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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1925
Page
2
Fort Worth market results show cattle receipts at 1000 with ranges from 1.75 to 9 for calves and up to 7.50 for beeves. Hogs hit 10 to 14.40 for best mids, sheep and lambs with spring lambs at 13 to 15.50. Goats quoted 1.50 to 3.00 with stocker sheep at 5 to 8.5.
A compiled note lists upcoming events and movements including Mrs. George D. Harper of Logan N M at Northwest Texas hospital, Miss Margaret Kendrick memory, Charles Allen’s two week Mineral Wells trip, Jack Clark’s Amarillo Canyon Hereford trip, and Tulia Herald reports on dry weather hindering eight business buildings. Mike Thomas Fort Worth cotton broker buys eight sections near Tulia with planned improvements. Texas Public Service Information Bureau to meet in Galveston March 16 and 17.
A garbled market list shows prices for hens of various weights, roosters, young turkeys and capons, with terms like free mold free delivery and fresh eggs. Entries include Hens under 4 pounds and over 4 pounds, Capons 7 pounds and up, Capons 5 pounds and up, Old Tom Turkeys and Eggs per case, all indicating current market values and quantities.
Market brief for Amarillo Cotton and Grain Exchange showing wheat maize kafir oats rye and barley per bushel or hundredweight basis with current figures and opening notes on cotton and grain provisions.
Sam Elliott faced a district court trial on unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor for sale after officers found over three quarts of corn whiskey at his premises. The defense claimed the liquor was for medicinal liniment for external use on Mrs. Elliott who suffers rheumatism. The jury deliberated late into the night with no verdict, suggesting a hung jury.
Harry M Brown general manager of Amarillo Gas company was badly hurt Friday evening after stepping from his porch at 2114 Trier street while going to a nearby fire. He suffered a possible arm fracture and a dislocated finger. X ray Monday will determine the arm damage. He is not seriously ill but confined to bed with painful injuries.
Announcement yesterday announces the formation of the North Amarillo Realty Company to sell North Amarillo real estate. Offices will be opened at the Brazelton Lumber yards 200 North Fillmore Street with Mrs. T. D. Ladd in charge and W. H. Brymer associated with her.
Philadelphia evangelist John Trager will preach at the Independent Holiness Mission at 605 East Third Street on Sunday. Special services are set for 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. An invitation has been extended to the public to attend.
Walter Willmering was found guilty Friday night by the jury of selling liquor. He received a two year penitentiary sentence after a prior hung jury. In Toronto a report notes Russian buyers placing orders with Canadian mills for 1,300,000 barrels of flour for shipment to Russian Black Sea ports via New York.
In Atlanta on March 7 United Press reports the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial association dropped its criminal suit against sculptor Gutzon Borglum after weeks of indictments and disputes. Borglum smashed models eight years into the memorial, was pursued on warrants, then released via habeas corpus and fled to New York before Governor Walker urged dismissal to avoid delaying the project.
A 36 year old German native named Conrad Kolb, said to be a sailor and longshoreman, recovered enough to tell how he ended up wandering near Dalhart. He says he rode a locked refrigerator car from St Louis to Dalhart in freezing conditions and was later moved to Amarillo before ending up in jail for observation. Felix Goode of Nolan County recently killed a hog weighing 766 pounds with 38 gallons of lard rendered from it.
Bill Cazzell gave no public remark last night about a commissioner bid. Earlier he said a interview might occur but then told friends he would not issue a statement now. Supporters urge him to back the Citizen's tickets while others push him to run.
The National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the United States and Canada authorizes members to display a new emblem. Only several thousand of the hundreds of thousands of cleaners are designated Masters, and Amarillo Laundry and Dry Cleaners is the local member entitled to use the emblem.
Twenty one Amarillo Rotarians depart for Galveston to attend the Thirteenth district International Rotary conference. The group travels in a special Pullman and plans to lobby for the 1926 district meeting to be held in Amarillo. The conference runs through Wednesday with return planned for Thursday.
Three youths Herbert Heale Bonnie McCall and Lance McCall were jailed in Newton county after a probable fatal shooting of Rachel Mason a 65 year old Black woman driving with a group to a church ten miles from Orange Texas The assailants fired into a passing car striking Mason in a lung authorities said the motive remains unknown.
The city plans to oil Third Street with waste oil collected from garages. Engineers say the street conditions are ideal for oiling and it would reduce the dust from last fall’s Amarillo Tri-State exposition.
Lake Charles, March 7. Deputy Sheriff Sam E. Duhon of Lake Charles and L. G. Collins a New Orleans dry officer were found shot to death in a car near Starks after going missing since Friday while they searched for moonshiners at the Dunn brothers home near Vinton. The Dunn brothers are held by sheriffs deputies.
The city commission in a Friday special session voted to extend Polk Street whiteway by two blocks from Eighth to Tenth Street connecting to the Tenth Street white way. They also bought two lots north of the Nat for a fire station on Sixth Street near San Jacinto.
Terre Haute Indiana March 7 One shot firer was killed and two others seriously injured in an explosion caused by a windy shot in Shirkie nine No 1 at Shirkieville eighteen miles north of here late this evening. The night crew of five miners escaped unharmed. The dead man was Ray Fyfe of Terre Haute. J L Shea county treasurer who has been in Glenrose Texas for several weeks returned to Amarillo Saturday at noon.
Bob Ames reports Austin has passed a bill authorizing six additional Texas fish hatcheries. He notes one hatchery will be built in the Panhandle, and Amarillo sportsmen plan a push to locate the Palo Duro hatchery near Amarillo.
Myrtella Dubois, 11, was killed instantly and her father Charles H. Dubois was seriously injured when their truck was struck by an International and Great Northern train at a crossing near Aldine Texas late tonight. The girl was taken to Houston by train and placed in a hospital. Mrs Gaines D Whitsitt has returned from a visit to relatives in East Texas.
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