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YES, YESTERDAY WAS A LIVE
DAY FOR SOCIETY AND
THE STOCK MARKET
. This is a gay week in swell society
circles in Chicago.( .Business, is not
only good out at the stockyards,
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eons, oaus, weddings, engagements
and debuts are keeping the women
busy blowing in the coin their men
make in the yards and the loop.
On Thursday-there arrived at the
stockyards 12,000 cattle, 1,600
calves, 42,000 hogs and 10,000 sheep
and lambs, and in the evening a
small but appreciative audience at
tended grand opera and ate grub at
the Black&one and Auditorium.
The costumes of the live stock at
" the yards were not described in the
sassiety columns, but at the dpera
the newspapers tell us of such cos
tumes on the live stock bhlebrocad
ed in silver, white trimmed in crys
tal, cerise taffeta, tulle, cerise ostrich
fans and. things like that
Early receipts of hogs sold higher
yesterday, Armour & Go. bought
5,500 hogs, Idaho lambs sold at
$13.35 and native ewes sold up to
$9.75. In the meantime arrange
ments were being made by the
women for bridge whist games at the
f Allied Bazaar next week at $1 a
throw, and there was a tea-dance
for debutantes at the Virginia hotel
. and some of our rich young folks
danced for two hours at the Black
stone. Weakness pervaded the market for
beef cattle, cash corn was steady to
y2 cent lower and ribs were rela
tively firmer than lard-or pork. But
the matrimonial market opened
strong with a big debut at the Black
stone, where the 'ballroom was dec
orated with American Beauty roses
and Christmas greens, while 600
guests had a good time looking over
30 of the season's richest and
choicest debutantes.
4 Clearances ol jvj&eat an&flour4 stand against tie Villistas
from .the seaboard were 628,000
bushels, improvement in the cash
meat trade was reported', the egg
market, was firm, butter quiet,
cheese steady, and many engage
ments were announced of young
folks whose dads, were rich enough
to get their names in the papers.
The poultry market was firm, with
dressed chickens firm. Limburjer
cheese was quoted at 23 and 24, with
potatoes 5 cents a bushel higher on
receipts of 30 cars. In the meantime
an ultra-swell iuncheon was being
fed to many rich guests by three
rich hostesses at the Casino.
The stock market was irregular, '
yet- notwithstanding the fact that
Sears-Roebuck common sold down
to 224, against a previous close of
227, the sassiety column says that
Julius Rosenwald blew himself for a
box at the Cornell concert next
week.
Commonwealth Edison is -to sell
over $4,000,000 more new stock, and
there was a long list of fashionable
weddings.
Altogether the live stock move
ment in Chicago was lively yester
day, i o o
VILLA EVACUATES TORREON .
LEVIES "WAR LOAN"
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 29. After levy
ing a "war loan" of 100,000 pesos on
the city, Villa evacuated-Torreon and
is now on the march toward Saltillo,
according to reports given out by
Carranza military officials at Juarez.
The Coahuila metropolic has been
reoccupied by government troops
under Gen. Murguia, it was an
nounced. While in Torreon, Villa was care
ful not to harm any foreigners or
their property.
Mexican government officials to
day admitted that the garrison at
Saltillo had evacuated the town last
week, leaving it unprotected, while
the garrison at Monterey is weak
and unless reinforced will make no
