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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1923
Page
6
In New Orleans on December 22 cotton futures closed steady with small declines from earlier levels as holiday trading dampened activity. Prices for December through July showed muted moves while spot cotton stayed quiet with limited shipments and unchanged middling grades.
Cotton futures in New York finished barely steady as traders tucked in ahead of the holidays. December settled near 36.02, January around 34.77, May about 35.24, and July near 34.42 with spot middling at 36.30. Liverpool showed firmer demand, but U S trading paused amid light activity and ships awaiting clearance. total dates on hand were about 124000 versus 151000 last year.
Liverpool spot cotton shows limited demand with prices steady for grades from good middling to ordinary. Sales total 2,000 bales, receipts $5,000, with American lots 800 and futures closing quiet across various months from December 20.34 to December 1924 15.93.
Wheat futures eased slightly in early Chicago trading on December contract deliveries remaining ample. May prices ranged around 40 61/2 to 40 65/8 with July near 40 51/8, while corn held steady amid damp weather hurting maturities and shipping.
Chicago cattle sheep and hog receipts for the week with bulk price ranges for beef steers stockers and feeders fat stock canners and cutters veal calves fat lambs yearlings wethers fat ewes feeding lambs and hog categories including strong weight butchers weight ranges and packing sows pigs and plain kin.
Butter markets rise in Chicago with creamery extras at 53 1 2 cents and standards at 49 1 2. Eggs climb as receipts total 4 300 cases with firsts at 36 37 cents and ordinary firsts at 31 38 cents.
Wall Street closes uneven amid partial recessions by railroads and industrials. Strong buying in the all group lifts Big Four six points while Willys-Overland preferred gains 3, National Lead 2 3-5, Brooklyn Union Gas 2 1-2, and Kelsey Wheel 2. Davison Chemical dips 2 before support. Crucible Steel Sears Roebuck and Cuba Cane Sugar preferred slide 1 to 1 1 2 as the session ends irregularly with about 450000 shares traded.
Money New York December 22 reports foreign exchange rates in cents for major currencies. Britain 4.8438 France 5.05 Italy 4.8112 Belgium 4481-2 Germany 0.00000000025 Holland 37.79 Norway 14.77 Sweden 26.30 Denmark 17.71 Switzerland 17.44 Spain 13.00 Greece 1.90 Argentina 32.25 Brazil 9.40 Montreal 97.5.
Mrs Lena Alexander, daughter of Baptist minister Rev John E Bernard, said she married W H Alexander in Atlanta on October 18 1917. He was a deputy warden in Atlanta and later married again in Dallas, with his current wife aged 28 and her 81. She moved to Knoxville after following him who later vanished.
Joe Nobles quits the Ouachita assessor race citing business reasons and no hard feelings. The seat is held by Assessor Joe Hanna with several challengers remaining in the field.
Washington December 22 The district attorney promises prosecutions of buyers named in a seized list from a large bootlegger syndicate raid. Assistant District Attorney Presmont says buyers will face grand jury action regardless of social or political prominence.
Mildred Renaud at 320 Pine St offers hand painted china child tea sets described as the handsomest Christmas present. Contact phone 1075. 22-21.
In Cargas last night a quarrel over jealousy left Rose a 16 year old Black girl dead from a sharp object injury. Irene Young an 18 year old Black woman is at large after the incident and deputies searched homes in the Black quarter before returning to the city. Authorities continue to pursue leads and locate Young in the vicinity.
A collection of small ads listing lost hand bag rewards and multiple for rent notices for residences and rooms. Includes contact details for E. C. Apperson and John T. Bryant and various street and address references in West Monroe. Also offers a BOOKKEEPER AND OFFICE MAN seeking a position starting January first with twelve years of experience and references.
Plans have been completed for the Ouachita Farm Bureau to elect officers for the year at a Monroe meeting in January. Representatives from nine or ten North Louisiana Farm Bureau organizations are invited by secretary-treasurer J. H. Watkins of Monroe. Andrew Querbes, Shreveport banker and president of the Louisiana Cotton Growers' Association, is asked to deliver an address. A. L. Smith of Monroe is the Ouachita Farm Bureau president.
About twenty traffic cases heard in local police court before Judge Schulze largely resulted in fines under the new rulings. A. B. Bagley Patty McCann and Jim McCue faced drunken and disorderly charges with each fined seven dollars and fifty cents, and most sentences were suspended.
