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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1929
Page
11
Wheat was dull yet mildly firm with best prices near yesterday's close. Cash offerings were small, high protein grades in demand, with winter wheat scarce and durum modestly offered. Nearby futures showed small ranges across wheat, corn, oats and flax while Minnesota price quotes and Duluth and Sioux City reports noted steady to firmer tones in livestock and grains.
Hog receipts to noon today total 308 head reported by Armonr and Company. The note explains that their yard is not a public market and daily quotations cannot be supplied. Readers are advised that quotations from public markets are quoted elsewhere.
U S Dept of Agriculture cattle numbers near 2300 with mixed grades and gains. Hogs 6000 head fairly active with lights and butchers up to 40 cents. Sheep 400 head steady with fat lambs and clipped lambs showing premium prices. Sioux Falls notes snow disruptions and only light receipts with top hog price at 11.15.
Swift & Co furnishes call for Heron South Dakota markets with leghorns and heavy hens listed. Egg and butter prices noted with old cocks and general poultry terms. Prices may change without notice.
Heavy snows began melting as warm air moved in across South Dakota. Reports from Huron to Sioux Falls note rising temperatures, improved bus service in Mitchell, and a storm ending with mild conditions forecast. Farmers expect moisture to aid subsoil and crops through mid summer. The Sioux Falls storm ended with warmer weather and a cautious forecast for tonight and tomorrow.
Market notes list butterfat and butter prices, poultry cuts and weights with regional shambles, then Chicago April 11 report of U S Dept of Agriculture on potatoes and flour markets. Includes Wisconsin Red River shipments, Idaho russets, Texas Bliss Triumph values, Florida Spaulding Rose prices, and Minneapolis flour shipments and bran price. The item papered as a compact price ledger.
Quiet stock accumulation persisted in New York as brokers anticipate a decline in federal reserve loans and easing credit. Call money held at 9 percent with ample fund supply, outside loans as low as 9 percent. Widely varied gains across many issues. notable advances in International Nickel and several chemical and utility stocks. Total volume about 3.1 million shares.
On the cerb market Standard Oil of Indiana stock today closed at 53 percent. The day saw broad activity with many listed stocks showing varied price movements including Am Can Am Interntl and US Steel among others. Investors tracked a wide array of industrials and utilities amid a fluctuating trading session.
Snow blankets Sioux Falls Aberdeen and surrounding areas causing delayed work and impassable roads. Weather reports note drifting snow, temperatures around freezing, and crews deploying plows and horse teams to clear rural routes. Rapid City and Pierre report clear skies with improving conditions. Brown County officials mobilize snow plows.
Nina Rounds 41 died at Hur on hospital after ten day illness and failed recovery from surgery. Longtime Iroquois resident, daughter of F C Moore and wife of a Beadle county farm family. Survived by two daughters Doris and a married daughter, plus a brother. Funeral plans not yet set.
President L J Warkenbhein of Wilsow Lake Vice President W E Larson of Vienna and Secretary Treasurer Roy Cox of Carpenter were re elected to their offices at the Clark County Bankers association semi annual meeting. About 20 bankers attended with guests from Beadle County and Group 5 of the South Dakota Bankers association attending.
Colonel Charles A Lindbergh landed at Meridian airport at 9 15 a m from Brownsville Texas. The fuel tanks were refilled and he prepared for an immediate takeoff. He declined to discuss his night in Brownsville or his next destination.
Rapid City hosts 54 conventions, with the South Dakota State Retailers association planning its annual meeting June 1 and 19. W C Botkin of Huron, secretary treasurer, relayed the growth in convention activity to 5 percent for the year. The piece also notes animal speed comparisons, placing the average fox at about 26 miles per hour, between a coyote and a jack rabbit.
Bud Parker a prominent Huron College senior receives a psychology scholarship at Iowa University based on scholarship, character and activity. He will pursue a master of arts degree after graduation, with tuition exemption and a grant for service. Parker has earned 11 varsity letters and captained multiple teams since 1924, a leader on football, basketball, baseball and track.
Irma McDonald leads with 14 550 votes in the Miss Huron popularity contest at the Roarin Gulch celebration at the Fair Grounds Dance Palace. Edith Smith follows with 12 200 votes and others include Doris Jones 8 750, Sarah Ramer 8 760, Margaret Camp 8 700. The winner receives a diamond ring Saturday night as the four day event closes. Proceeds fund the Legion welfare program for disabled veterans.
Beadle county agent R. A. Cave joined the district spring conference for county agents in the northeastern section of the state at Watertown. The two day program covered extension department and Farm Bureau activities and major problems for discussion. A special feature was the plan to purchase cakes for the dairy clubs.
Huron visit by H D Finkelstein of Finkelstein and Ruben theatres highlights rapid talkie progress in the moving picture industry. He notes sound improvements, future color and 3D films, and predicts Broadway shows in sound in Huron soon, with wireless Atlantic calls rising from 2,285 in 1927 to 9,825 in 1928.
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