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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
9
Paris reports no marked changes on the French front during the night with artillery active southwest of Roye. In another dispatch, British forces in France note an unconfirmed afternoon rumor that Roye has been evacuated, while British tanks are seen working well east of the town.
Local life updates describe growing prosperity and cotton picking. Attendees include Brother Auterberry, Mr Cleghorn, the Ledbetters, and a wedding in Muskogee where Conner Ledbetter served as best man. Illnesses include Leuann Cope's typhoid and Dibrell Ledbetter’s sickness. a Sunday School attempt failed due to low turnout.
Mrs Tom D Sedberry and her son of Marshall Texas will arrive over the Frisco this evening for an extended visit to the family of her brother Sherwood Hill.
An official memo to W B Gay and county inspectors designates dipping vats for Tick Eradication. Herds with ticks face 14 day cycles. open range herds marked All Ticky dip every 14 days. Clean herds receive 21 to 28 day schedules or released after 28 days unless exposed again. Quarantine applies to tick carriers after Sept 1 1918 with movement restricted to dipping. List includes Vanoss Buckhorn Van Winkie Diamond Ada Tyrola Lanham Hunter Kennedy Snyder Maxwell Hennigan Pryor Horseshoe Byng Factory Ansell Wickett Vaden McMeans Rebee Barringer Stewart Chilcutt Colbert Francis Oakman Homer Lisemore Hampton. State Live Stock Inspector. ltd-itw
Yokosuka Japan June 2 The keel of the battleship Mutsu a 43000 ton super dreadnought was laid yesterday with Shinto rites. The ceremony was led by Shinto priests as part of the naval construction sequence. Nearby work follows the Tatsuta launch and Kuma construction to begin at Sasebo early next month.
Scout officials urge boys to aid the war effort through nonmilitaristic tasks. Uncle Sam has enlisted Boy Scouts for Liberty Loan drives, propaganda countermeasures, and thrift promotion, but gun drills are discouraged as scouts remain nonmilitaristic. Experts say older youths may learn rifle use, but not in scouting.
A letter to Troop 17 Indianapolis Scoutmaster O E McMeans recounts a former scout's wartime convoy duty. He describes seasickness, salt air, and a near torpedo attack as the submarine surfaced, leaving a fallen shipmate but the crew rescued. The note ends by naming Paul Jones of the U S S Carola IV and praising courage.
Scouts at Spartanburg assisted the chamber of commerce in housing families of the New York Guard at Camp Wadsworth. In Freeland, a girl who wandered from a three mile farm was found after a week by scouts on Mount Yeager and carried home after nearly starving on berries.
Nora Monahan, first assistant to the president, endures a busy, romance-filled office as staff couples bloom around her. A rare talk with President Magione reveals shared loneliness, and they impulsively spend a Sunday touring the country to a quaint cottage, where Nora finds surprising happiness and hope for a life away from the city.
Tulsa prison era committee organizes for the 28th annual United Confederate Veterans reunion to be held September 24 to 27. W Tate Brady chairs the general committee with Nathan Bedford Forrest as general secretary. Headquarters at Convention Hall. Aiming to raise 100000 dollars. 50000 pledged in two days. President McFarlin pledges Chamber of Commerce support and the rail rate is set at one cent a mile for attendees and families. Tulsa hosts with Oklahoma benefiting. preparations target 100000 attendees and statewide regional interest. Members urge press and civic leaders to aid coordination and publicity.
During the American Civil War period tobacco farming in Scotland grew clear and several attempts were made. The main site was near Kelso where the crop thrived, yielding sixteen and a half statute acres at about 520 dollars per acre.
The remark notes that fertile land producing fine flowers and luscious fruits also yields an excellent, intelligent class of people. It suggests Aristotle reframed this as a sequence rather than a mere coincidence, linking soil abundance to human capability.
In a folksy slice of dialogue Uncle Eben notes that a man with a notably good disposition likely has as much as a ton of coal in his cellar, a humorous measure reflecting rural wit and practical thrift. The line captures character and humor through vivid regional speech.
Mrs. C. M. McFall, who visited her parents W. S. Kerr and wife, departed this morning to reunite with her husband in McAlester.
Seaside visitors pay five to twenty dollars daily as a new Anglo American hospital town rises on a dry promontory overlooking a bay and beach. An American hospital contingent from Philadelphia, with nurses there, treats predominantly British patients as mumps and measles mix with injuries and strain.
John Wells home from Camp Bowie discharged with recall pending. Mrs. Haggard visited Mrs. Lane in Worstell. Myrtle Roddy and children visited her brother Bob Maxwell. Oscar Whitson with Norman Hatcher fished at Boggy. A 9 pound boy born to Oscar Yancy and wife. Aunt Davy Scott visited Harrison Worstell. Uncle Ben Burnside and niece Miss New of Ada in Worstell. Minnie Palmer of Byng visited relatives here. May Crane visited Julia Atkerson. Minnie Lewis visited her mother Mrs. Roberts. George Pate and family from Ada visited the Whitson home. A. B. Raines, George Gibson and wives, S. S. Raines and wives, Clifton Northam and wives back Monday from Boggy fishing trip. Edgar Barnes called on Will Sea Sunday. Maddox family spent Sunday night with cousins Willis Roberts. Mr. Hill of Texas, nearly 100, spent week with granddaughter Mrs. Whitson. Tom Apbobtt and family in community Saturday. Virgil Humphers and wife visiting in Choctaw. Mr. Thomas of Daisy visited his daughter here last week. Willie Karnes and John Wells in Ada Monday. Jim Steeler’s baby has whooping cough. Edith and Mell Karnes of Chickasha returned home Saturday after a week here, cousins Manilla and Trulan Karnes accompanying. J. J. Stanger of near Worland visited his daughter Mrs Summers Thursday.
New York report states the association of state employer and teacher societies of Greater Berlin with 25,000 members sent a memorial to the High Command of Brandenburg. They request measures to curb escalating living apartment rents as landlords push increases up to 56 percent per the Berlin Tageblatt.
Special Agent Roberts reports readiness to send 10 000 laborers from San Juan Puerto Rico to the mainland once transport is arranged. The workers are registered and many more seek registration as they would be valuable in productive war industries, turning idleness into assets for the nation.
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