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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1937
Page
2
Market notes show cattle calves and sheep steady with slight swings across classes. Hog prices steady to firm while native lambs and ewes hold at moderate levels. Chicago dairy and poultry markets slip with butter and eggs down amid weather fears and large arrivals.
Wheat futures eased on December 23 as a brief 2 cent drop pushed by stop-log selling and weak export demand from North America. May wheat hovered around 446¾, July 565, with corn and oats showing mixed movement amid favorable Argentine harvest prospects. Minneapolis and Duluth cash quotes followed regional patterns with No 1 dark northern and No 1 hard winter grades varied, while durum values fluctuated and other grains showed modest shifts.
Markets across South Dakota and neighboring towns list poultry and dairy prices. Huron Mitchell Watertown Sioux Falls show hens, springs, ducks, geese, and butterfat rates with weights and grade notes for Dec 29. Notable figures include Leghorn hens, springs, and butterfat No. 1 and No. 2 prices.
Chicago hog prices slipped 10 to 15 cents per hundredweight, top down to 8.59, amid weak wholesale and retail meat trade. Demand was dull with large lots limited, cattle above nine dollars steady to weak, lambs trading around 2.80 and higher as the market narrowed.
In December at Sigum City a representative sales event lists beef steers and yearlings, fat cows and heifers, low cutters, bulls, calves and vealers, and hogs with assorted lot numbers and average prices. Prices range from about 2.50 to 10.00 per unit across several categories reflecting mixed demand.
Chicago markets show hogs at 10 to 15 lower with choice 150 to 200 pounds around 8.15 and packers sow prices slipping to 6.35 to 6.45. Cattle and calves total around 4,000 and 1,200 with fat steers and yearlings easing to 9.00 and up, prime heavies at 11.00. Sheep at 8,000 head bid weaker, native ewes down from 3.50, lambs and fat lambs mixed with some steady sheep reports.
Sioux City market shows cattle: calves around 100, slaughter steers and yearlings steady to lower, cows steady, stockers firm. hogs 5500 head, medium to light weights steady to 10 lower. sheep 3000 head, undercurrents weak, wool sheep scarce, heavy offerings minimal. Feeder and lighter animals mixed, price ranges partially noted across categories.
President Roosevelt outlined plans to build two new battleships and 16 torpedo craft and voiced a growing concern over international conditions that might push Congress to expand naval armament. He stated the world arms race persists and noted the navy may need more auxiliary ships and destroyers as older vessels age. The letter to Chairman Taylor clarified the move is not part of a preparedness program.
A mixed historical montage lists Sioux City and New York market items, including hens and pullets weight categories with prices, Leghorns, various eggs trading around 4.80 to 26, butterfat futures and grades, Chicago butter and potato quotes, and cash grain quotes for corn oats rye soybeans and barley with assorted U.S. No. 1 and No. 2 grades and prices, reflecting a Wednesday market briefing.
Recurrent buying in aircraft, steel and heavy industrial shares pushed prices up about 2 points, while many other issues fell. Trading volume reached about 2.3 million shares as financial district activity picked up toward the close.
Betty Braun Healy, first wife of Ted Healy, claims he left a will benefiting her and his widow Betty Hickmen Healy and their infant son though no will has been reported. Friends paid for Healy’s funeral after coroner’s report cited alcoholism as the cause of death. Healy, a Hollywood actor earning $1,750 a week, owned real estate and ranch property and had recently taken out a large life insurance policy.
Miss Carrie Buttolph longtime Aberdeen furrier died of cerebral hemorrhage at 12:45 PM in the home of her cousin Mrs H W Carlson Tellows Avenue Southeast Huron She was 63 Oct she recently sold her business and had come to Huron for care She is survived by a sister Miss Gertrude Buttolph Long Beach California and other relatives Funeral and burial details to be arranged in Aberdeen Riverside Cemetery beside her father Frank Buttolph and former partner in the business William Kurtz
Warden and Deputy Frank Nelson said convicts chosen for outside work at Lily had clean records, good behavior, and were unlikely to escape. Three prisoners serving sentences for assaults were among those taken to Lily, with no belief they would be dangerous. Names mentioned include Hitchcock, Dimnissed, Edog Kicinsasser, Frank fort, Rogert Dean Chaplin, Shirky, and Mrs. Lawrence Perry.
Sixteen scouts attended the regular Boy Scouts of America district meeting. George Gile reported progress on a new merit badge examiner list and a Board of Review for 1938 with L. K. LaCraft chosen as chair. The Camping and Activities Committee discussed a skating party with over 30 scouts from across the district led by M. D. Mycue and A. W. Palm. Rev. W. H. Riley spoke on the Senior Scouting Program, and H. L. Cook appointed three men to study the program and make district recommendations. Attendees included HLH Cook, GL. McNamara, Rev. Riley, John P. Walsh, B. K. LaCraft, Dr. G. A Youel, William Churchill, J. Larson, Carl Voigt, Geanze Castain, Joe Bowers, G G. Bel, S. I. Granger, and Scout Executive Ed Ste Atrdien.
Sioux Falls senator Blaine Simons announces bid for the Republican nomination for governor. A two-term legislator, he emphasizes simple, inexpensive government and has served on the judiciary committee. Born June 5, 1891, in Bowens, he is a World War I veteran and University of South Dakota alumnus.
Roland Porter, son of Mrs. Fanny Porter of Iroquois, was injured this morning when a dirt lump fell from a road edging, striking his leg. He was taken to a hospital in Huron for treatment.
Kerner expects a about 3 percent reduction in Beadle Counts unemployed roster after January first. Job lists lengthen as people return from private work and those on holiday temporary positions. A seasonal layoff of 20 men by the Soil Conservation District in Huron is noted, with recalls when funding returns. Four WPA workers, who finished a highway project near the west wells, may work on the W W Howes Municipal Airport highway project under Burt Ayres supervision. The workers are idle after exhausting December hours. Private employment in Huron during Christmas holidays was reported to be about average by several large businesses.
Paris faces widespread disruption as army trucks continue supplying central markets and newspapers while a public service strike persists. taxis and private cars ferry workers, causing heavy traffic jams. The protest targets a budget move to curb automatic wage increases for municipal workers, with tensions rising after a prior riot in Clichy left many wounded and police actions scrutinized.
The Irish Free State transitions to Eire in Gaelic and Ireland in English as a new constitution takes effect. Eamon De Valera, its spokesman, presides over the change with editorial stances from The Wish Press The Independent and The Irish Times offering varied views on freedom of speech press and women’s rights.
Mrs Roosevelt faced a five hour weather delay in Fargo while returning from Seattle. She kept busy with a typewriter at the airport and spoke to reporters at Billings about her son James buying a farm near Framingham Massachusetts for his family.
Forecasts predict more rain in the Pacific Northwest after a three day storm. Train wrecks across Washington and British Columbia interrupt travel and cut power. One Canadian National Railways engine and tender plunged into a river near Manros with a death. Victoria area wrecks add to the toll as floodwaters flood basements and streets. Seattle endures its worst downpour since 1933 with mud and geysers from dislodged sewers.
WPA rolls already near 65 000 beyond the 1 300 000 average faced Hopkins. A crowd looms as General Motors announces 3000 layoffs in January. WPA officials see no special prep for a larger relief surge. Also, two sets of keys were turned in at police headquarters for owner pickup with identification.
Fragmented notices list WANTED auto lamp adjuster for Mower Electric, ad-scribbled asks for phone, sales pitches, and local rent offers. Also mentions WANTED passengers to Lincoln, a reward for missing item, and unrelated product ads including head colds and sniffles.
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