Ada News Busi ness and Social Roundup Highlights
Thursday and Friday notices detail callers in Ada from Ross Tishomingo Evansville Ind and Dallas with moves back to Ada plans for National Guard formation at Ada crops and fair preparations farmers reports drought impact and yield expectations local visitors from Hartshorn Paris Tex McKinney and McAlester while residents return from El Reno Center and Ahloso with commerce news and social visits.
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T. F. Pierce
Ross
McClung
E. K. Mabry
Mr. Russell
Holdenville
J. W. Davis
Ada
Don
W. H. Summers
Moike Cassidy
Pontotoc
Oklahoma National Guard
Guard
J. R. Sarrett
Ahloso
Milton Garner
Center
E. W. Hardin
Pickett
U S Protects Its Citizens in War Europe
Washington reports Uncle Sam shields 169,909 Americans in the European war zone. The State Department set up an Information Office, aided by consular clerks, to locate relatives, relay status updates, and provide emergency funds. Banking help and rapid cables moved funds abroad to aid stranded travelers.
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United Press
Washington
Uncle Sam
Europe
State Department
Bureau of Information
Consular Service
United States
Springfield
Germany
Indians Paid In Pontotoc Co As Officials Report
W H Reynolds district field clerk for the Chickasaw Indians in Pontotoc Atoka and Coal counties and his assistant Geo C Dawson report about 25000 paid to restricted Indians in Pontotoc in the last two days. About 150 to 200 more in the county remain to receive 100 each. They plan trips to Coalgate then return next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.H. Reynolds
Pontotoc
Atoka
Coal Counties
Geo. C. Dawson
Messrs
Reynolds
Dawson
Coalgate
Former Kansas Governor and U S Senator Dies
Gen Powell Clayton, 81, a Kansas settler turned engineer, Civil War brigadier, governor in 1868, U S senator from 1871, and ambassador to Mexico from 1897 to 1905, died in Washington after months of poor health. A lifelong Republican, he served on the national committee for four decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Powell Clayton
Bethel
Clayton
Kansas
Arkansas
United States
Mexico
McKinley
Republican National Committee
For Sale or Trade by Lunsford and Son Tyrola Okla
One stock of merchandise and a grist mill and outfit. Good location for business. J R Lunsford & Son Transfer Tyrola Oklahoma advertise in the News want ad column.
Couple returns from vacation. hunter kills two rattlesnakes
Mr and Mrs Joe Cole return to the city from a month long vacation and a market trip to St Louis. In Medicine Park near Lawton Joe Cole kills two rattlesnakes, one six feet long with thirteen rattles and one button.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Cole
St. Louis
Medicine Park
Lawton
Joe
Highway location talks with Ada club trustees
Tuesday's Ada Commercial club met with Dr Overton of Fitzhugh and Wilkerson and Brass of Roff trustees for the Tulsa to Bromide highway via Ada and other county places. No definite decision made but better understanding reached. The article also cites statistics on state cowboys and sheep herders and national farm employment, noting 877 cowboys and herders in the state and 71,580,270 Americans over age 10, with 33 percent in agriculture and 5,865,000 farm operators employing 5,975,000 laborers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Overton
Fitzhugh
C. S. Wilkerson
C. R. Brass
Roff
Tulsa
Bromide
Ada
Ada Commercial Club
United States
Many People Follow Agricultural Occupations in Oklahoma
Washington, D. C., Aug. 26. Census Bureau reports 598,629 Oklahoma residents work for a living, with 350,274 on farms. Farm operators total 191,616, including 186,231 men and 5,385 women. farm laborers total 151,278, with 126,061 men and 25,217 women. There are 246 dairy farmers employing 221 laborers and five foremen. 1,451 additional persons in the state listed in the census.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Oklahoma
United States Census Bureau
First cotton bale of Johnston county harvested near Tishomingo
Tishomingo Oklahoma August 25 two early bales arrived. Ed Turner brought in the season's first bale weighing 430 pounds from the Harris farm east of Tishomingo and earned a $30 premium. Bud Norton delivered his bale from near Bolton shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tishomingo
Okla
Johnston County
Ed Turner
Bud Norton
Turner
Harris Farm
Norton
Precinct Meetings Called for County Democratic Delegates
All precincts in the county are asked to hold meetings next Saturday to elect delegates to the county Democratic convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satuday
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J. J. Whiting
Good Roads
B. C. Simpson
Hartshorn
F. C. Sims
A. L. Fentem
J. P. Jones
H. R. Snyder
Evansville, Ind
Budge Orr
First National Bank
Dallas
Lillian Faust
Oklahoma City
Louise Hardin
E. W. Manville
M. F. Manville
Nebraska
Glennie Corvin
Fred Blankenship
Steve Hounshell
Wallace Hughston
McKinney, Tex
Scholmate Chas. T. Angel
Montana
W. H. Nations of
Jesse
Pauls Valley
Garvin
Co. F. Green
Judge McKeown
I. E. Riddle
Blain Gilbreath
A. W. Parker
Mill Creek
Esther Holcomb
Fort Worth
U. S
Sam
Burton K. Standish
Information Bureau
France
Minnesota
Congress
Norway
Northwest
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Italy
Servia
Accover
East Main
Pontotoc CO
W. H. Reynolds
Senate
J. R. Lunsford & Son
Tyrola, Okla
Pontotoc County
Childrens Shoes
Seco
Minee
Alexander
Bolton
Attention Democrats
Guaranteeeoirschbaum
Kirschbaum
A. B. Kirschbaum Co
London
Ada, Oklahoma
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