The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-07-12
lover thousand, Head Of sold
Al Holmes County StotRlZds
Opening Sale In Lexington
Top Prices Paid
For Stock; lorge
Crowd Attends

NIOWO AItenOS
Over a thousand head Of stock
went through the ring at the open
ing sale Of the Holmes County Stock
yards Wednesday, July II, at Lex
ington, in one Of the largest if not
the largest sale to be held in Mis-
sissippi this year. An overflow crowd
attended the sale.
Top prices were paid by q host of
buyers from Holmes county, Mem
phis, Greenwood, Winona, Koscius-
ko, Paducah, KY, Carrsllton and
many other places. 0i3"
Beef brought as high a. l7.l0 and
top hog price was $500 cwt. AN
S. E Henry bought the first thing
to be put in the ring, a coop Of As
chickens, for which he paid $1.25.
The Marshall Cattle Co., Lexing-
ton. bought the first heifer in the
ring for ITO. r.rs
Cliff Watson, auctioneer and one
| Of the owners Of the Stockyards
said it was one of the largest sales
he had ever attended and a larger
sale than Greenwood had ever had
to his knowledge 5r
Joe .Feagin, ringmaster, who has
worked sales from Canada to Cali
fornia, stated the opening sale in
in Lexington was the best sale he
had ever attended
Buyers present expressed the
opinion that the run Of cattle at the
Lexington sale was better than any
they have attended o'
Max Scobey acted as Master Of
Ceremonies at the opening program
at one o'clock and introduced May
or Norman Weathersby who, on be-
1af Of the city Of Lexington, vel
coined everyone to the sale and
urged them TO come back every
week to the sales In the future.
Mr.. Scobey then presented Mi. l
W. Carson, county agent who spoke
briefly to the crowd on the import
ance Of Holmes county as a stock
raising section. Mr.. Carson stated
that Holmes rates sixth in the live
stock industry now. Counties hav-
ing a larger livestock business than
Holmes In order named are Kinds
Yazoo, Madison, Pamela, DeSoto.
The County Agent said he belisv-
ed Holmes County Is destined Ia
become a great cattle country BE-
cause its brown loan section il
particularly adapted to good pastures
for the raising Of livestock. Out Of
the ten largest cattle countries in
the state six are in the brown loan
section
The Master of Ceremonies pre-
scented w. r. Thompson, assistant
county agent and All Club director,
who spoke briefly saying the Hol-
mes County Stockyards has every
attribute for a successful sale, the
best scales money a buy, honest
weighing and good management. He
predicted a successful sale.
Mr.. Scobey next presented W. E.
Strider, president of the Lexington
Jaycees, who on behalf Of this orga-
nization of young business and pro-
fessional men, endorsed this splen-
did enterprise and pledged full sup
port.
Mr.. Scobey then recognized S. E.
Henry, Of the Henry Ice and Cold
Storage Company, who has been in
terested for years in bringing a live
stock auction barn to Lexington
and who was largely instrumental
in securing for Lexington this the
new ice
Mr.. Feagin and Lutte Ellison were
ringmasters for the big sale and Ed
Ellison was general manager.
Among the many buyers present
for the sale which wound up about
one o'clock this morning were Mr..
Patterson, of Swift & Co., Mr.. Vann,
of Cudahy, Clyde Shimmel. Padu-
cab, KY, D. E. Strain, Greenwood,
e. M. Bamberg, Winona.
Elmer Curtis of Curtis Brothers,
order buyers for Memphis Packing
Co, and others, Mr.. Brooks, Of
Kosciusko, Harry Gray, Of Winona, /
S. E. McLain, Carrollton, Tommy
Mcclure and l.. M. Rogers, both of
Greenwood, Marshall Cattle Co..,
Hugh Mcclellan, Durant,
Virgil Ingold, Lexington, RID.
There we're many others buyers
from all over Holmes county.
The sales will be held weekly in
the future at one o'clock on Wednes-
days, according to present plans.