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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1925
Page
9
New Orleans cotton futures opened steady with October at 22.88 and December at 22.90. Prices eased after the opening as fold ware failed to reach the cotton belt and the weekly crop and weather report was seen as fair. December fell to 22.33, January 22.80, and March 22.52 ahead of the government report due tomorrow.
Cotton futures opened steady with January at 22.36 March 22.32 May 22.20 October 22.45 and December 22.36. Trading showed a 6 point decline to a five point gain as speculators weighed yesterday’s weather and the rise in Liverpool cables. December advanced 3 to 4 points while overall activity remained quiet awaiting government crop data. A private crop estimate projected 14 901 000 bales for year end and 6 732 000 bales by October first.
Liverpool reports steady prices across categories with 6 000 bales traded and 26 000 bales received. American cotton totals 2 800 bales in trade. futures end quiet with October at 12.08 and December 11.94.
Chicago wheat and oats opened higher then traded lower amid heavy profit taking. Canada weather and Liverpool prices boosted early buying, while corn retreated from the day’s highs and oats moved higher before easing. Packers bought October and November lard amid firmer provisions.
Poultry alive steady with receipts 12 cars. Fowls 7.5 to 25. Springs 22. Roosters 15. Turkeys 20. Ducks 22 to 25. Geese 19. Prices observed for various live birds in Chicago upon market quotation.
The Stovall Navigation Corp pilot boat Speed left the city at 7 30 p m for New Orleans carrying 300 tons of carbon black 300 tons of cotton seed meal and assorted merchandise Two barges already in service will be joined by a larger 800 ton capacity barge to be built at Monroe on dry docks near the steamboat landing The barge measures forty by 150 feet Manager Dawson said Weekly barges started recently due to heavy shipments The Red River channel remains good to New Orleans but is low and treacherous beyond the river.
A boy running across Jackson street was struck by a Ford truck driven by Willie Ward and was taken to St. Francis sanitarium then returned home after treatment. No charges were filed against Ward. A ruston man’s auto was slightly damaged after a street car collision at DeSiard and Second streets.
Urania reports Tremont Lumber Co has leased six thousand acres bordering sections 19 20 and 21 to Louisiana Oil Co. Deilling operations begin at once with new rigs en route. Urania Petroleum Co tested a nearby well at 980 feet finding oil in quantity but not a commercial producer. Zeigin et al set tubing at No 8 19 10 2H and report 15 barrels per day. Other locals, Beckman Freeman Ayers Bros Rowe Wallace push ahead with drilling and setup.
Hutchinson I. Cone, vice president and general manager of the Fleet Corporation, resigns citing the Shipping Board action removing Leigh C. Palmer as president. Cone says the board defied President Coolidge and ignored the Dalton inquiry, after two years with the firm. Palmer arrives from New York to assume the role.
Hi Y and Parish and City High School organizations will hold the first banquet of the year at Hotel Monroe at 8 p m. A program of speeches and entertainment is planned as Hi Y starts the year with growing enthusiasm and increasing membership. George Fink leads as president with T W Gray as secretary.
Lincoln Parish Grand Jurors reported after the September 1925 term they examined 48 complaints and returned 22 true bills 19 no bills and continued 7 cases for further work Most cases were misdemeanors with one homicide The parish is said to be comparatively free from crime and evil. Local real estate subdivision plans advance near the court house with paving in Bower Street.
Earl Dowdy aged 34 in Rutledge Lumber Company service was badly hurt yesterday at 3 30 p m when a four mule team ran over him near Lafourche swamp. He suffered nine or ten broken ribs and internal injuries, later moved to Riverside sanitarium where doctors reported he was doing well.
At the noon Kiwanis luncheon in Hotel Monroe Mrs Blanche Green of Jennings children home spoke on the organization’s work. H L Gaskin urged trained men for Boy Scout leadership and a Kiwanis committee was named to cooperate with the local Scout effort. The club voted to ask Congressman Riley J Wilson to back a bill to erect a new post office building for the city.
Special to The News Star Winnsboro Oct 7 Mr R W Tir resigns as Deputy Clerk of Court Franklin Parish and takes a Tampa Abstract Company post in Florida. The body of Mrs H F Smullin was brought to Winnsboro for burial at Ft Necessity this afternoon. Mrs Smullin was sister of the late H H Buie of Ft Necessity. Friends extend sympathy to the family.
