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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1925
Page
2
Chicago livestock sales dated September 10 show hogs around 20 000 head with top price 13.25 for glows and packing sows between 10.50 and 10.99. heavy hogs 12.15 to 13.05. cattle 7 000 head slow with best steers at 15.75 and yearlings 14.40. sheep 24 000 steady with native lambs 15.50 to 15.75 and fat westerns 16. feeding yearling wethers 10.25 to 10.40.
South Omaha Neb Sept 10 cattle 4000 head, market fairly active and generally steady with early trading steady throughout the day. Cattle prices and demand remained stable as buyers showed cautious interest in loads and feeders.
Hogs 6,500 active top 13.45, bulk 13.35 to 13.40, pigs 12.75 to 13, packer sows 11. Cattle 2,500 dull, light vealers 12.50 to 13.25, hefers 7.50, cows 4 to 5.25, canners 2.50 to 4, bulls 3.50 to 4.25. Sheep 1,200 higher, lambs to 14.75, cull lambs 9, fat lambs 5 to 7.50.
Fort Worth livestock report from September 10 shows cattle around 5,000 head including 1,700 calves with varied categories. Hogs near 500 head inch higher, hog top at 12.85, sows 10 to 11, sheep and lambs with prices listed for lambs yearlings heifers and feeders, cattle and stockers trading in broad ranges.
Ortatoma City Oklahoma City September 10 cattle 1400 higher light grass steers to 7.25 yearlings 8 heifers 6.50 to 8 cows 4 to 5.25 calves top 8.50 canners 2.50 to 2.25 hogs 1190 higher top 12.60 bulk 12.50
Kansas City market data reports cattle sales around 6,000 head with 1,000 calves higher. short fed steers 8.75 to 10.25, yearling and mixed steers 13, grassers 7 to 8.25, grass fat cows 3.75 to 5, veal up to 12, bulls 3.75 to 4.25. Hogs uneven with top 12.85 and bulk 11.65 to 12.70. sows 10.15 to 10.60, stock pigs 12 to 12.50. Sheep 8,000 higher with western lambs 15.25 to 15.75 and natives 14 to 14.25.
Wichita Kansas reports hogs at 1 400 steady with packing sows at 9.75 to 10 and stocker pigs 11 to 11.50. Cattle 200 with calves steady and veals 4.50 to 7. Lambs 12 to 13.50, fat ewes 6, wethers 10.50.</S>
Chicago cash grain report lists wheat No 2 red at 1.73 against No 2 hard 1.64 percent, corn No 2 mixed 97 to 98 No 2 yellow 98 to 99, oats No 2 white 40.14 to 41.4 percent and No 3 white 40 to 41.4 percent.
Chicago September reports show U.S. spring wheat crop larger than expected causing an early price dip. December and May futures moved lower before a brief rally and renewed declines. Corn and oats weakened despite the bullish government data. Hog quotations rose lifting provisions.
Amarillo market quotation lists grain per bushel and per hundredweight for wheat, maize, and oats with basis figures. No. 1 hard wheat at 1.85 and 1.70 for other grains. kafir 1.70. oats 1.65. totals shown as 465.
Kansas City dispatch reports Earl Hedgecocke of Magnolia auditor confirming nine years of employment. Wheat market notes railways of India pushing into new territory, with No. 2 hard priced at $1.53 to $1.65 and No. 2 red.
President Coolidge leaves Swampscott for Washington to start work with a cabinet meeting scheduled for tomorrow. He aims to address coal distribution if anthracite shutdowns affect consumers and to push budget preparations with Director Lorg. Rep Longworth predicts early action on a tax reduction bill in the new House before Christmas and final passage by March 15.
London reports fifteen million dollars lost by English financiers who funded ships loaded with liquor for the American market. Blockades by the U S Coast Guard crushed the rum row and finances, left captains jobless, and reduced liquor exports by about half this year. Ships idle include the General Sorrett at Deal, tied up as owners cannot raise funds, with plans to move cargo if able to sail.
A Wichita business trip included an informal Panhandle Lumber company directors’ meeting. Guests were Mr. Hertz of Kreen and Data Chicago, agent for the Edith Rockefeller McCormick trust, directing the skyscraper project in Wichita. Visitors stayed with Guy A. Carlander and John B. Hill, with FE H. Petty of Panhandle Lumber present. Vaughn is Carlander’s cousin. Return date not announced.