Reported remarks said insurgent leaders were satisfied and agreed on political and military aims. Following the talks, generals communicated by telegraph with General Enrique Estrada, who leads the western rebel forces. General Villareal reported Fortunato and Manuel Garcia Vigil at Esperanza, with General Pedro Gonzalez also present.
Julius H. Barnes president of the U S Chamber will address the Southern Central Division in New Orleans on January 24. Secretary Collins says several Monroe Chamber members plan to attend Cres cent City trip. Barnes just returned from an extensive European tour studying international issues related to his work. The West Texas Chamber will run a special train for the journey.
Fire caused by sparks smoldered in a cotton unit near a separator in the Starkhard Gin. Damage reached $8,000 to $10,000 with losses estimated at over three times that figure, confined to one pocket and the separator area. Insurance coverage of $25,000 was in force against fire losses.
In Los Angeles the Sunday school Christmas program ended with a Ruth and Boaz reenactment staged at Angelus Temple. Miss Marianna Britto and T. P. Beeck played Ruth and Boaz, and evangelist Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson presided as minister. The couple then departed in a taxi for a honeymoon after the ceremony.
The American Bar Association plans to use a British liner to transport its members to a London meeting next summer. The Shipping Board stated it would meet terms offered by foreign competitors and held several conferences with ABA officers and companies to promote the American passenger fleet.
The Mayflower was ordered to her dock today to carry President and Mrs. Coolidge and a few friends on a Saturday afternoon and evening cruise down the Potomac.
Suárez Mex December reports say Manuel Choay a former Villista leader and about twenty insurgents attacked a passenger and freight train between Rosario and Parral. Conflicting accounts say Federals fled or were driven into the mountains with the attackers returning fire and killing Colonel Solís. A Vera Cruz cable notes Belmarq commanding Huerta forces joined the revolt, with rebels controlling Vera Cruz Campeche Yucatán Tabasco Guerrero and Jalisco and areas including Michoacán Tepic Tamaulipas Puebla and Oaxaca. Four railroad workers executed for disobeying orders. Reports from Obregon government claim Lagos Jalisco Manasahles Vera Cruz captured by federals and Green routed at Villa Hermosa Tabasco with heavy insurgent losses.
Unconfirmed dispatches report federal forces capturing the city at 5 pm. Generals Topete Amarillas attacked the Guadalupe and Laréto forts while Generals Almazon and Rojas targeted Pabricas, a Puebla suburb.
Revolutionary forces on the front east of Mexico City are retreating toward Vera Cruz where they will make a last stand to defeat pursuing federal forces, according to intercepted rebel messages released by the Mexican Consulate in Nogales Arizona.
In Atlanta on December 22, Standard Oil Company of Kentucky filed a separate answer in federal court denying it is dominated by another oil firm or that John D Rockefeller or any original Standard Oil of New Jersey stockholders own or control its stock. The denial responds to Wofford Oil Company’s anti trust suit filed against four oil firms.
Cincinnati reports that at the seventy fifth annual AAAS meeting in late December, researchers will announce scientific findings on impotence. Delegates from major institutions are expected to attend the event spanning December 27 to January 2 with sessions in multiple venues downtown.
Lieut Gov Bouanchaud continues campaign through Union Morehouse Ouachita and Caldwell parishes with stops in Jena La Salle parish tonight at 7 30. He will be introduced by W T Hedges and then head to Alexandria and New Roads for Christmas with family.
Mildred Renaud of 320 Pine St. lists phone 1075 and notes availability for 22 24 day window.
A motion seeks a new trial for the editor connected to the Coburns case. The woman testified she last saw Georgina on August 19 and fled to Chattanooga for a period, mentioning a name tied to the Coburns amid publicity.
Authorities declined to identify means of her apprehension and said Mrs. Weaver was a New Orleans resident. The fragment notes a named individual but provides few concrete details.
Gov Walker of Georgia issued requisition papers for Mrs Maggaret Weaver under indictment in Fulton county as an adulterer before the fact in the slaying of William Coburn a Ku Klux Klan attorney now held in Bingham Alabama
Classified note hints at big dividends from investment in News-Star listings. No further details provided on terms or amounts.
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