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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1920
Page
14
Markets rally amid scattered bids as wheat dips to near 2% with De cember and March futures quoted around 2.31 and 2.32 dollars. Oats hold or drift. livered contracts edge up. Pork, lard, and butter markets display slight movements while cash grain quotations list prices for wheat corn rye oats barley and soy seeds with nominal figures for seed and butter receipts.
Chicago market notes show cattle receipts around 21 000 with choice steers and good grades 15 25 to 16 60, slow trade and weak undertone. Cows 9 50 to 12 50, canners 4 75 steady. Veal calves 14 25 to 15 top hogs 28 000 receipts with 10 to 15 cent drop, top around 15 50. Fat lambs 12 25, western lambs slow, Montana wethers 7 25, best ewes 7 25.
Spokane market reports show hogs at 14.75 to 17.50 with prime through medium grades, receipts 329 head. Cattle receipts 191 with steer prices 7 to 10, cows and heifers 5 to 7, calves to 13, stockers 5 to 8. Sheep receipts 191 with lambs 9.5 to 10, wethers 5 to 6, ewes up to 5, yearlings around 5.5.
Omara Maha auction notes show hog receipts and mixed prices with medium and light weights trading around 14.25 to 14.50 and strongest weights at 14.85, bulk at 13.90 to 14.25. Cattle receipts numbered 15,500 with beef prices generally 25 cents lower and yearling stockers and feeders down 25 to 30 cents. Overall receipts total 382,000 with killing grades rising up to 25 cents, fat lambs at 12.25 and feeders up 25 to 50 cents. early sale lambs around 12.45.
In New York on August 23 mercantile rates show mixed demand with 8 percent change and heavy activity in some cables. Franc and peso demand quoted with several percentages, time loans firm at 60 and 90 days and six months, call money steady with a closing rate near seven percent.
New York Aug 23 strong opening gave way to a reaction as funds left for federal payments. Gains in Royal Dutch Shell Mexican Petroleum Vanadium and Reading were countered by declines in Crucible Steel Lackawanna American Car and Pressed Steel Car and United States Steels. Rails led the intermediate gains with Wisconsin Central rising, while overall closes were irregular with minimal final strength.
Heilbronner Company notes the bear party grows stronger with little opposition. England would gain from Russia's normal conditions due to raw materials. Market remains quiet with credit conditions as main influence. A rumor says Southern Pacific found oil on its land, boosting the stock.
Barnes King Development reports oil and mining progress. Depth at the Sick Kansas Montana well near Winnifred stands at 2400 feet with casing advanced to 2200 feet to reach 3000 feet if needed. July bullion projections show North Moccasin at 1350, Shannon at 25950, while Big Four near Boulder shows promising ore uncovering led by Dr. Mills. five claims partially developed with two loads shipped to East Helena smelter.
A Tintie Milling Company dispatch from Silver City Utah reports a new bullion shipment of 20 tons to eastern refineries. The current run is below capacity due to ore shortages with about 150 tons treated daily. The plant operates one shift in crushing and plans three in teaching and roasting while changes to precipitating and refining will allow separate sale of gold and silver to mints and copper to refineries.
Raw sugar near quiet at 12.94 cents per pound centrifugal. Refined brown and fine granulated steady at 56.22 cents and 56.0 cents per pound respectively. Trader activity subdued with no major price shifts reported from Sugar Marker, New York.
Horoscope notes August 214 1920 brings a mixed reading with a generally positive tilt for seeking employment but advises delaying money ventures. It warns of heightened sensitivity to criticism and emotional swings especially among women and marks radical and reactionary social changes as autumn nears. Children born that day may be highly talented and organized.
Washington August 22 The department of justice refused relief to sugar speculators harmed by falling prices. The decision states they must absorb losses from failed plans to sustain high retail prices amid a declining market.
Libby Montana Superintendent J S Pitts announced the public schools will open Sept 7 after a thorough summer cleaning and many improvements. The district listed engaged teachers for the year including J S Pitts Helen Baum Marlea Grafton Myrtle Isaacson Marguerite Goen Helen Gray A H Baker Gladys Hilsmeyer Anna M Opper Della Staples Jose Mc Fadden Elsie Krueger Mabel Lund Helen Stevenson Gladys Coleman Pearl Gibbons Winnefred Towne Isabel McGrade Lylah Gray Esther Zetterberg Mrs Edna Marshall Julia Hiatt and McGinnes Meadows school. Several positions remain to be filled.
Bert Arnold was fined $25 by Police Judge Anderson who said Arnold knew better. Arnold appeared with Frankie Day on charges of using rooms immorally and showed a marriage license dated Nov. 10 claiming it completed the marriage process.
J W Dasset of Minneapolis representing the trail association has marked the Yellowstone trail between Billings and Laurel. He has covered the entire road from Minneapolis to Billings and plans to continue the work to the coast.
Mrs. Bessie Goudino files for divorce claiming her husband Frank forces her to work and sends all earnings to Europe. She alleges since 1917 he sent away $600 and gave her only $40 for clothes.
Lee Metcalf is jailed in Billings in default of a 250 dollar bond charged with binding gagging and beating his 9 year old son police say the boy was found tied to a chair with wire. Metcalf to be arraigned on third degree assault.
Billings plans repairs and enlargement of several local school buildings in advance of the new term. Part of the $350,000 bond issue funds, to be sold Sept. 16, will be used for winter repairs with extensive improvements to begin in spring.
Billings August 23. Arthur Sunny Ed wards colored pleads guilty to stealing tires from car backs. Judge imposes sentence of one and a half to three years in the state penitentiary.
Billings, Aug. 23. The Woman's club baby clinic success led the county commissioners to appropriate funds for hiring a nurse to conduct infant health activities countywide. The city council may also hire a full time nurse to assist mothers with their babies.
Spinal meningitis yesterday caused the death here of Harley Donald Glazier aged 21 son of A N Glazier of near Hedges The funeral will be at Hedges.
A. J. Thomas, sought for two years for taking an automobile under an installment contract, has been arrested at Klamath Falls Oregon. An undersheriff will escort him back to Billings for legal proceedings.
In Billings on August 23 a plain clothes detective, posing as a prospective buyer, arrested Joe Sarva at a residence and seized a full still, 12 gallons of liquor, and 25 gallons of corn and raisin mash. The operative act is described as part of an undercover liquor raid.
W C Salyer, the owner, took the subject to his house after noticing a suspicious odor while showing a prospective purchaser the property. Sarva, a Frenchman, claims he was making wine for his own use.
Aug 23 Lewistown continues coverage of the North Montana Methodist conference with Bishop Charles Wesley Burns delivering a large church lecture at the Presbyterian church. Reports show strong district growth, a Piegan Indian mission tale by Rev Gus Hammer, deaconess program led by Mrs Belle Harmon, and remarks by Miss E A Ariss. The day also notes burial logistics for Ovide La Salle, Junior Marines organizing, golf cup results, and local divorce suits.
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