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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1936
Page
2
June 12 at Armour Stockyards Huron reports 500 hogs received and steady to weak prices across cattle calves and sheep. Hogs sell based on value with small lots and light supply. Feeder cattle and beef cattle show little change. weights varying with steers down from 7.40 while sheep prices hover around steady.
June 12 Chicago traders reported livestock prices largely steady in line with expectations. Beef demand remained weak amid ample supplies while live cattle offerings and slaughter cattle moved under pressure. Hog prices held near steady with some declines, lambs steady with top near 12 dollars.
Sioux Falls hogs steady to up to a top around 3.75 per cwt with total bulk near 3529.70 while sows hold around 9.0. Cattle at Sioux Falls steady, 200 head, quotations unchanged. Sioux City report shows 47 USDA cattle trading slow but generally steady with bulk steers and yearlings 6.75 to 7.50, odd lots higher. Sheep and hogs at St Paul and Chicago mixed, with hog bids softer in some lots and cattle prices easing in Chicago.
Daily market notes from Huron and Sioux Falls list poultry prices heavy hens light hens leghorn hens roosters and ducks with no. 1 butterfat prices and eggs. Sioux City and New York markets show hens broilers eggs butter and butterfat quotes. Chicago and North Dakota listings cover potatoes and regional price movements with weak demand and ample supplies.
Boston wool quotations list Michigan and Wisconsin fleeces with ranges for Delaine unwashed and blood combing. Chicago reports firm butter and eggs, bullish futures, and varied poultry prices amid a strong demand narrative and a June market overview.
Weather delays in northwest regions and Canada reduced wheat futures strength. July wheat closed up by 4 cents while September and December slipped about 4 cents. Meanwhile, grain futures softened with mixed shifts across July and September contracts for corn oats and flax. Cash grain remained in solid demand with fair to good interest for vessel wheat, tum, and flax.
Minneapolis reports a wide range of grain prices including Wheat No 2 dark northern 1.1344 and No 1 heavy dark northern spring 109% to 124%. Cash bids show No 1 dark northern 59 pounds at 1.074 and futures details alongside durum and corn figures.
New York reports a pleasing industrial show with a fast, firm opening in stocks led by utilities and specialties. Most leaders slipped late, while transfers ran about 1,000,000 shares as the session closed slightly heavy with broad declines among listed blue chips and industrials.
In the foreign exchange market today the franc weakened against the dollar with the franc at 0.0159 dollars, while the franc rate moved to 6383 units. Market activity centered on the overseas trade and currency shifts near New York trading.
Washington reports the federal government closes the 1 to 4 percent loans for home refinancing as HOLC ends emergency lending after 18 years. The Home Owners Loan Corporation financed over 100,000 owners, with a maximum 14,000 loan at 5 percent interest.
Brookings June 12. State entomologist J C Severin urged farmers to act quickly against an impending grasshopper outbreak expected to affect 23 of South Dakota's 69 counties. Heaviest damage anticipated in Brule Buffalo east Lyman and western Aurora. Poison bait distributed statewide with county agents assisting in forming control groups.
Kiwanians and families, about 49 in attendance at the State Fair Grounds, watched Gust Jacobson's team beat C L Bailey's 25 to 2 in a kittenball race for the Disruct Trophy. Umpired by Rev. S D Disrud, the event followed speeches by rivals. The picnic replaced the noon luncheon. Hospital notes list Olive Eggen surgical, Harold Jaynes minor surgery, Darrell Bryan surgical, Ed Shaw disarmed, Mrs C N Marston Huron.
Readable fragments show a wide list of company names and percentages, followed by scattered stock quotes and bonds notes from New York and Minneapolis markets. The fragmentary OCR includes automakers, fuel and chemical firms, and utility names, with scattered percentage figures and market notations.
A WPA worker, Perry Bradford, authored a Republican campaign song titled Better Times Are Coming. Col Lafayette Gleason confirmed the measure, noting Fletcher approved the tune, which echoes the 1926 swing hit Messin Around.
In Cleveland on June 12, South Dakota Republicans praised the party platform for farm planks. L W Robinson of Mitchell, platform committee member, urged sanitation and quarantine rules for imported livestock and farm products and supported aid to Indians. He noted benefit payments for farmers’ domestic crops and compared it with their state platform. Charles M Day of Sioux Falls seconded Alf Landon’s nomination.
Funeral services for Glenn C. Sears who died yesterday afternoon after a several day illness with acute indigestion will be held Sunday at 3 o clock at the American Lutheran Church. Rev. S D Distud to preside with pallbearers H N Carlson George Stafford William Cromoble George Olson N R Carlson and Susie Wilama. Burial in Riverside Cemetery.
Pierre June 23 Ajo Texley former relief director and county auditor of Jagkoon County was sentenced to three concurrent three year terms for forging relief checks totaling 12 dollars. He pleaded guilty before Judge Harting and will serve 11 months before suspension of the remaining term. The forgeries dated between June 3, 193 and March 23, 1935 involved forging Roger Petersons name on checks Texley cashed. Texley, about 45, is married with a son.
W. J. Tennyson of Stidwater Minn and four family members were killed or injured when their automobile left Highway No. 10 nine miles west of Britton. Ralph Tennyson 20 and Domna 6 died instantly. Earl about 18 was in critical condition at Britton hospital. Mrs Tennyson and two daughters Gladva 14 and Race 4 suffered minor injuries. The car overturned several times after a gust of wind and the family, traveling to Aberdeen, were on vacation. Local farmer Latiwama aided the injured and dead.
The second obstetric and pediatric clinic sponsored by the South Dakota Medical Society drew doctors and nurses from the vicinity to Huron for the event. Attendees included William Mengert of Town City, Towson, Dr. Wil I. Donahoe, Dr. Nyquist Troquois, and others. The concluding clinic will be held here June 24.
Governor Tom Berry arrives at noon for the Dakota territory diamond jubilee program in Yankton. He will attend the dedication of the restored territorial council chamber, unveil a bronze tablet honoring the 1862 Yankton Stockade defenders, and hear a principal address by Pres. 10. Weeks of the State University Vermillion. The event is under the Yankton chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution with a museum dedication to follow. Attendance is estimated at 25,000 with trains and bands from nearby towns.
Maya Weisflock of Derrington North Dakota has accepted a teaching post at Faulkton High School for the upcoming term. She will lead the social sciences department and oversee music and band work. Weisflock, a Frankfort resident and Dakota Wesleyan graduate, has taught at Carrington High and Reville previously and plans to pursue a masters at Wisconsin University this summer.
In St Peter Minnesota four escapees from the state insane hospital remain unlocated as officials press questions after one was recaptured from Sunday's break. Lawrence Devol, ex Barker-Kur gangster, Albert Sarcke and Lary Reader are said to have headed toward Town while Frank Gibson, reported cornered north of the city, evaded capture.
D. J. Medbery welfare project director said NYA checks for projects from May 21 to June are ready for distribution. Checks will be distributed on the third floor of Beadle County Courthouse. Workers are asked to call at the office to collect.
A Beadle County legislator and local figures debate the 1936 presidential race with Landon as the Republican nominee. Writings from A E Wintraub Dow Sears and others reflect optimism and doubt about Democrats, Republicans, and the election’s likely outcome.
Funeral services are planned in Hand for Grandos Ford who died at Miller Hospital Tuesday evening age 60. The Community Church will host Rev Merril Perkins, with Ford survivors including living relatives in Hand, Harris, Rineer, George Ford and others. Ford had lived on a Hand County farm township for 30 years. Father’s Day is noted with a call for cards. rental ad appears for a compact apartment in the World Building.
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