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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
5
Local and personal notes list residents and visitors: S H Carmine in Rosf C F Hackett to Mill Creek and Ravia E W Holman business trip to South McAlester J W Byrd to Francis on cotton business and Prof F J Wilbanks leaving Ada for Sasakwa. Multiple moves and travels cited with civic notes and upcoming railroad discussions.
The piece shows a formal invitation inviting Miss M. E. Laurens of South Carolina and others to a ball at Owen's Hotel Warrenton North Carolina on August 8 1848. Lieutenant Colonel Braxton Bragg guests of honor recently returned as a Mexican War hero. the document is faded with age.
The editor notes C R Deval of Mt Vernon Texas has announced for county and district clerk. He is a self made Ada area candidate with East Texas friends backing him. Deval’s lifelong clerical training and printing career are cited as fit for the position sought. A Republican era notice follows about a January 1906 hardware dealers convention in Dallas with Frisco rail tickets on sale.
An old remedy promotes early measure for kidney trouble with Prickly Ash Bitters. It claims relief from back pain puffiness under the eyes urine irregularities and digestive issues and warns against substitutes while urging insistence on the genuine product with a red 3 on the label sold at drug stores.
Mrs M C Looper and daughter Miss Birdie travel by early train from Frisco to Portales New Mexico where Mr Looper is already staying. The family friends express high esteem and best wishes as they depart the town.
A docket of marriage licenses shows pairs including Joe Blankenship age 29 and May Ross 16 in Ada, John W. Aiken 21 and Mary F. Scott 19 in Norman O. T., Grant Gibson 25 and Mary Fuller 21 in Ada, Louis Lopez 32 and Caralata Hererera 16 in Ada, R. B. Mullins 29 and Fannie Smith 14 in Lula, B. Hammon 21 and Lula Hill 19 in Jesse, K. M. Teeple 32 and Della Kinnett 15 in Roff, and R. N. Shires 26 and Zara Barnes 18 in Pontotoc.
The Frisco System announces a round trip fare to Washington D C for January 25 1906 with a 30 day limit. From all Oklahoma and Indian Territory stations travel via through cars. For details contact Frisco agents L C Farrington Oklahoma City and I E Clark Wichita Kansas.
Marshall Field of Chicago, renowned dry goods merchant, died at the Holland House in New York at 4 o clock yesterday afternoon after an illness of more than a week. The prominent businessman was a leading figure in the national mercantile trade.
Removal notice states Mosman Undertaking Co located three doors west of Noland Drug Store and operated in connection with Gate City Mutual Burial Association. The firm pledges a first class exclusive undertaker business serving the area.
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