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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1929
Page
8
Livestock market news notes hog receipts from Armour & Co. at the local yard today. The Huronite cannot provide daily quotations since Hur on yard is not a public market. Readers are directed to see quotations from public markets elsewhere.
Sioux City market notes cattle calves and hogs with mixed results as demand shifts. Chicago bids show higher hogs and varied cattle prices with sows and feeders moving. sheep demand remains active with lambs and ewes priced across ranges.
At St Paul Friday cattle numbers about 1 700 opened slow with uneven demand. Yearlings top around 15.50 to 16.30, hogs 3 000 slow with top 11.35 for choic eights 160 240 lbs, pigs 11.00, lambs 12.00 to 13.00 natives. Chicago potatoes Friday shipments total 748 with red varieties steady to slightly easier on white. Wisconsin round whites 2.35 to 2.50 per cwt, Nebraska Irish Cobblers 2.40 to 2.95, Minnesota and Ohio prices around 1.90 to 2.00.
Local market listing titled Huron Poultry and Eggs shows prices for springs Leghorn springers heavy hens light hens cocks and eggs. Furnished by Swift Co Buck Brothers and others with notes that prices may change without notice.
Sioux Falls market reports hogs at 1 200 head with prices 15 to 35 cents higher and top at 11.25. Cattle noted at 200 head steady as demand shifts with packers and bull, light movement across the yard. Minneapolis flour prices ease with carload family patents quoted at 7.55 to 7.65 per barrel and shipments totaling 34 565 barrels.
Minneapolis stockyard notes show December wheat futures down 15 cents as selling accelerates. Oats, rye, and barley weaken amid hedging pressure while flax and cash wheat demand vary. Prices for high protein wheat hold steady while winter and durum markets stay unchanged.
Minneapolis grain prices from the carlot range show No 1 dark northern wheat at 1.281% to 1.38, No 1 hard spring 1.34, No 1 mixed 1.20% 1.25, No 1 dark hard winter 1.33, No 1 mixed durum 1.08% 1.185, No 1 hard winter 1.21, oats 36, rye No 1 0.94, barley No 2 0.56 with some figures not quoted.
Minneapolis and Duluth market notes report Thursday close data for wheat and corn futures, including No 1 dark northern, amber durum and Red durum grades with varying price levels. Chicago and Duluth futures ranges are cited along with nearby months and cash prices.
OCR fragment shows mixed financial terms and company or location names such as Am Interntl, Am Sug, Atchison, Erie, Freeport, Gen. Elec, Greene Co., Hudson. Most items are unreadable or garbled, lacking clear action or event to summarize.
A compact note lists numerous traded securities with mixed performance. Several rail and utility stocks show modest gains while manufacturing and industrial outfits like Rem Rand and U S Steel edge higher. Tech and consumer names hover with smaller movements amid a broad market backdrop.
The Standard Oil Company of Indiana on the curb market finished the day with its stock closing at 56 percent. Traders noted steady demand for the issue as investors weighed earnings and market conditions.
The New York market rose today led by rail and public utility stocks reaching new highs. Gains ranged 10 to 18 points with heavy volume as Westinghouse Electric surged and General Electric climbed, though profit taking appeared in the final hour ahead of brokers loans figures.
The executive board of the South Dakota division of the National Council of Catholic Women met in Madison on Monday with fifteen delegates from the deanery attending the afternoon session. New officers were elected including state chairman of the division of study clubs Mrs. W L Matlock of Huron and Parent-Teachers work chairman Mrs. John Issenhuth. Rural vacation work chairman Mrs. DeNoyer and membership chairman Mrs. J P O Connell. The next annual meeting will be held in Huron in May 1930.
Nine Cream Crusaders 4 H dairy calf club members brought their calves to the State Fair grounds for a show yesterday afternoon. George Conrad won first in showmanship with other placers including Eugene Snook John Reaves and Ross Oviatt Thad Oviatt led the group and R AsCava county agent gave leading instruction during the parade.
