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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1935
Page
2
Hog receipts were 200 head with a steady market. Cattle calves and sheep were firm with ranges for dry fed steers yearlings and heifers listed alongside hog weights and packer prices. Prices covered hogs cattle calves and lambs with notes on market tone and Wednesday trends.
Lower Chicago stock yards report halfhearted Friday trading for cattle hogs and sheep. About 6 000 hogs with 3 500 direct and 2 000 unsold yesterday. prices steady to 10 cents lower with top near 9 05 and a 9 10 sale. Cattle receipts 2 500 with fed steers and yearlings weak to lower. sheep at 15 000 largest Friday since February, with buyers asking 8 50 to 8 65 for wooled lambs and early kids down 25 cents.
Friday cattle and hog prices show steady to higher tones in Sioux Falls with top cattle about 370, while Chicago reports broadly lower hog values and double California lambs sent direct to packers. St Paul and Roux City prices vary, with cattle and sheep activity weak to steady and bids shifting on lighter weights.
Furnished daily by Swit & Co Huron South Dakota lists prices for hens light and leghorn types eggs and batter. Also market by Rogers and Huron Hide and Metal Co for hides horses wool sheep pelts and tallow with price ranges. Paris market update notes U S dollar rate at 15.1775 francs per dollar versus New York quote 6.59125 francs.
Chicago market notes dated April 19 show live poultry and poultry products moving with steady demand. Prices listed include hens five pounds and under at 22 cents, over five pounds at 2014 estimates, and various values for leghorns, rock fryers, colored birds, sea born, barbbacks, roosters, hens, toms, ducks, geese and capons with small adjustments for weight classes.
Chicago reports strong and weak stocks with U S D A potato figures and shipments. Wool quotations released for Wisconsin Missouri Indiana New England. Sioux City and Sioux City area produce prices list hens eggs butter and poultry values. New York poultry and butter prices noted with market steadiness.
Omaha February report notes international VP R B Armstrong warning that organized workers of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway will strike at 4 a m if arbitrate plan not accepted. Frank Bowen mediator sought agreement between workers and company. Also shows tax levy collections: 27 percent uncollected on 1933 levy across the county with many years overdue.
Five men from Iowa Texas and Illinois were bound over to the grand jury on charges of using the mails to defraud in the Sir Francis Drake estate swindle. Otto Yault Delmer Short James F Kirkendall and Lester E Obmart appeared for arraignment with bail set at 10 000 for the first four and 15 000 for James Haber who was released on bond. Post office inspectors report nearly 100 000 recovered, largely in British currency.
Yankton faces two week period with no mayor as M M Bennett resigns leaving Ernest A Crockett to take office May 4 per statute. City board to handle licenses and liquor ordinance while Crockett cannot preside until May. City Attorney says Schenk qualifies to join board. liquor licenses sparse statewide.
The Association of American Railroads announced that total freight carloadings for the week ended April 15 reached 587,085 cars, up 42,038 from the prior week and 7,704 above the same week in 1964, with gains attributed to increased freight movement.
Washington report says nearly half of Wisconsin’s land shows erosion effects. Soil erosion chief Bennett cites last year’s survey finding sheet erosion on two percent of land and widespread wind erosion and gullying in sizable areas.
Fuller reports increases in multiple funds including the county general fund at 31 512 37 and the insane fund 2625 53 plus mothers pension 2344 54. Some overdrafts in county bridge and rand funds persist from prior levy days while overdrafts in motor road and special highway shrink as delinquent taxes are collected.
Kelley won the Boston Marathon from Hopkinton to Boston with a time of 2 hours 32 minutes 7 seconds. He led early and held the lead, finishing ahead of Dave Komon and Jean Arlington Irishman in a brisk race.
In Havana on April 17 authorities indicted leaders of a group tied to a crime wave described as a series of offenses. Officials accuse the organization of multiple acts as investigations continue.
Rapid City reports ongoing investigation into a ring stealing food, cement, nails, oil, and blankets from CCC camps in the Black Hills. Seven men have been arrested and bound over to the U S district court at Deadwood. goods valued about 500 dollars. The thefts date to last January and continue until all suspects are apprehended.
