City News Briefs From Wednesday and Thursday
Mrs Maud Bledsoe moves today to Oklahoma City to make her permanent home. Miss Ollie Preston popular East Central student Ill at home in Weleetka. Charles Kaighn chief engineer for the Oklahoma City Ada Atoka railroad arrives from Muskogee to oversee local work. Mrs John A Smith ill at 530 N Beard improving today. Mesdames Faust Parker and Steed will join husbands for Lions club zone meeting in Holdenville. Dr S P Burns of Stratford attended Pomatotoc medical meeting. P H Deal learns of death of his father P S Deal at Lonoke Ark the past night after long illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud Bledsoe
Oklahoma City
Grecian
Ollie Preston
East Central
Weleetka
Charles Kaighn
Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka
Muskogee
John A. Smith
N. Beard
Mesdames
Harvey Faust
Oscar Parker
Burgess Steed
Holdenville
The
Lions Club
P. H. Deal
P. S. Deal
Lonoke
Ark
Barringer couple visit Ardmore and return
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Barringer traveled to Ardmore yesterday evening to visit friends and conduct business and returned this morning. Mrs. Oscar Parker, Mrs. Bur ress Steed and Miss Elizabeth Pickens drove to Rofs this afternoon to spend the weekend with their parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Barringer
Ardmore
Oscar Parker
Burress Steed
Elizabeth Pickens
Rofs
Ada area notes and social news from local visitors
Mrs A C Stockton returned from Duncan and met a car accident but escaped injury. Alumni football players Pete Mitchell Don Kuhn Jim my LaRue and Sam Beavers joined East Central Tiger players in Henryetta as the alumni won big. Oval Cunningham Wetumka teacher visits Ada. Mr and Mrs Robert D Moore and family visit Moore parents in Ada. Miss Minnie Chaney advertises a five room modern home near schools and stores. S Dunnagan and sons Carol and Dale visit McAlester Indianola returning to Ada area. Dunnagan aims to relocate near Ada in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Stockton
Duncan
Pete Mitchell
Don Kuhn
Jimmy LaRue
Sam Beavers
Henryetta
East Central Tiger
Ada
Minnie Chaney
West 15Th
S. B. Dunnagan
Carol and
Dale
Alanosa
Colo
Laura Blackburn
McAlester
Indianola
Blackburn
Dunnagan
Allen trio visits Mrs. F C Rose on Sunday
Mr and Mrs Hugh Lacxey and daughter Billy Rose of Allen spent Sunday with Mrs F C Rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Lacxey
Billy Rose
Allen
F. C. Rose
Mrs Strohm Undergoes Major Operation in Oklahoma City
Mrs Harold Strohm underwent a major operation this morning in an Oklahoma City hospital. At her bedside are her husband Mr Strohm her parents Mr and Mrs J H Boud and their son Russell Boud plus her brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Strohm
Oklahoma City
Strohm
J. H. Boud
Russell Boud
Local trips and travels noted for several residents
Mr and Mrs Lee Walker motored to Wetumka and spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Barton Provence. Mrs Provence visiting her parents Mr and Mrs O N Shipman. Mrs Cly Newton left for Tallahassee Fla after weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs Jack Moore. Rev C Morris left for New Orleans for a Baptist hospital conference and will visit his mother Mrs C H Chambers. Wanda, daughter of Turkey Texas, visited Mrs M F Bailey over the weekend. Nadine Griffith, long bedbound, showed slight improvement but relapsed and remains unwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Walker
Wetumka
Barton Provence
Cly Newton
Talahasse, Fla
Jack Moore
C. Morris
New Orleans
Baptist Hospital
C. H. Chambers
Wanda
Turkey
Texas
M. F. Bailey
Local News Briefs Include Illness Update and Visits
J. W. Pete Good recovering at home on 1020 E Fifth after influenza. Pauline Hall returns to school following family illness and death of her sister. Bill Brown visited Byars friend Bill Cochran over the weekend. Mr and Mrs James Welsh and baby of Tulsa spent the weekend with relatives before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Hall
James Welsh
Baby
Tulsa
Senate votes to exclude Vare and seat Wilson
