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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1925
Page
8
Cotton futures closed steady with gains to mid 24 cents after opening firm and testing higher levels. May and December contracts traded near 24.76 and 23.95 as rain threats influenced sentiment. officials noted late crop activity could limit growth and sustain movement.
New York Cotton closes with gains across futures and a firmer spot market. October and December futures rise, aided by bullish reports from the textile trade and signs of continued demand despite weather worries in India and Texas.
In Boerpool on Sept 14 cotton spot business was steady with prices for various grades listed from strict low middling to fine middling. Sales reached 8000 bales, including 5400 American, with receipts nil. Futures closed steady across months from Sept to July, with values ranging roughly 12.78 to 13.90.
Chicago market shows early selling pressure with May wheat sliding 1 1 4 to 2 cents, while September and December follow with new lows. Corn and oats ease. hog prices rise but provisions lack support.
Butter prices rise with receipts of 11 211 tubs and creamery extras at 45 1 4 to 44 1 4 for extras and firsts 41 1 2 to 43 00. eggs advance with 12 112 cases received and firsts 31 to 33 and ordinary first 28 1 2 to 30.
Chicago market notes show hog receipts around 28 000 with ranges for bulk and butcher weights from 12 50 to 13 25 while strong weight hogs and packing sows vary 10 50 to 13 50. Cattle receipts 23 000 with best fed steers near 15 75 and yearlings at 15 50. Sheep receipts 18 000 with Montana lambs at 15 75 and native ewes 6 50 to 7 50.
Urania Petroleum Co has located Urania No 9 as an offset to the Rowe Wallace well. The site lies 2000 feet east and 200 feet west of the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section nineteen, township ten, range two east. Drilling to begin with six inch casing in eight days. completion expected in two weeks.
Nine prisoners held for minor offenses were discharged due to crowded city jail conditions. At discharge time 82 inmates occupied fifteen cells, averaging more than five per cell, exceeding the four per cell limit. City Jailer W H Bannister oversees a clean, healthful jail with daily cleaning and mandatory shower baths despite overcrowding.
Will Addington received a 100 dollar suspended fine for carrying a concealed weapon and 15 dollars or 15 days for being drunk and disorderly. Russell E Lawson was discharged on trespassing. A Young and Lawson each paid 10 dollars plus costs for drunk and disorderly. Six men arrested after a raid on a dice game in the negro section were fined 7.50 or 7 1/2 days. defendants named Marshal Williams Ernest Farron Sherman Harris Sam Williams Henry Holmes and Joe Buck.
At the opening of school the Central High School Hi Y club held a special meeting and elected officers. George Fink was named president, Rene Mc Cord vice president, T. W. Gray secretary, Shelby Hill treasurer. The meeting was called by Professor E L Neville superintendent.
The document records a charter with post office addresses and signatures of John W Collens, R Frank Thompson, and Paul Collens via J W Collens all of Monroe Louisiana with share counts 84 17 and 1 respectively Attestation by W B Clarke L J Haye and Robert M Breard Jr Notary Public confirms it as a true copy filed Sept 12 1925 in Ouachita Parish Clerk of Court and Ex officio Recorder Pat S Hamilton with various dates published by W B Clarke attorney
Sam Kellogg Jr aged 35 died after being found near Five Points Saturday night. Officers aided his transport to St Francis sanitarium where he died en route. Coroner ruled natural causes. Survived by father Sam Kellogg Sr sister in Kansas sister in West Monroe and half brother Pats Davis funeral plans pending with body at Peters morgue
Police report says burglars entered Palais Royal through a rear window about 4 am and rifled three inner doors of the safe. They overlooked $600 hidden under books and left behind women's gowns. Discovered by Police Sergeant Lenard.
Honolulu reports Pearl Harbor visitors discuss the fate of PN-9 No. 1. Commander John Rodgers hopes to repair and fly the craft from the Pacific coast to Hawaii. Planes parts show minor wear yet hull remains sound. A campaign seeks to place the aircraft in Bishop Museum as a memorial.
