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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1925
Page
1
New Orleans reports cotton futures closing steady with gains early on while July and December contracts show gains amid rain relief and bullish sentiment. The notice details Louisiana corporate charter for Collens and Thompson Company forming in Monroe Ouachita with a $10 000 capital stock and a three member board.
Cotton futures in New York closed firm with gains of 24 to 61 points as demand remained robust. December rose to 24.72 with mid day strength supported by firmer spot markets and bullish reports from the textile trade. Private reports from Dallas and Bay indicate rising spot demand and adverse rains in India affecting crops.
Cotton spot business shows prices steady with middling grades ranging from 11.89 to 14.54. Sales total 8,000 bales including 5,400 American. Receipts none. Futures closed steady with values across September to July contracts from 12.78 to 13.90.
In Chicago on September 14, cash grain prices fall as May delivery leads the retreat while September and December also ease. Corn and oats decline alongside wheat after an initial rally, with all months posting losses and hogs and provisions failing to gain support.
Butter receipts total 11 211 tubs with creamery grades up to 45 1 4 cents per pound. Egg receipts 12 112 cases with firsts 31 33 cents and ordinary firsts 28 1 2 to 30 cents. Poultry noted higher demand.
Chicago market update shows hogs at 18.25 to 18.26 for bulk 140 to 225 pounds and 12.75 to 18.20 for various weights. Cattle receipts 28 000 with best fed steers around 15.75 and yearlings near 5.50. Sheep receipts 18 000 with fat native ready 6.50 to 7.50. white faced lambs weighing 16 955 noted.
Urania Petroleum Co has located Urania No 9 as an offset to the Rowe Wallace well. Site lies 2000 feet east and 200 feet west of the northwest corner of the SE quarter of the NW quarter in section 19, T10N R2E. Derrick to be erected today. six inch casing in eight days. finish in two weeks.
Nine prisoners held for minor offenses were discharged due to overcrowding in the city jail. At the time there were 82 inmates in fifteen cells, over the four per cell limit, with many charged as state or parish prisoners awaiting court. City Jailer W. H. Bannister maintains cleanliness and daily shower baths for inmates.
Will Addington received a $100 suspended fine in city court for carrying a concealed weapon. He also faced a $15 fine or 15 days in jail for being drunk and disorderly. Russell E Lawson was discharged on trespassing. A Young and Lawson were fined $10 plus costs for drunk and disorderly conduct. Six men arrested after a raid on a dice game in the negro section pled guilty and were fined $7.50 or 7 1/2 days in jail each: Marshal Williams Ernest Farron Sherman Harris Sam Williams Henry Holmes Joe Buck.
Central High School Hi Y club held a special meeting at the start of the school day and elected George Fink as president Rene Mc Cord as vice president T W Gray as secretary and Shelby Hill as treasurer The meeting was called by Professor E L Neville superintendent of the school.
The document records a charter with post office address details and signatures of John W. Collens, R Frank Thompson, and Paul Collens, in Monroe Louisiana, with 84 17 and 1 shares, attested by Clarke and Haye. Notarized by Robert M. Breard Jr, Paris of Ouachita, confirming a true copy on Sept 12 1925, filed and recorded by Pat S Hamilton Clerk.
Sam Kellogg Jr aged 85 was found semi conscious near Five Points Saturday night by Officers Parker Leonard and Platt. He died soon after arrival at St Francis sanitarium and coroner ruled the death natural. Survived by father Sam Kellogg Sr two sisters in Kansas and West Monroe and a half brother. Funeral plans pending with body at Peters morgue.
Burglars gained entry at about 4 am by a rear window of the Palais Royal but fled after failing to find hidden cash. They opened the safe, ransacked inner doors, and left three women's gowns undisturbed. Police Sergeant Lenard found no money missing.
