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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-19
RANDOM NOTES

Mrs. Harry Wheelock has returped
from visit to relatives in Detroit and
Denver. During her stay in Denver She
was the guest Of Mr.. Wheelocks brother
and his family and was most delightfully."-
entertained.
Miss Florence Wheeock Of Denver win
arrive early in November and will be
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs Harry Vince
lock at their home on South Nineteenth
street. Miss Wheelock made her formal
debute last season and is one of Den
ver's most popular young women. SRv-
eral lovely affairs will be given in her
honor during her visit here. e'y
The many friends Of Miss Mamie Hal
ter will regret to learn that she is CRIT
ically i'll at st. vincents hospital fol-
lowing an operation.
Mrs. Vernon Gray. who has spent the
past few weeks east. will return to BIr-
mingham in the late winter.
Mrs. w. H Wilder Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
V. Evans will motor to Jasper today.to
attend the Walker County fair =
Mrs. T. P. West is the guest of rher
mother at Samson. Later she will 3oin
Mr. West in Richmond, Va. where ttiey
will spend the winter. q
Mr.. Fl. L. Evans. who has been ff5e
guest of his parents in Greensboro, mas
returned. -
Miss Evelina Magruder of Portland,
Ore. is the guest of Major and Mrs.
sE. NJ. Tutwiler
Mrs. w r. Mabry. who has been, the
guest of Mrs S. II Garner, has retupnsd
to her home in Admission sds
Miss Margaret Chenoweth of Phiadsi-
phia, formerly of this city, will vistDfter
brotSers, Mr.. Arthur Chenoweth and
Mr.. Beach Chenoweth and their families
during the late winter. Miss Chenoweth
was one of Birminghams most popular
young women and will be delghtf,nly
entertained during her visit.
The Quest club will meet Friday att
ernoon at 2:S0 o'clock, with Mrs W. W.
Dill.
Miss Malhe Moughon, who has been
with friends in Montgomery will return
home today.
Mrs f. T. Wilcox, who has spent the
past few months in Atlanta, Is the guest
of her mother until after the Brown
Otis wedding on Saturday afternoon. Mr..
and Mrs. Wilcox will spend the winter
in Washington.
Mrs. Mercer Barnett has returned from
visit to her parents in Ohio.
Mrs. 3. L. Coffin is the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Walter Chaffee, at her
home in Detroit. Mrs. Chaffee will be
pleasantly remembered as Miss Little
Coffin of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs Priestly Toulnlin, who
have spent the past few weeks east, have
returned home.
Miss Allie May Taylor of Nashville
will arrive tomorrow and will be the
guest of Mrs. c. J. Shook. SO
Miss Minnie Kennedy of Nashville Will
arrive tomorrow and will be the CREST
of friends in the city.
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Avery's Letter

Today's cotton market saw the wild
est opening in the history of either
exchange.
A combination of a bullish Giles
report, Neilfs consumption estimate,
a tropical storm and aggressive buying
by Castles were the causes which
boosted prices from a closing price of
IL SIC for January to IS .53c in a few
sales on the opening this morning
Spinners called cotton, spot firms
took off their hedges and new bulls
came into the market. Fluctuations
were violent and at times from to
Is points between sales.
Sentiment is reactionary tonight and
justly so. Clevenberg wired some of
the older bulls liquidated close to a
quarter of a million bales today. New
Orleans feared an interruption of wire
service from the storm and that market
was extremely nervous.
Cotton will go to levels not dreamed
of, but there is no sense in buying it
in such excited markets as these. If
you must buy it, $40 a bale is little
enough.
One element of strength that stands
out will doubtless keep the market
from drastic declines unless something
unforeseen happens is the prices for
spot were marked up as follows:
1888
Galveston, 40 points up, 1sc; sales. to
arrive, 1900.
Houston, so points up, 1sc; sales
1901; arrive, 1895.
Savannah, 80 points up 1sc; sales,
1882.
Memphis, 80 points up, 17,75c; sales.
1000.
Dallas, s5 points up, II a5c; sales, H.
3S4.
Montgomery, SO points up. 1Sc; sales,
$50.
Little Rock, so points UP, 17.75c;
sales, 1915.
Norfolk, rs points up, .13c; sales,
1856.
New Orleans, so points up, IT. sic.
If these values hold future prices will
not decline much. The only danger lies
in weakly margined account and over
trading.
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SPECULATION WAS
AGAIN UPPERMOST
Large Part of Trade Re-
stricted to Specialties of
Volatile Character

