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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1914
Page
5
Local notes record visitors and residents in Ada from Ross and Hartshorn. Teachers, bankers, and lawyers visit. crops, weather, and forthcoming Pontotoc fair are noted. A National Guard effort updates with 58 volunteers sought.
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 Indians with restricted status in the county over the last two days. 150 or 200 more restricted Indians remain to receive their $100 each and arrangements continue. They plan to move to Coalgate then return here next Wednesday.
A United Press feature reviews the State Department Information Office that coordinates aid for Americans abroad during the war. It details rapid funds relief to stranded travelers, consular networks in Germany France Austria Hungary Russia Italy and Serbia, and cases from a New Yorker paying a large sum to speed help for a daughter in France. Joe Cole returns from vacation with snakes killed near Medicine Park Oklahoma.
Powell Clayton, 81, a noted statesman and diplomat, died in Washington after a long illness. A Bethel Pennsylvania native and civil engineer by training, he moved to Kansas in 1861, served as a Union brigadier general, became Kansas governor in 1868, then U S senator in 1871. He later served as Ambassador to Mexico from 1897 to 1905 and remained active in the Republican National Committee for four decades.
One stock of merchandise and a grist mill and outfit offered for sale or trade. Good location for business. Auction listing appears in the News want ad column for Tyrola Oklahoma.
Tuesday the Ada Commercial club met with Fitzhugh trustee Overton Wilkerson and Roff trustee Brass to discuss location of the Tulsa to Bromide highway via Ada. No firm decision, but improved understanding reported. The article also notes state stock raising as principal income and provides national agricultural employment figures.
Oklahoma's 598,629 residents work for a living with 350,274 on farms. Among agricultural workers, 191,616 are farm operators and 151,278 are farm laborers. In detail 186,231 male and 5,385 female operators. 126,061 male and 25,217 female laborers. 246 dairy farmers employing 221 laborers and five foremen.
Tishomingo Oklahoma reports the season’s first Johnston county cotton bale. Ed Turner delivered a 430 pound bale from the Harris farm east of town and earned a $30 premium. Bud Norton followed with a second bale from near Bolton.
All precincts in the county should hold meetings next Saturday to elect delegates to the county Democratic convention.
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