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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1925
Page
2
Market briefs show cattle and hog prices across three cities. Omaha notes steady prospects with about 25 000 cattle. Oklahoma City reports cattle 1800 steady with steer prices 7 to 9. East St Louis lists hogs 14 600 with prices ranging from 12 to 13 dollars and cattle around 6.75 to 7.65 for western steers.
The report shows cattle, hogs, and sheep trading with varied prices. Kansas City listings include grass steers, yearlings, gravesheifers, and packers with a broad price range. hogs and sows at multiple levels. sheep showing steady to slow demand. Chicago figures show active hog trading and mixed cattle and sheep prices, with top hogs around 12.75 and lambs near 15, while cattle display a dull market with high yearling and heavy weights.
Fort Worth market figures show 7009 cattle including 2000 calves with steadiness across classes. Hogs 600 head down. top 12.75 and bulk around 12.45 to 12.50. Sheep 3100 steady with lambs 12 to 13 and feeders 10 to 14, stockers 3 to 4.
Stormy Canadian weather boosted Chicago trading as wheat futures advance. December and May contracts moved higher while corn and oats followed the wheat strength with modest gains, hog prices slumped and narrowed the provision market gains.
Wheat mixed ranges with number 2 hard at 1.49 to 1.52 dollars and higher reads at 1.57 to 1.59. Corn shows number 2 white at 0.79 to 0.80 and number 2 yellow at 0.79 to 0.81. Oats list number 2 white at 0.2944 to 0.2949 and number 3 white at 0.58 to 0.29.
New Orleans cotton futures ended with a net gain of 12 to 14 points. Trading showed modest advances across the front month contracts as Jan and Mar positions moved within narrow ranges and closed higher.
Wheat basis No 1 hard per bu 1 Kalir per 100 Ibs Maize per 100 Ibs Oats per bu listed in Amarillo market notes with current price references.
A fragmented listing shows poultry terms Hens Leghorn and Broilers with price notes per pound and seasonal entries. It includes tom turkeys priced around 10 to 15 cents and packing stock butter and eggs with older case values and regional figures, alongside scattered date markers May and October.
Market information from Sam S. Denman and Co Amarillo lists grain totals for wheat corn oats rye and overall visible grain with daily export figures and season totals. Cotton gossip from New York notes slack in goods trades and sales activity on October 5.
The Kansas City Daily Drovers Telegram led with Ralph Dawon’s Panhandle visit praising Amarillo and the Tri-State fair. The piece notes rapid growth, land purchases by Potter County, shifting cattle ranching, and rising livestock prices as the Panhandle transforms from cowboy country to diversified ranching and farming communities.
Reports confirm Gueri Mills in Providence paid a fourth consecutive dividend. Carolinas mills curtail two and a half days weekly due to hydro power shortages, with North Carolina and western Georgia crops seen at about sixty percent of last year’s yield. Market remains bearish though a sharp rally is possible if shorts squeeze.
In San Antonio near Burnett street a widow and her escort John Fox were held at gunpoint by two Black men shortly after midnight. The attackers tore diamond rings from the woman and took $7 from her purse while guarding Fox with a pistol. Fox heard the woman’s screams as he was forced to sit with a gun to his head. Bloodhounds failed to locate the suspects.
Lieut Byron J Connell pilot of PN 9 No 1 contradicted Col William Mitchell in a presidential air board hearing. He testified that non flying naval officers did not cause the Hawaiian flight failure and that Commander John Rodgers and other flying officers handled all arrangements during questioning by Senator Bingham.
Hereford golfers halved the match against Hillcrest at Amarillo home course. Both clubs won six matches in the contest, the fifth meeting this season. Woolsey of Hillcrest shot 77 to be low medalist, with Pitman of Hereford second.
City commissioners prepare to pass an ordinance requiring drivers to stop at several intersections. Workers install stop weights at Sixth and Tenth on Polk Sixth and Tyler Tenth and Fourth on Taylor and Fourth and Fillmore. Citizens urged to practice stopping.
