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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1925
Page
2
Livestock and market updates from St Louis Oklahoma City Kansas City Fort Worth on November 20 show cattle, hogs, sheep and lamb prices holding steady to mixed. Notable figures include St Louis hogs 11.45 to 11.65 and Fort Worth hogs 11.60 to 11.75, with cattle and sheep varying by class and weight across each market.
Reading from a stock market brief, opening gains of 1 to 3 points were seen in Chrysler Motor and other industrials with fresh highs by Nickel Plate and Norfork and Western. Major rail and steel-related issues rose, while St Paul common traded strongly and foreign exchange showed firm demand for sterling and slight franc gains.
Wichita market reports 176 cattle as slow with stockers and feeders $6 to $7.76. Hogs 800 steady with bulk buyers paying $11 to $11.25 and sows $9.75 to $10. stock pigs at $11. Sheep 50 steady with lambs $14 to $14.25.
From Kansas City market notes, wheat No 2 hard 1.60 to 1.70, No 2 red 1.68 to 1.71, corn No 3 white 82 to 84 cents, No p yellow 85 to 86 cents, data No 2 white 40 to 41 cents, No 3 white 40 cents. Obits.
New York stock prices opened firm aided by the Federal Reserve leaving the 3 percent rediscount rate unchanged and President Coolidge's New York speech pledging government support for business expansion. The gains came despite the Philadelphia Fed rediscount rate increase.
Principal C. C. Walden reports a record turnout of 314 parents for San Jacinto School’s Education Week program. Owing to space limits, many attendees filled halls and rooms while students staged a contest to bring in parents. Mrs. Angie Sparks’ room won a prize for the most participating parents with forty seven registered.
The Staked Plains Turkey Growers association sold 1,000 head of turkeys to L. D. Rucker Produce of Plainview for Thanksgiving delivery. Prices averaged 29 1 2 cents for No 1 and 18 3 4 cents for No 2. About fifty members were represented, with a dozen new members joining in ten days. remaining birds to be sold on the Christmas market.
Harmon-Gault Motor Co leases Third and Polk building and plans a Oakland agency with forty dealers under Amarillo office. WB Gault and Harmon from Oklahoma oversee opening preparations as cars head to Amarillo. Gault to move family from Ardmore. Harmon to close out business in Custer City Oklahoma.
Hereford Nov 19. Vocational agriculture students at Hereford High School work on the new $425,000 building. Under C W Humble guidance they install steel lockers and receive wages to buy equipment. Students plan to rent a shop, landscape the grounds, and grow crops as part of class work.
Governor General Wood diverted his yacht App to Manila after a radio appeal saying Mrs. G Perkins, wife of the chief chemist at Cullon leper colony, was gravely ill and could be saved only by treatment in Manila. The voyage turned back to the south and then resumed toward the south island.
A Potter county district court jury returned a verdict late yesterday afternoon that former deputy sheriff James Tesar must serve 18 months in the state penitentiary. He was found guilty of possession of liquor and apparatus alleged to have been used in the manufacture of whisky.
Civic club names Bobby Clark as resident head after election last night. Clark vows to push widening Sixth Street, pressing the needed improvement to the limit. Dr William Curl elected vice president and Douglas Witt secretary treasurer. A club activity resume will appear in Sunday’s Globe with photos available from Edwards Studio.
W M McCarty and Frank Wright returned from New Mexico with two large bucks and several wild turkeys. They entered Amarillo amid excitement, answering questions on how the deer were taken. Other local hunters like C W Whittington and Walter Irvin prepared for upcoming hunts, and Panhandle Hardware promoted ammunition and goose roasters for the season.
Berlin Nov 20 Chancellor Luh r told party leaders the government will resign after the Locarno pact signing in London on December 1. A new cabinet will be formed to honor Locarno policies and obligations.
Prohibition officials weigh whether fruit cakes and plum puddings soaked in rum wine or brandy may be imported for Christmas under the prohibition laws. Reports from London say ships leaving England carry Yuletide treats, prompting the need for a ruling on allowable food imports.
New York November 20 The 100000000 Italian loan offered through a nationwide banking syndicate headed by J P Morgan and company was sold before noon today with an indicated oversubscription.
Judge J W Crudgington told Amarillo Real Estate Board that the Panhandle is developing and Amarillo will grow to meet demand. He cited land at $2.50 an acre in Dallas and predicted a bright future for the area. C W Carson and John E Hi spoke briefly as new constitution and by laws were read for vote at the next meeting.
Cambridge reports a recovered yellow advertising balloon that vanished during Harvard defeats, with the owner promising it will fly again before Harvard meets Yale tomorrow. The artifact was found at sea on Friday the 13th.
A full house welcomed the university team led by Dr. Charles Reign Scoville as the opening gun of a 150000 church campaign in Amarillo last night. Dr. J. B. Holmes served as chairman and introduced the Scoville team with evangelists Jasper Bogue A K Scott and Arthur Jones in attendance. Revs R A White Thurman Morgan James Todd Charles Kelly and M H Terry brought delegations from their churches.
Two Amarillo boys from the Sandstorm squad, Kenyon Rockwell and Barney Steele, walked to Wichita Falls after classes to attend the Amarillo at Wichita Falls game. They lacked eligibility for the trip and relied on food money and hoped for rides into Coyote town.
Waxahachie Texas reports that Texans donated 1.66 million dollars to Methodist educational institutions in the past year. Dr. R H Bennett of Nashville presented the board of the Methodist Church South's figures at the conference, noting 18 million of the planned 30 million had been subscribed and 7 million paid, plus 7 million privately contributed to southern schools.
New York reports David and Abbey Rockefeller Milton have leased a seven room apartment on fashionable Park avenue for 7500 dollars a year.
The piece reports that fashion arbiters decree curls are back under hats, replacing the strict Eton cropped line. Curls or stray ends add softness and will be matched to dress, with pastel shades under hats and optional pastel wigs for evening wear.
Mrs St John Lawton of Charleston South Carolina was chosen president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the thirty second annual convention in Hot Springs Arkansas yesterday. The report notes high efficiency of Italian workmen but cites lower wages abroad compared with the United States.
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