DES MOINES I A Aug 22 Forty three persons including 20 women arrested in raids last night on vice and liquor establishments were presented to city state special and army officers in the largest show up of suspicious characters in years. The show up followed the city wide clean up campaign planned at Fort Des Moines after army officers urged action to wipe out questionable places.
Judge A K Gardner will move into three rooms on the second floor of the federal building as permanent offices. Receiver Hookway, Labrie and Wookway relocate. rooms redecorated for First National banks and internal offices. Decorators to start before Gardner’s formal establishment. treasury department authorizes outside leasing.
The Rev Aristides Palaynes of Holy Frinity Greek Orthodox church led a Greek language mass at Grace Episcopal in Sioux City for local Greek families. Four children received holy baptism, and a confirmation was performed. About 45 Greeks attended, with Grace’s rector Rev Wallace Bristol assisting and George Thoillas, president of the local Greek Community, in attendance.
The South Dakota women’s extension clubs announce their first annual luncheon at Beadle County Exhibit Building on September 12 at noon. Mrs. Big Barthell Beadle County chairman says the event includes a business meeting and tickets cost sixty five cents. Reservations may be made with Mrs Barthell and tickets picked up at the Beadle County extension booth during fair week.
A fall style section reports corrections to the Iowa Show of Annuals awards list. A judge notes no third prize for the most artistic basket arrangement of garden flowers. Names Robsabin Gerrude Bon mill Hriza and Podesky appear in the revised results with the best dressed dahlias and sweet tass prizes.
A safety rally by the Dakota division of the Chicago Northwestern will be held Monday at Daum's auditorium starting 7:30 PM. The program includes educational films on railroad safety and crossing caution, with CG and NW employees and families invited. General manager G B Vilas and safety officials will visit for meetings with foremen and supervisors.
George T. Jamieson of Sioux Falls was elected president of the South Dakota state conference of social workers at the convention in Rapid City. D. C. Mills and Clarence Saban were chosen vice president and secretary treasurer respectively. The fore noon sessions covered committee reports and state social problems. later talks include the solution of dependent children problems and South Dakota rehabilitation programs.
A meeting of G W Stafford's committee will plan the annual field day and picnic for the Huron Izaak Waltons. Committeemen will organize the sports program for men women and children with races and contests and prizes likely. The 8 p m session will be held in the chamber of commerce rooms.
Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain is expected to arrive in the United States between October 1 and 10 for a visit with President Hoover. He will be accompanied by his daughter Miss Ishbel MacDonald and a small personal staff.
Alexander Pantages, a 54 year old theatre magnate, was summoned in Los Angeles to enter a plea in superior court for an alleged attack on Janice Pringle a 17 year old dancer in his private offices on August 9. Defence lawyers say he will plead not guilty and seek time to prepare. District Attorney Baron Fitts said the state will ask for a trial setting of September 17.
A barn on Steve Boomsa farm two miles northeast of Broadland burned to the ground after a lightning strike, valued at 2000 dollars. Five hundred fifty bushels of oats were lost. Twelve chickens and two horses were rescued, one horse stunned. Nearby farms suffered roof and hayrack damage from high winds and hail damaged corn across a two by six mile area. No city damage reported.
Hor ton Smith, the Joplin ghost, shot a 66 four under par at Ozaukee Country Club to take the early lead in the Western Open championship.
Senator Brookhart returning from the east says there is an excellent chance the export debenture proposal can be written into the tariff bill. He notes a revision to gain broader support and cites talks with former governor Lowden about a revised debenture being better than the equalization fee.
John Snyder aged 40 a farmhand died after his horses frightened caused wheels of a hay rack to run over his chest. He died an hour later at Balm South Dakota. Snyder was a member of a threshing crew and brother of Mrs Susie Brooks of Huron.
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