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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1923
Page
6
New Orleans reports cotton futures closing with losses after a weak week end trade as prices fell from earlier levels. January slipped to about 33.25 and last reads around 33.20, with spot cotton steady and receipts at 8,281.
Cotton prices fluctuated with December at 34.48 and March around 33.54 as futures moved unevenly. Stock market gains were led by chemical and oil shares while liquidation in long positions pressured cotton, finishing with a net decline.
Liverpool reports softer spot cotton values with good middling at 19.96 and fully middling 19.54 while middling 12.99 and low middling 17.90. Sales reach 20,000 with 14,000 American purchases. Receipts total 17,000 and futures close barely steady with December 19.45 and January 19.41.
Chicago cattle prices show beef steers 8.00 to 10.25, feeders 5.25 to 6.00, beef cows and heifers 4.25 to 6.60, veal calves 9.00 to 9.50. Sheep at 2,000 head with fat lambs 12.95 to 18.2 percent, yearling wethers 10.50 to 11.50, wethers 7.50 to 9.00, ewes 6.00 to 7.25, feeding lambs 11.25 to 12.25. Hogs 106,000 head: 200–300 lb 7.05 to 7.25, 170–190 lb 6.25 to 7.00, packing sows 6.50 to 8.80, weighty slaughter pigs 6.25 to 6.50.
Chicago market notes slight gains in wheat amid Canadian crop estimates showing lower government figures. May and July futures move between unchanged and modest increases with firmer close. Corn and oats show mixed moves with reports of improved receipts easing prices. St Louis cash grain quotes list No 2 red wheat around 1.13 to 1.14, corn and oats varied.
Chicago market telegrams show poultry alive higher with fowls 14 to 191-2 cents, turkeys 23. Butter unsettled with creamery extras of standards 49 1-2, extra firsts 49 1-2, firsts 47 1-2, seconds 43 1-2, receipts 3 096 cases, ordinary first 36 to 39, rooster text incomplete.
All Juarez troops on duty in the city were recalled to the barracks at noon today. Special squads with bugles summoned the troops. Colonel Romana Topaz, commandant of the garrison, refused to comment on the situation or on a rumor that the troops would declare for de la Huerta.
In Shreveport on December 15 the Arkansas and Louisiana Midland Railroad receivers H R Speed and H B Hearn were ordered by U S Judge Rufus E Foster to settle claims against James C Davis during government control. The total U S indebtedness capped at 9 257 53 with 25 000 allowed as their compensation. Settlement totals 82 645 45 plus 5 429 65 minus 558 25 owed the A L M successors.
William M. Lyle of Meridian filed suit in Forrest County chancery court against Barney J Shull alleging a fraudulent contract. He seeks relief related to a claim for a lien of 610 dollars on a Curtis standard airplane. Bond was filed and a writ of sequestration applied for.
New York reports a severe fall in cotton prices with March at 83.25 and May at 33.45, down 95 points overnight and about 14.50 per bale since government crop estimates. Decline largely due to reduced mill buying and southern hedge selling pressure.
In Columbia on December 15, the murdered man is identified as Lacey Williams of Louisiana Central Lumber. Three white men and a Black man are held on circumstantial evidence after a rifle shooting test with Williams’ ten dollar bills. one bill with Lincoln’s chin and Jackson’s forehead was shot by two women, linking Price to the crime.
Unfavorable weather and slow municipal work slow tapping projects for the Southern Carbon Company's two million dollar gas line from Monroe fields to Alexandria. Only a connection at Clarks exists so far with the run into the lateral unopened. Wet lands and rains stall action until drier seasons and post local government approval with the New York office.
Gulf Refining Company and Arkansas Natural Gas Company plan to file a motion for dismissal in a tax suit against the supervisor of public accounts of Louisiana. They seek to restrain severance tax collections and, if heard, request a preference due to taxation. About $300,000 yearly from severance taxes would be redistributed to parishes, with roughly $1,000,000 tied up in funds for the state university project.
A new steamship service is set to begin this month connecting Vancouver and Manchester England. The venture promises faster transatlantic travel with weekly departures and aims to boost trade and passenger movement between the two ports.
