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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1905
Page
4
Ada daily notes record numerous visitors and residents from Francis, Konawa, Sulphur, Van Alstyne, and Texas. They include J. M. Tayloe of the Red Cross store ill, J. W. Dean returning from Shawnee, and Mr. and Mrs. Hargis, Metcalf, and many others visiting Ada. A branch store opening at Konawa and a lecture by Mr. Waugh on Nature and Nature's God are also noted.
Robert Immotichey of Jesse, out with an acquaintance named Bitt, visited the Crawford and Bolen law office. A push toppled Immotichey into a heavy bookcase door, leaving him with about six cuts to the face and hands. A doctor treated the injuries, which are not expected to be serious.
Carrie Nation, jailed in Wichita, signed deeds transferring her Topeka property for 7000 dollars and announced plans to move to Oklahoma after serving her sentence to work for a prohibition clause in Oklahoma’s statehood constitution. She awaits an appeal decision for joint smashing and has a 150 dollar fine plus thirty day jail term. The sale related to property refused by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union at the state convention last October.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Indian Territory closed its session in Chickasha on April 14 with routine business. Rebekahs elected officers led by President Mrs Christina Hokey Krebs and Grand officers named including Mrs Ella Rose Chickasha and Mrs Alice Schmidt South McAlester. Ardmore attorney Robert H West longtime double statehood advocate died in Ardmore after two hours illness. he once served as Dallas County judge.
$10 reward offered for the recovery of two horses reported missing on March 26 1905 in Ada Indian Territory. A black popy mare with a white forehead and saddle marks and a 13 hand frosty tailed mare. Also a dingy bay horse age five 13 hands branded JS on hip. Address J H Lovelady Ada Indian Territory.
A 3-year-old girl, daughter of Kila Bullis, fell from a second story window of a business house in Oklahoma City on April 1 and was critically injured with prognosis of death.
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