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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
5
Ada readers record a flurry of day trips and visits. Prof. Norton and many named residents travel to Ross Arm ore Wynnewood Coalgate and Stonewall. several attend to business, elections, or family visits. A large Woodmen Circle meeting and civic notes wrap the day.
A drunken man named Solomon Keel attacked a baby at a west Ada picnic, cursed the mother, and resisted arrest. Deputies and local officers faced a mob of about 50 angry Black residents as they escorted Keel to jail, prompting jail surveillance overnight amid fear of lynching. Local notices list residents traveling and others leaving for nearby towns.
The Ada team defeats Purcell 6 to 3 in a close series opener. McCluckey homered and Wright and Atkins contributed key hits while McDole pitched for Ada. Local political notes report Ratliff leading Lee in Seminole county and a disputed Konawa tally affecting margins.
In Birmingham amid a major coal strike a lynching of Will Milliams, alleged dynamiter, sparks arrests of Deputies Lon Tyler and Bruce Tyler for killing a negro. A Newcastle shooting kills Albert Fletcher, and deputies are kidnapped at Jett mines. Homes are dynamited at Wylam. Governor Comer orders restrictions on gatherings near mines and enforcement by deputies with incendiary speakers to be arrested.
Monday afternoon August 3 at Angelo Grove Woodman Circle a session with State Organizer M G Meadows discussed candidate balloting and other business.
The advertisement touts numerous cheap items including needles 5c per two papers, pins 5c a paper, hair pins, combs, handkerchiefs 5c and 10c, shoe laces 10c a dozen, extra heavy laces 1c a dozen, wrist bags 15c to 50c, Japanese fans 5c to 15c, and 4 strand brooms at 10c each with 25c value in other goods, limit one per customer.
Joe Sloan of the county election board arrives in Ada from Center. C Copeland comes from Center and departs for Weleetka. W J Carter spends part of Tuesday at Francis to observe Miss Annie Pearl Bailey of Sulphur Springs, Texas visiting Mrs. W B Jones and relatives. A W Cope of Fitzhugh is in Ada delivering the Fitzhugh returns to the county election board Miss Lillian Harrell after an extended visit with friends in Dun
W. J. Beaty returned from Sulphur with an Ada Military Band engagement for the three days of the confederate reunion on the 10th 11th and 12th of this month. The committee on arrangements praises the choice.
An ad offers a hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes a 15 year endorsement by Walding Kinnan & Marvin, wholesale druggists in Toledo Ohio, and notes internal action and testimonial availability.
Sulphur Oklahoma August 5 The first State reunion of the Oklahoma Unit of Confederate Veterans will be held August 10 11 and 12 in Sulphur with divisions from Indian Territory expected to attend.
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