Houston reports twenty three passengers injured in a Sunday crash near Bryan when southbound passenger train 16 collided with Sunbeam special 1. Elwood Phillips son of Mr and Mrs Fr F Phillips 1104 Harriosa street suffered a slight head injury and was told by telegram he was not seriously hurt. Phillips plays with Henrietta Straw’s Melody Boys orchestra touring southern Texas.
Claude reports sending Herbert Hunt Inez McDonald and Leroy McGowan to Texas Technological College. Lona Dean goes to Baylor and Irene Stallings to the University of Texas. Cattle sales update notes 1 700 head sold to Will Lewis, with bulls and range improvements cited. The Tri State fair livestock show expected similar beef and hog numbers, dairy rising, and a Western stock yards feeder sale reduced to 890 head due to rains. Panhandle Livestock Association notes their spring sale planned for March 1926.
Huntingdon Pa Oct 5 additional men joined the search for Charles H Ames a missing mail pilot on Stone Mountain fourteen miles north of Huntingdon The party included raccoon hunter leaders who reported hearing a distant airplane whirr at midnight last Thursday followed by a crash among the mountain trees.
Jim Roundtree of Cooper-Irvin will demonstrate a new Fordson tractor plow Tuesday afternoon at 2 on the Merrick farm four miles north of Amarillo. The event on the east side of the pavement is expected to attract a large crowd. The plow is specially adapted for the Fordson tractor.
Austin October 5 Coat raisers of Texas California Missouri Arizona Oregon and New Mexico are named among fifteen directors of the American Angora Goat Breeders association. The group received a state secretary of state charter. Headquarters are at Rock Springs Edwards county. The aim is to promote Angora goats through fairs and exhibitions. Directors include Bob Davis Rio Frio Texas M L Conklin New Ville California Morris Highley Farmington Missouri Aubrey Gist Skull Valley Arizona U S Grant Dallas Oregon and Mrs H Armer Kingston NM.
A very sharp earthquake disturbance registered on Georgetown University seismograph last night from 11 15 p m to 12 30 a m Director Tondorf placed it 1 800 miles from Washington toward the south location noted in the report on October 5 1910.
Bill Adams laments the urge to sleep late on Sundays but notes the need to stay occupied as on other days. He expresses a preference for leisure yet acknowledges ongoing responsibilities that interrupt rest.
The Ford line builds all metal Mono planes using 94 percent aluminum, 6 percent copper and other metals. Regular Chicago to Detroit flights show safe operation with no crashes in six months. Price drops from 25 090 to 12 000 as Ford pioneers aircraft use and jobs grow, with pilots and freight capacity highlighted.
L D Chastain sues the Texas Indemnity Insurance Co under state compensation law for 1500 dollars after losing eye sight while employed by Panhandle Pipe Line. The report notes crop and local civic remarks by several Amarillo residents and visitors.
In Half Minute Interviews J H Paul says Amarillo shows more real pep in business than in months especially at banks in the last ten days. Cal Farley jokes about missing World Series tickets while Roy Mills goes to Akron Ohio to absorb vulcanizing ideas. Clarence Shero praises The Globe as essential reading and Ed Green recalls long Elks dues and stock issues. Toney Chisum mentions moving into a new home and plans to stay there.
The Comptroller of the Currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of September 28. The State Banking Commissioner issued a similar call for state banks’ condition at the close of business September 28.
J A Hill president of West Texas State Teachers college will speak to Canyon ex-students in their second annual gathering at Central Presbyterian hall at 7 30 Tuesday night. About 200 ex-students in Amarillo and Potter county are being urged to attend as Miss Mary Morgan Brown provides a reading and speeches by local ex-students are planned. Wyatt Hester chairs the committee and ex-students are asked to invite others.
Bob Francis recounts a death near Hobart and Sayre he links to schoolyard hazing followed by a fatal hanging after a father’s whipping. He argues it serves as a warning to students and fathers about hazing and its consequences. Joe Rank notes railroads face new costs and a push to make rivers navigable at public expense.
Chief Cain reports Gene Howe was fined $2 in police court this morning for turning a corner in his car. Howe claimed he did not remember the act yet refused to deny it and Judge W. H. Brummett imposed the fine. Howe expected a $5 penalty and praised the arresting officer for being on the job.
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