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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
8
Local ad touts savings at Shaws Nickel Store with glassware Queensware and tinware. Teaspoons 10c a set, tablespoons 15c, knives and forks 48c to 1.48 per set. Lamps soaps lye and talcum powder featured. granite wash basins advertised at 15c this week.
Ada cor delegate reports that Judge Ralph E Campbell has sustained demurrers to federal suits aiming to clear land titles in eastern Indian Territory now part of the new state. The ruling frees lands from government burdens, prompts new settlement, and invites buyers with farming land at five to twenty dollars per acre and grazing land at three to ten dollars.
Alfalfa Bill Murray president of the constitutional convention and speaker travels to a Stillwater farmers meeting avoiding a direct answer on a possible Democratic gubernatorial bid. He notes heat and wet streets in Guthrie as factors. He schedules a reunion of constitutional delegates and legislators in Sulphur on Sept 17, marking the constitution’s adoption anniversary.
A Tupelo child aged five burned to death when a house fire started by a defective kitchen flue engulfed the residence while the family was away. A nine year old girl helped the younger brother to safety but he could not escape the flames.
Dan Hogan editor of the Huntington Herald and Arkansas socialist leader stayed in Ada overnight. He sought equity in paper equipment once used by Stanley Clark of Ada’s American Manhood and had just returned from a Commerce Texas socialist camp where Clark and others spoke and were reportedly stoned. Hogan spent the evening at the News office and is described as having an engaging personality. Also noted is E W Hardin and family and Dr Faust and family preparing for a ten day fishing and camping trip on Wildhorse Creek in the Kiamiche mountains.
Attorneys for Gov. Haskell plan to file a motion to quash federal indictments returned by a Tulsa grand jury in April. The motion, about 10 000 words, will argue improprieties by government representatives. Hearing is unlikely until Judge Marshall’s return in October.
Farmer Carlton Weaver of Pontotoc county travels to Stillwater as a state institute delegate for an several day meeting. A school on agriculture led by A M teachers and eminent farmers from abroad will be held. Delegates will select the board of regents over state agricultural schools. Miss Gertrude Case Maud Case Cora Porter and Martha Porter depart to visit Wynnewood Oklahoma.
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