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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1922
Page
5
The editor notes over 206 messages from correspondents last week across Pontotoc County, with two arriving late. Incoming mail continues this week at a rate likely to match the prior surge, challenging timely coverage yet leaving room for more contributions.
The community holds another singing school night and reports a box and pie supper netting $50.88. Members Marvin Campbell and Miss Dena Swan received cakes. Various visits and local gatherings are noted across the week with neighbors Elmer Faulkenberry and O. L. Faulkenberry among those mentioned.
Miss Bena Shaw spent Thanksgiving in Vanoss with family. Stratford visitors, school dismissal for Thanksgiving, and various local visits and activities are described. Vanoss basketball went 0-3 on Ada court. church cleanup and a December play fundraiser are mentioned along with holiday activities and prayers.
The week includes Thanksgiving at home for Delia and Ethel Myers and Novella and Lena Manley while teachers Lilla and Annie Perry visit Ada. Local life mentions visitors, church, sports results, sick residents, and plans to move. The tone records daily events and community ties with several names and small details.
Ada and Center residents share visits and gatherings as the community notes record Friday Farmers Union meeting plans, school improvements, education week observance, and cordial exchanges among families such as Meredith Eddings Dryden Caviner and Summers. Grandpa Edwards dies and is buried at Center cemetery.
A fragmented line lists numerous individuals including Lena Manley Lora South Ethel Myers Woodrow Stubblefield and others along with names Bradford Loyd Clines Clover Leat. The snippet reads as a community roster or witness listing in a regional column.
Miss Jewel Cope spent Sunday with Mildred Parker. Ada shoppers included Ethel and Fannie Malloy Lillie Bunch and Artie Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Burch visited relatives near Rebee over the weekend. Several youths and neighbors attended a Konawa pie supper Friday. Local visits spanned Galey Chapel Ada Konawa and Rebee with multiple guests and social plans.
Pete Wilcoxson, a Frisco brakeman, was hospitalized in Sherman Texas after fracturing his ankle at work. Marvin Johnson qualified as city marshal and is organizing the men. J E Roberts and Company sold to Blankenship and Son with operations continuing at the same stand. The Corner Grocery was burgled last Saturday night. a pistol and goods were taken. Townsfolk report a recent boxing match with no major damage. The Methodist minister A Schlabach has led meetings at the church and Holiness followers opened a tabernacle on Main Street with plans for midweek services.
United States mints produced coins totaling 145,712,742 dollars in fiscal year 1922. The figure reflects annual minting activity and currency volume during the period.
Mrs Mildred Parker and Miss Jewel Cape hosted guests Sunday including Mr McBays and family from Ada and Mrs Nola Burk with Mr and Mrs A L Rose. Several households hosted visitors such as Miss Beatrice Lee and Miss Lorene Parker, and Mr Hubert Malloy with family. Other visits included Mrs Oscar Cope, Mollie Cope, John Bolen, B F Haggard, Eunice Curry, Edna Barker, Jewel Cope, Mildred Parker, and Jack Humphers with George Wilfong. Week-end gatherings centered on social visits and family connections across multiple households.
The Maxwell school held a Thanksgiving program and pie supper despite bad weather. A crowd attended and brought 52 pies, raising $37.15 to support school athletics. Miss Thelma Fleming, studying at Shawnee, visited her parents for the holiday. The Norman sisters, students at Ada Teachers College, spent the break at home.
A pie supper Friday night raised 43 for school playground equipment. Local visits include Byron Norrell of Ada, Mrs Hodges of Boswell, and families such as Awbrey, Phillips, Hatcher, Riddle, Durbin, and Mayfield. A band concert by Ada Mr Hill’s band drew a large crowd with talks and performances by college faculty.
Local residents share visits and gatherings from Friday to Sunday with friends and relatives in Ada Pickett Konawa and Jones Chapel. A pie supper at Jones Chapel on Dec 16 raises funds for a Christmas tree project. A Sunday preaching at Jones Chapel closes a weekend of neighborly events.
Rain and mud dampened parish events with Bro. Earnest Dunagan preaching Saturday night and a well attended prayer meeting Sunday. A pie supper Monday netted 11 dollars despite poor turnout. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Tucker visited relatives of Maxwell on Sunday.
A warm spell harms meat during killing. Fitzhugh pie supper to fund a church piano raises $15 despite rain. Local pupils visit Ada from home, Miss Georgia Thomas wins prettiest cake, and residents relocate to Francis. In memoriam for Mrs. Bertie Flowers, 1922 death, with devotional verses by Edna Pannell.
Families gathered for Sunday visits with the Burns and Graham households while others stayed with Sweeney Cantrell and Sweeney circles. Miss Mary Martin and Miss Maggie Burns hosted overnight gatherings as illness kept Emmie Graham indoors and neighbors joined in singing at Water Lily.
A Sunday crowd attended Sunday school and a prayer meeting with social hour afterward. Several local residents visited friends and shared meals, while a High Hill schoolhouse Dbox supper will fund a Christmas tree. Hugo Stephenson, infant son of Ed Stephenson and wife, died this morning. funeral later at Jessie cemetery.
Bro J W Taylor and J J Copeland with community consent announce a Saturday night pie supper to raise funds for a church lighting system. The note praises the plan and the Thanksgiving program highlights the center’s enthusiasm.
C. L. Edwards aged 87 died at his home three and a half miles northwest of Ada early Thursday. He left two sons Noel and John Edwards. Funeral services were held today and burial took place in Center cemetery. Mr. Edwards had lived here four years.
E W Morris longtime federal officer in early Indian Territory died at his Ada home 522 West Thirteenth Street on Sunday. Funeral services were held at 4 PM with Rev J H Page officiating. He leaves a widow a sister and eight children all of whom attended. Morris had served at Atoka and had resided in Ada for several years.
Delbert Paul Potes died at his home today after several weeks illness at 12:30 p m He was a son of Mr and Mrs D Li Potes of the same address He is survived by his parents one sister and two brothers Funeral services will be held at the residence at 2:30 p m Wednesday with Rev J H Page in charge
Oklahoma reports optimistic start to the Fifteenth Annual Tuberculosis Christmas Seal Sale. R H Hixson says telegraph and telephone messages from across the state note enthusiasm as Oklahoma City begins with a parade and health movement floats. Seals cost one cent and health bonds from 5 to 100 dollars will be sold to raise funds.
Pontotoc county leaders and Ada Chamber of Commerce urge all farmers to join a statewide Bull Weevil Destruction Week from December 11 to 15. The plan emphasizes cleaning fields, destroying cotton stalks, burning debris, and eliminating shelter to prevent winter survival and future infestations.
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