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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1938
Page
2
Market report from Armour Stockyards Huron and Sioux Falls notes hogs up with top at 8.70 and receipts around 700. Cattle and sheep mostly steady with lighter demand for lambs. Butchers varied with prices around 8.00. Sows bid 7.50 to 7.70.
Sioux City market notes list hens, roosters, broilers, and eggs with varied weights and prices including Leghorn and Tagharn lines, Butterfat values, and creamery butter quotes. Mitchell market shows hens, roosters, springs, and Butterfat levels with no. 1 and no. 2 egg quotes and hens prices.
Slowx Falla Produce reports in Sioux Falls and Watertown on Thursday pricing for hens of various weights, leghorn hens and broilers, with prices per pound and per head for heavy hens and springs. Chicago and New York markets show butter, cheese, eggs, and dressed poultry values, with rafted figures for futures, standards, and by shipper types, including leghorn and fowl prices across multiple grades.
Grassy cattle prices slip while hogs and sheep show mixed moves in a thin trading day. Fed steers yearlings and heifers sold slowly, with grass cattle and top heavy weights uneven but tracing lower. fat lambs fell sharply from Tuesday highs. Calves, fed steers and yearlings mostly steady, grass steers eased to mid 6s, top barrow and gilt prices mixed. spring lambs and natives uneven, some declines of 25 to 90 cents per hundredweight. Representative sales from Sioux City report varied cattle and cow-and-heel prices with limited bids and uneven demand.
Livestock market notes from St Paul and Sioux City on June 2 and June 5 show cattle at 2500 head with prairied steers selling around 5000.75 and tops near 910 while calves and hogs move unevenly. sheep and dairy cows also listed with mixed demand and price ranges. Buyer activity remains active for top grades and weaker for mid to lower grades across regions.
Wheat futures rose sharply as reports of wide spread domestic winter crop damage spurred fear of rust spread into spring crops. Chicago futures climbed about 2 percent with July and September bids up, while corn and oats also gained on cautious demand and frost-driven supply concerns. Minneapolis cash quotes showed No 1 hard Montana and other categories trading at varied premiums and discounts despite overall firmer prices.
Markets at a glance show mixed activity with stock and grain futures uneven. Reports from New York indicate quiet stock and bond activity with some sectors edging higher while abroad currencies and coffee remain subdued. Duluth and Minneapolis grain figures list various wheat, corn, rye, and barley prices and grades.
The page lists numerous company names and percent figures, hinting at a broad stock market roundup. Amid varied percentages for firms from aviation to steel, the insert shows trading activity and investor interest, with New York curb data and U S bonds noted.
New York traders showed renewed courage as Wall Street advanced with gains around two points. Major commodities led the rise with forward lift from inflationary expectations tied to a government pump priming program. Transfers reached about 600000 shares, while rails and utilities lagged behind.
The page lists closing values for numerous firms including AlliedCh and Dye, AmCan AmPow, AmLoco, AmRollMill, Anaconda, Loew's, NatBiscuit, NatDairyProd and NatSteel. Percent quotes and trade indicators appear beside each name, reflecting market activity on the session. No narrative, just a dense catalog of prices and percent changes from Associated Press data.
The fifty-fifth annual encampment of the South Dakota W R G A R department concluded in Huron with the installation of officers led by Mrs Mae Lampson. Levi Van Voorhis af was named last year’s commander to remain in office, and several officers were reelected or appointed across the Brookings Sioux Falls and other cities. The session included a convention adjournment with flag furling and a reading of The Star Spangled Banner.
BELLE FOURCHE June 14 Flag Day urged by R P Borman state Americanism chairman for the American Legion to Legion posts and citizens in South Dakota. He calls for honoring the national emblem amid world tensions and stresses patriotism. The program includes a concert by the band and Elks chorus at J W Campbell park next Tuesday evening with ritual services.
Lay ApPpeer aries Josephine Miner was appointed deputy in the register of deeds office by the Beadle County commission during a June session at the courthouse. Miner replaces Norah Hopkins who resigned to join another position. The board also reviewed a license for the Huron amusement pavilion and discussed compensating municipal court jurors with county funds covering judges’ salaries.
Former South Dakota state treasurer J dy WTISCO and his niece Mary Driscoll of Lend were among Wyoming Air Service passengers from Raid City. They flew to Minneapolis after visiting the Black Hills with his mother Mrs. R. H. Driscoll for a bankers convention in Huron. Also aboard were Isaac Wildner bound for Cheyenne, Morris HM Mills of the Conservation Service en route to Washington, and G. J. Kenwolvius, a salesman from Pierre.
Anna Lindsay Clark and John A Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, filed their wedding license at Nahant town hall and set a June 18 ceremony. The couple paid 2 to Clerg Leary M Delano. Congress business advanced with labor hour limits, relief funds, and highway aid bills moving through committees and chambers.
John C. Johnson of 240 Dekoin Avenue Southeast recalls a painful encounter with poison ivy after picking a few plants along the James River. He suffered a severe skin infection requiring medical care, blamed on the weed’s lush spring growth and deceptive beauty.
Aberdeen officers capture robbery suspect Date Black and his bride Tilie Milles in Leola South Dakota during their honeymoon. He faces warrants for burglary armed robbery and related crimes dating back to May. He was transported to Aberdeen for questioning along with his wife.
France under Premier Daladier ordered patrols by 290 mph pit planes along the Franco Spanish frontier. The step follows three clashes with Spanish warplanes in two weeks and bomb damage reported in the Valencia sector. Heavy reinforcements were moved to the frontier as insurgents pressed to about 12 miles northwest of Castillon de la Pima.
The case centers on the May 28 disappearance of Tow-headed “Skeegie” from Cash family property. Authorities tie the ransom notes to McCall, with state charges impending and potential death penalty if convicted. Sheriffs describe McCall’s reputation as mixed. investigation expands as FBI involvement grows after House approved funds.
At the hospitals admissions include Mrs Addie Vickers Broad land Paul Anderson Cavour Richard Ziegeldorf Yale Wayne Lee Huron Mrs Em ery Scheid Mrs Leatha Hammers Huron. Dismissals name Ida Jensen Erusin Mc Kinley Hall Deland Marvel erst e rons William Gaughran Yale A Stowell Huron Frank Schroeder Be Ses Vernon Erickson De Smet Joli Claaxien Bancroft Sylvia Erickson Huron Weldon Isaacson Lake Freston El pier Schmidtgall Wolsey.
About 75 high school clusters from the central South Dakota area will perform in a public concert Friday evening at Campbell Park. The event, announced by A.3 Le chairman of the Chamber of Commerce educational committee, features students from St Lawrence Hitch cock Fundkton Hy Huron and other districts. Under bandmaster Le E Smith the group will perform pieces by Sousa Bris Herbert and others. Duane Smith assisted with arrangements in Huron and Turon schools.
An auto safety group formed in Cleveland pledged to lobby for a gas tax cut to fund road victims' support. The organization approved a proposal to test automobiles twice a year for mechanic inspection and to allocate funds to prevent future crashes.
Court order from Ninth Judicial Circuit South Dakota details a judgment dated May 28 1938 and docketed May 2 1838 in Beadle County against Christena Frey also known as Christina Frey Sarah Pressam Deutscher and William Roberson et al defendants. The Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation seeks a sale of the described property, Northeast Quarter section in Beadle County to satisfy a $223 execution, with public auction at the county courthouse. Sale set for June 1938 with cash highest bidder compliant with government survey.
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