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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1939
Page
7
Two formal dresses in mint condition size 18 offered by J Underwood and Sons. Includes car soy bean meal on track and alfalfa molasses priced at 17 dollars per ton. Contact phone 1640R for details.
Hogs 4 500 fairly active steady to 5 lower. top 6 80 sparingly. cattle 3 200. beef steers yearlings and stockers strong to 15 higher. vealers steady. sheep 6 000 with fed lambs and spring lambs steady to strong. Arizona and Texas loads noted. quotations show varied gains and losses across hogs cattle and sheep segments. Livestock close notes slight unchanged for hogs and cattle. sheep steady to strong with top natives 11 25 and Arizona 11 00.
Officially estimated livestock receipts for tomorrow include cattle 2 800 calves 400 hogs 2 900 and sheep 4 000.
Agricultural and financial brief from Kansas City and Chicago with prices on eggs creamery butter and poultry, wheat corn oats and hay markets, plus Chicago futures for wheat corn oats soybeans and rye. Bond closes and an upbeat Wall Street roundup noted.
Wheat futures surged to the best level since last July with May at 164 and July September near the season high as buying fueled by May contract demand and crop prospects. Short covering followed crop complaints from the southwest and rainfall needs in the northwest amid dust storms in Canada, with profits trimming some gains.
The market rallied the strongest day since April 13 as investors credited President Roosevelt with pressuring a six week coal strike toward a quick settlement. Bond desks showed strength led by U S government and foreign dollar loans while key names like U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler GM U S Rubber Sears Roebuck Montgomery Ward Union Carbide Westinghouse Santa Fe and Great Northern rose. Cotton gained in late trading, up 35 to 75 cents a bale.
During the war blind men were brought from England to France to man anti-aircraft listening posts. The claim was they possess keener hearing than sighted soldiers, aiding detection of enemy aircraft.
Mac key and R Gard ner families join Cawley clan for a Wednesday wiener roast at the Cawley timber. Maurice Sutter visits Bonner Springs while Herbert Seiwald stays with his mother in Lawrence. Local residents host and travel to Kansas City for church services and a temperance play.
Mr and Mrs M Breithaupt attended the funeral for Darrel Lee Craft at Cen tenary Methodist church in North Lawrence Tuesday. Nora Witt was hired to teach third term at Coal Creek School. Mr and Mrs Elvin Durr and children of Mound City visited over the weekend with John Selzer and his daughter. The Breithaupts of Eureka Kan spent Saturday night with relatives and called on E G Kretsinger Sunday. Additional callers included Edd Thoren and Martin Breithaupt.
Sunday gatherings centered on Mrs Sarah Hausman’s surprise 101st birthday with the Selzer Smith families and local residents attending in Edgerton and Eudora. Other notes include hospitalities, family visits, a rib fracture from a barn accident, a W M S food sale raising 13.75, and a Wiener roast for the junior class with a luncheon hosted by Arleene DeKat and students.
Local residents discuss family movements and visits. Ruth Frisbie returns home to spend time with her father C L Frisbie. the Atkinson family moves near Gardner Kansas. The Murry farm gains a larger house now occupied by the Culbertson family.
Lecompton cooking class served a luncheon Thursday May 4 for Mr and Mrs H L P as lay and Mr and Mrs Vernon Hayes.
A compact glossary notes roles including a phleontologist studying antiquity an ophthalmologist treating eye diseases a cooper making barrels and casks and a noyageur who mans a boat.
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