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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
3
The Union Hill pie supper raised 37 dollars and 56 cents for the Christmas tree fund. Residents Mavis Raimoland won best cake, while many locals shared visits and Sunday events at homes around Union Hill.
Local residents share weekend visits and family events in Ada and surrounding towns. Notable items include births, visits among Berger and Jones families, and community updates from Vaness, Holdenville, Maysville, and Sunshine. Weekend church services and Ada teachers meeting cited.
The Homer area hosts a busy Christmas season with a large pie supper raising 37.65 from proceeds. School activities include a Christmas program and inspector preparations. Basketball, singing classes, and visits from Ada, Union Hill, and other nearby communities fill a week of community life.
Local residents report numerous Sunday gatherings and weekday calls. Ada visitors include Sam and Nettie Standridge, Zetta Hendrix, Frank Tiner and family, with many neighbors hosting and sharing social calls in the area around Vanoss and Ringling.
Mr. Hokett and Mrs. Simpson took their ball teams to Conway Monday. The Owl Creek boys won 6 to 14 and 26 to 6 while the Conway girls lost 14 to 6. A pie supper last Friday raised 37 dollars for the Christmas tree along with several local visits and small-town activities noted through the week.
Community notes list many visits among neighbors in Henry Teel and Old Midland areas. Names include the Rowes Kerr Tomlinson Teel and others with social calls and weekend visits mentioned. A sermon schedule invites all to preaching services Saturday and Sunday.
Sunday school attendance is noted and a social visit sequence is listed. Mr. and Mrs. Clovis Meeks and Ernest visited Mr. and Mrs. Huey Aseltine Saturday night. Aleene Estes spent Sunday with Mildred Finch. Several locals shared time at the Smith home including Ernest Kaufman, Finch, Gertrude and Lessie Lee Penrod, Ralph and Nola Stone, and Ted Angram. Wanda Lee Smith also spent Saturday with others.
Pauline Yarberry and Bonnie Fae Smith called on Mrs J E Maddox and Mrs D L Smith. Alfred Pennington of Parish Chapel visited in the Tom Riley home. Dock Chambers and Bill Bratcher called on Bonnie Fae Smith and Pauline Yarberry. Mrs Ross Cummins visited Holdenville. Mr and Mrs A J Walls of Holdenville celebrated a new baby born December 2. Walls formerly Miss Mary Cummins. Sunday visitors included Clarence Irvin Manual Irvin Manley Maddox and Edith Maddox. Earl Smith and son Eugene visited Richard Martin family. Pauline Yarberry weekend visit with Bonnie Fae Smith. Amanda Berger visiting Loyce Shooks. Tom Phillips of Ada visited Darby Smith. Noe called on Marvin Briggs. Loyce Shook of Lighting Ridge visited her parents Sunday.
More than 100 Pontotoc area livestock men attended a Thursday night Ada meeting on cooperative marketing led by Oklahoma industry leaders. Speakers A. W. Jacobs and A. W. Lucas outlined favorable 1935–1940 market outlooks and the need to shrink the producer to consumer price gap.
A large crowd enjoyed the boys glee club minstrel show on Friday night with laughter from start to finish. The boy scouts attended the quarterly boys work dinner at Sulphur Thursday.
A poem praising youth and future deeds. It urges young people to live joyfully and work hard, dedicating the verse to the Old Sunshine Band and the Young Peoples Training days once held at Vanoss. The piece emphasizes making a positive impact before aging.
A Sunday night singing drew a large crowd while Sunday school attendance lagged. Visits included Wess Prewitt and Gladys of Hickory, Donnie Rose and family with W B Rucker and Sallie, and gatherings with Rex Younts, Cecil Belt, Mae Hewett, and others. Various residents hosted and visited relatives and friends across the community. Reverend A E Ford to preach Saturday night with Floyd Hobgood visiting Panther Creek Sunday.
In Oklahoma City on December 11 a resolution for a special election to create a separate board of regents for Oklahoma agricultural colleges was held up awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on a similar measure. Henry Timmons of Tulsa says the court will be asked to take original jurisdiction after the state election board declared the prior measure defeated. The plan calls for a nine-year nine-member board with four farmers or ranchers. a February 2 election was proposed, but a committee hold is expected pending the appeal.
Jimmie in his Silvery Steed travels rural routes after a tire fix headed to the Ada Brick plant. He notes Hackberry Lane as Mr. Mitchell renames the east west road and visits Ray's Tourist Camp before reporting on local homes, poverty near Rabbittown, and a widow farmer Mrs Betty C. Taylor promoting subscriptions.
Several crashes in and near Ada on Thursday caused heavy damage to cars but no injuries. G E Branscome escaped unhurt in a head on collision south of Roff two miles away. A nitroglycerine truck and a loaded truck caused damage at Eighth and Mississippi, with bystanders scattering. East Main Street fender bender led to a man slugging another in a disputed left turn.
London reports Wallis Warfield Simpson would gain the title Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Windsor if she marries the exiled king Edward VIII. She would receive royal precedence and privileges, including diplomatic immunity on travels and no need to open luggage for customs.
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