In Washington, December 6, the Senate excluded Senator-elect William S. Vare 58 to 22 and declared that William B. Wilson failed to win a majority in the 1926 election. The record shows further that Wilson was seated 10 to 5, while the unseated Vare left the seat vacant pending appointment by Governor Fisher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William S. Vare
Pennsylvania
Senate
William B. Wilson
Vare
Ware
Philadelphia
Wilson
John D. Shaw
Ashurst
Barkley
Black
Bratton
Brock
Broussard
Caraway
Connally
Copeland
Dill
Fletcher
George
Glass Harris
Hawes
Hayden
Heflin
McKellar
Overman
Pittman
Ransdell
Robinson
Arkansas
Sheppard
Simmons
Swanson
Thomas
Oklahoma
Trammell
Tydings
Wagner
Walsh
Massachuetts
Montana
Wheeler
Shipstead
Bingham
Gillett
Goldsborough
Gould
Greene
Hale
Hastings
Hatfield
Kean
Keyes
Moses
Oddie
Phipps
Pine
Reed
Schall
Shortridge
Smoot
Townsend
Walcott
Waterman
Watson
Fisher
Blaine
Brookhart
Lafollette
McMaster
Norris
Wilson Treaty Discussed By James L West
Washington December 10 The Hoover Haiti message prompts debate over sending a new commission to Haiti to study future policy amid 1915 treaty limits. Senators question approval and whether existing aid amounts to dominance as the panel would examine conditions, alternatives, and potential withdrawal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. West
Associated Press
Washington
Dec
Mr. Hoover
Congress
Haiti
West Indian Republic
Hoover
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Idahoan
House
Senate
Little Republic
Wilson
United States
Commission
Harris Celebrates 89th Birthday at Home Dinner
J. F. M. Harris marked his eighty ninth birthday on Sunday inviting close family to his 200 East Twelfth residence for an old fashioned dinner served by his wife who has aged with him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. M. Harris
Oil production slightly off in week ending December 7
United States crude output totaled 2 624 478 barrels for the week ending December 7 down 8 239 barrels from November 30 with light crude rising 1 318 barrels. Oklahoma state production rose to 654 465 barrels led by a jump in the Oklahoma City field to 72 620 barrels amid ongoing midcontinent stability and scattered west Texas declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
United States
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
St. Louis-Pearson
Texas
West Texas
North Louisiana
Arkansas
North Central
Southwest
Rocky Mountain
California
National Guard Guards Taylorville Strike Center
National Guardsmen were quartered around the Taylorville courthouse to separate rival miners as strikes unsettled the town. Cavalry and infantry encamped at Kincaid to guard Peabody mine No. 7 while NMU members headed toward Kincaid in force. Women and children of No. 7 workers were directed to Mine No. 28 as a precaution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. J. McMackin
Salem
Court House
National Guard
No. 7
Taylorville
Ill
National
Kincaid
Peabody Mine No. 7
National Miners Union
United Mine Workers of America
Death of Rev B F Stegall After Short Illness
Rev. B. F. Stegall, 73, died Monday night at 11 30 at 412 West Tenth after a brief pneumonia illness. Funeral at 2 30 Thursday at First Methodist with Rev. A N Averyt and Dr N L Linebaugh presiding. He leaves a widow two sons Ben and Roy and a daughter Mrs B E Ratliff. He preached on circuits then farmed, remaining active in rural services and facing death calmly with family present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Stegall
W. Tenth
First Methodist Church
A. N. Averyt
N. L. Linebaugh
el Paso
Texas
Ben
Roy
B. E. Ratliff
Stegall
Methodist Conference
Linebaugh
Supreme Court lays down rules on tax levies in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City December 10 UPI Fourteen opinions on tax levies issued by the state supreme court define major tax laws. Tulsa county cases focus on delinquency rules after January 1 and certification dates. Grubb of Tulsa wins parts of his suit on protest payments and tax timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
UPI
State Supreme Court
Tulsa County
Tom G. Andrews
Chandler
Tulsa County District Court
N. G. Grubb
Tulsa
Grubb
Supreme Court
C. D. Coggeshall and Company
Coggeshall
E. M. Z. Aaronson
Aaronson
New Bridge Bids Planned For Gainesville Terral Works
