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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1923
Page
6
Cotton futures in New Orleans closed buoyant with net gains near two cents. December 35.00 to close 33.25, January 35.25 to 33.30, March 35.40 to 33.55, May 35.40 to 33.54, July 34.80 to 32.94. Spot middling up 112 points. receipts 12,013. stocks 265,733.
Harry J Ferguson, arrested on a deportation warrant, allegedly posed as an Eton and Oxford graduate and a former Yale student, claiming a German prison sentence and royal connections. He supposedly obtained passage from Europe, fled Ellis Island, attended Harvard as a special student, and dined at elite homes, boasting guests were lucky to have him.
The Republican National Committee selects Cleveland Ohio as the site for the 1924 convention after protests over reapportionment and debates on delegate allocation. The plan would grant three at large delegates to every state carried by Harding in 1920, while keeping southern representation reforms.
New York December cotton futures opened firm and closed strong with December 34.30, January 33.70, March 34.01, May 24.25, July 33.50. Liverpool firm and government crop report awaited later day kept demand cautious with December easing to 83.92 and later months showing slight gains.
Liverpool notes quiet cotton trading with steady spot prices. Good middling to ordinary grades quoted with sales at 4,000 and receipts 39,000. Futures closed barely steady with several months listed including January March May and December 1924.
In Hillsboro NL on December 12 Harry Ferguson aka Prince Dimitrie Michael Alexander Obolenski of the fallen Romanov line recounted his exile from the town fifteen years ago to pursue princely ventures in Europe and the United States.
Chicago stock yards show cattle receipts 16 000 with beef cows 3.75 to 5.00, vealers 9.00 to 9.50, fat lambs 13.00 to 13.10 and sheep 22 000 with cull natives 10.00 to 10.50. Kansas City reports cattle 9 000 calves 2 000, hogs 20 000 with 220 to 240 pounds at 6.10 to 6.45, top fed lambs 12.40 and 12.00 to 12.25 for others.
The New York market showed steady long-side control with strength in steel and motor accessory shares. Davidson Chemical fell five points from its early high while New York Central slipped a point on profit taking. Chicago and North Western recovered 2 3/4 points of yesterday’s 10 point drop as weekly iron and steel reviews note buying orders for Q1 next year and call money starts at 5 percent.
Butter unchanged and eggs lower with receipts totaling 3 814 cases. Poultry prices show fowls at 14 201 2, springs 171 2, roosters 121 2, weese 17, turkeys 20. Firsts 41 42 dollars per box in ordinary firsts at 4 38.
Chicago December 12 Potatoes steady with receipts of 1 car and total U S shipment 461 Carloads Wisconsin sacked round white U S No 1 100 10 Minnesota and North Dakota sacked Red River Ohios U S No 1 and partly graded 106 G 110.
Cash grain rose in Chicago as expectations for German reparations and finances improved, while Liverpool quotes stayed weak. May futures led gains with country buying supporting corn, oats firmed, and hogs kept steady amid lower interest.
Nolan McGhee, 35, twice linked to a murder in Coushatta four years ago, escaped from the Coushatta jail last night. He had been convicted three times as an accessory to the murder of John McCoy. his wife was convicted three times in the same case. He is now being sought by officers.
Delegates to the Lions district meeting began arriving in Shreveport from various Louisiana points. A noon luncheon preceded an evening banquet where Ed. E. Vaught of Oklahoma City will be the main speaker. East Texas and South Arkansas Lions clubs are also expected to attend.
At Ouachita parish police jury in the court house, plans for a new $400,000 court house were approved with J. W. Smith named as architect. The session also barred political posters around the court house, restricted parking in the square, and approved highway aid requests. A temporary sheriff and staff quarters were set for the ongoing building. An annual per capita road tax of one dollar was adopted for able bodied men 18 to 55, excluding Monroe and West Monroe residents.
A page of classified items lists baby carriage for sale at cheap price 313 Wood St earlier than Saturday 12 41 baby clothes and meals orders take for fruit bread phone 948 2 A for sale touring car good condition cash 100 must sell at once phone 1688 1 wood practice nurse wanted at 102 South Sixth Street and other notices including promissory note warning furniture room for rent furnished or unfurnished and requests for milk customers and room and board arrangements.
A playful line suggesting a Stude Baker Christmas theme tied to a 7 6t remark. The note hints at a seasonal idea or event concept without further details.
In Ouachita Parish Sixth District Court final account of Edward Neuwirth succession presented by administratrix Annie Neuwirth is set for approval. Interested parties must show cause within ten days after publication why the account should not be homologated and distributed per court order. Judge Fred M. Odom presides. Clerk Pat S. Hamilton filed the notice dated December 7, 1923.
A vigorous campaign to discover gas or oil starts along the Arkansas side of the line near the Northeast Louisiana gas field at Huttig Union county by the Alabama Oil and Gas Company. The well drilled to 2000 feet by Eason Brothers of El Dorado on land owned by Arkansas Timber and Land Co of Memphis. E Survey of Oak Grove for waterworks electric and sewer costs to be presented to mayor and board.
President F H Schneider for the levee board states the special tax to fund 250 miles of levees along the Mississippi will not be imposed longer than necessary. The board will contribute pro rata with the Mississippi River Commission and the tax may last only a year or two.
Tuesday brought two fines in police court as R. C. Smith and Jimmie Jones paid 12.50 each for drunk and disorderly conduct. Will Sims and Duncan Mills were discharged after facing related charges.
The people of West Monroe and vicinity are urged to attend. Meetings are at 7 30 each evening in the town hall. Charts will help attendees gain a clearer vision of the great work of the restoration. The meetings are free and open to all.
The minstrel and pageant review will be staged tonight at the Saenger theater in Monroe. Good soloists comedians and specialties headline the show with scenes from the pageant between acts. Rev Frank Tripp and Chas Bynum will sing along with other noted performers.
The Anna E. Meyers Estate of Monroe via trustees Adolph Wolff O B Morten and Emanuel Sugar informs the Louisiana Children's Home of an $8000 gift to fund an artesian water well at Kansas plantation for a Baptist orphanage project. The Tem p la BNai Bible Study Class meeting is postponed due to a pageant presentation tonight.
Kiwanians will host a Ladies Night as a luncheon substitute at the Monroe Hotel on December 26. E Richards leads the program and dinner dance arrangements while officers, to be elected next week, will be installed. Vocal solos by Mrs Louis B Adams and a piano solo by Miss Frances Baird highlighted today's luncheon.
Grand High Priest Edwin F. Gayle of Lake Charles attends Monroe district meeting where Royal Arch Masons confer chapter degrees on sixty candidates from Monroe and nearby areas. District Deputy Master Bradley Waelder of the city directs the proceedings.
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