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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1923
Page
6
Jack Warhope returns to a westward sunset cottage as a banker presses a quarter-section foreclosure while Mrs Curry and Texie prepare supper. The preacher's crisp grace and the household hush mark a tense, uneasy calm after a day of debt and authority in the Flatwoods.
In Pontotoc county a baby elephant named Diamond roamed the city sparking wild rumors of massacres and wrecks. A letter from Ken Colin reveals a troubled lineage, debts and a fatal card game as he dies in New York, leaving Sis and Texie to face heredity and scandal in Flatwoods society.
In Buckeye the Flat woods capital, Zeke Polick’s store acts as a social hub where locals gather after the banker's collapse. Uncle Nick Wiffles, a gray-bearded smoker, watches as a varied crowd of loafers, a tall Kentucky man Loge Belden, and a rumor-saturated town contemplate the railroad and a debt owed to Jim Rummidge.
The piece notes Kansas wheat seedings at their lowest since 1917, down 15 percent. Oklahoma cotton largely harvested with 87 percent picked by November 25. Board of Agriculture predicted 542,720 bales of cotton, with regional harvest percentages listed and J. A. Whitehurst signing as president.
Inspectors certify that seven members won the election to the Ada Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. New directors are B. M. Bobbitt Roy L. Givens S Jackson W D Little M F Manville C E Parker and W Simpson. Directors holding over for another year are M C Taylor E Harvey T B Blake W Coffman Chas A Zorn M Wilson Ed Granger. They will meet tomorrow at 7 p.m. to elect officers for the year.
The Budget Bureau presents fiscal year 1925 receipts totaling 2,727,585,000 in internal revenue customs and miscellaneous items, against 1924 figures of 2,783,585,000 internal revenue, 570,000,000 customs, and 541,092,712 miscellaneous. Expenditures total 3,298,080,444 for 1925 versus 3,565,038,088 in 1924, with a surplus of 295,681,634 or 329,639,624 depending on balance figures, and public debt reductions and trust fund investments noted alongside departmental allocations.
Oklahoma City December 10. Former Klan member S R Lewis testifies today for J C Walton at his district court hearing set for December 21. Walton also announces the formation of a national anti Klan group named the National Society of American Freedom with Walton at the helm to defend constitutional liberties.
Ed Wright of Livingston Dave Soroka of Minneapolis and Dale Spears of Billings died in Yellowstone Park while camping during a blizzard near Norris at Blanding Hill. They were exposed to exhaust gas and later burned when a tarpaulin shelter caught fire. Spears, about 21, was nephew of John W Beard of Ada. Local rescuers believed the trio were on a search mission when the tragedy occurred. Crown Prince Hirohito is described as mingling with the public in Japan.
Honest Bill Newton's baby elephant Diamond escaped the Yellow Dog parade route Friday, pranced through Ada to his quarters by 4 AM Saturday, destroying a few fences but causing no injuries. Newton led the hunt and urged authorities to halt the chase, predicting Diamond would return home before morning.
Rev. Melvin G. Kyle, president of Xenia Theological Seminary, will lead a Palestine expedition sailing December 29 to locate the biblical cities of the plain under the Dead Sea. Dr. F. W. Albright and others join the team for geological and archaeological work, with divers possible if sites are underwater.
State highway officials say the Os ity river bridge linking Bry and shall counties is being built from both ends and will be one of the strongest bridges ever constructed in Oklahoma.
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