Wichita Falls and surrounding territory receive over half an inch of rain by noon, with showers reported across western and southern parts and into Oklahoma. Railroads note rainfall along routes from Wichita Falls to Abilene, Breckenridge, Frederick, and Woodward. Cotton crop damage rises due to ten days of dry winds, while rain aids late feed crops.
J W Dymond and family moved to Amarillo from Virginia. Mrs G W Armstrong of Fort Worth visits Mrs J B Dooley. H Wilhoit of Wilhoits Shoe Store returns from buying trip in East. Sheriff Pollard on Ida McCorg ury progress. Gallaway visits after DeMolay Estes Park camp. Rev Virgil Fisher reports evangelistic meeting at Plainview with 149 confessing faith and about 90 uniting with the Methodist church. Mr and Mrs Stallings Chi huahua Mexico visit Ball family in Harrison street. Stallings moving to California.
La Vaughn Shirley two years old told her mother the bulldog, a pet of the family at 1804 Lincoln Street, was dead after being poisoned in the back yard. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Shirley reported the dog, described as non aggressive, died last night from suspected poisoning.
Three members of the crew of T Coleman Dupont's yacht in the Susquehanna River at Havre De Grace Md were drowned when a small boat capsized. A fourth member was rescued by river man Jess Poplar. The brief incident occurred early today with heavy river activity nearby.
Roscoe Vaughan of Union National Bank arrives in Amarillo by air, noting the expanding use of gasoline motors and airplanes shaping business. He praises the rich agricultural and oil regions between Wichita and Amarillo, predicts Amarillo becoming a transcontinental air route, and cites freight trucks and decentralizing industry as key drivers of regional growth.
Honolulu reports two aviators coats found on Keaukahakeaa beach seven miles from Hilo boosting search for PN-9 No. 1 crew missing since September 1 in the mid Pacific. A follow up note said two US Navy life jackets were found at Leleich Point ten miles south of Hilo and will be delivered to a battleship for inspection.
Plainview September 10 The Plainview city council named eight members for the Board of City Development for the coming fiscal year. New members Bowman Shelton and Collier join veterans Butler Pierce Barker Fritz Goodman D Bowman Shelton Collier. The board, municipally supported, is directed by its eight directors. The first meeting will elect a president and officers, Maury Hopkins serves as secretary.
J R Hanson aged about 40 died this morning at 7 in a local rooming house from a hemorrhage of the lungs. His home is Enid Oklahoma and he recently traveled from Colorado and New Mexico for his health. He told people his wife was dead and that he had two children in a Catholic orphanage in Oklahoma. Griggs undertaking company wired Enid for more information. Hanson was a salesman and had come here from Dalhart a few days ago.
Vinton Iowa September 10 Arrest of the slayer of Mrs C B Cook prohibition worker today was expected by county officers as a result of developments in the case A casual remark by the killer was heard and other incriminating evidence soon will be in store warranting an arrest Mrs Cook presided over the Women's Christian Temperance Union and was shot through the heart Monday night while writing an address for delivery A definite motive different from earlier theories has been established officers said indicating the crime was not tied to bootleggers or rumrunners
Results list top scores Gosnell Arnold Madden Whistler and others with Shamrock and Shamrock players noted. First flight pairings set Woolsey Wagner Brown Hows Hoover Edmisson Lyons Satterwhite Greenhill Daniels Sikes Bartlett Carter Nicholson Vaughn Kilmurray. Amarillo County club won the team championship as Sikes Arnold Brown and Greenhill led a victory over Hillcrest's Woolsey Edmisson Carter and Howe.
Brownsville Texas Sept 10 The Rio Grande stands 14.75 feet above normal at the International Bridge gauge three inches above former records and still rising. Levees are being worked on by hundreds of men and have held back the flood though small breaks in the Mexican and American sides were repaired. A serious flood would cause limited damage as cotton harvest is finishing and vegetables await planting.
Washington reports the treasury recommends Congress consider a 20 percent surtax cap, repeal of the income tax publicity section, and possible lowering or elimination of the estate tax as part of tax reform proposals.
The speaker argues Amarillo will surge in the next decade, paralleling Wichita and other fast growing cities. Growth is a function of fundamental conditions, not temporary booms, and opportunities to participate in building a "Greater Amarillo" are welcomed amid postwar expansion and urban population shifts.
An unconnected government De Havilland aircraft landed southwest of Amarillo this morning. Piloted by Lieutenant Strickland, it was en route from Muskogee Oklahoma to Los Angeles on an official mission. The plane refueled with Magnolia gasoline and oil, stayed about forty minutes, then departed at 9 55.
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