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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1925
Page
11
Cotton futures opened steady with Jan May July and Oct listed. Prices moved from gains to bear market pressure as traders awaited a key New York report and profit-taking touched several contracts. Local celebrations followed in Monroe Winsboro with large crowds, band music, and substantial refreshments.
May and July contracts opened steady with gains but the market softened on easy late Liverpool cables and reports of continued hot weather in the south. May fell from 23.20 to 23.95 while October slid from 22.12 to 21.94 as bears pressed private condition figs.
Liverpool May 22 spot market shows steady prices across grades with good demand. Prices range from strictly good middling 13.69 to good ordinary 1.09, sales totaling 8 000 bales including 1 900 American. Receipts reach 10 000 with 6 500 American, futures close steady with May at 12.31 and March 11.73.
Chicago May 22 Butter unchanged eggs unchanged receipts 916 cases.
Chicago May 22 Wheat prices opened higher led by Liverpool quotes and immediate demand, then fluctuated with July at 1.54 1-2. Corn and oats moved in sympathy with wheat strength, opening higher and showing uneven but overall gains. The provision market followed with firmer values.
Winnsboro hosts a large crowd for a public good event with visiting speakers and a master of ceremonies. The evening features a concert and dance as streets on Prairie Street showcase new concrete paving and modern city touches. The town highlights its new bank building, two other business openings, and its own water lighting plant.
Caldwell parish sheriffs conducted three moonshine raids at Briggs Point Columbia arresting H W Woodruff for concealing moonshine whiskey and selling pistol cartridges without a license. In Grayson Enoch Brooks attacked A P Hanchey fracturing his jaw before being captured. Hanchey called Brooks trespasser and peaceful elder.
City Marshal J. L. Brothers lists a seized property sale in Monroe Louisiana for May 23 1925. Items include dressers tables washstands beds chairs refrigerator clock and other furnishings. Sale held at the city hall front door cash with appraisement to highest bidder.
H Hunter, 35, was injured Monday at the new court house by a descending elevator. He discovered the injury only after two days and is reported to have a broken neck with a good chance of recovery after treatment at St Francis sanitarium Juarez. Also, 17 year old Herbie Monk suffered a badly gashed arm when thrown from a moving auto on Millhaven road near Monroe. He was taken to St Francis sanitarium.
The Modern Woodmen of America lodge in Monroe hosts National Lecturer Renner of Lincoln Nebraska on Tuesday May 26 at the city hall council chamber. He will speak on woodcraft and be joined by State Deputy J C F Libby. A trio of short films The Value of a Life Who is My Neighbor and The Hour Glass will be shown.
A Monroe Welfare Association case involves Akard a 48 year old man living on a river boat with tuberculosis. He will be sent to Charity hospital in New Orleans after initial stabilization, then to a tubercle camp in Algiers. His wife and two children will be cared for by the Welfare Association as relatives in Arkansas are sought. The Qua chita Parish T B association will partly fund the Akard case.
Special to the News-Star Ruston La May 22 The graduating classes of Eastland and Hillcrest grammar schools will hold exercises at 8 o clock this evening in their auditoriums. A Hillcrest class contest named Virginia Holland and George Huey most studious. Billy Mays and Clive Raley most helpful. Elizabeth Taylor and Haughton Tomlinson most loyal. Helen Griffin and Thomas Cook best school spirit. Aline Thurman and Roy Givens best all round. Helen Griffin and Roy Givens best athletic students.
The sheriff's department arrested Jesse Mitchell at Perryville on a warrant charging cutting with intent to kill. Mitchell is being held in the city jail. At a Perryville religious meeting about a week ago he was among a boisterous crowd and allegedly wounded Alfred Mason with a knife while Mason tried to quiet the crowd. Mason's injuries were not serious.
Arrangements are made for the monthly farm meeting at Calhoun next Thursday. Henry Clay Smith of the Missouri Pacific railroad will discuss Co operative Truck Shipments and speak from railroad and farmer viewpoints. E R Strahan will address similar lines with Mrs Jewel McQuiller on co operative poultry shipments.
Responding to a call by Capt. H. M. Williams, West Monroe formed the West Monroe Industrial League. H. A. McDonald was named secretary. Fifteen men met at the town hall to outline plans and seek factory sites on the west side of the river with cooperation from Louisiana Power. The league will offer sites and concessions to attract industrial growth as the first power unit nears completion at Sterlington.
At Dallas on May 22 the United Confederates voted 230000 for a fund to sustain the home for needy Confederate women at Richmond. Mrs. Montague appealed for support, praising the home to shelter forty inmates and urge continuing reunions while Birmingham, Alabama is named the 1926 reunion city. General W B Freeman was elected commander in chief.
The Monroe Colored High School outlines a week of events from Sunday educational sermon by Rev. A L Carpenter at 3 p m in the school auditorium to Friday night May 29 with a grade comedy Let’s Get Together. The schedule includes student performances from Home Economics to the grammar grades and notes future plans for state approval and expanded departments.
In Ouachita Parish Fourth District Court Succession of Hugh Wilson Sweeny Deceased No 2380 Petition by Martha Berthe Leclerc Sweeny seeks letters of administration May 22 1925 Judge Percy Sander requires show cause within ten days Witness LEON H POOLER Deputy Clerk Attys McHenry Montgomery Lamkin and Lamkin May 22-27-30.
Local Dodge Brothers dealer R C Windes cites enduring policy of steady improvement to justify the new slogan Better and Better after Dodge Brothers sale to Dillon Read. He notes gains in 1930 registration and ongoing year to year sales strength while warning against costly radical redesigns and depreciation from annual model changes.
Ouachita Parish Police Jury of Monroe Louisiana invites sealed proposals for wood and steel equipment and furniture for a new court house. Separate bids must itemize each cost and allow omission of nonessential items by the jury.
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