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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1928
Page
5
Rural Pontotoc County notes many Ada and Stonewall visitors and local trips. Families like Foreman, Miller, Young, and Sanders travel for visits in Ardmore Knoxville and Purcell while others attend church events and local meetings. A town election proceeds quietly with strong female participation and a Vanoss Center baseball win marked 11 to 1.
Franks School reports steady attendance as community members engage in social visits. Icy Roland spent Saturday night with Leola Batson, and Simson Patton and family visited Frisco with Fillmore Kilcrease and wife. Ester Arnette spent Saturday night with Ethel Stewart. Mr. Riedel and daughter Edna are also noted in the community roundup.
A recap of visits and social activity in Seminole and nearby areas. Mrs. Frank Younger visits J J Burrus and plans a Center trip to see her parents. Workers travel to Ray City oil fields note lively business. Church revival and singing plans announced for September. Several families and visitors are listed with routine social updates and cemetery work date changes amid flood aftermath and planned flood control surveys. engineer estimates two years to complete statewide survey.
The Methodist meeting closed Saturday night with Brother Johnson, pastor, officiating. Numerous visits occurred: Mrs. Bradley and children to Mrs. Cook. Cushman and Solomon families to relatives near Stratford. Shook sisters to an ice cream supper near Stonewall. Lover Jones accompanied them home. Many others visited relatives in various towns including Near Hickory Ada Nocona Fitzhugh and Walters.
The elder boxing star Gene Tunney retires amid a social spotlight on Miss Mary Josephine Lauder of Greenwich Connecticut, granddaughter of steel magnate George Lauder. The couple’s engagement signals Tunney’s shifted stance on women after earlier remarks that mocked romance.
Babe Ruth enters a game against the White Sox at Yankee Stadium with forty three homers in 112 games and needs eighteen more round-trippers in forty two remaining games to match the 1927 season mark. The pressure grows as he trails the record by five while seven game segments pace him toward the goal.
Major F F Wilby head of the Memphis flood control bureau met Oklahoma conservation officers to plan sending 10 Army engineers in September to survey the Arkansas river and tributaries. P R Van Frank accompanied him to gather data on flood control irrigation and navigation for a war department report and possible congressional appropriation.
Colton where Mrs. Lee Fourrier began a sixty hour afloat attempt at 6 am to surpass Myrtle Huddleston’s 54 hour mark. Accompanied by Earl Smith another swimmer targets 48 hours while 15 year old Muriel Gordon has logged ten hours toward a 24 hour swim.
The steamship President Roosevelt, carrying members of the American Olympic team, sails at noon from Southampton and will stop at Cherbourg to pick up athletes and equipment. Most athletic gear is dismantled except the track and a few items to keep training for American events. Paris reports French army non coms petitioning to resume the dress sword as part of peace time gear.
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