New York, October 1S,-Speculative in
fluences were again uppermost in todays
broad and active market, large part of
the trade being restricted to specialtes
of volatile character, and lower priced
rails and industrals whose status re-
mains more or less underlined. Chief
among these were the paper leather and
fertilizer stocks, which were unusually
active at gains of to 6 points. Other
strong shares included United States In
dustrial Alcohol, which led the special
y ties at an extreme gain of 141s to 1411E,
Cuban-American sugar and south Porto
Rico sugar, with gross gains of and .,
respectively, and Atlantic Gulf and West
Indies which wrested supremacy from
other shipping issues on it's rise of 99i
to 80, a new record
Trade conditions are largely response
Bile for the higher levels in these issues,
it being generally recognized that the
paper and leather industries are deriv
ing further substantial benefits from for
eign orders. The same reason applies
with equal force to the sugar stocks,
while the movement in Atlantic, Gulf
and West Indies accompanied reports OF
enormous earnings and prospective divi-
dends to shareholders,
Substantial advances were registered by
Biscuit, Loose-Wiles Biscuit, Harvester.
Continental Can, Pacific Telephone, Mon
tana Power and petroleums
United States Steel lost none of its
prominence as the market leader, fur
nishing it's customary large quota but
traversing a relatively narrow radius
and closing at net gain of Is point.
Standard rails were strong during the
forenoon, with Chesapeake and Ohio, and
Illinois Central, the latter being advanced
;, from a to per cent basis. Total sales
amounted to 1890 600 shares
Developments bearing upon the market
were mainly favorable, embracing addi-
tional gold imports, advances in steel and
iron product, increased demand for cop
per and easier rates for call loans.
Bonds were heavy, with an irregular
tone to international issues Total sales,
par value, aggregated $7,6700O0 United
States bonds were unchanged on call.
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New York Futures
Interior Movement


New Orleans: Middling. 17S1c; receipts,
12,747; exports, $3.50; sales, 1920; stock, 24e, :
1914
Galveston: Middling, 1Sc; receipts, 23,-
41o; sales, 2900; stock ISL 1863
Mobile Middling, 1Sc; receipts, 6493;
exports 2l,149; sales, 1852; stock, 1870, GAO.
Charleston: Middling, 1Sc; receipts, 1857;
sales. 300; stock, 63, 3S1.
Wilmington: Middling, 17zc; receipts,
1866 exports, 5715; stock, AZ. COL
Norfolk: Middling, 1870; receipts. 4oss:
sales, 4S6; stock, GIFTS.
Baltimore: Stock, 1851
Boston: Middling, 1S.15c; receipts, 5s1 !;
stock, 5000
Philadelphia: Mddling. 1850; receipts,
364; stock, 1011.
New York; Middling. 1860; receipts,
246; exports 1867; stock, S1,s79.
Minor ports: Exports. 10, ISL; stock. 3s :
766.
Total today: Receipts, 5o,7o1; ex-
ports, 46,472; stock, 1,093,935.
Total for week: Receipts, 237.7e9:
exports, 142,S07.
Total for season: Receipts, 2,175,121:
exports. 1,324,271.
Port Cotton Market
Houston: Middling, 18c; receipts. H.
1866; shipments, 10S2S; sales, 6425:
stock, Patio.
Memphis: Middling, IT .75c; receipts,
1O,472; shipments. 1888; sales, 1000;
stock, 179,S46.
Augusta: Middling, $50; receipts,
4401; shipments, 2533; sales, 1858; stock,
|127,69s.
st. Louis: Receipts, 1902; shipments,
6073; stock, 14,443.
Cincinnati: Receipts, S72 shipments,
1888; stock, 9575.
Little Rock: Middling, 17.75c; re-
ceipts, 1862; shipments, 1915; sales,
1915; stock, 47,040.
Total today: Receipts, 3s,275; ship
ments, 2S.455; stock, 625,707,
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SOCIETY

tic Dance" Evelyn Moreland: Spark
ling Eyes Sabra Martin.
PART TWO.
Lovely May CLichner), Miss Gather
lee Harding. Polish Dance" (Schawen-
ka). Miss Margorie Wood. Star of
Sea" (Kenedy). Miss Enie Fitzpatrick.
Taps" CEngelmann), Eva Neal Porter.
La Forge" tSchumann), Miss Rochelle
Smith. "Valse" Chopin, Miss Amy
Bryant. Patriotic March" (Browne),
Elizabeth s7artin Whispers of Love"
CHeins). Miss Lenore Batiste Evening
Star" CWagner), Miss Lillian Kendrick.
Falling Leaves CKoelling), Miss Eugenia
Gray. Pluie D'Etoiles CWachs), Miss Hi
da Moore. 'Balancelle" CWachs) Miss
Florence Gray Patton. Piano duet.
Misses Willetta Martin and Annie Louise
Moore.
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ANOTHER ADVANCE
IN WHEAT PRICES
Five Cents a Bushel Increase
Shown Following Big Adj
vance Yesterday

