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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1925
Page
8
Byron Norrell rants over farm life and rain relief while Odean Brown incubator success inspires Ada readers. Weather, bees, fertilizer tests, and community plans dominate Pontotoc County notes with April planting talk, hay and honey futures, and Pecan Grove club activities.
A garbled OCR style page presents numbered word clues and partial solutions across categories such as vegetables, fabrics, measurements, and objects. The text intermixes languages and symbols, yielding a mosaic of definitions, hints, and misreads with no cohesive article topic or narrative.
A reading notes a lesson given by an instructor to junior girls and others. The group found it beneficial and interesting with plans for future home craft work and dress making education, and all look forward to the next club meeting.
Prom Monday Daily notes a treaty of agreement to aid in turning off county literary and track meets. Plans include travels for Lingeheld and Thompson to Canal county, Newcomb and hheld in Johnston county, Wilson and Milam in Hughs county, Molloy and Miss Herring in Seminole county. Pontotoc division aims to speed contests, with M. Thompson praising pro culture and predicting wider adoption as districts prepare for Ada meets on April 14 17 and 19.
Early Sunday fire destroyed the First Methodist church of Sulphur. Brick building valued at 20000 dollars, with only partial insurance. Pastor Rev. J G Rogers and church board say the parish can begin immediate reconstruction after revival meetings were nearly complete.
A scrambled notice lists several individuals including TR W Campbell aged 23 and Ola Mae Howell aged 10 from Ada, A HW Ingram 19 from Stonewall, Audie Headtiel 1% from Stonewall, Clarence Williamg 18 from Ada, and Iva Stagga 19 from Ada. It appears as a terse public listing with mismatched ages and places. Try a News Snip Ad for roseina.
Ray Terrill and Noland Williams, alleged bank robbers, escaped Pawnee county jail after slugging jailor Robert Whitman and stealing an automobile from drifter Jock Jollitt near the oil field. Sheriff Allen Jones reports the escape occurred yesterday and notes visitors may have smuggled gums and keys to the prisoners. J. J. McCurdy, visiting from Henryetta, says rain has fallen in the area recently.
From Sundays' Daily: March permits totaling 22 000 show residential construction up with 25 projects. Ada Brick Co's Marshall Harris cautions the rise reflects healthy growth not a boom, tied to population demand for modern homes. Other major projects include the Shkirvina four story building Harvey first Baptist and New Methodist churches under consecration.
Oklahoma City special report notes state common school fund totals 27,662,085 for the last half of 1924 per land office audit by George J. Meehling. Increase of nearly 700,000 from leases and sales. balance on July 1 stood at 16,865,500 with 193,000 and 203,509 contributions from the fund’s divisions.
Oklahoma City April 11 James Hatcher department commander of the American Legion told a conference of post commanders adjutants and service officers that if they can make their Legion posts a positive factor in the lives of their communities they could dissolve them We must go in for work of such nature that we will be a community asset an organization in which the community can place its staunchest confidence Hatcher declared Governor Trapp and Mayor O E Cargill addressed the Legion chiefs briefly.
Miss Billie Aldrich and Mr Horace White both of this city were married Wednesday evening at Sherman Texas. The couple are well known in Ada and will make their home here.
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