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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth market receipts include cattle 2,350 calves 500 hogs 500 and sheep 3,000 with ranges for beef, stockers, cows, heifers, yearlings, bulls and calves. Kansas City reports cattle 1,500 calves 200 hogs 8,000 and sheep 3,500 with prices for Texas steers, stockers, veals, heifers, cows, hogs and wethers.
Chicago stockyards report hog receipts of 25 000 head with gains and top at 7 70. Cattle receipts 4 000 head with strong market and prices for mature steers, fed steers and Texas cattle. Sheep receipts 14 000 head with lambs and clipped ewes prices noted.
East St. Louis May 9 hogs 15 000 higher with choice butchers 7.50 to 7.60, packer sows 7.55, pigs 6.25 to 6.85, packer sows 6.50 to 6.60. Cattle 1 000 light wealers 9.50, yearlings and heifers 8.25 to 9, beef cows 5.50 to 6.50. Sheep 800, few sales.
Mrs C R Tate of Panhandle was here today while Mrs W W Burnett visited from Dumas. Mrs BE Pierce shop ped in Amarillo today. Delegates from fed erated clubs returning from the Lubbock convention are listed. A help wanted notice seeks a strong capable young woman for general housework, permanent position. Amarillo Cotton & Grain Exchange notes.
A column lists poultry prices including hens from under 4 pounds and over 4 pounds, broilers, leghorns, geese and turkeys with separate weights for hens and toms, plus dairy produce rates for butter mold-free and strictly fresh eggs, showing a range of cents per unit and a total line of $5.55.
Amarillo grain notes show Great West Mill and Elevator paying farmers for wheat No. 1 hard at 1.00 per bushel or per 100 pounds for Milo maize at 1.00 and 1.05 respectively, oats priced per bushel.
The Texas and Pacific Railway, via its receivers, sought release from the Interstate Commerce Commission ruling requiring automatic train control on a division. The carrier said funds were unavailable for installation and noted prior commission denial of permission to use credit to upgrade lines.
A comic exchange shows Mr Knagg accusing Mrs Knagg of fault finding and Mrs Knagg retorting that he would lower her company to a rough crowd if possible. The dialogue highlights domestic friction and social judgment.
Police court fined J Nichols W C Seymore and F W Haynes fifty dollars total five and twenty dollars each for cruelty to animals after admitting locking wagon wheels and beating a balky horse at Twelfth and Tyler streets. The horse bore welts, and neighbors complained.
Howard Trigg has been conducting the final survey for the Pan-Tex pipeline and will complete his task tomorrow. Roy Irick of Plainview, holding the pipeline construction contract, will start next week with ditching machines ahead of pipe laying. Dorset Carter, Pan-Tex president, said he and the secretary would return to Amarillo tomorrow from Oklahoma City.
WashingtonMay 9 The senate committee investigating Texas land frauds postponed proceedings for a week at the request of Senator Heflin Democrat Alabama committee prosecutor.
Geo W Fry of Abilene was elected president of the Southwestern Public Service Association at its New Orleans meeting. B N Willis of Dallas was reelected secretary with A F Townsend Beaumont W B Wood Houston and F C Armbruster Shreveport named vice presidents. J F Owens Oklahoma Gas and Electric was named president of the Southwestern Geographic Division of the National Electric Light Association. S J Ballinger San Antonio elected secretary with vice presidents W F H Armstrong Mississippi Fred Insull Oklahoma H B Flowers Louisiana Co J Griffith Arkansas and Joe H Gill Texas selected as officers.
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