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Newspaper

Ada Weekly News

Location

Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America

Date

Apr 22, 1920

Page

5

Local Notes On Visits and Games At Bond Community

Visitors to Mrs. G C Bond include Mrs Ollive Summers and Miss Effie Isaacs. May and Bailey fished on South Canadian. Maxwell visitors Esther Ruth and Georgia Coker. G C and L L Bond, and E W Cotter with T B Bond made a Ada trip. School ends soon. Our basket ball team challenged Summers Chapel but lost.

G. C. Bond Ollive Summers Effie Isaacs G. C May Bailey Esther Ruth Georgia Coker Maxwell L. L. Bond Ada E. W. Cotter T. B. Bond

Convict Camp at City Fair Ground Is A Humdinger

A prison camp with electric lights water and gas opened at the Ada fair grounds, supplied by the city. Four score men live there, seventy convicts and seven trusties with sixty three guards, enjoying open air life and a comfortable tented camp while road work in Pontotoc County reshapes bad stretches, paving with asphalt rock near Egypt bridge and Sandy.

Fair Grounds Ada State Penitentiary Pontotoc County Egypt Bridge Sandy Ada Fhe Oklahoma Owen Campbell

Rural News Notes Franks Items

Miss Pearl Odom of Stonewall visits cousin Mrs Audie Ma Lone. Ed Gibson of Jesse severely hurt. son-in-law of Mr and Mrs W H Jones. Miss Ethel Norris visits sister Mrs Florence Hugle. Frankie Hooks on sick list and teaches at Onward. Local social news covers guests, rheumatism, store clerk duties, and upcoming singing events with Edminston and Pickett convention.

Pearl Odom Stonewall Audie Malone W. H. Jones Ed Gibson Jesse Ethel Norris Florence Hugle Frankie Hooks Miss Hooks Onward Tom Jones O. S. Stewart Dorsey Harper J. W. Harper Jay Hugle Columbus Stewart O. S. Stewart’s Hooks Eula Lela Jones Alpha Emma Belle Bolen Cecil Gayne Onie Ayakatubby Leonard Sutherland

Local Briefs Sketch Sunday Church, Visits and Sports

Brother Charlie Martin preached here Sunday and the B Y P U reorganized Sunday night. Mrs Joe Bazemore visited Springbrook Saturday and Sunday. Harold Smith son of Mr and Mrs Frank Smith operated on last week. Colbert ball team defeated Byng and Konawa in a game. Eighth grade exams all failed to reach standard average about 73 percent. Mr and Mrs E Lowe visited C L McAnally Saturday night and Miss Euna Grisham spent Sunday at Mrs Frank Smiths. A crowd of boys fished on Boggy last week and brought home several fish.

Charlie Martin Joe Bazemore Springbrook Harold Frank Smith Colbert Byng Konawa E. Lowe C. L. McAnally

Local Notes on Weights and Weekend Events

A reader reports items from the week including weights of two puppies at two and one twentieth pounds, a musical at Mr Wil son’s Saturday night, and Miss Gladys Griffith visiting friends in town Sunday.

Heavy Sunday hailstorm hits county and word on crops

A severe hail storm swept the county Sunday evening, leaving farmers hopeful about rainfall. Patch deliveries for food stuffs have lagged. Norman children attending Ada schools spent the weekend at home, while Mrs. C. F. Johnson of Konawa and Mrs. T. E. Carmichael were present in the area.

Ada C. F. Johnson Konawa T. E. Carmichael

Ada Cotton Man Makes Successful Trip To Japan

Ada Cotton Man makes a successful trip to Japan as representative of Ada cotton buyers. R L Weber cablegram from Honolulu April 20 reports tr ip back without bookings until next month and pleasant relations with Japanese trading firms. Weber left Ada March 1 to improve cotton trade. will stay on Hawaii until May.

W. B. House R. L. Weber Honolulu Ada Oklahoma Japanese Trading Co Moria, Aria & Co Weber Hawaii

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