A 6000 pound elephant from J W Clarke shows wandered to a house in Simsboro. James Braswell, awakened by a window noise, fired silverware at the intruder while his wife shone a light. The frightened man fled into the night as the elephant stood with head and trunk inside the window.
An ad note touts New York counts and the best oosters available with a contact at Swayze's by phone 1191. The line “15-1” hints at a price or listing reference.
New blue baby sulky for sale 19 dollars. Furnished room with bath for rent. Mrs. Joe Kern 208 North Third Street. 960 phone. New 12 gauge L C Smith shotgun for sale 49 dollars. used once, priced 85 000 box 2884. Phone 576. Sale of 20 fringe shotgun. Phone 114 W. For sale second hand furniture 208 Texas Avenue. Fox Terrier puppies priced for Christmas. Phone 637. Furnished room for gentlemen, 105 Piges, phone isepe. WANTED to rent eight to fifteen room house by January 1, 1924. Address 1 care News-Star. WANTED bookkeeper six years experience for January 1. Address H care News-Star. For sale or trade Dodge touring car and 1924 Chevrolet fully equipped 5 passenger. Trade for diamonds or real estate Guy M Boyd Collinston La. Rent rooms for light housekeeping 409 Catalpa Street. For sale pecans medium and small sizes. Phone 450. Rent bedroom with bath close in 1748. Furnished apartment two bedrooms kitchen bath private entrance Miss Dinkgrave 413 Wood Street.
Vienna notes the Danube’s renewed importance as a bustling trade artery to the Black Sea and Constantinople. Dredges and larger boats boost capacity while canal systems between the Danube Rhine and Danube Elbe expand transport, with Germany home to 250 beet sugar factories.
Final account filed by Artie V. Bennett as administratrix of Walter M. Kent estate No. 1942 in Sixth District Court Ouachita Parish requires interested parties to show cause within ten days after publication why the account should not be approved and funds distributed as proposed. Judge Fred M. Odom presides, dated December 16, 192k, with court seal.
In Greensboro North Carolina Rev A W Plyler denounced the Ku Klux Klan as an excrescence of the social organism in a speech to the Southern Methodist Press Association, describing its rise as a result of war era convulsions. A second item notes Esperanto drama in Vienna for the Sixteenth Esperanto Congress with Iphi genia to be performed, translation by Dr Zamenhof.
The Quachita parish police jury seeks state and federal aid to build four miles of hard surfaced highway from Morrowe to Sicard with about 75 000 contributed by the parish. If aid is secured Monroe could gain a seven mile route from the Quachita river to Sicard. Three miles were recently completed within Monroe. The revenue bill imposes annual licenses with delinquency and interest. Alexandria avenue paving cost 2776.91 was finalized by E J Deas Company.
Judge Schulze presided yesterday as two fines were imposed and seven cases were discharged. Tillman Alexander, colored, faced a total of 300 in fines on dangerous weapon charges for a knife and ax and fighting without lawful cause, with 160 stayed. W. C. Barr paid 5 for peddling without license. Discharged defendants included Sam Waddell Ethel McHenry Evelyn Smith J. B. Kenley Gladys and Roselle Marlowe.
The Dunn Mercantile Company organizes with a 10000 capital for general mercantile business in Dunn Louisiana. Directors are W D Byrd president James A Robinson vice president and J Ottis Byrd secretary treasurer. Backers include prominent Northwest Louisiana businessmen. Henry L Fuqua candidate for governor will speak at Mangham Richland Parish next Wednesday per current itinerary then proceed to the town.
Application for increase of capital from 25000 to 500000 dollars was made today by Union Gas Products Inc whose plant is under construction above Swartz. Current activity includes carbon burning on one unit and another under construction with plans for a gasoline plant of 18000000 cubic feet daily capacity. Officers in the proposed company are David S Lansden president John W Joynt vice president Henry Bernstein secretary and C M Roos Monroe manager. The increased capital covers plant construction valued at 500000 dollars.
A woman arrested last night as a suspected Mrs Margaret Weaver, sought in Atlanta for being an accessory before the fact in the slaying of William S Coburn, was released at noon after identification showed she was not the wanted person.
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