support. Carl E. Simon will auction boxes.
The Oil and Gas Journal reports that in the week ending July 21 daily crude output rose in Oklahoma and West Texas. Oklahoma gains centered in St Louis Pearson and Allen fields with Seminole steady. West Texas saw a large rise in Yates by over 15,000 barrels, Hendricks up slightly while other areas edged higher. Overall U S production increased by 26 222 barrels.
Irvin remains a Ford pioneer since 1904 and will keep Walter Irvin Inc as Lincoln and Ford dealer in Amarillo. The Cooper Irvin agency started May 19 1919 on Polk Street and later moved to a larger site. Walter Irvin Inc will also service Fordson and Lincoln parts and continues as a closed corporation with no stock for sale. Cooper assumes Nash distributorship for the territory and Oklahoma.
Today is the last day for citizens who paid their poll taxes elsewhere and who have lived in Potter county six months and in the state twelve months to enter their names on the certified list of qualified voters at the county tax collector's office. Miss Ruth Hall has returned from Kansas City where she visited Mrs. Jeam Cullum.
Hogs, cattle, lambs and calves move in Kansas City and Chicago markets with steady to strong trends. Hogs top near 10.95 at Kansas City, cattle mixed across grades, calves steady, sheep steady. Chicago reports active hog trade to 11.30, cattle slow but steady, lambs firm, and New York cotton opens steady then ranges. Also notes New Orleans and Liverpool cotton movements, poultry and potatoes prices, Chicago produce, and Kansas City cash grain with wheat, corn, and oats values.
A nostalgic verse recalls dull early days before meeting a loved one. The narrator describes vowing to win them, discovering love through playful acts. He notes purchasing candy and gifts like opera glasses, a gray pocketbook, and a parasol, culminating in their marriage many years ago.
New York markets report Liberty 34s near 99.31 and Treasuries at 111.12 amid a broad list of major corporations and energy concerns including General Electric General Motors DuPont and Bethlehem Steel. The column catalogs diverse stocks and oils with many firms such as International Paper Texaco and Studebaker noted among the day’s quotations.
Mr and Mrs E J Schalk plan winter in Mineral Wells and have leased their 1405 West Nineteenth street residence to Mr and Mrs Garnett. Garnett works with the agricultural department of the Board of City Development.
The article notes ongoing risk search for Amundsen with nations watching. It hopes Russians are welcomed and criticizes Wall Street bond purchases from the Czar, arguing Soviet Russia should not bear prior debts. It questions why debt be paid after past issues with a foreign monarch.
Mrs S H Madden spoke for 31 city women groups before the Lions club proposing Hall Ranch near Amarillo as an immediate park site. She cited running water trees and sub irrigation as key advantages. President Ordway and Rittenberry reported on the Lions international meeting in Des Moines. Miss Laura Hamner urged Lions to attend Thursday box supper for the Children’s Home.
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