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Newspaper
Sioux City Register
Location
Sioux City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1924
Page
2
London July 31 American grain experts say the world wheat supply rests with sellers amid flour price agitation. Europe imports and gains in Argentina Canada Australia push prices, while U S surplus and delayed Argentine Australian crops shape reserves.
First calls for harvest workers resulted in 102 laborers placed from the state free employment agency today, George Albert special government agent reported. The calls extended over the Dakotas and Nebraska and indicate the season has finally arrived after a two weeks delay. Mr. Alberts said.
A delegation of eight from the Chamber of Commerce traveled to Anthon Iowa today for the street carnival. The group included D. P. Mahoney J. A. Rae W. H. Jones D. W. Stewart D. C. Browning S. L. Lynch Charlie Foster and Harrison Kilbourne.
Omaha Nebraska July 31 refusal of the big packers to participate is causing the break in hot prices of the last two days, according to commission houses here. Big packers bought very few hogs during the recent high prices. Little packing houses and speculators lost heavily by their dealings. Prices here broke 25 to 50 cents, top hog price $9.25, vs Tuesdays high of $10.59.
Joe Westcott was arrested today on a charge of disturbing the peace after Philip Greenbaum accused him of knocking Greenbaum from the running board of a car. Westcott was granted a continuance at arraignment in police court.
Employees gather for a day of sports and entertainment at River side park as the Winchester-Sim mons company holds its annual outing.
A. V. and A. S. Kinanaman of a Hornick farm were fined five dollars each by Justice Carl Sass for cruelty to animals. They were accused of mistreating a horse and a cow at their farm home.
The annual picnic of Home Protection Council No. 3675 is indefinitely postponed. Committee chairwoman Mrs. Fred Ebert announced today.
Washington leaders avoid definite predictions as prognostication grows among Washington insiders. The solid south is cited for Davis and a Coolidge bloc for Republicans, with New York Ohio and Indiana as key battlegrounds and Wisconsin Minnesota and the Dakotas clearly leaning La Follette.
Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado warned that a national defense day proposed by President Coolidge would waste time and could signal a warlike and belligerent national mood. He opposed mobilizing the national guard.
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railway asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to abandon a 16 mile line from Stockton Iowa to West Davenport Indiana. The notice appears in a July 31 Washington dispatch.
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey circus brings John Daniel 2d, a three year old Congo gorilla, to town Friday with Miss Alyce Cunningham supervising him. He tours in a glass enclosure at Madison Square Garden style setup and will perform at Seventh and Division streets with showtimes at 2 and 8 pm. Tickets available at Todd Becker drug store.
Funeral services for Mrs Sturgess Lynch age 33 were held this afternoon at 4 at Cott's chapel. Interment followed in Floyd cemetery. Mrs Lynch died Sunday at her Wagener South Carolina home after brief illness. She is survived by husband Fred Lynch, three sons and five daughters all of Wagner 8. The body arrived this morning.
The Americanization school sponsored by the D A R begins tonight at the courthouse on the second floor. Classes meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30. Donald Denniston will lead the program and welcomes all applicants for citizenship papers and their families.
Members of Sioux City chapter No. & National Association of Stationary Engineers will hold a picnic and outing August 8 at Lewis Park. Preliminary plans were formed at a meeting last night. Competitions range from horseshoe pitching to baseball in an extensive entertainment program.
Miss Mary Ziegler mourns the loss of her pet robin Bobby, aged 17, kept since youth in a cage. The tame bird answered to its name with three quick chirps, a familiar sound to the Columbia, Pennsylvania household.
Swimmers at Crystal Lake staged the first practice for a bathing beauty contest with five contestants under photographers and onlookers. Miss Dorothy Abel led with 15,800 votes, followed by Muriel Morton 15,460, Alta Sterling 14,920, Hazel Doty 9,900, and Marian Line 7,030 as the race tightens.
Roy Payne nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Grover A Payne of 2609 Myrtle street fell from a scooter late yesterday afternoon injuring his left arm. He was taken to a Methodist hospital by his parents.
The Hamburg Stellingen Zoo reopens after a closure tied to finances. Henry and Lorenz Hagenbeck spearheaded the revival, sons of showman Karl Hagenbeck who founded the zoo in 1907.
Iowa and Nebraska see partly cloudy skies tonight and Friday with a slight warming trend. Thunderstorms are possible in parts of Nebraska and South Dakota, with east and south areas warmer Friday.
Morgan G. Babington aged 26 of Rapid City South Dakota wed Zoe Holmes 19 of Auburn Iowa. Charles Zwisk 70 of Cherokee Iowa married Martha Crippen 69 of Los Angeles California.
Residents of Dakota City and South Sioux City will meet Monday evening at the South Sioux City Methodist church grounds to form a joint club. The group promotes bond issues to finance a new bridge across the Missouri River linking the two communities.
J J Pollard announces the formal opening of the new Pollard oil filling station at Eighth and Nebraska streets. It is the eighth station in the Sioux City chain operated by Pollard. The station, equipped by the Electrical Construction company of Sioux City, is brightly lighted.
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