At Pearl Harbor visitors discussed the fate of the PN-9 No. 1 seaplane. Commander John Rodgers hopes to repair it for another Pacific flight, with plans to memorialize the craft at Bishop Museum or a similar public venue in Hawaii.
Texas League presidents met in Dallas to decide how theFt Worth and Dallas tie should be settled. They planned a 2 p.m. formal session with possible open or executive format. Dallas fans greeted the Steers on arrival with a large crowd and band.
The first shipment of printers ink totaling about one hundred barrels will depart Monroe by the Stovall Navigation Company's barge line heading to New Orleans. A large cargo of carbon black, likely 250 to 300 tons, will also be sent. The ink is manufactured in Fairbanks by a growing local industry. The barge Speed, arriving from New Orleans in Monroe with general merchandise and Coca Cola syrup, faced a forty hour delay near the Black River due to another vessel aground.
In the East Side a Yellow Taxicab Company machine was robbed of 8657 dollars from weekend receipts being moved to a bank. Five suspects escaped in a car while four pursuing officers were outdistanced.
Final plans were made for a joint dinner of the Chamber of Commerce Rotary Kiwanis and Lions Clubs to honor new Monroe and West Monroe arrivals at the Monroe hotel at 8 p m tomorrow. The event will feature Bernhardts Gloom Chasers and brief company presentations by new local firms including the Virgin ia Hotel Brown Paper Company Bancroft Bag Company Louisiana Power Huff Daland Dusters and others with about 100 expected attendees.
Early today a head on crash on the Lone Star Route north of Iowa left John LeBane of Iowa dead at 48 as six others were hurt. Driver Joe Devillier of Lake Charles in serious condition with severe facial cuts. George Courtney Alcide Lebley and Dick Murphy from Lake Charles escaped with minor injuries. Two unnamed Black passengers in the other car were badly hurt. their injuries were not confirmed.
Johnnie Overton pled guilty to possession of whiskey in district court before Judge Percy Sander. He received sixty days in jail, a $500 fine, and four additional months imprisonment if unpaid. A. Gassaway got a $100 fine and thirty days in jail after pleading guilty to whiskey possession.
Abe Davis, a Black man, was arraigned before United States Commissioner W A O'Kelly on violating the Motor Theft Act. He was remanded to jail after bond was set at $500. Federal authorities arrested him yesterday for transporting a stolen automobile from Askew Mississippi to Vidalia Louisiana.
Fire crews responded to a small kitchen fire at the Yuen Lee restaurant 526 DeSiard Street last night due to a defective flue. No damage was reported. Oscar Carter, Negro, fractured his shoulder after a fall while grape picking on a Phillips hill and was admitted to St Francis sanitarium in Monroe. Sheriff Milton Coverdale and family returned to Monroe after a two week Hot Springs vacation.
Police logs show four automobile crashes during the weekend. S L Fuller of 603 Jackson Street collided with J H Kilpatrick’s cab on Layton Avenue Hall Street, both vehicles lightly damaged. Melvin Nelson’s car hit a parked unlit vehicle at DeSoto and Seventeenth. A brace driven by Jack Hutchins 1 struck Mrs. W C Stevenson on DeSiard Street, both cars lightly damaged. C Gossett of 314 Hart Street on Monroe Shard highway was hit by a Stovall Drilling Co truck with no front lights, sending his car into a ditch.
The city installs several new mail boxes replacing deteriorating metal posts. The Chase Amman corner at North Second and DeSiard gains a downtown box while others line Jackson Street and the south side. Cement posts are expected to last longer and reduce replacements.
The State of Louisiana will be divided into districts by order of the Maccabees and Monroe will be designated as a district office location. The announcement outlines the creation of district offices with Monroe named in the plan.
Mr Bulger announced immediate opening of offices and a division manager, with plans for October membership drive. He recalled last July’s caravan of cars carrying Maccabee members to Washington, D C, calling it highly successful, producing between five and six thousand nine hundred new members at the initiation in the capital.
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