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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1922
Page
5
Fragmentary weather notes mention Varotina South South Carolina to Florida, Alabama and northwest Florida, generally fair conditions tonight with mild temperatures. Forecasts suggest fair to moderately warm Thursday with warmer central portions tonight and varying humidity.
About forty percent of all canned and fresh peas grown in the United States come from Wisconsin. The state leads in legume production, underscoring its role in national vegetable supply.
Stocks opened with a sharp drop as unfavorable foreign and domestic news fueled broad selling. Declines followed rejection of President Harding's shopman settlement plan and weak demand across key sectors including Liberty bonds and commodities.
Gainesville schedule shows No 2 daily train to Gainesville leaving at 45 am No 12 daily except Sunday to Gainesville at 10 45 am No 1 departs Gainesville at 3 20 pm and arrives in Gainesville at 4 10 pm.
Wheat rose and then eased on hedge activity amid Liverpool price strength and hedging. Corn fell with cash demand weakness, hog values lifted provisions. Cash bids showed mixed No 2 red and yellow corn, oats, rye, and timothy seed varied. Cattle and hog futures in Chicago markets remained largely steady to higher with selective gains in beef, veal, and pork cuts.
The market showed a volatile session with mixed moves among rails and steel firms. Great Northern Pacific and Norfolk and Western rose, while Lehigh Valley lagged and several names like Studebaker Baldwin and DuPont moved on lower volumes and late buying.
The market shows heavy hogs at 9.60 to 10.00, medium 1 at 9.90 to 10.65, and light hogs at 10.40 to 10.75. Packing sows steady around 8.00 with rough sows 7.25 to 8.00, killing pigs 9.75 to 10.50. Sheep receipts 1,100 with lambs strong to 16 higher. top natives 12.75 to city butchers, 12.50 to packers. Cull natives 8.00 to 8.60. Western lambs 12.75. best 67-pound feeders 12.55 late Tuesday. sheep scarce Wednesday.
Cuttations from Atlanta offices list Cities Service debentures and preferreds with varying percentages, plus common stock and scrip values. Chicago poultry and butter prices rise, eggs unchanged, potatoes and related grains show slow movement, New York poultry and sugar markets note price levels, and Savannah naval stores report firm turpentine and resin with multiple grade quotes.
The special war frauds grand jury probing the sale by the war department of the Old Hickory powder plant near Nashville Tennessee has recessed until Monday. United States Attorney Peyton Gordon announced the recess and declined to say if a finding had been made.
Cotton prices eased on Wednesday with good middling at 23 cents. The market opened steady but pared gains as traders awaited Texas weather data, with October around 21.90 and December near 21.87 at midday, and New York and Liverpool quotations showing declines from Tuesday highs.
Thomas P. de Graffenreid of 42 Broadway New York asks for anyone in the region bearing the de Graffenreid name or descendants to share history photos and newspaper clippings. He hopes to learn lineage, ancestors, and places of habitation spanning generations.
Washington report notes that 22 federal officers have been killed since Prohibition laws began and cites a tally of officer deaths in enforcement. The piece discusses dangers faced by federal agents and ongoing efforts to curb alcohol-related crime.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes releases a statement listing twelve officers killed while halting illicit distilling. Texas tops with four deaths, followed by Georgia Alabama and Tennessee with two each. The report notes superstition about peacock feathers and adds a Poland livestock census showing prewar numbers rebounding after war.
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