Chicago. October 1S.-Wheat prices "a
up excitedly almost &c a bushel today on
top of &c advance the day before. All
high records were excelIed as far back
as 1898, when for time Joseph Letter
seemed to have obtained control of the
entire existing surplus supply Broadly
active foreign buying of future deliveries
appeared to be the chief reason for to-
days violent upturn which, however, in
tho end was not well maintained The
market closed excited at the same as
yesterdays finish to 314c higher, with De-
cember at $166 to s1.662s, and May at
$1.671s to S1.671z.
Shortage in the wheat crops of the
United States and Canada was further
accentuated today by increasing alarm
over the Argentine drought and in re-
gard to the premature stoppage of
threshing in Canada. Reliance on Argen-
tina to make up largely for the deficit
in the United States and Canada cast
doubt on whether, owing to interference
from snowstorms, the amount of thresh-
ing would be even half of what should
be accomplished this fall Besides, esti-
cent of the spring crop in the United
States was already out of the hands of
farmers.
Houses here with important export con-
nections were conspicuous buyers on
every slight reaction in the wheat mar
ket until the last half hour of the ses-
sion, when prices had overtopped the
high point reached in February of last
year. At this stage, profit taking by
holders became general, especially after
it seemed evident that the foreign buy
ing today had been confined in a large
degree to futures, and unlike yesterday,
was not directed in the main to wheat
for immediate shipment.
Corn rose with wheat, and touched the
highest prices yet for 1916. Receipts
were small, and it was reported that
the bulk of the stock of corn here had
already been sold for shipment. Bullish
Canadian advices tended to lift oats,
which also were affected by the upturn
in wheat and corn.
Higher quotations on hogs and grain
gave strength to provisions AS in the
case of wheat foreign buying was de-
cidedly a stimulus to prices
Future quotations were as follews:
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EVENTS OF TODAY

Mrs. Bisselrs tea for Miss Bissell from
4 to o'clock at her home.
Mrs. James l.. Walker will entertain
at bridge for Miss Neville.
Mrs. Oscar Price entertains the Nor
wood Bridge club.
Miss Gertrude Notions luncheon at
her home at Idlewild park for Miss Otis.
Mrs Harry Waters entertains the
Areme club
Opening of the contagious ward of the
Children's hospital at o'clock.
Mrs. Baldwin will entertain the Bid
ders' club.
Mrs. ]. p Cousins shower for Miss
Ketchum.
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Fairchild & Co.'S Letter

New York, October 1S.-The cotton mar
ket today had the most spectacular open
ing advance seen in years. Prices
worked to new high levels July, in
fact, sold at 19c. Tremendous local and
western liquidation on and after the call
caused a quick break of about 20 points,
but sold-out bulls, shorts and good gem
eral scattered buying forced rally,
which carried the price beyond opening
highs. For the balance of the day the
market was a succession of advances
and declines.
The close was steady, although 10 to
% points below the best figures. We
look for 20-cent cotton soon, although it
is quite possible that this figure will not
be realized without opposition and fire.
quent declines of greater or less extent.
The action of December to our minds
foreshadowed dangerous possibilities for
the shorts.
The New York stock is very small
Cotton cannot be shipped here from the
south without considerable loss. With
trade and mill interests scrambling for
all available grades of desirable cotton
it may prove a difficult proposition for
December shorts to ship cotton in any
volume that will pass muster for de-
livery. Consequently we think the> De-
cember opening is likely to duplicate Oc-
tober's action and we therefore believe
it to be the best purchase.
Our prediction of 12-cent December oil
was realized today, but the advance en-
countered the usual opposition, and the
close was at the bottom, 11.S2c. On any
sharp break of say % to 80 points we IA
vor purchases. A strong cotton market
will not hereafter necessarily mean
higher OIL
Lard and the oils. olive, soya bean. CO.
coanlt linseed and others as well as
greases are likely to be more important
factors and should be closely watched s
a basis for market operations. We al
ways consider these markets in basing
our advices to southern friends on cot
ton seed oil.
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Hubbard Bros. & Co.

