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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1905
Page
1
Miss Pear Kee hosts a millinery opening at Reed & Harrison with a dozen salesladies. The store glows with floral decorations and fashionable hats as an afternoon of music entertains visitors.
The First Baptist church congregation authorized drawing plans for an edifice costing 65000 to be built at once prompting a rapid construction program in Oklahoma on April 5.
The Turner hotel in Muskogee I T opens to the public after a Friday reception attended by S M Rutherford C N Haskell James F Reed P L Soper and John R Thomas with J W Zevely as toastmaster. The five story 150 room hostelry includes baths electric gas lights and telephones. The hotel will be named for C W Turner. General J L Reeves receives a loving cup for aiding the Muskogee electric railway system. An opera house opening is set for April 15 across from the hotel, in the block with the five story Indianola building housing the Union Indian agency.
Four Bibles and several expensive books were stolen from the depot platform Friday night. Two groups found the Bible collection today in Alabama Creek by local youths. Investigators pursue clues to the whereabouts of the remaining goods.
Ardmore April 4 field party of the Dawes Started Children Congress Commission goes out to enroll all under the late act. The visits cover Chickasaw Nation Chickasha Pauls Valley Kingfisher Ada and surrounding areas from early April to May 2 including April 3 to 7 in Chickasha and April 10 to 14 in Pauls Valley.
Nearly three inches of rain drenched Oklahoma City on Saturday forcing residents to abandon homes with four feet of flood water. Water receded by morning enabling some to return. household goods damage ran to hundreds of dollars.
Warren Bennett, deputy US marshal, announces many cattlemen will cancel grazing leases in the Osage country in response to precarious dipping operations. A Texas herd suffered heavy damage after dipping before entering Osage lands, following a Bureau of Animal Industry order mandating dipping for cattle entering the Osage nation.
The Cartiage Democrat notes a pastime where people attend church on Sundays without dog fights and count coughs in the congregation. Two players visit different churches, and the one with the higher cough count must treat the other to a drugstore visit after the sermon.
Ada deputies captured Mart Lantz known as Old Settler north of the Katy stock yards with a tow sack of whiskey. He resisted, then was jailed, vowing to visit his brother Lewis Lantz who earlier received penitentiary time for a crime involving a young girl in a tent. Lantz reportedly hid whiskey in a tow sack sunk in a tank near the railroad.
A large party of Ada ladies and gentlemen will ride the morning train to Sherman Texas to meet the nation’s chief executive and view the tour.
Lawton Oklahoma April 4. The president plans a week long wolf hunt in the 450000 acre Indian pasture reserve in Southern Oklahoma. Citizens prepare the biggest drive in western history with the president to view and take part in the final rush after wolves are corraled. Cavalry from Fort Sill will patrol fences and permit no entry during his seclusion.
Arrangements completed for a 35,000 canning factory at Weleetka J T with stock subscribed. The project includes planting hundreds of acres in tomatoes and fruits.
The Choctaw Chickasaw Townsite paying party returns to the Indian Agency after completing most work. Geo N Wise is in charge with W E K Hiskey George Wachtel Robert Bennett and Caffee. They began September 16 1904 visiting eleven towns in the Choctaw nation and nine in the Chickasaw nation and issued 21000 payments totaling 540000 per capita. The rolls stay open briefly to locate missing Indians and payments will proceed by voucher if they apply.
One of the finest moving picture exhibitions in the city plays at the Electric Theatre on East Main Street. The counterfeiters scene is realistic and the tram robbery is even more so. The show is good and worth the admission price.
Mrs. L. O. Scranton unveils a boutique of hats at Henley and Biles with French pattern hats, Persian blue lace picture hats, striped braids, and moss foliage turbans. Visitors admire pleated braids, pink buds, and crushed cream roses as the display draws many compliments.
United States Marshal Fossett returned from Kingfisher with James C. Robb the vice president of Capitol National Bank who was indicted on misapplying funds. Robb posted a $5,000 bond after his arrest as the bank failed last April with losses over a million dollars.
Sherman Texas April 4 The Roosevelt visit will last an hour or more with a daylight reception and an elaborate program. He is expected to speak in Court Plaza during the stay.
Luke Summerlin, 16, died after being crushed between two freight cars on Muskogee tracks Saturday afternoon. He tried to pass between two cars three feet apart as a switch engine bumped them together. he was the son of widow Mrs. E Summerlin.
A government party will visit Ada from April 24 to May 2 inclusive to enroll Indian babies. The event is organized to register eligible children and involves local officials and health workers in coordination with tribal authorities.
The body of a woman was found Sunday three miles southwest of Chase in an old wolf's den on the Old Three Bar ranch. She was bound with wagon sheets and three straps, has a head bruise, and is well dressed with a tortoise comb and hair pins. Authorities call it a baffling case.
Lawton Oklahoma April 4 J S McDuffie cashier of the defunct Bank of Lawton was captured in El Paso Texas as he prepared to flee to Mexico The banker was recently indicted for receiving deposits after insolvency The bank deficit exceeds 335000
Judge Raymond of the northern district who faced grave charges filed by Clarence B. Douglas editor of the Muskogee Phoenix has been exonerated by the department of justice.
In Shawnee Oklahoma April 35 prospects rise for a local National Guard company. A temporary group is formed with E. R. Waite as captain and Hon Milton Bryan as first lieutenant. A letter requests a commission for the proposed unit.
The president's party en route to San Antonio includes Secretary Morton Loeb Dr Alexander Lambert General S B Bo Young Lieutenant Z R Fortas cue M C Latta stenographer S L McGrew Jackson S Elliott Associated Press J G G Thompson Publishers' and Scripps McRae press associations John E Monk New York Sun-Press association and H A Strohmeyer photographer.
Reed Hubbard and N. Tucker engage with canning outfit manufacturers and consider organizing a plant to process surplus farm products. They are in talks with a factory offering a canner capable of 1000 cans per day at a reasonable price, aiming to secure local demand.
P. T. Pegues and wife and Miss Douglas joined others traveling to Sherman, Texas, to glimpse President Roosevelt during a political visit.
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