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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1935
Page
2
Friday’s market at Armour Stock Yards in Huron remained fully steady with yesterday’s quotations. Hog receipts were 200. cattle and calves showed ranges: choice steers and yearlings 9.50 to 10.30, medium 7.50 to 8.50, fair 5.50 to 6.00. cows 3.15 to 5.75. calves 5.00 to 9.50. sheep and lambs and hogs across various weights and classes.
Chicago market reports show light weight hogs strong to higher with bulk 160-250 pounds at 9.50 to 9.60 and receipts around 22 000. Cattle trade steady with scarce choice offerings and best loads shipping at 10.50 up, medium weight steers about 13.40, calves around 7.00 to 7.50. Fat lambs steady near 11.25 and up, feeding lambs scarce with native and western lambs bid at 11.00 to 11.25.
Sioux Falls market eyed steady to slightly lower cattle and hogs with active feeders and steady to mixed lambs. South St Paul reports 2700 cattle and 4100 hogs with medium to good fat feds steady to higher, vealers strong, lambs steady with light trade and heavy cattle trading with scarce feeders.
Market notes from Sioux Falls and Sioux City show poultry and hides prices and grades. Heavy hens, light and leghorn hens, spring chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and culls are listed with weights and prices. cured hides and bull hides, tallow, and sheepskins priced by grade.
Chicago market reports show butter steady with a holiday boost wave, eggs in stock, and continued unfavorable storage withdrawals. Poultry supplies remain steady with varied counts across live poultry and dressed turkey categories, while New York and Boston exchanges provide mixed fruit, dairy, and grain price observations. Weather impacts and holiday demand influence price movements and stock levels across several regions.
A fragmentary excerpt lists oat and rye grades alongside barley and flax varieties with numbered designations and abbreviated measurements, reflecting a historical agricultural market or quality assessment. The readable items include oats No 3 white rye No 2 a barley No 3 and flax No 1 amid faded OCR text.
The market shows unsettled wheat futures with mixed results across Minneapolis Chicago and Duluth. Dec and May contracts fluctuated while cash demand remained quiet and durum markets held firm amid varied grain prices and forward deliveries.
New York December 2 Stocks overall rose slowly in thin preholiday trading with bonds and foreign exchanges gaining. Notable advancers included Douglas Aircraft United Aircraft Curtiss Wright U S Smelting International Nickel Cerro de Pasco Union Pacific Santa Fe Seaboard Continental Oil and Bethlehem. Declines touched Alaska Juneau Alleghany American Telephone and several chemical and utility issues. Transfers were about 1 500 000 shares as the market held a steady tone with mixed gains and losses across sectors.
Project managers in the Ninth Region of the Soil Conservation service met in Huron with regional conservator H J Clem mer. Attendees included E H Archer Great Falls Mont Je NG Sloan Winner and A Di McKinney Park River ND. Wyoming recently joined the territory under supervision but no project has started there yet. Clem mer had been in Washington last week discussing reorganization and expanded field supervision.
New York reports the Daily News says suppressed evidence favorable to Bruno Richard Hauptmann will be offered to the New Jersey court of pardons during his appeal for clemency. The paper cites secret sources claiming Governor Harold G. Hoffman will call witnesses not heard in the trial at F Ni.
The American Legion Auxiliary announces gifts from Afuron business men for Christmas baskets. George and Niele Manolis of North Side grocery donated 20 sacks of flour. The City Federation of Women’s clubs urges a drive of old clothes canned fruit towels wash cloths and soap to be added to Salvation Army baskets. Donations may be left at Lampe Market today and tomorrow. The Auxiliary is also dressing dolls for the baskets.
Roosevelt grandson from Oyster Bay, 20, and Harvard classmate William Burnham, 20, were injured when their car skidded on the Arborway in Jamaica Plain and hit a tree. Both were hospitalized. injuries described as not serious. The report notes lacerations and bruises for the pair.