Aberdeen April 19 the confession to the 1990 burglary of the Onaka post office was admitted as evidence in the Claude Richardson trial. The statement signed by Richardson and Charles Morrison and the defendant’s testimony were presented while government witnesses Me non and Frederick Hammond testified. The defense pleaded not guilty claiming no participation in the burglary or conspiracy.
A municipal court dismissed the charge against the defendant after a brief morning hearing. The case involved an alleged obstruction on a city street. No further details were reported.
The Huron Poultry Fund total rises to 1381 as bond purchasers are added including Osborn Clothing Store Model Stenn Laundry General Motor Equipment Company and Hedblows who chairs the program. Huronians may buy bonds in any denomination at the Chamber of Commerce office.
Huron National Guardsmen ranked 49th nationwide in a national rifle shoot led by Captain E R Crawford. The team of Buell Cotten Junior FL Miller Claire Groves E Lt Gilland and Rena Kinsman scored 214 among National Guard teams from Ohio Massachusetts Kentucky Michigan and Nebraska. Brookings placed 35th and Rapid City 43rd among South Dakota teams. Contest was held in Brookings in February.
Washington April 15 The administration's social security bill, praised as promoting the more abundant life, was passed by the House and sent to the Senate. Democrats guided 42 amendments through, with Republicans unable to block. The measure creates old age pensions starting at 45 with up to 15 dollars monthly federal support, payroll tax funded annuities up to 85 dollars monthly after 65, unemployment taxes, and grants to states for dependent children public health and rehabilitation efforts.
Clarence Migrum and Pat Shanon of the Cowboy Entertainers appear tonight at the Fair Store building with their act in support of Huron Boy Scout troops raising funds for the National Jamboree in Washington DC. The show starts at six and includes a Boy Scout contest and various cowboy performances.
Baton Rouge report states Huey Long promised more dynamite amendments at the special legislative session. He says several bills advanced to final passage by noon tomorrow while the House observes a holiday and will reconvene.
In Massachusetts Patriots Day festivities two impersonators impersonating Paul Revere and William Dawes Jr. rode from Boston to Lexington. Exorcists Bailin Francis-Breen and Warren V. Bell led the rides to spread the alarm of the approaching British along the historic route. Mayor Frederick Mansfeld presided at flag raising during the parade preparations.
Chicago authorities report 11 year old Les Magats confessed sending two ransom notes to missing child Max Perot. Notes demanded 150 dollars and were found with a dummy archive near Spot. A man linked to the case, Joseph Boll, was questioned as investigators seek connections to the disappearance.
In Venice Italy and Austria’s Ernest von Starhemberg held talks exceeding an hour on restoring the Habsburg dynasty. They also touched on the Danubian conference in Rome later in May and Austria’s rearmament amid Balkan tensions.
The first post Lenten dance in Huron is the twenty eighth annual Brotherhead of Locomotive Fire and Engineers event at the dance pavilion Easter Monday night. Richardson's Orchestra from Mitchell will provide nine piece music for the charity fundraiser beginning at o'clock.
Admitted to hospitals are R M Barr iuron D F Shephard Huron Darlene Johnson Huron minor surgical Earl Meyers Huron minor surgical John Masterson Huron surgical Dismissed include Florence Otson Wolsey Mrs V G Christenson Huron George Rudi Lake Preston Claus Meidemy Brosdland Mrs Ralph Meyers De Smet Ruby Luchen De Smet Arthur Grote Huron. A T Hoberg posted a $50 bond in Municipal court after arraignment on disorderly conduct charges. He was ordered to appear tomorrow to enter a plea after police found him with unsealed liquor at Robbies Chicken Shack north of Huron.
The State Fair board undertakes extensive grass seeding and shrubbery platting at the Fair Grounds. Signs are posted and the public is urged to cooperate. Damage from heedless actions is possible and the public is asked to be careful and assist. Signed E G Vensbles Secretary and S D Stetu Far Board. Dated 4 18 24.
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