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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1932
Page
8
Hog prices mostly 10 lower with top at 280 performed Wednesday at Armour Stockyards in Huron. Receipts totaled 809 as cattle and calf markets held mixed. sheep and hogs showed broad steady to down moves across multiple weight classes. Chicago and national numbers echoed softer demand with 15,000 hogs and 6,000 cattle reported.
Chicago reports a slow start with 15 000 local arrivals including 4 000 direct hogs held below last Wednesday. Prices weakened as 8 000 stale hogs weighed on a rapid recovery while lighter cuts sold around 4.25. Beef cattle auction showed steady demand but calves faced the heaviest supply since spring with prices likely to fall. Packers sold 2104 lambs from 20 000 live milllions in the current supply as orders tapered.
Wheat futures opened strong in Minneapolis and posted a late rally but cooling stock markets and short covering pushed prices lower. May and July wheat closed slightly higher, with rye barley and flax showing varied moves as cash demand remained uneven and seed quality offered mixed demand. Public grain notes include St. Paul and Sioux Falls livestock bids and regional price levels.
Huron dairy and poultry markets report mixed prices for hens hides and butterfat with Buck Brothers listing items in Huron South Dakota. Minneapolis Sioux City Sioux Falls and Mitchell show varied flour butter egg and poultry quotes with steady to unchanged trade across regions.
A New York session on March 16 saw stocks gain after a small morning dip as unfavorable dividend actions hit several issues. Ralls and Union Pacific fell, Major motors and other blue chips declined, while U S Steel, American Telephone, American Can, Du Pont, Santa Fe and New York Central shared in the soft tone. About 1,508,000 shares traded.
Chicago based Eastern Normal School was dropped today from the North Central Association accreditation list because it failed to meet the association's standards. Officers notified the group of the decision.
Washington March 14 Red Cross announced counties in South Dakota eligible for free government wheat for livestock feed. Railroads are arranging transport as fourteen thousand bushels have already been sent in. List includes Armstrong Aurora Beadle Bon Homme Brookings Brown Brule Buffalo Butte Charis Mix Clark Clay Codington Carson Custer Davidson Day Deuel Dewey Douglas Edmunds Fall River Faulk Grant Gregory Haakon Hamlin Hand Hanson Harding Hughes Hutchinson Hyde Jackson Jerald Jones Kingsbury Lake Lawrence Lincoln Lyman McCook Meade Mellett Miner Minnehaha Moody Pennington Perkins Potter Roberts Lanter Shannon Spink Stanley Sully Yodi Tripp Temer Union Walworth Washabaugh Washington Yankton Ziebach.
Prof. Harry Severson of Valley Springs SD and now at the University of Indiana wins the Beadle Memorial prize of 100 for the most important contribution to knowledge by a South Dakota resident educated in the state. The award honors Gen W H Beadle and is administered by a commission including C W Pugsley Herman G James George W Nash L K Fox and W I Early.
J Butcher of Heron sustained minor injuries after being struck by a Swander Bakery truck at the Dakota avenue and First street North intersection. Driver A A Groat transported him to a local hospital. Butcher described confusion at the crossing due to multiple signals.
A compiled list shows closing quotes across numerous firms including Am Can Am For Power Intl Am Loco Armour Armour AT&T Packard Penn Penn 1744 RCA Sears Roebuck 31 9 West Electric Woolworth and others. The data catalog includes percentages, share figures and market codes for industries such as chemicals, steel, oil, auto, and retail.
At The Hospitals Admitted: Robert Hammon of Huron for medical treatment. Mrs A S Chase from R F D Hur on admitted for medical care. Mrs S l Waldner of Huron admitted for medical. Mrs Harold Pontius of Heron admitted for medical. J Butcher of Huron admitted for medical. Dismissed: Verl Anderson of Esmond. Mrs C E Greves of Huron discharged.
Grade school children of Huron perform a George Washington bicentennial pageant tonight at 7:30. More than two dozen pupils from Lincoln Jefferson Washington Wilson and McKinley schools act in five episodes with period costumes and scenes, concluding in a grand finale.
Beadie county receives 800 sets of seed loan application blanks from the Minneapolis office. County Agent Rey Cave notes this should cover a week’s need as 220 loans have already been approved by the county committee, with an average loan around 300 dollars. The committee plans another meeting to process more applications.
Sandy Christopherson a Wolsey area farmer died at home after months of poor health. He lived three and a half miles northwest of Wolsey and is survived by his widow and five children. He was a member of the Wolsey school board. Funeral arrangements had not been made.
Ely McAtee aged 85 died this morning at the county farm after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 pm at Walsh chapel with Rev. F. E. Lochridge officiating. Burial will follow in Riverside cemetery. He is survived by three brothers Nick and Fred of Longdon Kansas and Leonard of Silva Kansas and four sisters Mrs. Mary Bruch Kingman Kansas Mrs. Lennie LeCrease of Oklahoma Mrs. Lizzie Karnes of Saskatchewan Canada and Mrs. Hila Lowery of De Smet. Born October 5 1869 near Princeton Maine he had lived near Huron for 23 years.
A state conference on child health and welfare will be held in Huron likely May 11 and 19. Governor Warren Green ordered the meeting following Hoover White House Child Welfare plans. Mrs. Florence Walker Englesby of Walbay, director of child hygiene on the state board of health, announced preliminary arrangements and that national and state speakers will attend.
City Attorney John P. Sauer was authorized by the city commission to negotiate with the Chicago and Northwestern railway over water rights tied to the dam on the James River at east Third Street. The vote followed a proposal to raise the dam two feet to increase usable water. A city report is expected next week. The commission also approved buying 2 dollars worth of city bonds at 31.5 from the sinking fund. Meeting adjourned to today to hear complaints about wage cuts for unskilled city workers. Dan Wagner attended for the first time since illness.
Eddie Hagedorn of Wolsey and Chris Hanson of Huron were taken to Sioux Walls today to begin two year terms for breaking into the Wolsey school last December. They pleaded guilty with two other confessed suspects at large. In Washington the Democratic leadership plans to submit to the House the Hare bill granting Philippine independence.
The Securities Bureau opens in Huron with up-to-date lists of legally saleable securities managed through the Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the state securities commission. Miss Gladys Pyle notes thousands of dollars leave the state annually via illegal securities and the program aims to redirect investments into legitimate ventures. Lists are provided to banks and the state's attorney. residents may consult them at the Chamber before buying.
The vestry of Grace Episcopal Church will meet in the parish house this evening at 7:50 p.m. Rev. Wallace Bristol rector announces the event and says a guest clergyman from out of town will preach.
More than eight percent of students will take part in this year's annual high school operetta The Count and the Coed a Morgen and O Hara musical comedy presented by school groups nationwide It features 12 principals and a 14 member chorus with dancing numbers Kenneth Snooze Andrews hides his identity as he is mistaken for Count Gustav von Weinerheister The plot centers on his efforts to marry the president s daughter while aiding the college Money issues add tension before a final tangled resolution starring Hubert Christen Robert Wagner and Gail Gibbs
The Rev. K. H. Bird of Mobridge will speak at Richland Methodist Church services tonight and tomorrow night. He will address youths tonight on "The Black Horse and the Illustrious Rider" and tomorrow night on "Family Religion" during 8 p.m. sessions. Services Sunday begin at 2:30 and 8 p.m.
Advertisements offer a real proposition for workers to earn up to 10000 a day with daily commissions by Prosperity Adv Co near Wheeler Drug Store. Also listings seek a 5 room modern cottage for rent with owner references. plus multiple room and house rental notes and odd laundry/purchasing fragments.
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