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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1957
Page
9
Hog buyers pushed prices up by 25 cents with some shifts to 50 cents in active trading. Bulk weights ranged 160 to 600 pounds with varied prices from $9 to $26.50 for steers, cows, vealers, lambs, and hogs, while quality and weight dictated most rates.
Chesterfield School Board cut the tax rate from 4.75 to 3.65 per 100 of property value. The Civil Town Board reduced the general fund levy from 1.36 to 1.26 per 100. A committee will be appointed to tackle school issues next year and meetings move to the third Wednesday each month. Members named include Dudley Grunden Arnold McFarland Mrs Mary Frank Ward Taylor Gar land Dilts and Ruth Lauderbaugh.
Frankton trustees announce Leach school staff as Linwood school closed for a new addition project. Grades 6 7 and 8 join a departmental setup. Listing includes Hester Spangler Taylor Royster Morgan Green Rydman Etchison Mauck Harding McCouch Windlaw. Students report Tuesday and beginners must show birth certificates to prove age six by October 31.
A forest log serves as a protective tunnel for a Whitefoot mouse family. They raise multiple litters, fastidiously survey clearing openings, and dodge predators like foxes owls snakes and skunks. A moonlit night shows a near miss with a screech owl as they flee through their log tunneled home.
Lafayette Township Farm Bureau will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday Sept 4 at Leach school with Chairman James Jones presiding. Eugene Yates of Anderson Loan Company will speak on savings and loans. Watermelon will be served. Committee includes L C Shafer, Robert Anderson, Clinton Goins, Loyd Pettigrew, James Hawkins, Minnie Hawkins, led by Lucile Shell.
A long list of auction events across Indiana locales including Wilkinson Muncie Pendleton and Daleville. Real estate personal property and farm auctions scheduled from August 31 to September 16 with multiple auctioneers such as Saguesey Fo land Kellum Bradley and Whelchel. Locations include 1313 W 38th St Egg Hood 2931 Central Ave and 603 Louise St.
Market prices listed for calves by weight class from 200 to 300 pounds. The text notes classifications such as 210 to 240 pounds and 260 to 280 pounds with farm product references. No specific prices or entities are readable.
Anderson Fries lists poultry items including heavy hensener and leghorn roms with current receipts for eggs and weights under four pounds in a clipped, uncertain OCR fragment.
Chicago markets show butcher hogs advancing up to 25 cents with sows steady amid active trading. Cattle lacked sufficient slaughter steers or heifers to test prices while sheep moved from steady to weak. Top quotes included hogs at 21.50 to 21.75 for 230 to 270 pounds and cattle to 26.50 for a 1150 pound load. lambs 22 to 25.
Chicago fireman Tom Henderson placed a personal want ad praising his wife Anna as a living jewel and priceless gem. The couple, married 20 years with five children, plans to retire Nov 1 and spend life together at their Wisconsin lakeside home.
Marion Indiana city employees found an ancient abandoned sewer and repaired it for 300 dollars, saving Gas City from spending 25000 dollars on a new sewer in the same area.
The Madison County Planning Commission will meet September 10 1957 at 9 00 A M in the courthouse basement to hear petitions to rezone land owned by J E Mack from Farmland to Business and from Farmland to Business service station. Also three Elmer Hayden Subdivision parcels owned by Joe Downing to be rezoned from Residential to Business. Remonstrances will be heard. Secretary Mary Lambertson signs.
The market posted its widest weekly gain since May 29 1956 as the Associated Press index rose 2.70 to 175.70 with the industrials up 4.60 and rails up 2.70 while volume remained light around 1.6 million shares on Friday ahead of Labor Day.
Muncie Livestock notes Friday gains with hogs up 10 to 50 cents. Prices show choice No 1 hogs 21.65 at 200-240 pounds and ranges for other weights. Cattle values range from prime steers 23 to 25, to cows and calves with mixed grades declined or steady. Lambs and slaughter sheep quoted around 22 and 5 dollars lower respectively.
Corporate and government bonds rose modestly with convertibles and utilities advancing while rails held steady. U S government liens gained for the first time since Monday as NYSE par value traded totaled 2.92 million versus 3.47 million the previous day.
Gladden Schrock of Nappanee, Manchester College senior, was elected chairman of the United Christian Youth Movement meeting at Estes Park Colorado. He already serves as president of the National Youth Fellowship of the Church of the Brethren.
Mil dred F Prigg was appointed executrix of the estate of Garl C Prigg deceased on August 14 1957 in Anderson Indiana. Creditors must file claims within six months from first publication or they’re barred. Estate deemed solvent. Clerk Joseph H Armington Madison County Superior Court. Aug 14 1957.
The text shows scattered numbers and percentages resembling stock quotes across sectors or indices. It includes figures like 11 percent 53 percent 29 percent and various other decimals, with no clear company names or dates to confirm specific trades or results.
A late rally in the wheat and corn pits pushed grain prices higher on the Board of Trade. Nearby September futures dipped to seasonal lows earlier, with oats and soybeans pressured by good crop news and weather while rye rose modestly. Tender activity reached nearly three million bushels for corn and about 1.5 million for wheat as traders adjusted ahead of Labor Day weekend.
Public records show an absolute divorce suit in Madison County Superior Court with William L Hayden as plaintiff against Barbara Joanne Hayden due to file by August 14. Also notices for final settlement of Thomas M Armstrong and Chester A Hudson estates in 1957, calling creditors heirs and heirs to appear and prove claims by September 5. clerk’s notice dated August 13.
Everett Green is the new principal at Leach School in Lafayette Township. He previously taught seven years at Charlots ville and holds degrees from Central Normal College and Ball State Teachers College. Mrs. Green will teach third and fourth grades. they reside on Prosperity Rd with three children.
In New Albany Indiana authorities report 16 year old Jerry Shellman of Louisville drowned Thursday in St Francis Lake near New Albany. The incident occurred while he was swimming in the lake and rescue efforts followed.
A brief collection of local notices thanking St John’s Hospital staff and neighbors for support during illness and death of a husband and father, listing families Stella Roehl Henry Roehl Jr Arthur Slack Step pem Der Walter Wilson and amily. Includes various local ads for hardware alterations fur shop cleaning services and hometown businesses with addresses and phone numbers.
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