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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1917
Page
3
Various small items appear including cleaning services phone ads, cabinet maker at North Third Street, framing and moulding, a furniture repair mention, a meat market ad, Odd Fellows meeting notice, building contractor services, health board aqua vitae notice, and quick city delivery ads.
Guy P. Stubbs, manager of the late F. P. Stubbs estate, sold about a thousand bales of cotton last season for 26.12 cents a pound, totaling over 124000 dollars. He also sold cotton seed at 70 dollars a ton and long staple cotton from 1912 at 35 cents a pound. The estate’s crops included hay, corn, oats and live stock, with diversified farming remaining profitable even in boll weevil years.
Documents filed for record show Realty Investment Co. Ltd transferring property to J. R. Beutler for sale of local property. F. C. Grooks sells land to C. H. Brooks. Lenard and wife convey land to W. D. Hendrix in separate land sale filings.
National Food Director Herbert Hoover mails 200000 letters to Catholic Protestant and Jewish pastors urging cooperation with the Department of Agriculture to maximize food production and minimize waste. He cites a one billion dollar annual waste and designates July 1 as Food Saving Day urging sermons and broad civic religious campaigning.
Petitioners allege city officers led by Mayor Apgar and councilmen used threats and information to influence voting on a tax for a spur track removal and street openings. They claim communications through Covington and Theus targeted Fudiekar and other stockholders, with labor leaders pressuring D Masur & Sons and Amman families to vote for the tax. Coroner Gray reports six drownings with possible seventh. grand jury and federal inquiry pending.
At the Logtown Fair Association meeting held at the Rilla School house on Friday June 29 at 2 30 PM there will be a special discussion of corn culture. Prof A F Kdder secretary of the Louisiana Corn Growers Association will speak on corn breeding and interested parties are invited to attend.
S EB Ethridge aged fifty nine, once active in Monroe business, died after a long cancer illness. Funeral services were held at First Baptist Church at 4:30 this morning conducted by Rev. F H Farrington. Interment followed at Colony Cemetery. Also note: unconfirmed cyclone rumors in Bastrop reported deaths ranged widely, later clarified as no deaths or damage.
The listing shows Spot 27.15 with quiet trading. Vesty July at 26.95 25.85 26.65 25.96. October at 26.70 26.90 26.44 25.82. December/Dev at 26.83 26.12 26.66 26.96.
Market brief shows July and September prices for wheat corn and oats with bid and ask figures. Notable levels include July wheat at around 2.09 and 1.56 for corn, with oats near 0.62 to 0.63 in July and 0.38 to 0.52 in Bent terms.
H R Speed notes lack of rains in Texas and weaker July tenders lift cotton values. Liverpool sells 5000 bales at unchanged terms with futures pending. Private crop reports show Carolina lagging, Georgia improving, North Carolina steady. Bureau report due July 2 notes 68.9 average condition, 4% acre reduction. Weather predictions call for fair to partly cloudy skies across the region. Market seen as buy on expected declines before the report.
Washington June 26 The state department at Governor Whitman’s request asks Italy to delay action in its courts regarding Alfredo Cocchi, confessed slayer of Ruth Cruger, until extradition arrangements with the United States for trial here are settled.
Help wanted for a day stenographer with three years of wholesale experience and references. Ring 275. Notation shows assistance requests and location at Terminal Heights with address P. O. Box 660 and filing codes 26-1t and 26-3t.
O B Morton cashier swears the bank statement is true as of June 26 1917 before notary Osee W Zeagler. Correct Attest signatures from directors T E B Flournoy I Sugar Sig Haas reveal loans discounts and overdrafts and other assets and liabilities in the Louisiana bank message.
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