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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth and Wichita markets report cattle calve volumes and price ranges with hogs up and sheep steady. At Fort Worth prices span beef steers 6.00 to 7.25, cows 3.00 to 4.50, hog top 9.89 to 9.95, lambs 8.00 to 11.00. Wichita hogs top 9.95, cattle 5,800 head with mixed price moves. St Louis hogs 10.55 to 10.60 and cattle 10.50 to 11.00 for top dealers.
Readable items note eggs and poultry prices such as hens and roosters with weights and per unit costs. Mentions early 20th century trade terms, delivery charges, mold concerns, and case pricing for eggs and poultry products.
Chicago hogs sold strong numbers with top $10.50 and bulk buyers paying $9.75 to $10.15. Cattle were steady with long yearlings up to $11 and fed steers $8.50 to $10. Sheep and lambs saw fat natives $12.25 to $13.60 and western lambs around $12.45 to $18.60. Kansas City reports cattle 48 000 and hogs higher with top $10 and fat lambs $12.45 to $18.60.
In French Lick on September 15 the last two rounds reduced 83 regional qualifiers to 32 golfers who will contest 36 hole matches daily. Gene Sarazen, defending champion from New York, aims to reclaim the title as Diegel Hutchison and Farrell posted strong scores. Watrous, Creavy and Forrester also posted notable rounds.
The notice lists residents and visitors traveling to Wildorado and nearby areas, including C. C. Timmons, H R Jack and Miss Matta Belle, Carl Knupp, R A Mack, Mrs. Sam T Ansley and daughter Mary, Mrs. A B Jones and Patricia, Paul Kaufman, Moyers Shore, Dr. Daisy Pennock, Albert Byars, Bart Byars, and family. It also mentions Lottie Reese departing for Kentucky, Rev. R F Jenkins traveling to Dangerfield for a ill relative, Mrs. J C Jenkins in Okla, and Kathryn Sparrow from Apperson Oklahoma, plus a local tale of a Dumas woman hiding brandy in flour bin and a warning about hooch and flour.
J Levy is home sick with a bad cold and high fever. He has had fever daily for almost a week and became so exhausted he had to stay in bed since Saturday.
The south end of Taylor street is surveyed and paving material is on site to begin work from the old paving line to the street’s south end. Local residents and families are noted with brief health and visit updates among neighbors.
Mrs. Frank Marvin of Kansas City and other relatives joined a Sunday all day outing in Box Canyon hosted by the Turners and relatives including Miss Jewell Cox and Harold Curry. Fifteen guests enjoyed bountiful picnic refreshments and explorations of Box Canyon. Buchanan Street Methodist Sunday school reported 109 attendees and 14.32 in offerings. Oliver family of 407 North Grant plan to move to Logan New Mexico. W M A Second Baptist will skip this week due to revival services with daily 10 am sermons and 8 pm services, preceded by prayer. Miss Sara Porter of Clarendon visited Amarillo Saturday.
Happy Massingale of Fort Worth shot 73 at Amarillo Country Club in his first round there as a guest of George Lindsay. A former Texas open champion, he plans to return Wednesday to improve his score.
Miss Gladys McDowell, a rare woman deputy sheriff in Texas, wed Alvin Prestridge of Fort Worth two weeks ago at Calide, Texas. The couple kept the marriage secret until last Saturday as Prestridge works at the Great West mill.
C Joctet Y Roy Greenhill of Williams Orr agency left Friday for St Paul and Minneapolis as delegate from Texas eighteenth district to the American Legion convention. Mrs H M Brown wife of Amarillo Gas Co. general manager arrived from Denver and will reside in Amarillo. Mrs E E Machovec and daughter Miss Marie Machovec left for Kansas City to be guests of Mrs W J Fisher.
The Palo Duro hotel was filled to capacity with guests and visitors all day Sunday. Mrs. B. Fisher notes many reservations and sixty bookings were made Saturday ahead of a formal opening on Thursday September 18.
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