Stoneware sale offers half-price milk pans and crocks
Stoneware advertised at six cents per gallon vs the usual ten cents. Milk pans or crocks offered in 1 gallon and 2 gallon sizes at reduced prices, promoting dirt cheap sales to attract buyers.
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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
7
Stoneware advertised at six cents per gallon vs the usual ten cents. Milk pans or crocks offered in 1 gallon and 2 gallon sizes at reduced prices, promoting dirt cheap sales to attract buyers.
Stationery department catalog notes a wide range of items including pens ink notebooks ledgers journals day books pencils and school supplies. It emphasizes a long standing successful store presence and ongoing availability of standard office and educational materials.
Monday's news lists J. M. Bruner from Fayetteville Ark and Miss Mabel Hearst from Oklahoma visiting local residents. Cynthia Parker returns from Texas trip. Garrett and Birdie Gray visit Konawa. Phoebe Hooper visits Ed Haraway in Blossom. Capt J T Hunter from San Angelo visits family. A K Thornton improving from illness. Bertha Lewis returns from Konawa visit. Cleo Etta and Mrs Collins back from Howe Texas. Mrs W A Alexander travels to St Louis for millinery. Howard West arrives from Fayetteville for a week with friends. Rev J H Davis fills Baptist pulpit with good crowds. Irma Thompson returns from McKinney Texas after visit with Irene Eddieman. Miss Sims and Miss Yates visit Byrds Mill with T Holt and B H Epperson. Sims chaperone. Mildred Lancaster dies age 15 months. funeral by Rev T L Rippey at city cemetery. J S Quisenberry and wife from Mayfield Ky visiting J W Thompson family. Local business resumes after arrangements. Chassie Coffman returns to Baird Texas via Roff trip.
P K Smith arrives in Francis and Tom D McKeown visits Sulphur today. M E Sangster returns to Ardmore. J N Keltner sells groceries in Sulphur. W H Baldwin Jr travels from Oklahoma City. Miss Cora Barnard of Holdenville visits. Geo Harris from Durant is ill. W R Pigg and wife visit W N Guest. Joe Littlefield and Frank Rodgers arrive from Sulphur Springs. J R Cavness preaches then departs to Madill. Dr S A McKeel of Hanson and wife return home. A D Bishop of Lawrence Kansas, a Kansas tenman committee member, meets Mr Bryan in New York Aug 30.
A. J. Biles visits Ardmore. Mrs. R. O. Wheeler reported sick. H. A. Kroger of Francis is present. Miss Gertrude Thompson returns from Holdenville. C. W. Nutt, east of town, chats with the News. J. L. Anderson leaves for Gallatin Tennessee on business. J. F. M. Harris is quite ill. Mason Drug offers school books. N. O. Bills will base sales from Memphis. Mrs. M. J. Strickland returns to Davis with Misses Belie Maud and Max Brents. W. H. Talmage predicts a great Scottish Rite reunion at South McAlester on Oct 23. 125 applicants present.
Hon Henry M Furman will begin a series of Democratic speeches next week with stops in Claremore Chelsea Vinita Aston Welch Collinsville Holdenville Chandler Guthrie Perry Blackburn and Cushing from August 27 through September 8.
Deputy A H Constant issues marriage licenses to James Sinclair and Bessie Carter both of Hunton Ora Otis Shehan and Emma Scott Francis Jacob Young and Carrie Law Roff Stephens Browning and Nellie C Wilkes Sulphur A J Davis and Etta Barnes Ada Ruben Brashears and Carrie L Jackson Pontotoc R E Hammock and Mrs Emma Jones Ada Norman Sales and Martha J Thompson Roff J P Covington and Florence Dalley Ada.
Hon J W Johnson of Oklahoma City will visit the 16th Recording District next week to campaign for Democracy. He will speak at Konawa on Monday August 27, Stonewall on Tuesday August 28, Ada on Wednesday August 29, Francis on Thursday August 30, Roff on Friday August 31, and Sulphur on Saturday September 1.
A consumer letter explains that total paint cost equals paint plus application. It argues adulterated paint uses more gallons and costs more overall, citing a Delhi NY example where Devoe used 6 gallons for one house at $27 and a half adulterated paint used 12 gallons at $54, with the same painter.
A new gas discovery near Madill was reported by Jno Beard and M Scott. The well reached one thousand feet with a high flow that blew out the drill. Scott planned to sell gas to buyers in Madill and Ada as he travels to market.
City of Ada Indian Territory enacts Ordinance 116 to define vagrancy and prostitution within its limits. Penalties include fines up to twenty five dollars and jail time for women unable to pay, with specific restrictions on begging loitering and association with prostitutes. Passed August 20 1906 and published August 21 1906 in Ada News.
The notice requests candidates to appear in a printed solicitation card offering a friendly, introductory message. It frames the card as a courteous courtesy from the newspaper to introduce candidates to readers.
The Ada City Council resolves that the Mayor request from the Ada Special School District board the number of bona fide inhabitants shown by the last school census to aid in planning a waterworks bond election. The resolution, approved August 20 1906, is certified by Recorder Jesse Warren with official seal.
Postmaster Young announces the Delia post office in the Blackburn neighborhood will be discontinued on September 15. Local residents likely affected by the cutoff for postal services and nearby alternatives.
Minutes of the Democratic Executive Committee meeting held in Ada on August 20 1906 detail actions to support the Indian Peshapha project. A five member committee was appointed to work with the Indian committee, township committeemen were to be organized, resignations processed, and a push for primaries to nominate delegates and candidates.
Prof. W. M. Granger of Chamars Missouri arrived Sunday to take up residence as the newly elected principal of the city schools. He is praised as a scholar and a gentleman and is a brother to Dr Granger of this city.
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