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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1921
Page
4
The Roundup is described as a frontier athletic meet where cowboys and cowgirls from ranches perform with ropes, steers, and horse work, resembling a great ranches driven contest more than a wild west show. Schools send skilled students who bring back the bacon, with expenses paid.
South Omaha receipts show hogs at 7.10 to 7.80, heavy weights 7.15 to 7.45, sows 5.75 to 6.75, pigs 7.00 to 7.75. Cattle receipts 8,000 with steers weak to 15 lower, top 8.40. cows and calves mixed, feeder and stocker bids steady. Sheep receipts 7,500 with lambs around 12.00 to 12.75 and yearlings near 9.50 to 12.00 amid mixed quality. Kansas City livestock totals include cattle 12,500 with steers steady to 2¢ lower and hogs up to 10 higher, top 7.70. cattle 1,700. sheep 4,500 steady.
Chicago cash grain prices list No 1 hard wheat at 1 59 No 1 dark red 1 53 No 1 mixed 1 56 for wheat. For corn No 2 white 64 5 6c No 1 yellow 64 6 4c No 2 yellow 64 4 6c No 1 mixed 6Ar No 2 mixed 04 004 4% 0 No 3 mixed 83h e No 6 mixed 56144 68e No 1 white oats 39c No 2 white 38 4 39 te No 3 white Mey Now dA white 87 3 4c Atlantic cash grain Wheat 3 Ge corn 44c.
Members of a defeated team seek revenge against the Hedges team with a dinner at the Country Club scheduled for Thursday June 9 at 6 30 p m. Golfers are urged to report early and make reservations by 6 p m with Mrs Sam Marshall at Black 469 206.
Chicago June 7 William Hale Thompson suffered his first reverse at the polls since 1915 as a coalition judicial ticket swept Chicago defeating every Thompson candidate. A $9,000,000 jail bond proposition was defeated while free textbooks for public schools appeared to carry. The election saw a coalition watchman killed and several riots with charges of fraud. The Thompson slate, mostly Republicans, faced opposition from the bar association and civic bodies.
A birthday celebration honors George Pellett of 910 Chestnut Street on his 75th birthday. Family gathered at his son Bert Pellett’s LaVista Place home with relatives including John L Archer Nor a and Agnes Stitt. Pellett, a Cass County pioneer who came from Wisconsin in 1870, is a native of Harford Pennsylvania.
Daily Capital from now until January 1 costs 2.50. Sunday Capital for the same period costs 2.00. The combined subscription is 4.50. Leave your subscription at the News Telegraph office.
Governor N E Kendall of Iowa will address the G A R camp fire meeting at 8 00 tonight opening the forty seventh annual state encampment. The program includes an overflow meeting at the Congregational church with the address delivered on behalf of the state. Regular Country Club dinner set for Thursday June 5 at 6 30 p m. Call Mrs Sami Marshall Black 469.
The Bethany Reformed church in Baxter Indiana faced opposition over German language use. The congregation forced Rev. Paul Traecer to resume services in German after a protest storm and criticism. Members signed a statement exonerating the minister. Dr. JH Williams, dentist, Fulton, is named in a separate line.
The Southwestern Division of the American Red Cross announces an extra 50 000 to aid Pueblo Colorado flood sufferers, bringing total appropriations to 100 000. The relief program moves forward as the agency coordinates aid with local authorities and workers.
The article notes orderly Sunday funeral crowd management by Legion members and police after a large car influx. It reports Mrs. Anna Simmons planning a September return to Atlantic then New York study, and city council tonight may discuss Bull Creek flood control with the county. It also covers Rev Father McDermott’s rebuke of W E B Johnson for omitting him in bath house fund solicitation and his $5 donation.
Fragments show neighbors sending sympathy to a family after a flood. Names such as Mr. C. O. Conley, Mrs. C. O. Conley, and others appear among the community’s comforting acts. The sorrow is described as eased by widespread goodwill and support.
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