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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1925
Page
2
Fort Worth market notes list cattle receipts 1 050 with prices from 1.75 to 9.50 for various cattle grades and calves 3 to 9. hog receipts 700 with prices 10.00 to 13.20. sheep and lambs receipts 300 with lambs 12 to 14 50 and ewes 7 50 to 8 50. Address 112 W 7th for general repairs by Alex Hyman & Co.
Amarillo market prices show hens at 20 cents per pound for under 4 pounds and 20 cents for over 4 pounds. Capons at 26 cents per pound, roosters 6 cents, young turkeys 12 pounds and up at 18 cents, No 2 turkeys not wanted, butter 14 cents per pound, egg cases $7.50 delivered, fillers and flats $2.25 per case.
The Amarillo grain page lists prices per unit: wheat 6.1 hard at 1.55 dollars per bushel, corn and maize 1.60 per 100 pounds, kafir 1.50 per 100 pounds, oats 0.45 per bushel, barley 0.65 per bushel, rye 0.70 per bushel.
Ki Miller and E V Slaughter visit Amarillo and Lubbock on business. Editorial remarks about Texas hangings and Texan crime spark comments. Country Club district anniversary promotes home building. Bank official Robert Hovey visits Amarillo bankers for days. Golf methods confuse Ted Neely. Mrs Bivens recuperates after hospital operation in Slaton. Warrick well in Potter county spraying twenty barrels daily as drilling continues. West Texas State Teachers College offers a livestock feeding course for summer term. Plainview schools prep for interscholastic events with tryouts and contests in April.
J T Dusty Miller reopens his law office in suite two of the new Fuqua building after an instructed verdict acquittal on a murder charge in the July death of FE W Hobart. He thanks Floydada citizens and Floyd County for support and says he will continue practicing law in Amarillo.
Department heads for the Tri State exposition to be held this fall were named at a directors meeting. Plans for 1925 envision the largest Southwest exposition yet with heads assigned to publicity buildings and grounds races libraries amusements athletics program concessions decorations sanitation transportation catalog music finance retail merchants implements jobbers and manufacturers automobiles traffic agriculture dairy cattle Hereford cattle swine poultry pet stock schools Boy Scouts fine arts domestic science home grown flowers domestic arts better baby contest greenhouse flowers literary boys club work home demonstration girls club work and out of state exhibits.
J N Riggs was elected senior counsellor of Amarillo Council No 225 United Commercial Travellers at the regular monthly meeting last night. Other officers elected include W D DeGrassi past counsellor W Van Landingham junior counsellor Earl Bennett conductor L V Bentley Page R N Eaton sentinel J J Sanders secretary and W H Hopkins and W R Whaten on the executive committee. Delegates to the grand council were J J Sanders J N Riggs and W P Hopkins with alternates Rush Kingsland C C Jones and T G Babb initiated into the order.
The Pittsburgh baseball team after training in Los Angeles will depart Saturday night April 4 via Southern Pacific Rock Island lines and pass through Amarillo on Monday afternoon April 6. They will play at Oklahoma City and Little Rock Arkansas with Samuel Dreyfuss in charge and a fifteen minute layover for fans to meet players at 1 15 p m local time.
City hall Friday night drew candidates for the April election. For Mayor the contenders were Lee Bivins and Len D Marrs. For Commissioner No 1 the names were Charles A Fisk and H E Smith. For Commissioner No 2 the field included J H Harris O K Gilvin BE O Erwin. Absentee voting possible at the county clerk before April 7. city residents urged to vote in person if in city.
Dr. Paul W. Horn president of Texas Technological College spoke to Amarillo public school teachers about judging people by actions not fixed rules. He warned there is no iron clad method to grade a student’s progress and he emphasized caution in judging academic effort. After the talk he attended a luncheon at the Amarillo Hotel with Mrs. Horn.
J C Johnson formerly with First National Bank for over a year moved to American National Life Insurance in the industrial department with offices located in the Smith Building.
Lieutenant Rik Nelson of the Army Air Service predicts near-future aviation advances. He envisions private autos equipped with detachable wings for travel between homes and distant airports and returns, with commercial aviation becoming the backbone of national defense.
The North Amarillo Civic club will meet at 7 45 p m Monday evening at the Second Baptist church instead of Buchanan Street Methodist church as announced I E Voss deputy regional scout executive has gone to Lubbock for several weeks work there in the interest of scouting
Five persons were injured in a highway collision between Sanger and Denton. Miss Lucille Burné sustained internal injuries and may die. Four other young women in the overturned car suffered cuts and bruises.
Two carloads of equipment including pneumatic extractors and rapid washing machines worth $12,000 will arrive at the Troy laundry on April 1. The facility will then be among the Panhandle’s most completely equipped and sanitary laundries. J. N. Vernon owns the Troy laundry.
The Potter County Library Board will not meet Wednesday mornings but will gather next Wednesday at 9:30 in the assembly room for a session. The notice clarifies a moved meeting time and location for readers seeking library governance updates.
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