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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
11
Sioux City market report shows cattle gains to 40 and calves up to 25, with mixed yearlings up to 14.60 and top steers near 14.25. Pooled hogs sell around 10.25 to 10.50, sows 9.00 to 9.40. Sheep receipts 300 with fat lambs easing to 16.25 and yearlings about 11.25, ewes 6.59.
Market notes from Huron South Dakota and surrounding towns list poultry and eggs prices, dairy and butter figures, and Chicago and Mitchell price snapshots. Key entities include Buck Brothers Huron Swift Co Sioux Falls Mitchell and Chicago. items cover eggs butter poultry live weights and various regional potato and dairy quotes.
Chicago livestock figures show hogs at 11,006 with direct 300. cattle as fed steers and yearlings up to 50c higher. eastern shipper demand broad. Sheep around 4,000 with mid week decline and slight late recovery. week top prices listed for western lambs natives and yearlings.
Cattle saw uneven gains with better grades up to 50 cents in spots and top steer prices near 14.75 to 15.00 while bulk beef around 13.00 to 14.00. Hogs eased 10 to 25 cents amid uneven demand, with near 160–230 lb hogs at 10.50 to 10.75 and heavy weights around 9.50 to 9.76. Lambs and yearlings showed declines or steadiness, better native lambs at 15.00, lighter sorts 11.25 to 12.00, and breeders trading 5.50 to 7.00. Sioux Falls reports hogs steady to mixed and cattle steady.
Minne apolis market reports a 1% uptick in wheat with profit taking easing after early buying, cash wheat demand for milling quality high, and mixed durum and barley firmness. Prices show No 1 dark northern and amber grades listed, with varied futures and cash quotes across Minneapolis grain markets.
Minneapolis reports Friday ranges for carrot grain and various wheat and flax grades with prices displayed as percentages and dollars. Duluth notes durum and flax futures with bid, ask, and closing figures across multiple contract months.
New York stocks saw heavy profit taking tempering gains as leaders rose to offset faltering favorites. Rails strengthened with Nashville Chattanooga St Louis up to 216, New Haven near 110.5, Atchison and Canadian Pacific also higher. Utilities led activity with Commonwealth Power Peoples Gas and American Waterworks advancing while Genuine Electric faced profit taking. Total daily turnover about 8.2 million shares.
The curb market closes with Standard Oil of Indiana stock at 55% as listed among numerous tickers. The page records widespread fluctuations across merged names including Amoco, General Motors, US Steel, and Pennsylvnia, indicating a volatile trading session.
Deputy game warden Harry Cotman reports the Byron hatchery pond west of Lake Byron received thirty more brooder bass to replace winter deaths. With about 100 brooders now, over 50 000 bass are expected this season, and 45 000 fingerlings were moved from the Lake Byron hatchery to various state lakes.
London dispatch reports the Prince of Wales will not attend the Swedish Legation Ball honoring Princess Ingrid. Only Prince George, the youngest son of the British royal family, was invited and he cannot attend.
Tangier June 14 The siege of the French post at Ait Yakoub has been raised after attacks by rebel tribes. French forces pressed the perimeter and reported repelling assaults as negotiations shifted toward relief and salvage operations.
The 109th Engineers at the State Fair grounds begin a hardening up drill program ahead of engineering projects next week. About 500 guardsmen from seven cities participate in infantry drills ordered by Col. Parle L. Lewis. The camp on the oval grounds near the track features neatly arranged tents, daily guard mounts, and a regimental band. Visitors are welcome as the program expands to boxing, wrestling, baseball, and a regimental track meet. Regimental colors flown before headquarters recall Coolidge’s 1927 review.
Senator W. H. McMaster, arriving from Washington, is believed to pursue postmaster matters in Huron amid unresolved differences with South Dakota senators over A. B. Blake’s reappointment. He planned to return to the capital soon but could not be reached at his hotel.
Twenty seven girls join the first summer junior camp sponsored by the Beadle County YWCA at Camp Wilson near Lake Byron. Camp executive Miss Mary Auspach leads a team including Miss Sallie Belle Ainsworth as swimming and craft instructor and Miss Vera Cotton as song leader. Mrs. G. F. Stewart returns as cook and housekeeper with Clarence Phillips back for a second year as host. The week offers swimming boating handicrafts hiking and special events like the Gypsy Pattern and annual treasure hunt.
Judge Frank R. Lisher ordered a recess until June 24 in the June term after case No. 2 was disposed of by jury. Virgil State Bank won $702.84 against D. I. Barnes in a directed verdict with NB. Pherson and Max Royhl for the bank and Crawford & Crawford for the defendant. The Vedersi Reserve Bank of Minneapolis won against J. P. Hines for $225 plus $75 interest. A A. Chamberlain and Ira L. Blewitt represented parties. Judge Lisher issued a 60 day stay of execution and hinted at an possible appeal.
M John Boland returned from Washington predicting the Rapid City Indian school will remain in its present form, with a possible shift of the Indian department’s plan to convert the local school into a sanitarium for tubercular Indian children. South Dakota’s congressional delegation opposes the change. At a Mt Rushmore commission meeting George Schneider of Rapid City was named treasurer. the commission praised sculptor Gutzon Borglum and Major J B Tucker for standing by their project amid funding shortages.
Mrs. Coolidge completes a series of intimate articles about the presidential household during the Coolidge administration. Merle Crowell of AmeriGen Magazine announced the completion, noting the pieces reveal private aspects of the White House.
The first 1929 wheat car arrived in Wichita Kansas and was placed on the Board of Trade floors. It graded No 1 hard red winter and weighed 62.2 pounds to the bushel. The Sedgwick County first district begun wheat cutting today about 17 miles southwest of Wichita. Also Reykjavik Iceland June 15 Captain Albin Ahrenberg and two companions of the plane Sverige will stay in Iceland awaiting a German engineer to repair the motors likely by June 23 for spare parts of a new motor.
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