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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1925
Page
2
Cattle sales reach 2,500 with 2,000 calves and 6,000 sheep. cattle mostly slow with yearlings 9.50 to 10.50 dollars and butchers 4.85 to 8.50. hogs 3,500 with bulk 13.10 to 13.45 and lighter at 12.25 to 22.75. lambs top at 15.80 and bulk 15.25 to 15.75.
Chicago market report shows hogs at 23 000 head slow with top at 17.90 and various price ranges for slaughter pigs and heavy to light hogs. Cattle demand slow with 14 000 head. yearlings up to 11.50 and steadier ranges for steers and weal ers. Sheep 10 000 head steady with lambs 16 to 16.25 and shorn ewes at 8. Amarillo Produce items list eggs butter fowl and capons with assorted prices and F.O.B Amarillo delivery terms.
East St Louis March 26 Hoes 7 500 steady bulk 13 16 to 15 78 pigs 12 75 to 13 25 cattle 2000 lower steers 8 60 to 9 75 cows 5 75 to 6 75 cann ers 2 50 to 8 bologna bulls 4 50 to 5 Night dealers top 11 25 Sheep 80 percent no early sales
Oklahoma City March 26 cattle steady with best fed steers 8.50 to 9.00 dollars yearlings 7.25 to 7.50 cows 6.00 to 6.50 calves to 7.50 hogs 1000 head slow with bulls 12.90 to 13.30 dollars per hundredweight.
Fort Worth reports Tuesday market activity with 3 500 cattle including 56 calves. Prices span beeves 3 50 to 8 50 and fat cows 7 46 to 6 25, hogs 1 500 lower with tops 13 35 and sheep steady at lambs 13 50 to 14 50.
Market readers see Chicago grain and New York stocks mixed as opening prices show a higher start for some contracts while others pull back. Traders monitor American Smelter and related commodity names for potential shifts in demand.
Am erillo grain prices for wheat per bushel and milo per hundredweight shown alongside peanut, oats and barley figures. Several company stock prices and percentages from various firms including American Locomotive American Telephone Baldwin Chalmers General Motors Studebaker Westinghouse and United States Steel listed with percent changes. The page also credits C Higgins manager and Alex Hyman Co New Orleans as contacts.
A mix of brief items including visits by J W Sears and J B Scott, teachers in Canyon Baptist Training school, a possible Am arillo chicken farm move by C A Poland, Fay Cazzell’s leg injury update, a public incident at 118 Harrison street, Gingerly optimistic remarks from Harry Brown on Amarillo growth, and a reader pledge to support The Globe amid personal reflections on marriage and local chicken hawks article.
The Realtors luncheon committee announces an atypical schedule for tomorrow at 12 15 PM in the Hotel Palo Duro. John Dees and Jamie son's old time fiddlers perform music. A. B. Stine nett discusses industrial development and W. A. Palmer speaks on neighborly visits and misused ties and their worth to us. Public welcome, says Mr Cas.
William D. Shepherd charged with murdering foster son William N. Mc Clintock with typhoid germs to obtain a million dollar estate must remain in jail without bail pending trial. The decision by Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins came after three days of testimony and will be appealed to the state Supreme Court via a writ of habeas corpus.
The dull session heard a sighting of Mr. Miller near the county courtroom around 11 PM on July 16 as Mrs. Hobart testified to the grand jury. Maurine Chamber of Kansas City testified about a change in the policy beneficiary on Hobart’s insurance. The arrest claim by E K O Bryants regarding Miller in Verdun hotel in early 1924 was not admitted.
In Floydada court Mrs Ruth Hobart loudly challenges witness M L Parker who claimed to see Dusty Miller with Hobart's wife on a 1923 Amarillo highway night. The retrial centers on murder charges in the 1923 E W Hobart death in Amarillo.
At San Pedro Cal march 26 the U S battle fleet demonstrated surface fleet striking power with a six minute massed fire on sleeve targets towed aloft by eight planes. 880 shrapnel shells failed to hit the towed targets though some nearly hit the towing aircraft. Officials say results will be held as confidential navy department data.
Floydada reports three railroad surveying crews in the Panhandle as M W Skainer chief engineer of the Port Worth and Denver railway and L Gowdy from Denver visit Floydada on Wednesday to assess the project.
Dwight Newby reported a lost car on Wednesday and about an hour later located it parked several blocks away near 113 West Seventh. The incident involved nearby bicycle activity along the street.