Cotton Merchants. Hanover square. n.
v. Members New York Cotton Ex-
change. New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
New York Produce Exchange. Associate
Members Liverpool Cotton association.
Orders solicited for the purchase and
sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil for
future delivery. Special attention and
liberal terms given for consignments Of
spot cotton for delivery Correspond"
ence invited.
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Liverpool Cotton

Liverpool. October 1s.-Spot cotton was
strong Good middling, 10. sod; middling,
10 Esd; low middling. 10.50d. Sales, 10000,
including 1900 for speculation and export.
Receipts, $4,000. Futures irregular and un-
settled October, 10.60d; October-Novem-
Der, 10.60d: Novemb er-December, 10. 59lad;
December January, TO- cod: January-Fe
ruary, 10 601ad; February March, 10621Ad !;
March-April, 10 641ad; April-May, 10 6slsd ;
May-June. -0.6S14d: June-July. 1067lad ;
July-August, 10 661ad August-september
10 43d.
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Bonds
Mercantile Paper

New York, October 1S.-Mercantile
paper. 8 Y per cent sterling, 60-day
bills, $4.71A; demand, 81 1873 cables
$4.76 7-16; francs, demand, IS 4S1a, ca
bles, IS S3R; marks, demand, 70&c;
cables, 70Ac; kronen. demand, IL Lie;
cables, 12316c; guilders, demand,
40 15-16c; cables, 40 1-16c; lires, de-
mand. Sc As; cables. Sc. Al; rubles, de-
mand, 31A G; cables 3114c; bar silver.
67%c; Mexican dollars. 52Ac; govern
ment bonds, steady; railroad bonds, ir-
regular time loans, steady; 60 days, 3
@3A per cent; 80 days and six months,
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Produce Market

New York, October 1S.-Butter steady;
receipts 6O12; creamery higher than ex-i
tras, 3514@iS6Ac; creamery, extras (92-
score), 35Q35Ac firsts, 34@34Ac. Eggs
steady; receipts, 11.3S2; fresh gathered,
extra fine, 3s@39c; extra firsts, 35GD37c;
firsts, 32@S4c; seconds, 30@31c. Cheese
steady; receipts, SOIL; state fresh specials,
21@21Ac; state fresh, average fancy, 204@D
2O%c. Live poultry weak; no prices set
tied; dressed steady; chickens, 20@35c;
fowls, 17@241ac; turkeys, 25@S5c.
Kansas City, October 1S.-Butter, eggs
and poultry unchanged.
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Fruits and Produce
(Wholesale Quotations.)

Oranges-California, box s5Q5.o0
Lemons-Imported, box. S..
Limes-Per 100, $1.25Q1 so.
Apples-Virginia, barrel. S450QS.
Grapes-California malaga, crate, 500.
Pears-California Bartlett, crate, $3.50.
Plums-California red June, crate, s2.2n
Cantaloupes-Flats. 75c6$1.
Irish Potatoes-White stock, bu., $1.70
Sweet Potatoes-Yams, bbl., S202.25.
Onions-California yellows. h., sac.
Onions-Spanish, crate, $1.s6.
Cabbage-Colorado, S1ac.
Grapes-Pony baskets, zoe.
Celery-Colorado, crate, IS; dozen, 81
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HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville October 1S.-(Special III. sB.
Rylance of Dadeville. bond agent and
also a member of the highway commits
sion, closed a deal with Probate Judge
Archie Mcdonald yesterday for $4,000
refunding bonds at AZ per cent and ac-
crued interest. This price Is the best
ever paid for Alabama bonds, and the
people of the county are feeling good
over the deal ~
Judge j. w. H. Hawkins of the inferior
court bought the Skinner estate yestsrday
at auction SALE paying $500 for. the
old structures of a carriage shop ard
garage. 1t is claimed the heirs of the
estate will contest the sale, as the price
amounts to only $500 more than the az
tual Indebtedness on the property.
DIR. T. c. Daniel of Decatur has moved
to Huntsville and will operate drug
store in this city. He has taken the
store house occupied by the Empire Drug
company, which went into bankruptcy q
few weeks ago.
Friends and relatives in Huntsville
were grieved to learn of the death Of
Rev. j. B. Erwin, which occurred in
Nashville on Tuesday. He has a large
number of friends here beside relations.
Mrs. J. Robert Jones left Tuesday for
Nashville to attend the bedside. The
deceased was brother of Mrs. Jones.
Cotton seed sold in Huntsville yester-
day at S55 per ton and cotton at 17.60c.
1t is believed by the farmers that cotton
will sell on the streets of this city for
Is cents before the last of the week.
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Chicago Grain

