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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1936
Page
4
Heavy cattle and calf supplies at San Antonio Tuesday failed to push prices higher as markets held steady from Monday. Estimated receipts 1000 cattle and 700 calves with good fat calves and light yearlings selling readily up to 6.25 dollars and one load to 8.25. Medium to good grass fed steers around 110 pounds mostly 6.00 down to 5.50, rannies 3.50.
Markets showed steady to firm prices with active bidding on cattle and hogs. Top hogs brought 9.25 per cwt on light 175 to 250 lb trucks while cattle ranged from 3.25 to 4.25 for fat cows and 4.50 down to 3.25 for light weight bulls. Sheep offerings included feeder lambs at 5.00 to 6.00 and short aged wethers 3.00 to 4.00 with no goats offered.
Horace Walker and J C Hinsley attorneys at law from Austin visited Llano last Friday to back Tom Inter in the Democratic gubernatorial race. They organized Hunter forces across six counties in the region.
M E Huettel of La Grange arrives to head the National Re employment Service in Llano at the old county relief office. Captain Sylvan B Simpson formerly Llano county judge now heads CCC company at Brownwood. He visited Llano Monday to see relatives and friends and is on active duty with the U S Army Reserve.
Jack Hamilton Gooch, lifelong Llano County pioneer, died in Duncan Arizona after two years illness. Funeral held June 1 in Duncan. Survived by wife Victoria, two sons Frank E. Gooch and A L Gooch, two daughters Kathryn Lathrop and Capitola Gooch, a sister Lydia Bates, six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Gooch was 75 years old.
Out of town relatives attended the funeral of Miss Lubele Decker in Llano and stopped by for last rites. Names include Sparks families from Houston Breckenridge Beaumont Beckville and Austin plus Craddock Schaefer McGlaun Newsom and Cone families among others.
Miss Mary Virginia Banka of the 1934 Llano High School graduating class has been accepted as a student nurse at the P. and 9 hospital in San Antonio. She began training on June 16.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy and help with a funeral. The column lists local visits and greetings from residents including Quintin Martin, Doran Oatman, Miss Faye Daniel, Tom Robinson, Beth Williams, Clarice Atkins, Norabelle Johnson, and others. It cites travels to San Angelo, Austin, Gatesville, and Fort Worth, plus local business ads and a Jersey cows for sale listing.
A Milwaukee resident reportedly consumed a bucketful of beer in a single sitting, drawing local curiosity about his unusual appetite for Quantity drinking.
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