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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
8
Local notes cover drought hopes, social visits, and church revival at Old Midland Galey and Vanessa. Activities include families traveling to Duncan Seminal Ada Stillwater trips, teacher visits, and a call for limited tributes due to space. A revival led by Rev. Ponder draws attendees with several saves reported.
Homer school closed an enthusiastic week with a Friday assembly featuring a junior mixed quartet. The Homer girls softball team won 12 to 11 against Happyland while the boys baseball lost 12 to 10. Numerous social visits and guest dinners are noted among staff and families.
Ozella Paterson and Kathleen Somels visited their cousin Minnie June Brady on Tuesday night. Minnie June stayed with them Wednesday night. Sunday visitors at the J. L. Rose home included Ira and Donna Rose and family Willie Rose and Faye Brown. Mrs A C Shahan and son Kenneth left Thursday for Missouri to visit relatives.
The report notes ongoing Sunday school despite many farmers drawing water for stock. New B Y P U officers elected include Dillard as president Herbert Herring as vice president Opa Brents as secretary and Mrs Conner and Arline Clayton as group captains. Families and community members are listed attending dinners visits and marriages, including Lola Riggs and Olin Coe marrying in Ada.
A light Sunday shower brought moisture for turnip sowing and late garden planting. A birthday dinner for Mrs. Ollie Leforece was served at her daughter’s home, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Fowler hosting. There was
Moco WIMBIoH resigns from the profession for reasons given as out of the profession. The item notes widespread activity like cotton picking in the area and lists community visits, church events, and family updates. The sense of local routines and social notes remains prominent in this brief record.
Moss Wimbish resigns as East Central district president effective September 7. Shawnee Seminole and Wewoka bid to host the fall meeting with Shawnee offering $500 plus facilities. Ada advocates keeping the convention there citing location and college support. Final site decision due early September after chamber reviews.
In Texas seventeenth district Blanton lost renomination to Clyde Garrett by 26 048 to 13 909 votes with 11 of 12 counties reported. Hoil Holcomb trailed Thomas in eighth district while Gossett edged McFarlane in the thirteenth with partial tallies. A mysterious telegram purporting to be from James A Farley claimed Blanton should be renominated but Farley denied sending it.
C E Kidd of Ada reported injured after his truck left a road near the Little River bridge south of Tecumseh, plunged into a ditch and burned. He suffered two broken ribs and severe facial and head lacerations. unconfirmed word said he was released from Shawnee hospital.
Margaret Shearin Baynes a 30 year old Chicago department store buyer became Mrs Samuel Insull Jr after a quiet home ceremony. The couple left for a honeymoon. Insull's first wife died in 1934 leaving one son Samuel Insull III.
In Jefferson City Missouri three plumbers were adjusting a basement water pipe when a rusted iron rod at the elbow was struck with a hammer. A loud explosion sent metal fragments flying injuring one worker Tom Bryant and home owner Truitt Woodson slightly. The rod proved to be a one pounder shell from the Spanish American War as a souvenir.
Oklahoma City reports federal weather observer Harry Wahlgren who has tracked all time heat records this summer requested Washington to send the largest thermometer. Today new instruments capable of measuring 123 to 126 degrees arrived. Alva noted a 120 degree reading this summer breaking a thermometer. Altus observer said his station likely missed an all time state mark.
In Los Angeles an elderly gold prospector claimed Joseph Crater is a prospector now after meeting a California man who says he saw Crater. The report notes the credibility and potential impact on any New York police decision to seek a search for the missing New York Supreme Court justice.
Rh. D. Price, a 34 year old Chicago art firm salesman, was found fatally wounded across from his estranged wife’s Victoria Texas apartment. His wife, 25, was critically wounded after a .32 caliber pistol shot and self-inflicted wrist slashes were observed. He was seen fleeing the scene after a shot rang out.
In Washington, Mississippi senators Pat Harrison and Theodore Bilbo are at the center of a primary campaign fight. Bilbo supports challenger Sennett Conner and uses Pat Harrison’s golf knickers as political fodder. A related recall features Bilbo’s 1934 auto theft tale and a lighthearted note about Pat Harrison’s prospects for Aug. 25.
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