Testimony from Plainview residents details a 1924 case where Hobart Hobart was arrested for drunkenness at home and his wife warned she would kill him if he returned drunk. Witnesses recount patrol activity near the homicide site and former officials invoking or denying Klan ties amid the investigation.
Thomas H. Nelson and Royce Thompson spoke to the Amarillo Rotary Club at noon in the Amarillo hotel. Nelson cited 2.5 million trained scouts in fifteen years and a survey showing no former scout in prison, urging support for the Panhandle Scout council and a proposed Dripping Springs camp. Thompson urged bringing back Dr Frank Gamble and asked Rotarians to mentor local boys.
Petitions circulated by W. E. Bennett seek a precinct four road bond of 30000 dollars to grade and improve most Canyon Amarillo highway segments and roads north of the Palo Duro canyons, with the election to be a precinct affair only.
Canyon March 26. Randall County plans a countywide rabbit drive on Saturday April 4 to curb jackrabbit damage to fruit trees crops and cotton. The county will be split into four sections with each managed by a committee to devise procedures.
The First Baptist church of Canyon is conducting a five day all church training school this week. Courses cover church work Sunday school and young people's work. Meetings start at 6 15 p m with lunch served at the first hour and study at the second. Rev. Lyn Claybrook the pastor organized the program assisted by prominent church members from nearby towns in the Panhandle.
Tyler March 26 Wiston Ferrell 18 of Smith county was killed in a car crash when his vehicle struck a steel bridge side near Garden Valley. He was thrown from the car and his head crushed on impact. Two other young men in the auto were seriously injured.
Hundreds from the Panhandle are expected at the Canyon funeral for Professor Ferdinand Paul Guenther 59 who died Wednesday afternoon after serving as West Texas State Teachers College modern language head since 1910. He planted more than 1000 trees in Canyon and leaves a widow Anna and five daughters Elsa Erna Margaret Alma Annabel, plus siblings and four sisters. Burial will be in Santa Rosa cemetery Schulenberg, Texas.
San Francisco March 26. The trial of 16 year old Dorothy Elling son charged with shooting her mother Mrs Anna Elling son resumes with careful jury selection and safeguards to prevent further collapse of the defendant. Eleven jurors have been tentatively chosen.
In Armstrong county the grass turns green and wheat fields look good west of the area. Early sown oats withstand the dryness while late planted oats await rain. Fruit trees bloom as strong winds ease in the last three days and farmers prepare for row crops.
George M Waddill notes that on April 2 an additional one percent plus costs will be added to 1924 taxes for delinquent rolls. He stresses these costs arise under Texas law and are not discretionary by tax collectors. J T Wise discusses moving to Panhandle to establish Tri State Kennels on Cockrell ranch with eight dogs, seeking patronage from Amarillo dog owners.
The Woodman circle plans the last dance of their series at the W. O. W. hall tomorrow night with the Night Owl orchestra providing music. All Woodmen Woodman circle ladies and their friends are invited.
In Garyville near New Orleans, a commercial airplane carrying T. J. Dale made a forced landing after pursuing the Sunset Limited from Houston to Louisiana. Dale and his wife were traveling from Los Angeles to New York. Dale had briefly left the train in Houston, borrowed a plane, and followed its route. He landed at Lakes Charles briefly then, misreading a train, reentered air travel toward New Orleans where the craft was forced to land again. Mrs. Dale awaited word at the station with a telegram awaiting his arrival by auto or train.
The Ranch Creek Oil and Gas company will apply to the supreme court for a writ of error after the civil appeals court denied a new trial in the Ranch Creek versus Amarillo Oil suit. The district court awarded about $254,000 in damages for failure to use agreed gas, and both sides may seek further appellate action.
More than 100 Love community school children and citizens from Swisher County will visit Amarillo on April 3. O V Vernon, board secretary, says the group will tour principal industries, be escorted by board committees, and receive an educational, well organized program led by W A Graham, Love superintendent, in the new two story Love School building.
Dr L V Dawson of Canadian, manager of the Canadian hospital and former Chamber of Commerce president, announced in Amarillo he will open offices in the Western building about April 1 to practice surgery. He recently completed a five months post graduate course in surgery in the East and plans to make Amarillo his permanent home.
Telegrams from Wrangell Alaska report a free milling quartz gold strike 250 miles northeast on a tributary of the Eagle River in the Cassiar district British Columbia near a placer find last September. Telegraph Creek BC, 150 miles northeast, serves as the district's supply base, with shortages of butter bacon lard beans rice and cigarettes noted.
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