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce voted to charter Monroe Manufacturing Company to build a plant on land previously bought for a glass factory. H. M. Venable will head the firm which will make caskets furniture and wood novelties. The group also sent a committee to Alexandria for October 17 to organize state industrial development and arranged for Monroe Day at the Winnsboro fair on October 22.
Monroe Motor club urges Mayor Bernstein to place stop signs for two blocks around public schools. The proposal follows a club study of city traffic near Georgia Tucker school where drivers stop poorly and children jaywalk. Parents urged to cooperate and reinforce traffic safety with children.
A railroad worker T. B. Jackson suffered a fractured arm after a fall from a Missouri Pacific trestle at Urania yesterday afternoon. He was taken to Monroe and admitted to St. Francis sanitarium. Lawrence Craft, son of Mrs. Belle Lawrence of Monroe, joined the U S Army on October 6 in New Orleans and was assigned to the Sixth U S Cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. Letters to Private Craft at Fort Oglethorpe are welcome. Reverend S B Williams will deliver a sermon on Backsliding at the Methodist Protestant church tonight as part of a series of evangelistic services continuing through the week drawing large nightly crowds.
In a scoreless game the Washington Senators clamped down on Pittsburgh Pirates with strong pitching and defense. Bobby Bluege struck out and Moore was retired on a grounder, while Ruel and Meadows contributed infield plays as Traynor and Wright failed to spark the Pirates. No runs, no hits, no errors.
In the eighth inning Johnson received a standing ovation after a leaping Wright catch. Wright picked off Rice at first, and a grounder by Stan Harris led to an out. Pirates fashioned a sequence with Grantham, Smith, Bigbee, and McInnis, including a stolen second, before Moore was retired.
In a tense ninth inning Morrison pitched for Pittsburgh while Gooch replaced Smith as catcher. Goslin singled, Bluege drove in a run as he moved to second on a throw, and the Senators held off Pittsburgh with one run on two hits and no errors.
Col. William Mitchell former chief of the army air service has been summoned to appear tomorrow before the naval court investigating the Shenandoah disaster in Washington October 7 by A. P. report
Clear and sunny conditions greeted baseball fans in Pittsburgh on October 7 as they looked to the World Series opener. The forecast had warned of showers and chill, but the day began dry and bright.
Knoxville reports that in the Scopes trial the State's motion to strike the bill of acceptances will be answered in the Tennessee Supreme Court on Saturday morning. Dr John R Neal noted the motion reached him recently and that Scopes counsel will file an answer within five days. Neal welcomed the government lawyers joining the case and named John Bell Keeble Edward T Seay and K T McConnico as help for the state.
Omaha report states the time and place committee ratified Philadelphia as the site for the 1926 American Legion National convention.
Airplanes are being chartered in Columbus to augment trains and autos carrying Ohio State fans to Chicago for the game with the Maroons Saturday. A full strength line-up is in prospect for Coach Wiltze, except Hunt at halfback with a broken leg. Aerial formations suggest much of Staggmen play may be off the ground.
Ground was broken yesterday for a new Walker Bros Grocery building to be erected at Third and Olive. Plans by Drago & King show a 40 by 109 foot one story brick fireproof structure. T S Venable holds the $11,000 contract.
Mrs. W A Shomo of Shreveport asks the local DeMolay chapter to help locate her son A A McKelvy and daughter in law, Mrs. McKelvy, who have not been heard from since last summer after moving from Urbana Illinois to 740 Hope Street Shreveport. The letter was sent to police headquarters.
The interior department reports a record park season with 2,073,783 visitors through September 30. Hot Springs Arkansas led with 265,500 visitors, followed by Rocky Mountain Park, Yellowstone, and Yosemite, showing a 39 percent rise in two years.
Guardianship notice from Fourth District Court Ouachita Parish Louisiana. Harry H. Goldstein seeks to remove the minor Marion Louise Goldstein’s property to Arkansas and asks interested parties to show cause within thirty days why the guardian’s petition should not be granted. Judge Percy Sander presides. September 14, 1925.
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