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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1929
Page
5
Rent ad notes a two room apartment with garage and outside entrance. Contact by phone 1914. Dated 12-2-3.
Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois aims for a 12 million dollar veterans funding and to activate federal buildings in her district aligning with Hoover era expansion. She plans to lead on veterans issues and seeks senate nomination this spring, hoping to be the first elected woman senator. Atlantic theatre fire prompts crowd evacuation as $50k to $65k damage is reported.
Sunday marked the greatest day of the meeting with Rev Mr Irick delivering a morning sermon from Genesis 24 58 and urging faith to go with the bridegroom The afternoon featured Mrs Irick on modern white slavery and rescue work and Bro Trick closed with His trip around the world inspiring attendees to explore the globe.
Alma Lee Couch returned to classes at the University of Oklahoma after a district court jury absolved the 23 year old co ed of blame in the April 11 robbery of the John B. Frederickson home in Oklahoma City. She will make up missed work and continues graduate studies in mathematics.
Washington dispatch reports the National Geographic Society issues a new map of Europe with each place shown by its native name. Examples include Brussels as Bruzelles Copenhagen as Kobenhavn Vienna as Wien and Constantinople as Istambul. The piece also notes a Chicago lead story on steel leadership.
A list of students with perfect or no tardies in various grades is recorded alongside a reminder of classroom assemblies for the Thanksgiving program. Names include Barbara Ann Payne Harley Leaird Norma Jean Newman and many others with notes on absent or tardy status. Miss Jeoraldean Lee spends Thanksgiving in El Paso with relatives. Mrs Joe Neal covered for her on Wednesday.
A traveler on a windy road jokes that Thanksgiving should date from the day the turkey gives out. Zeke Burr urges grim focus as the car ahead signals, while a nearby woman begins a tense exchange.
Denton Transportation Co. and O T Co operate buses from Oklahoma City with routes to Pauls Valley and connections to Chickasha Duncan Enid El Reno and Lawton. Fare is listed as 3 50 and buses depart Ada at 11 30 am 2 00 pm and 4 15 pm with Union Bus Station in Norman Quanah Purcell Pampa Stratford Snyder Tuttle also noted.
Ada to Holdenville service runs from Ada at 3 15 a m 10 30 am 2 30 am 4 50 pm and from Holdenville at 9 00 am 12 50 pm 4 00 pm 6 50 pm. Connection at Haldenville to Wetumka Henryetta Okmulgee Sapulpa Tulsa and others. Calvin for McAlester. Fares listed from Ada to Holdenville 1 50 Ada to Wetumka 2 75 Ada to Henryetta 3 00 Ada to Okmulgee 2 50 Ada to Mounds 4 25 Ada to Sapulpa 4 50 Ada to Tulsa 4 59 Ada to Muskogee 3 00.
Denton Transportation Co. schedules buses from Ada to Konawa Sacred Heart Bay City Maud the Y Tecumseh and Shawnee at 7, 12:20, 3 and 6 a m and arrives Shawnee 9:30 am 2:55 pm 5:25 pm 8:30 pm return to Ada 11:30 am 2:45 pm 5:40 pm 8:05 pm Buses to Frisco Stonewall Tupelo Centrahoma Coalgate Lehigh Atoka depart Ada 7:15 am 12:15 pm 3:15 pm 5:45 pm arrive Atoka 9:30 am 2:30 pm 5:30 pm 8 pm returning Ada 11:15 am 2:45 pm 6:35 pm 7:20 pm Direct connection Shawnee to Oklahoma City Atoka to Durant and all points south and east.
A humorous dialogue notes a character admitting he ate two apples and questions where the remaining cores are. The exchange plays on counting and fairness in a light, rural comic tone.
Fragmentary note mentions Williams and phrases about taking two, a kitchen sink, and an exchange about taking another item. No clear event or identifiable entities beyond Williams.
Kentucky's Katherine Langley, Arkansas' Pearl Oldfield, New York's Ruth Baker Pratt and others return to their seats ready to champion veterans benefits, pensions, and higher foreign trade funding while weighing tariff policy and international questions. Mrs. Rogers advocates a sane tariff bill and larger appropriations for trade development.
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