Plans for a large rabbit hunt were announced as a joint effort by the American Legion and the Izaak Walton League. Earl Pierce reported damage to young trees from rabbits, and a committee led by G O Martin including Frank Kent and J B Adams will coordinate with Izaak Walton League representatives to finalize details, likely after year’s end. Shells and transportation will be provided by the government, with efforts to invite Alb agortemen to join. A separate committee for distributing stakes to needy children was named, with Adam, J R Wiley, Herschel Coley, and Buchholz on the panel. Several Legionnaires offered help with Salvation Army baskets. Pete McMillan of Conde and Carter and Stahl of Onida attended. Ruth Wilcox spoke on the Passion Play witnessed in Oberammergau during a Germany trip.
William Gesch, 38, of Ellendale, pleaded guilty to slaying his father in law Henry Kaphingst and Dickey county commissioner, and faced a life sentence. District Judge William A. Hutchinson set the mandatory term. Gesch was moved to a state penitentiary likely in Bismarck today.
The Northwest College of Commerce presented the play Rich Man Pupor Muni with musical numbers. The group, coached by Irene Tiede and Lois Hartier, performed on the Knights of Columbus second floor. Singing was directed by Charlotte Drxdale of Huron College. After the program, bungd was played and refreshments served.
Captain Moe of the Infantry Reserve is named commander of Company 2770 of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Huron, relieving Captain Alex Steinbach. Moe, previously district inspector supervising eastern South Dakota CCC camps, replaces Steinbach who remains on duty with the company temporarily.
Christmas vacation starts this afternoon in Huron public schools and at Huron College. Classes will resume Monday January 6 with city schools opening in the morning and the college at 1 15 PM.
Lloyd Sherman, member of Delta Tau Delta, joins the annual U of Minnesota Christmas party for needy Minneapolis children. Children visit fraternity houses, then proceed to the Minnesota Union for a Christmas tree, presents, music, carols, and a magic show with movies.
The article describes a kidnapping attempt with Milne being blindfolded and injected with needles as federal agents pursue a Philadelphia gang. Milne reports fear and disorientation as the car allegedly travels through Somerville New Jersey Phillipsburg and Wrightstown toward a hideout. Hospital doctors note 25 needle marks on Milne’s right arm while investigators explore leads involving Alvin Karpis and the Hoover era bureau.
The Huron Soil Conservation Service exhibit, recreated in papier mache at its Washington headquarters, will display at the St. Louis Centennial Exposition after showing the Jungeman farm northeast of Wolsey before and after soil conservation efforts. It features real dirt vegetation hooves livestock and farm equipment in the diorama. After St Louis, the reproduction moves to the regional office.
Scout Executive John L. Smith flies to Pierre by jet to attend a public Court of Honor and a Scoutmaster round table tonight. Otto B. Linstad, commissioner, will run the Court of Honor and Claude Koon, chairman, will oversee the round table discussion. Plans unfold for the Buffalo district Scout roundup.
A collage of political commentary cites Roosevelt and Jokes backing federal projects while warning of pork barrel limits. It notes Laval's precarious hold in France amid Christmas timing and French cabinet fears. Mussolini faces sanctions with rising hardships in Italy. Also covers Republican presidential buzz, SEC personnel changes, and a Bauer lecture at Northwest College of Commerce.
Mrs Ida Newton a Highmore resident aged 43 died unexpectedly yesterday afternoon from a blood clot in the lung after a two week recovery from surgery at a Huron hospital She had been register of deots and later worked in the dry goods department of Laughlin Co Surviving are her son Erroll Newton and daughters Mrs J W Siebenson and Miss Vesta Newton Also one son preceded her in death The family resides in Anthon and Washington D C to receive word on funeral arrangements
A fragment from a late edition reports a perplexing item on jPest of ice with a 13 percent reference linked to Huron. The readable bits are sparse and lack clear context or outcome for a fuller summary.
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