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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1926
Page
2
Many neighbors visit Ada and nearby towns with social calls and Sunday gatherings. Church members praise Rev Yandell and report improvements at the Cedar Grove church and school. Teachers E E Bristow and Ridgeway plan to close terms April 23 and return for another term.
A summary of community events includes Mr and Mrs Eli West hosting a Saturday night musical for friends in 1915. Rev W A Hearron traveled to Box for weekend services and John Lamb of Happyland visited. Mrs Columbus Scroggins hosts Baxter and bride. Rev Fred Gay preached at Francis on Sunday afternoon. Endeavor night drew 150 with Lewia Baker leading and the Judgment discussed. Francis visitors Bertie Williams Sybel Hearron Gladys West joined Sunday plans. Lorena Hearron attended the Ada district meet.
Sunday prayer meeting well attended with no Sunday school lessons. New officers elected at the school. Farmers return to work after a long break. Numerous visits and social gatherings noted among residents including the McKinney and Berger families. The Vanoss high school baseball team earned a medal in county track. The box supper raised 23 dollars for the high school fund.
Delegates from the Roff chapter attend a district meet in Ada. Mrs. Sarah McClintock of Ada visits Roff. Miss Margaret Crumley from Sulphur teaches music here for a weekend. Iva Giles, a local high school teacher, visits Guthrie. J M Kirk, Frisco agent, transfers to Altus. Tuesday Study Club hosts with a fine program. Local residents travel to Ada, Oklahoma City, and beyond amid farm and price concerns as war costs linger.
The Pentecostal Holiness started a meeting Monday night and will continue through next week with all invited. Clarence Wade spent Monday night with Scott Jones. Scott Jones left Friday for McKinney Texas to start work. S. S. Lilley traded in Franc is Friday. Scott Jones bought a Ford. Alger Jones moved to Henryetta for work. Floyd Anderson moved to Sulphur Thursday. Mrs. Grover Mathews visited her aunt Mrs. Richard Williams.
Mrs Miller remains very ill. Miss Ruby Bradley and Violet Nelson visited their grandmother Mrs M L Bradley in Ada. Mr and Mrs Chas Nelson called on friends in Vaness Mon.
Lee Rains, road supervisor, has men out this week and will continue next week if needed. The Booster club met at the Baptist church Monday night last week to organize a red and blue contest led by Baptist and Methodist preachers. There is talk of a new Baptist church building in Francis, 60 by 80 feet brick with basement for Sunday school. Rains reports many sick road tax collectors and jokes about needing undertakers if work drags on. Despite cold weather, vegetables seem near, Frisco business improves daily, and forty one hundreds trains pass with conductors greeting friends in Sasakwa.
Oil men monitor Wilcox 14-4-7 drilling in Hun ton lime at 3 865 with a slight gas show. La Selle 28-5-5 on Copeland lease underreaming at 1 285. O F Smith 28-3-4 shows oil in the hole at 936 to 940 but cave risks test. Nearby Dixie producer south of Vaness. Bryan et al 17-4-6 on Phillips lease easing trouble at 1 316 shut down. Pilgrim 9-4-6 drilled by American for underreamer lug at 1 100. Lloyd No 4 on Lloyd land drilling at 450. Lloyd No 5 rigging up. Bingham Sledge and Henry 311-4-7 with Blackburn drilling at 700.
East Central Home Economics students rally behind Miss Ver ona Williams in the finals to determine the college May Queen. Her opponent, Miss Pearl Gregory, finished second in the preliminaries conducted last week.
Charles Ponzi, once hailed as a financial wizard, was sentenced by Judge James M. Peeler in Jacksonville to one year of hard labor in the Raiford state penitentiary after being convicted on April 2 of violating Florida’s trust business law.
Judge Jesse J. Wharton ordered the W. E. Hale and John Ramsey murder trial for May 24 with a special venire expected. The men faced arraignment in district court for the killing of W. E. Smith of Fairfax on March 10, 1924. Also notes the death of W. O. Blackwell near Frisco on April 12 1926 and a social note on Mrs Crain and Mrs Williams attending Tulsa events.
Uncle Luke Blackwell was buried here Sunday afternoon in the presence of a large crowd. He had been ill for weeks with little hope of recovery. He leaves a wife and four children Mesdames Cint Walker and Nathan Hoggatt a son Lee a son Jim and a widowed daughter in law whose husband died five days earlier. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon by Rev. Curry of Ada and the presiding elder. Local residents and visitors gathered through the day as neighbors and friends offered condolences and shared memories.
John W. Baher dairy specialist will visit Ada Monday to demonstrate cottage cheese making and churning. He will answer questions from interested persons. Demonstration in Mrs. Morgan's office at the Convention Hall.
The speaker argues farmers should unite to gain market value for their products through a cotton growers association. He notes road building, farm improvements, and shifting crops, warning unity is needed to avoid decline and brain drain to cities. He cites dissatisfaction with wages as a reason to stay on the farm.
The article explains iron is essential for blood and vitality and links deficiency to fatigue weakness and anemia. It promotes Bull's Herbs and Iron as a decades long revitalizer that has helped many sufferers regain health and urges readers to obtain a bottle.
Lee R. Hays died yesterday at a local hospital from pneumonia after an appendicitis operation. Norman Howard post of the American Legion will hold a military funeral with a firing squad at Centrahoma, where Hays had lived and served in World War I before moving to Ada. The Legion elected to honor the ex serviceman though not a member.
Miss Rafaila Lopez and Clarence Nichols, both of the city, married at 11 30 this morning by Rev. B F Stegall at his home 412 West Tenth street. They plan to reside at 726 West Fourteenth street.
New London April 21 Naval board of inquiry probes cause of explosion that shattered the battery room of the submarine S-49. Three seamen killed and nine injured six seriously as the disaster is examined.
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