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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1914
Page
14
Ada city items report Mrs Mabel Browall returning from Collierville Tenn and Ada receiving a good shower. Mentions H C Emerson’s recovery from slow fever W D Logston choosing Ada as permanent home and C E Wilson becoming O C Ada agent with praise for Santa Fe management.
Detroit letter dated August 5 1914 from A F Bement public director of the Lincoln Highway Association pledges broad publicity and assistance to the OklahomaPortland Cement Company and Ada Lincoln Highway efforts. It notes plans to feature the group in a press sheet and to supply wall maps and booklets detailing routes and aims to connect roads from all regions to the Lincoln Highway.
From Wednesday's Daily Prof. Philpott of Fitzhugh Ada visitor today Miss Katie Lawson visited Atoka Mrs Josephine Robertson left for Tutwiler after weeks with daughter Mrs W E Conger J H Wood returned home after visits in Enid and El Reno Lena West and Temple Westbrook left to visit Blanche Rushing at Okemah M B Molloy returned from Oklahoma City after state tennis tournament James R Hounshell transferred from Fort Worth to Katy line between Atoka and Oklahoma City Mrs A B Yeager and children expected to arrive from Dallas this afternoon
New Orleans report states Mrs. Florence McGowan shot and killed J. Leon Brown in the courthouse after his trial, claiming he wronged her daughter. The incident occurred August 7 as the case concluded.
Washington August 13 The article argues improved roads boost rural school access and attendance, enabling consolidation into larger graded schools with high schools. It highlights the school as a community center, urging year round road improvements to keep the consolidated school accessible and efficient.
Oklahoma State bank displays a bunch of feterita heads grown by J. R. Roddy. Farmers in Pontotoc county take interest as the crop could help solve local feed shortages.
United States Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and his family were to depart Paris today aboard the French liner France for a return to the United States, ending their Paris visit.
J. W. McNair died at his Ada home at 11 am after a long illness. He was 77 and survived by his wife and three children I. McNatt Ada May Van Demburgh San Diego and Mrs. Ray Ogle Fredonia. Funeral services Saturday at 2 pm at the residence with Rev. C B James officiating, interment at Rosedale cemetery with Masonic honors. Born in Virginia, he served in the Civil War and later farmed in Kansas before moving to Ada four years ago.
W R Riddle, a county demonstrator near Fris co, presents Boone county white corn grown from premium seed. He bought ten bushels at $3 each, planted the best as seed, and expects at least 25 bushels per acre of large ears. One ear measured a foot long with full kernels. In wartime updates, martial law and security measures rise as authorities arrest spies and mobilize volunteers, while rail service between Brussels and Paris resumes.
Brussels reports a wide German spy network in Belgium leading to six hundred arrests and one hundred executions on Monday. Captured Germans wore uniforms of gendarmes, civic guards, soldiers, and officers of the Belgian army with many armed.
Ardmore Ok Aug 6 M E E Trapp captured the largest Carter County vote for lieutenant governor with LaFayette and Duffy close behind S P Freeling led the race for attorney general with the strongest county showing leaders in local elections and returns from Carter County indicate shifting support among candidates before statewide tallies are finalized
New York on August 7 reports the Tennessee carrying nearly eight million dollars in gold as it departs for relief to Americans stranded in Europe. The American liner St Paul also sails for Liverpool with five thousand bags of mail and large volumes of money and freight amid immense crowds.
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