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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1926
Page
3
Byron Norrell reports on cucumber sales by E. C. Cavener and large onion and peach yields from Pontotoc area growers. He notes Kamala as a promising poultry tapeworm remedy from USDA trials and mentions forthcoming fair exhibits after the election.
The Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture and Market Commission partner with the USDA to distribute daily Federal Market News. Broadcasts start at 9 AM with livestock receipts and hog market notes, mid day market updates, and 6:15 PM summaries. Farm reviews and crop outlooks follow, with wide distribution beyond radio.
A field survey reports cotton is blooming and not harmed by the cotton flea, with potential for a good crop though yields may be reduced. The bottoms show the most damage, while bumper corn, fine grain sorghums, promising sweet potatoes, and hay are noted.
The writer boasts picking an Elberta peach from a backyard tree weighing 13 ounces and asks readers if any similar record exists, aside from a larger Chinese Cling.
With the best all around crop since 1920 in sight, Pontotoc county is very much in the running this year. It makes one feel cheerful to get out and look at some of the growing things.
W. B. Cantwell delivers three enormous roasting ears from the home of J. H. and T. L. Cantwell two miles south of Vaness. The ears, with husks, weighed six and one half pounds in total.
R L A Steigleder former bank president and stockholder in two Oklahoma banks was arrested Friday night by Deputy Marshal A R Cottle on a federal warrant. He pleaded not guilty and posted a $5000 bond to face conspiracy charges over the Keifer bank closure.
Walker H. Fletcher tied Edward Horrigan in a chair and tortured him for five hours claiming Horrigan kissed his wife Mrs. Fletcher. He threatened with a gun burned him with matches struck him with a whip and beat him after binding him. Horrigan denies the charges as does Mrs. Fletcher. A large photo shows how the torture was done.
NEA Service reports Washington's social and official life thins out during recess. Departments run with acting heads while Massachusetts Avenue shutters, hotel lobbies stay empty, rents drop, and tourism stalls as Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial visitors fail to arrive. The supreme court disperses and diplomats depart, with easy passport access proving elusive for visits to England from the British embassy scene.
The USDA notes a five year drop of 19 million acres in harvested crop land, a five percent fall that contrasts with gains in Great Plains pastures and northern regions. Despite reduced crop area, exports remain large due to shifting land use and changes in livestock feeds and population.
London. Constance Collier and Rebecca West collaborate on a stage version of Miss West's The Return of the Soldier, one of England's best known war tales.
The Izaak Walton League in Pontotoc County reports low member participation this year. A new fish hatchery near Byrds Mill starts production in a few years, and streams have Rainbow trout. The club secured a game refuge lease on thousands of acres between Jack Fork and Byrds Mill to protect wildlife. The league expects renewed interest next fall.
Omer K. Benedict, candidate for the GOP nomination, led Jim Harris by nineteen votes as returns from Pontotoc county showed a light vote. W. J. Otten trailed closely in third place. In Stroudsburg Pa earlier, Richard Washburn Child sought a Monroe county common pleas decree of divorce from Maude Parker Child.
Former Tiascana police chief Zenaido Lianas and three residents of Tia Juana were acquitted of drugging and attacking Clyde and Audrey Peteet. The alleged assault preceded the Peteet family tragedy in San Diego, with death notes cited as the motive. An investigator testified about the Peteet family past in San Diego Los Angeles and Kansas City.
Deputy District Attorney Joseph Ryan reports that Aimee Semple McPherson and Kenneth Ormiston used a Carmel cottage last May 19 to May 29, eight witnesses saw them, and fingerprints and handwriting link McPherson to the affair. Detectives travel from Los Angeles to Carmel to pursue clues.
The text notes crop area in 1924 would have fallen below 1899–1909 growth trends if population gains continued. It argues current colt output barely replaces dying horses and mules, predicting continued reduced feed crops and land needs for several years.
The 1843 will of General Andrew Jackson, probated in Davidson County, is filed in the Davidson courthouse. It declares debts of the estate for his adopted son and directs that debts be paid before the Hermitage reverts to the son, with burial plans at the Hermitage garden.
Mrs Frances Stevens Hall seeks release from jail in Somerville New Jersey on the double murder charges of her clergyman husband and Eleanor Mills a singer. Prosecutor Bergen said a private afternoon hearing before Chief Justice Gummere at Point Pleasant would not be public. Bergen would not oppose the application.
In Trenton on July 30 authorities announced a warrant for Henry Dickman a former state trooper and lone hand investigator in the Hall Mills inquiry. Dickman faces a bad check charge in Jersey City and is suspected to know the identity of the killers of Rev. Dr Edward Halli and Mrs Eleanor Mills. A search resumes after his June 1923 disappearance with fresh vigor and reports of large sums of money and trips abroad.
Washington pages report a debate over lifting the arms embargo to Mexico and a possible White House decision by President Coolidge. The State Department refuses to reveal views, noting the embargo remains in effect. Mexico's religious tensions add to the cautious approach amid a tense period.
The Vibt Masters and Miss Mollie Masters wed this morning at 10 o'clock at the bride’s home 408 West Ninth street Rev. B. F. Stegall officiating.
Mrs Edward Wheelerhall widow of the slain New Brunswick church sexton was jailed without bail in Somerville N J charged with murdering her husband and Eleanor Mills four years ago. She was arrested at home late last night and spent hours in a jail reception room accompanied by her cousin and attorney who offered no comment.
The Oklahoma state corporation commission denied Frank M. South a permit to run a motor express line from Oklahoma City to Muskogee via Shawnee Henryetta Okmulgee and Morris. Five railroad companies protested the proposed route.
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