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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1931
Page
8
Armour Stockyards Huron reports a Monday drop across heavy weights with a top at 7.10 and receipts near 2,000. Chicago yards show cattle 25,008 and hogs 42,000, with prices easing across classes and packers holding firm on select hogs while lambs and sheep remain slow in trade.
cattle sales slow in Sioux City with 4000 head trading mostly steady to 25 lower on heavy steers and fat cows. hogs 10,000 slow to unevenly lower. calves and feeders mixed. Sioux Falls reports similar tone with hogs steady to 20 lower and sheep activity weak. Chicago market mixed with hogs down and various grain-fed bids.
Wheat futures strengthened on April 13 as Liverpool cables and weather reports supported buying. May to June futures held, July rose, and September advanced. Coarse grains edged up, barley gained a cent, oats and rye dull, flax strong. Cash wheat demand was good, with high quality samples selling, while winter and durum were scarce. Cash corn slower, oats fell, rye steady, malting barley healthy, flax solid. No. 1 dark northern wheat and durum quotes noted. mixed durum and corn prices listed with protein ranges and near term futures.
Chicago and other midwest markets show weaker potato trading, with Wisconsin whites and Colorado Russets among highlighted prices. Butter, eggs, and poultry figures are unsettled or steady in various cities including Sioux City and Minneapolis with mixed deliveries and continued storage activity.
New York April 12 stocks closed firm after a slow rise amid mixed results. Utilities led gains with American Waterworks and American Tobacco rising, while U S Steel slipped and Vanadium fell. About 1,500,000 shares changed hands as closing quotations listed numerous issues with mixed movement across industries.
Mitchell Group inspects city records as Mitchell plans a full time city assessor. W. H. Oso, the present city assessor, and A. L. Wells, in charge, discuss the transition. Pierre also plans to make the assessor full time, reflecting a wider move toward permanent municipal assessment positions.
A spate of air accidents killed seven people amid multiple crashes. George Wein and mechanic Carl Jantz died when a control wire snapped near Milwaukee. Gertin Murvon, W H Porimas, and others perished in Houston and Sunswick incidents as pilots and passengers fell from aircraft. Walter Frick and William Davis also died in stunts and crashes at Marion and Hasbrouck.
Clarence Lindberg an insurance man suffered four broken ribs and a broken shoulder in an automobile crash near Highmore on Friday and remained in a hospital. R Richards the other occupant, a Huron insurer, was treated for minor injuries and expected to resume work soon. The car went into a ditch after a tire blew out, struck a telephon e pole and broke it into pieces. the vehicle owned by Richards was described as a total wreck.
Frank J. Staley, a Huron barber hospitalized since Friday, reported improved today after an assault near Howard Thursday night. He remembered little of the attack but said three men assaulted him after visiting a friend north of town. Doctors described severe head and shoulder injuries with facial wounds. his condition shows progress.
Beadle county commissioners entered the second week of their April session at the courthouse with hopes to finish late today. Deputy A J Larsen advised on delinquent personal tax accounts while Lawrence Larson discussed local road work near Wolsey and a curve on federal highway No 14 to be removed at his farm. Municipal Judge Dick Haney fined A J Ehnert five dollars for disturbing the peace after police reported profanity in a Munden cafe. A T Miller returned from Chicago where he attended a banquet at Merchandise Mart honoring William W Ryan's fifty years with Marshall Field & Co.
Pierre April 13 Five exterior plans for the proposed new rate office building to be added as an annex to the South Dakota capitol were shown to the capitol building commission by A McWayne of Perkins and McWayne Sioux Falls architects The commission authorized a separate connected building via an underground tunnel to save space and costs The $286000 budget may rise by 30000 for the highway department if legal Now highway commission funds may be used for construction with Attorney General Sharpe to be asked for official funding decisions
George Forseth was sentenced by Judge A Lee Wyrson to 17 months in Leavenworth federal prison after pleading guilty to forging a Sturen physician's name on prescriptions to obtain morphine. Forseth, arrested Dec 30 at Stickney with morphine, was indicted by the federal grand jury.
Ruth Wittenberger Whiteside township and Frank Hughes Valley township No 2 will represent Beadle county in the regional Young Citizens League essay and speaking contests at Wessington Springs April 18. They won county eliminations Saturday. Elva Peterson won primary division. Winners receive plaques from the Huron Izaak Walton league at the county C L convention.
In Omaha on Sunday a two car collision near north Omaha injured eight people, including Li De Sioux City, and A Davie of Glenwood. Dean and Davis, drivers of the cars, were held by police as wounded victims were treated at an Omaha hospital.
M. L. Tobin hosts a second party at seven tonight in Fike Hall aimed at all boys in Huron. The indoor social event is brief, with plans to resume gatherings in a few weeks and keep the community youth engaged.
A wind driven spate of forest fires swept northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, razing one village and destroying hundreds of farm buildings. Crandon and Wallace areas faced flare ups as crews battled blazes, forcing Wallace’s 180 residents to flee. Hundreds of rangers and volunteers patrolled smoldering districts to prevent new outbreaks.
An embezzlement hearing for former state banking head Smith stretched into a second day as counsel failed to reach a stipulation to shorten proceedings. Four defense attorneys and state prosecutors held extended conferences with Attorney General Sharpe and Will G. Robinson amid ongoing testimony and routine evidence in a case linked to over a million dollars of bank funds.
Huey P. Long’s bandwagon boosted John H. Overton's bid for Congress in Louisiana's Eighth District. The campaign, carried by radio loudspeakers and a calliope, crashed into a ditch after a weekend of intense touring across eight parishes. Opponent Dr. Claybrook Cottingham, president of Louisiana College, faces Overton in the race to fill the late James B. Aswell's seat, with the election set for tomorrow.
Abstract and Title Co. Anna Krug transfers Lot 12 Block 5 Southtown Huron to William Miner of Huron Bruce Windhurst transfers Lot 14 Block 1 Cent and Moody addition to Huron to C H Weir of Huron.
About 50 delegates from Woodmen circles in North and South Dakota gathered at the Elks hall in the Marvin Hughitt hotel for the opening of the fifth biennial jurisdiction convention. Mrs. Mabel Lindgren presided, with children from Junior circle No. 2 performing a drill and Mrs. Alice Cheney presenting the state flag. National VP Ida M. Kelley of Ann Arbor is to speak, with a reception to follow. Prizes include 100 and 25 dollars for senior and junior drill winners, and a Church of Christ banquet will close the two day event tomorrow night.
Wessington Springs Court of Honor held April 11 at the Congregational church promoting Bernard Posey and Jack Theeler to Life Scout while Marion Adams Frank Schryer Curtis Swartzl and Richard McFarling rise to Second Class. Merit Badges for 29 candidates were reviewed and approved including crafts, civics, cooking and farm planning. Committees and officials named with Rev. J. E Robinson as scoutmaster.
Government engineers release figures showing the James River at a historically low level for March. Mean discharge at Huron was eight cubic feet per second, far below 24 last year and 118 two years ago, with a maximum daily reading of 12 second-feet. Scotland station averaged 34 second-feet in March, compared with 24 last year and 1,610 in 1923, reflecting light winter snowfall and overall drought conditions.
The court today called a jury for the first time in months to hear a forcible entry and detainer suit in Peatl Creek township involving J Welch and More Welch against J L McFadden. Irving B R Crawford represents the plaintiff and C N Halt the defendant. Also listed are marriage licenses for Wilbur Curtis Seeman and Wallie Lorrine Thedorff, both from Huron. Classified notices include help wanted and for rent items with contact details.
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