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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
6
T O Cullins returns from Colorado. Katherine Smith visits Okemah then heads home. Latimer to open new clothing store. J E Meaders named manager at McAlester, moving from Ada. Prof Fentem ill after Epworth League encampment in Sulphur. City reports unusually quiet police court due to law and order league and liquor restrictions.
Mrs C H Fist returns from Chickasha after a Royal Neighbors visit. Visitors include Miss Bessie James from Graham Texas and Miss Kittie Mooney from Hot Springs Arkansas. Prof Leo Butt assumes duty in Mill Creek public schools. F J Etter returns from Cleburne for a death in the family. Motion picture man F Thomas to open a parlor in the King building. County Clerk Kerrs son Travis Kerr minor injury from a horse kick. Roy Donaghey visits Holdenville. Mrs Mary McGill and three daughters depart for Waco. J Meaders moves to McAlester. he laments leaving Ada. Heat wave dominates southwest. torrid conditions and prostrations reported. cooler air forecast from northwest with floods in Colorado and Arkansas rivers.
Ada residents receive updates on travels and arrivals from Stratford, Muskogee, Denver, and Marshall. Nearby events include courthouse notices, milliner business growth, a Frank Hall family situation, and a habeas corpus bid for four imprisoned Black men in Holdenville.
Local notes report a motion picture parlor west of the post office will be called the Pastime. W K Chaney and family returned from Sulphur Springs, Eunice Wingo spent two weeks with her mother, Sutrel family visited Mrs E W Russell on their way home to Paducah. Houston Brown, a full blood Indian, was locked up after overindulging. City clerk W B Jones attended the town picnic at Fitzhugh amid dull business.
Abshire returns from six weeks in Oklahoma City as Mrs. Taylor goes home to McAlester after visiting her parents. Mrs. Sparger Purcell and Mrs. Simpson Konawa visit Mrs. R. W. Simpson. Mrs. W. A. Alexander travels to St. Louis to aid Ruth Lessel at Cox-McDonald & Co. Road crews east of Ada grade the road and install metal culverts drawing praise from travelers.
The State Board of Health reports for January to June 1909 that pneumonia caused more deaths than all other contagious diseases combined with 904 fatalities out of 1,657 cases. Tuberculosis led in fatality rate at 71.7 percent of 766 cases, while typhoid had 389 cases and 88 deaths. Births reached 13,405 in six months with 32.5 percent deaths compared to births. White and black totals, male and female splits are given.
J N Bruck of Houston an oil expert and chemist is in Oklahoma City examining site viability for a large refinery. He says Oklahoma oils yield higher turpene content and a linolene substitute, claiming 100 to 200 percent profit from the Bruck process based on 1000 barrels of crude yielding 40 linolene 45 turpene and 4 cylinders oil.
Sunday night August 22 the revival meeting at Fitzhugh Oklahoma ended with a strong service. Thirty six conversions were reported including several influential men. Eleven new members joined the church and more are expected. Ada district evangelist Rev H H Windham led the meetings. Plans include building a church house on secured lots. Cc C Barnhardt P C.
A leather suitcase was lost on the 18th in Capitol Hill. The finder should return it to the News office to receive a reward.
Mayor Little told the News petitions secured enough signatures to pave Main Street from the Katy depot to the Frisco track Broadway from Twelfth Street to the Frisco depot and Townsend one block linking Main and Twelfth paving Ada asphaltum. Concrete paving on Twelfth Street progresses and will transform the city’s appearance.
In Pontotoc County Oklahoma a guardianship hearing is set for September 1 1909 at 10 am in the County Court Ada to authorize sale of real estate of Charley Fussell Lola Fussell Monie Fussell and Paul Fussell. Notice requires next of kin and interested persons to appear and a copy of the order will be published in Ada Weekly News for three weeks. Judge Joel Terrell signed August 16 1909.
Washington August 24 Representative Charles N Fowler attacks Speaker Cannon and the Cannon ism in an open letter from Elizabeth New Jersey. The letter marks a major development in the fight against the speaker and reflects Fowler’s bitter arraignment as a former candidate for speaker who opposed Cannon and Aldrich.
From Monday's Daily Uncle Dick Couch came home after a week at a Claremore sanitarium for chronic kidney trouble. He plans to stay a month or six weeks with his wife and rent a house, taking Claremore mineral water with him to continue treatment. He reports rapid improvement, claiming he feels ten years younger and more energetic.
An Associated Press dispatch reports Walter Wellman and two companions wrecked the America airship during a August 15 attempt from Spitzbergen toward the north pole. A guide rope caught on ice and tore free, forcing Wellman to order deflation as the balloon became unmanageable.
Nearly every road overseer in Pon totoc county has been busy grading roads and opening section lines with a force of workmen. Many new culverts and bridges have been added and the improvements receive favorable comment.
Harve Reagan jailed for burglary asks jailor Mc Namara to let him out for air and a drink. Reagan escapes, runs into a ditch, but is spotted by Officer Roberts and captured. Reagan claims he was seeking bondsmen rather than escape. The incident prompts a critique of jail policy.
Jeremiah Smith of Spokane reports Indians in Alaska have staged their first strike against Guggenheim railroad work. He says aboriginal workers are forming a strong union and may join labor ranks soon. He notes low wages around $3 a day and transportation firms driving pay down amid abundant labor.
Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma asks labor unions to pass resolutions urging President Taft to stop inter state transport of convict made goods into states prohibiting convict labor. Petitions will be sent to Washington along with other reform proposals including ICC revision. Resolutions were presented in both chambers.
W K Coffey of Ada reports he was robbed of $50 by a cab driver who was arrested for theft. driver says $4 was only owed. The case moved to county court. Coffey then had another man arrested for assault, but police released him and warned Coffey to go home. Coffey, though said to live in Ada, is not well known locally.
Dr. C. D. Oakfield editor of the Deerfield News had his portrait hanged in effigy by townspeople of Lakin Kansas after an article condemning President Taft. The piece argued Taft should be impeached if he greeted Mexico's Diaz, prompting many subscribers to cancel.
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