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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth market reports show cattle receipts 2 500 with varying grades and prices, hogs 800 with mixes and packers, and sheep 8 100 with lambs and feeders. Kansas City listings note cattle and calves totals, with beef steers and stockers priced, hogs up to 7 25, and wool and spring lambs listed alongside prices.
Cattle receipts totaled 800 head with white face stockers making up most of the offerings. Prices across grades were slow and stockers were 25 to 50 cents lower. Hog receipts reached 1,700 head with top heavies at 7.15 cents per pound, sows at 6.50, stays 5 and pigs 5.25.
Hogs 21 000 active top 7 60 packing sows 6 75 to 6 90 killing Digg 6 00 to 6 50 heavy hogs 7 30 to 7 60 medium 7 25 to 7 50 light 7 00 to 7 55 Cattle 12 000 lower matured steers 11 75 to 12 25 best yearlings 11 00 fed steers 8 75 to 10 75 yearling beef heifers 8 00 to 8 75 canners 2 75 to 3 00 bologna bulls 4 25 to 4 65 light calves 8 00 to 9 25 choice 9 50 Sheep 13 000 active choice wooled lambs 17 00 choice clippers 15 50 to 15 65 spring lambs 16 75 wooled ewes upward to 9 25 clipped ewes 8 25 to 8 50
Livestock market report from East St Louis shows hogs up to 13 000 higher with choice butchers at 7.45 to 7.50 and pigs 6 to 6.75. Cattle activity steady to strong with light dealers 9 to 9.50, native steers 7.75 to 9, beef and yearlings around 9, and stockers 7 to 7.75. Sheep run firm with clipped lambs 13.76 to 14.50 and springers 17 to 18, ewes about 8.50.
The report notes weak response to Liverpool strength and large spot sales, with frost forecasts for Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle weighing on the market. April consumption is rumored at five hundred thousand bales versus five hundred seventy seven thousand last year, and Georgia mills reportedly curtailing. Texas crop progress is poor. nights remain cool in the South. Liverpool spot demand improves for cloths in Manchester.
James Martin Miller testified before the Senate agricultural committee that his telegram quoting President Coolidge as saying he was delivering Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford was correct and truthful. He said the president did not deny the interview had occurred, and Norris inserted Henry Ford's letter declining further representation before the committee.
Proceedings in the Seventh District Court of Civil Appeals at Amarillo include motions granted and overruled on various cases from multiple counties. The docket lists dismissals, rehearings, and set submissions with several parties and firms named. The Amarillo Dental Society met at the Harvey House with Dr. B H Reedy presiding.
Amarillo Cotton Grain Exchange report from Amarillo Texas shows brokers RB McCook Met. Alex Hyman & Co. of New Orleans quoted with phone 3004 in a brief market note.
More than 2 000 people packed Amarillo's Municipal Auditorium to greet 150 Dallas boost ers and hear the Red Hussar band from the state fair. The Dallas visitors arrived on a late train and led a parade through downtown before a band concert, speeches, a vocal solo, motion pictures, and a reception with dance.
Esther Circle of Second Baptist meets 2:30 PM Thursday with Mrs. Cleghorn for Bible study. Hannah Circle gathers 2:30 PM Thursday with Mrs. Long. W M B of Buchanan Street Methodist held Bible study. revival at Buchanan Street Methodist continues with four conversions last night.
The Texas Supreme Court upheld contracts for free textbooks with the American Book Company and Charles Scribner and Sons. It issued a writ of mandamus directing state Superintendent 8 M Marrs to purchase the books for public schools as previously contracted.
In Cleveland on May 7 the Chamber of Commerce of the United States convention heard Dr. W M Jardine from Kansas State Agricultural College express unqualified opposition to the McNary Haugen bill. The measure would create a government export corporation for farm products.
Washington May 7 Sen Swanson Democrat Virginia introduced a resolution urging the Senate to advise and consent to American participation in the world court. He said he would push for prompt action on the measure from the foreign relations committee.
Potter county Republicans met in the county courthouse to name four delegates to the state convention. Delegates are Hugh Exum W H Holmes W B Kenyon and S G Van Natta. Alternates are W A Cannon E G Holland A McGinnis and Joe G Taylor. Van Natta presided and Ruthel Bacon served as secretary.
Mr. Farrington of Pampa and Dr. G. 8. Slover of Clarendon College visit. Mrs. Joe Killough heads to Glenrose for two weeks. Newbirth Bettie Koegter in Clarendon. Mrs. P. L. Andre moves to Oregon. Allen family news from Northwest Texas hospital. Clerical, ranching, and business visits noted including Kaffir corn planting and insurance career moves. Ellen Lucile Bible class meets. many residents traveling between Pampa, Clarendon, Hereford, Vega, and Amarillo.
Thousands of camels with red fezShriners atop them were nailed to telephone poles along the Southwest trail from El Paso to Kansas City. City officials and Khiva Shrine temple members placed markers to Amarillo and beyond, marking the route to the Shrine convention with a record marking effort.
At a Tuesday Foreign Relations meeting Miss Ophelia Wesley discussed Germany and its ties to France, with Austria and Hungary touched on briefly. Other items include a June 2 paper on France, a Jovial Thirteen bridge gathering at 1605 Tyler Street, D A R activities, and a card tournament at Amarillo Country Club with reservations urged.
Local architect Guy C. Carlander is drawing plans for a new Melrose high school funded by a $30,000 bond issue. The building, intended to be the largest spring project, should be ready for the September term.
The Randall county Democratic convention named three delegates to the state convention at Waco to back William Gibbs McAdoo for the presidency. W. J. Flesher Frank R. Phillips and J. W. Reid were chosen with Reid also endorsed as district delegate to the national convention in New York. The body indorsed Marshall Hicks of San Antonio and R. A. Thomason of El Paso as delegates at large to the national convention.
City commissioners met yesterday and ordered repairs at Seventh and Taylor streets. Banks Jones, the city engineer, will fix cracked pavement before removing dhips at crossings. A $900 paving machine was authorized. Repairs await warm weather and current lack of equipment.
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