Oklahoma City December 10 A second bid opening for Red River bridges at Gainesville Texas Terral Oklahoma and the Denison Durant route will be held January 20 by the Oklahoma and Texas highway commissions. The Southwest L E Meyers Co of Dallas won the Denison Durant contract and also had the low bid on the other two spans. The bridges will run parallel to existing toll structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Red River
Gainesville
Texas
Terral
Okla
Oklahoma and
Texas Highway Commissions
Lew Wentz
Oklahoma Commission
Terras
Denison and
Durant
L. E. Meyers Company
Dallas
New Conference Forming With Five Southern Oklahoma High Schools
Ada high school coach Guy B. Dickerson confirms a five-school conference is forming in southern Oklahoma. Ada McAlester Durant Ardmore and Pauls Valley will join forces while remaining in current conferences. the group has cordial relations and plans no disruption to existing memberships. Ada posted balanced outcomes this season, defeating Durant 7-0 and Ardmore 12-0 while McAlester beat Ada 25-12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Guy B. Dickerson
Ada
McAlester
Durant
Ardmore
Pauls Valley
Pavis Valley
Red River
Ada High Cougars
Cougar
Durant Lions
Cougars
Shivey Davis
Indian Bureau funding boosted in next fiscal year plan
A $28,189,973 bill to fund the Indian Bureau and related agencies for the coming year was reported by the House appropriations committee. The proposal raises Indian Bureau outlays, increases education and employment programs, and allocates $19,786,129 for Indian services, with targeted sums for tribes in Oklahoma, Minnesota, and other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dee
Intcuada Department
House
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Hoover
Pension Bureau
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Indian Bureau
Wilbur
Bureau
Five Civilized Tribes
Oklahoma
Pawnees
Quapaws
Osage Agency
Osage Oil and Gas Production
Minnesota
Youth Confesses Killing Parents In Cedar Community
Herman Riley aged 19 confessed to Ellis county officers that he shot and killed his parents at their farm near Italy Texas and wounded his brother. He was jailed in Waxahachie after failing to explain bloodstains on his clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Tex
Herman Riley
Ellis County
Cedar Community
Here
John M. Carter
Waxahachie
A. C. Riley
Riley
Walter
Mrs. T. B. Harrel Dies in Van Alstyne Texas
Mrs. T. B. Harrel mother of Lowery H. Harrel of Ada died this morning in Van Alstyne Texas. Funeral services will be held tomorrow in Van Alstyne with Rev. C. C. Morris of Ada presiding. Lowery Harrel had been at her bedside since Monday. Her husband Rev. T. B. Harrel once pastored Ada's First Baptist Church for twenty years. The family had visited Ada for Thanksgiving and renewed ties from his former tenure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Harrel
Lowery H. Harrel
van Alstyne
Texas
Carl Umphries
C. C. Morris
Ada
Lowery Harrel
Dead man sought in Texas identified in Seminole
Police confirm the Seminole murder suspect George Kelley, wanted in Borger Texas on two murder charges, died Sunday from alcoholism. E C Beard of Seminole said Kelley was located in Oklahoma City last week and appeared distressed by recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Kelley
Borger
Texas
E. Cc. Beard
Kelly
Oklahoma City
Kelley
Beard
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S. P. Burns
Stratford
Oval Cunningham
Robert D. Moore
Independent Wing School
Seminole
Mr. Moore
Robert B. Moore
Nadine Griffith
J. W
Pete) Good
Bill Brown
Bill Cochran
Byars
Capper
Cousho
Metcalf
Vandenberg
Glenn
Howell
Johnson
McCulloch
MceNary
Nye
Patterson
Sackett
Steiner
Idaens
Cutting
Frazier
Jones
Couzens
Fess
Yoldsborough
McNary
Idaho
Glass
Harris
Massachusetts
Farmer Labor
America
BY Williams
UY. S. Pat
NEA Service, Ing
National Guard AT Strike Center
Ilinois
F. Stegall
Qupreme Court
Water Department
INCE
LUDON
George H. Jones
Standard Oil Company
Carthage
N. Y
George Uh, Jones
Ada High
Newport
R.L
Muriel Vanderbilt Church
Wyoming
John Scott
Athens
Corfu
Cephalonia
Zante
Santoria
Gregory XIII
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