Chicago, October 1S.-Wheat, No. red,
81 .631411 ST; No. red 1.5S@1 .641A; No.
2 hard, s1.67@1. 70; No. hard. 81. 65A al. ST.
Corn, No. yellow, s4Q951sc; No. yell
low, 9314c; No. 4 white, 931sc Oats, No.
8 white, 4714@4S1ac; standard, 4S@49c. Rye,
No. 2, 81 .2S1s0D1. 20; barley, 75c@1 IS; tim
othy, 3.50@5. So; clover, $11@15. Pork,
SIS. so; lard, $3.50; ribs. SIS. 25@14. 25.
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Flour and Eeedsfuff

Self-rising flour, high grade. 1856;
medium grade, $685. Tennessee flour.
$40; Michigan flour, $3.50; hard winter
wheat flour, $S.75 spring wheat -four
1910; Idaho flour, SIS. IS; pure wheat shorts,
5000; pure wheat bran, S34; cotton seed
meal, $780, cotton seed hulls, $19; lintless
hulls, $13; No. l timothy hay, $40; pea
green alfalfa, $24; southern alfalfa, $40;
mixed alfalfa and Johnson grass, sl9;
Kaffir corn and milomaize $2.25; No L
johnson grass, $14; wheat straw, Sd.
Wheat per 100 lbs, $2.75. Mixed feeds, $3.50
G40; No. 2 white oats, per bushel, CSC.
Corn, per bushel, 81 10. Cornmeal, 2-bu.
sack, $2.10 corn chops, 100-lb. sack. 81. Is;
corn feed meal, $S4. Poultry food, 81 So
per sack; dairy food, $751;
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Metal Market,

New York. October 1S.-Copper firm;
electrolytic, first quarter, $27.2512s. Iron
steady and unchanged Metal exchange
quotes tin steady; spot, $40671a@41. At
London. spot copper, e123 Toe; futures.
R12o; eleetrolytic, e143 los; spot tin, ELS
los; futures, els IS
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Cotton Seed Oil

New York. October 1s--After selling UP
to II to 81 points to new high record
prices on heavy buying by the south and
west on the strength in cotton and lard,
cotton oil reacted somewhat under profit
taking and at the close the list was up
to Il points net higher Sales $500
barrels. Spot. 12.30c bid; October, Il. 35q;.
1260c; N smber, 11.S1@1l.95c December,
II. SO@ii.oSc January 1lS5Q1l SIC; Feb
ruary. 11.S5@l1.9 Csc; March. l1.SS@11. SSc;
April, 11.S5@1197c; May. 1ls2@1194c
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Spot Cotton
Pig Iron
Naval Stores

. Savannah, October 1S.-Turpentine,
Arm; 44c; sales 1913; receipts, sol; ship
ments. "A; stock, 26,067. Rosin, firm;
sales, 1894; receipts, s47; shipments,
1858; stocks, 94,S60. Quote. A. b, $6.171a
C, ID. Sc 20; e, s6.22h; F, G, Sc. 25@
Nj, Sc IS; N. Sc 40; WIG. Sc As; WV,
ga 10
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New Orleans Futures
New Orleans Cotton

New Orleans. October 1S.-Spot cotton
firm, so pointsu p. Sales on the spot,
2155; to arrive, 1865. Good ordinary. 1631c;
strict good ordinary, 16.S1c; low middling,
17.31c; strict low middling, 1850; mid
ding. Isle; strict middling, 18c; good
middling, IS .1Sc; strict good middling,
.43c. Receipts, 12,747; stock, 24,104.
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CONTINUED from Page sIx)

friends and intense interest is felt in
thelr approaching wedding. Selma Jour
nal
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many of the leading cotton houses who
have been bullish in their views, but
who now think that the buying is of a
character to justify them in taking prof
its for their customers. This liquidation
by old bulls has continued all day, while
the demand for new speculative buying
has been present on large scale to
take the place, at the highest prices in
20 years. of those who bought lower
At the close the buying of some call
cotton arrested the decline, which had
set in on the high point under the weight
of this profit taking.
The reports of a storm warning on the
Alabama coast passing northeast, were
utilized to stimulate the activity at the
opening, but it comes after nearly two
months of excellent weather for the
crop, and there are no indications of
frost on the map.
We believe the crop will be larger and
the consumption less than present esti-
mates.
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Rice Market

New Orleans, October 1S-Both rough
and clean rice were steady. Receipts;
Rough, SITS sacks, millers 1911 sacks clean
1928 pockets Sales: Rough Honduras $50
sacks, Carolina 300 sacks, blue rose 40
sa cks, clean Honduras SITS pockets; Japan
1887 pockets. Blue rose 29O5 pockets.
Quotations: Rough Honduras 250d4. Csc;
Carolina, S.95q405; others unchanged.