Presidents of the Texas League met in Dallas to decide how to settle the tie between Ft Worth and Dallas. They planned a formal meeting at 2 p.m with uncertain access for press. Dallas fans welcomed the Steers home with a large crowd and parade.
The first shipment of printers ink totaling about one hundred barrels will depart Monroe aboard the Stovall Navigation Company barge line bound for New Orleans. A large quantity of carbon black, estimated 250 to 300 tons, accompanies the load. The ink is produced in Fairbanks by a growing local industry. The Stovall barge, towed by the Speed, reached Monroe with general merchandise, cotton lint, sugar and Coca Cola syrup for a local distributor. The voyage faced a forty hour delay near the Black River due to a grounding incident involving a rival vessel.
In New York's lower East Side five men robbed a Yellow Taxicab Company machine, stealing $8,657 in weekend receipts being transported to a bank. Four pursuing officers were outdistanced by the robbers' car as passersby scattered for cover while guns were shown.
Final arrangements are made for a joint dinner of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce Rotary Kiwanis and Lions Clubs at the Monroe hotel at 8 o clock. The event honors the Virginia Hotel Brown Paper Company Bancroft Bag Company Louisiana Power Huff Daland Dusters and other newcomers. Bern hardt s Gloom Chasers will donate music and contribute to the entertainment. Secretary Manager D F Walker will report on chamber activities and new firms will outline plans for Monroe Twin Cities area. About 100 attendees expected.
A head on collision on the Lone Star Route near Iowa injured six others. John LeBane of Iowa died from a skull fracture. Driver Joe Devillier of Lake Charles, seriously hurt, and four Lake Charles youths had minor injuries. Two unnamed Negro occupants were reported badly hurt and fled the scene.
Johnnie Overton pleaded guilty to possession of whiskey in district court before Judge Percy Sander and received sixty days in jail and a 500 dollar fine with four additional months imprisonment on default. A. Gassaway faced a 100 dollar fine and thirty days in jail after pleading guilty to possession of whiskey.
Abe Davis, identified as a Negro, appeared before United States commissioner W A O Kelly on a Motor Theft Act violation. He was remanded to jail after bond was set at 500 dollars following federal arrest for transporting a stolen automobile from Askew Mississippi to Vidalia Louisiana.
Fire crews responded to a small blaze at Yuen Lee restaurant located at 526 DeSiard Street last night. The fire stemmed from a defective kitchen flue and caused no damage. Nearby, Oscar Carter negro fractured a shoulder on a hill near Phillips and was taken to St. Francis sanitarium in Monroe. Sheriff Milton Coverdale and family returned to Monroe after a two week vacation in Hot Springs Ark.
Police reports list four weekend crashes in the city. S L Fuller hit a Red Cab driven by J H Kilpatrick on Layton avenue Hall street causing minor damage and drawing a crowd. Melvin Nelson collided with a parked car on DeScd and Seventeenth streets. Jack Hutchins struck Mrs W C Stevenson on DeSiard Street with both cars damaged. C Gossett on Hart street was hit by a Stovall Drilling truck on Monroe Shard highway sending his car into a ditch with no front lights observed on the truck.
A number of new mail boxes have been stationed in the city to replace deteriorating metal posts. The downtown box at the Chase Amman corner North Second and DeSiard is the first, while others are along Jackson and other south side streets. Cement posts replace the former metal ones to resist the elements and reduce replacements.
The article reports that Monroe will become a district office as part of a statewide division ordered by the Maccabees. Details specify the cities and districts affected and outline the administrative restructuring under the society’s directive.
M. J. Bulger states a division office will open immediately and a division manager will be assigned. October membership push planned in the city. Bulger notes the July caravan of Maccabees members to Washington was a great success with 5 000 to 6 000 initiates at the national convention climax.
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