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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1941
Page
2
Hog prices advance 15 to 20 cents with top at 9.90, long haul hogs up 5 to 10 cents, cattle and sheep steady. Hogs salable 3,000, market opened slow then active, top 10.10. Sows around 8.50 to 9.95, lambs 10.75. Watertown Nev markets show hogs steady to higher, sows 8.70 to 9.40, cattle and sheep unchanged.
Daily price ranges for poultry and dairy products across Huron area markets including heavy hens and springs by weight, Leghorn varieties, roosters, and eggs. Entries cover Watertown Mitchell Sioux Falls Sioux City Chicago and New York markets with figures for butterfat eggs and various poultry cuts.
Hog prices showed limited early action with demand best for yearlings and light steers. Cattle and calf sections remained steady with weighty steers up to 1400 pounds slowly clearing. Fat hogs and sows were weak, with buyers active mainly around 14.40 to 25.9,60 for select lots and scarce vealers driving lower quotations.
Cattle trade mixed with steady to higher tendencies on steers and yearlings while bulls and stockers show strength. Hogs mostly steady with higher bids noted. calves and cows mixed. Sheep activity limited with no early trading recorded. Sioux Falls segment reports 10 to 20 higher cattle and hogs near 9.88 to 10.92 per cwt on top quotes.
Sioux City livestock prices list cattle salable 2000 head with steers and yearlings near steady. Fat cows steady to easy. Stockers and feeders show little change. Prices: liveweight 10.25 to 11.25. heavier steers 11.75. short fed 8.75 to 9.50 for medium to good. Heifers 9.90 to 16.50. Common to medium cows 7.0 to 8.50.
Sioux Falls market notes eggs No 1 at 30 and 33 cents others unchanged. No 3 eggs 2 34 cents butter fat remains steady. Prices for other produce show no change.
Irregular heavy veiling halted stock. Bonds mixed after improved secondary loans. Foreign exchange narrow and largely unchanged. Cotton easier due to labor unrest causing liquidations. Sugar quiet awaiting Cuban negotiations news. Metals steady with proposal to boost steel output. Wheat higher with improved activity reported. Corn lower on favorable harvest weather. Hogs steady to weak with limited demand. Cattle slow as light steers stay in good demand.
U S D A reports firmer demand for domestic wools in Boston with moderate sales of fine and half blood wools. Graded fine territory wools 008 French combing length at 8.50, scoured. half blood combing wools 1.08 to 1.12 scoured. 12 month Texas combing good at 1.081.12 scoured. New York price bulletin shows steady dressed poultry and varied turkey prices across regions with several weight classes listed and other prices unchanged.
Chicago dateline reports improved flour business aiding wheat futures while corn and soybeans slid. Wheat closed about 40 to 40.5 cents higher. corn and oats mixed or down with soybeans down around 4 to 2 cents. Market listings show December futures moves and wide price quotes across grains.
Beadle County local board officials announced this morning that eleven young men will be inducted into the U S Army during December. A state headquarters notice ordered the preparation of a list of 11 men and main induction orders. The group is scheduled to leave Huron for Fort Snelling Minnesota on December 4.
Senator W. J. Bulow, visiting Madison from Washington, spoke to Eastern State Normal students this morning. He discussed his bill to create a Dakota Valley Authority to develop Missouri River resources following a Lake County Democrats dinner last night.
Washington November 13. The Rural Electrification Administration announced loans to rural electric cooperatives. Cotington Clark Electric Association in Tuc Watertown South Dakota received 200000 dollars and James River Valley Electric Association in Groton South Dakota received 160000 dollars.
The Rural Credit Board approved selling 56 tracts totaling 19,895 acres for 859,560 dollars, about 4.74 per acre. Director Millard G. Scott noted most of the land, 15,872 acres, was cheap west river grazing.
The project features the world’s largest pontoon bridge near Seattle Washington. The linked concrete pontoons support a 561 foot span carrying a highway and the floating structure displaces more than 100000 tons.
The market showed early signs of halting a lengthy retreat that sent many to new lows for the year. Advances ranged from fractions to around 2 points for favorites in the forenoon, with prices receding after mid day and a somewhat irregular close. Transfers approximated 800000 shares.
Pierre South Dakota records show motor vehicle deaths this year exceed last year by four. By November there have been six or more fatalities this month, pushing the annual total beyond 1940. State safety officials urge slower driving and regular vehicle checks under the new 60 mph daytime and 50 mph night speed limits.
Four Red Cross sign-up desks will open Friday morning and stay open into next week. Mrs. A. P. Stowell announces downtown desks sponsored by patriotic groups. Desks are at Northwest Security National Bank Farmers and Merchants Bank National Bank of South Dakota and the post office with representatives from D A R American Legion and other veterans groups.
Reported from London and Moscow describes heavy fighting with frost and mud hindering casualties. Eight Nazi armored divisions withdrawn earlier in September reappear briefly as combats intensify near Moscow Kalinin Leningrad Novorossisk and Kronstadt while Britain contemplates strategic air and sea actions and avoids a full expeditionary force.
Archery Club of Huron called to order by Charlie Lane newly elected president. A discussion covered an indoor range and winter shoots. The first Legloot meet is set for Monday evening after November 17 from 7 to 12, with weekly meetings forthcoming. The club joins the National Archery Club of the United States and membership has grown.
At the hospitals the admissions include Mex, Elmer Anderson and James LeRoy Gilloth from Huron for medical care along with Me Lewis Blanton, Mrs. Paul E. Anderson, Mrs. J. T. Heese, Mrs. Carl Hegdahl and De Smet in various medical cases.
Congress confronts the arming measure as Republicans push for unshackling actions while administration leaders scramble for votes. Defections from southern and western Democrats threaten a narrow majority, with possible conference talks if the House rejects the Senate amendments.
A nationwide wave of labor action shifts focus to non operating crafts seeking 30 to 34 cents more per hour amid a 9 cent board recommendation. A major telephone walkout looms affecting 42 states, with news channels kept open. AFL machinists at Canton naval ordnance plant end a one day strike without disclosed terms. Truck drivers threaten Midwest disruption over pay and mileage disputes across 11 states. Mid-Continent Airlines seeks a new route amid ongoing regulatory filings. The century turn is noted oddly as 1601 for a 1200 teen reference.
Explosion at a Yanketon drug store injures a female clerk who sustains second degree burns to both arms and face. Fire officials indicate a gas leak may have caused the blast and investigators from the state fire marshal plan ongoing inquiry. The incident disrupted the rear store room and sent debris through a transom window as emergency crews worked.
Anna George A. and ITB ENE president announced AP Stef Man selected as assistant general manager. Olsen will assume duties January 1 after last meeting December 23. He has journalism background at School of Commerce and University of Norv in 1934, 29 years old, father of one.
Mrs. Margaret Louisa Holton died at her son Very Holton’s home in Sioux City on December 6, 1915. Born October 18, 1888 in Lawrence County Pennsylvania, she moved to South Dakota in 1879, homesteaded near Huron, married Frederick Holton, and lived in Riverside family lot. Survived by children Krod Jil tan Keith H ton Evanston Jessie H Gr and Verl A Bolton. services at Riverside chapel with burial in Riverside cemetery.
Fragmented classified items show lost pets tires and tires, rewards offered, wanted help for building work, sale offers on goods and a three room house with farm lot near Jefferson school. Contacts include phone numbers and names coherently from an old newspaper page.
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