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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
8
Indiana farm hand urges Country Life Commission to push reforms. He argues education, regular hours, and businesslike farming can curb rural outmigration. Commission welcomes such letters and plans to tour Indiana next month for broader input.
The British passenger steamer Aradinia of the Ellerman Line burned and sank off Valetta Malta. One hundred Arabs, five Europeans, and eighteen crew members died or were burned. Seventy were rescued as warships and shore teams aided in a frantic evacuation amid heavy seas and naptha-fueled flames.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court rules creditors cannot inquire into a husband's good faith in transferring a homestead to his wife when a sale proceeds contract favors the wife. The decision affirms lower court rulings in Kershaw vs Willey. The court also dismisses Baker vs Newton Talbot, holding certiorari not available where an adequate appeal exists and clarifies writs core purpose. An appeal can proceed from a void judgment issued out of term.
Guthrie Oklahoma November 25 The state answered amended petitions by Pullman and Western Union Telegraph Companies in a federal suit to set aside state equalization taxes. Pullman values 650 000 overactual, Western Union listed 381 354 10 but raised to 1 144 662 30.
Farmers are urged to study soil conditions and seed selection to maximize yields. The Boll Weevil threat looms over cotton regions, prompting diversification or cotton farming with weevils present. Texas pursues diversification. Oklahoma's approach remains debated.
President J P Conners of the Oklahoma state board of agriculture returns from Washington where he attended the thirteenth annual National Farmers Institute workers meeting. Canadian delegates attended and Oklahoma described its advanced agricultural education laws as models for other states.
Nellie Meeks, sole survivor of the 1905 Meeks family massacre near Carrolton Missouri, has married Rufus Richardson of El Reno Oklahoma. She was nine when her father mother and siblings were killed by the Taylor brothers. she survived an axe blow and later testified, still seeking one killer.
J M Brooks sues P H Weathers and the city of Guthrie in district court alleging a July 1 1908 agreement to share one third of profits on the new convention hall project. Brooks seeks 1666 66 in damages claiming Weathers profited about 5000 and asks an injunction to block a 700 city warrant for Weathers partial payment.
Enid Oklahoma November 26. Merritt Mason eighty and Lucinda Mason seventy six were granted a divorce after eight days of marriage. They reportedly exchanged harsh words and epithets two days after the wedding in Judge Cullison's court.
Guthrie Ok November 24 State Treasurer Menefee rejected an offer above par for 71022000 of state bonds held by the permanent school fund. Bonds will not be sold until after January 1 as the fund does not need cash for farm loan loans and prices may improve after holidays. Treas Menefee notes dividends are paid January 1 and investors seek new investments then.
In Nashville, November 25, Col Duncan B. Cooper Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharp pleaded not guilty in circuit court to murder of former U S Senator Edward W Carmack. They were jailed without bail awaiting trial set for December 8. Sharp also pleads not guilty to being an accessory before the act.
Ten thousand dollars worth of Oklahoma Central railroad bonds were sold by the Logan County sheriff for 4050 to C W Kenworthy to satisfy a judgment. Nate Gibson, Muskogee receiver, bid 4000 as the next highest offer in Guthrie Oklahoma.
William Randolph Hearst attorney S. MacDonalds, from Brooklyn, arrives in Guthrie Oklahoma to help in Gov. Haskell’s libel suit against the New York publisher. The case was removed from state to federal court in Omaha Nebraska. MacDonalds formerly worked as a newspaper reporter in Mexico City and El Paso Texas.
A compact column covers pig husbandry from breeding and pen setup to swill feeding, stressing early growth profit and disease prevention. It also notes wheat export volumes via Puget Sound and Portland, a tri-bred potato claim, crop origin questions, Roosevelt's hat, and Dutch farming density with land values.
In Chickasha Oklahoma on November 27 the local Methodist women plan to raise church funds by collecting old papers to ship to a Kansas City firm for payment of 150 dollars per 100000 pounds. Freight costs will be 90 dollars, leaving 60 dollars profit. Legal blanks of all kinds stocked at this office.
A satirical meditation on party loyalty and gender roles. It contrasts a man's view that his own party alone is worthy with the notion that men are alike, while women reform them. The excerpt remarks on expectations and romance through a wry social lens.
An advertisement claims Zemo is a clean liquid for external use that draws germs and toxins to the surface to clear the skin. It promises two to six bottles cure pimples and blackheads and notes availability everywhere with a sample request to E. W. Rose Medicine Co. in St. Louis and Gwin-Mays & Co. as sellers.
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