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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1927
Page
6
Rural notices from Pontotoc County describe Franks School progress with good attendance and Christmas program efforts. The text lists numerous local visits, weekend gatherings, and upcoming Christmas events including a church tree and a Santa appearance.
Elva Jones and wife hosted Bert Jones and wife for Sunday night. John Lane of Worstell visited Hightower and Burk made a trip to Pauls Valley. Little Ted Jones suffered burns from hot ashes. Several residents shared time with Jones or Hightower households and Santa Claus signs off on the item.
Regions experience cold weather with low attendance at Wednesday prayer meeting. Social life observed as singing at the Sygne Fike home. Residents visit and enjoy time with neighbors including the Sullivan and McKay households. Subscribers praised for paying up subscriptions. The Editor thanks readers and encourages others to follow suit.
The sock supper, held December 15, drew about sixty attendees and raised 29.85 to fund the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. The note invites all to join and mentions several local figures and recent community events.
Onward School shows good attendance amid cold weather. Miss Sue Lea visited Mrs. McKinney on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Julia Smith face a disabled list this week. Abner Atkins visited Bromith last week. Buss and Geo McKinney attended a sale at John Chambers of Franks on Wednesday. J E Sutton from California moved into the area. The community welcomes new residents. Mr. Hunter plans an auction sale and will move to Kentucky. Cradduck of Franks visited Saturday night. Ollie Eli en and I ler Anderson visited Stonewall Saturday. Ray McKinney also visited Stonewall. Cradduck called on Scud McKinney. Rosie Hays called on Virgie Perry. Mr. and Mrs. McKinney and son Buss were in Ada Monday. A Western Cotton Picker back home.
Mrs E C Jamar and Lela Newby visit Luke Ward as Rosa Lee Ward is ill this week. Many readers record visits among the Newby and Roberts families and friends across Stratford, Maxwell, Tahaka, Shawnee, and Worstell with meals and weekend stays noted.
Short item notes from Red Oak recount residents sharing meals and visiting neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Phillips and J. Crockett had supper with Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Ford on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Phillips were in town Monday. Arnold and Henry Phillips and Mrs. Janie Phillips are mentioned visiting in the vicinity.
The Gillispie well east of Maxwell on H. L. Norman acreage flowed about 49 percent barrels of oil last week and will be pumped soon as equipment is moved to the Summers place. Jess Mercer watches a new gas well north of Ada. A Friday pie supper raised 38.70 for school athletics and equipment with auctioneer Mr. Dunn delivering witty remarks and prizes for beauty and comic awards.
Sheriff W B Walker will sell at public auction on January 2, 1928 at 2 and 3 PM the described casings and shoe from the Bryan well on Palmer farm and West Half of Section 17 Township 4 North Range 6 East Pontotoc County Oklahoma under a special execution in favor of Shefts Supply against William J Bryan. The sale proceeds go to satisfy a chattel mortgage judgment.
Oh a local note reports cool air and social visits. Mr and Mrs J A Burk and family and Elmer Duncan drove to Paoli for dinner with the Hatchers. The Duncans hosted hog butchering with F A Duncan and family visiting F E Duncan.
Summers Chapel reports good Sunday school attendance with a reviewed lesson that engaged most attendees. Officers and teachers largely retained after quarterly elections. several visitors from Lone Hill McClain county Byars and Rosedale. Local marriages and visits noted along with Christmas program planning.
A reporter tours Allen, describing a Monte Carlo style gambling hall off the main street with dice and Stud poker in a back room. He notes strict door security, a moneyed crowd of oil workers, farmers, and youths, and a nearby quarters cluster of one room huts where dancing girls live, while mentioning Allen's rare robberies and hijackings.
The Department of Commerce reports 18871 accidental deaths in 1926 from automobiles and motor vehicles in the continental United States, with a 17.9 per 100000 rate. Including street car and railroad collisions would raise the total to about 20891 and the rate to 19.9. City and state figures show rising death counts and rates from 1922 to 1926, with notable undercounting outside city limits. Christmas programs and community charity in Ada and Oakman are described, highlighting donations from Elks Shriners and local churches for clothing and gifts.
The community reports strong attendance and support for a school project aiming at accreditation this year. Purchases include a sand table reading table pencil sharpeners a new basketball and soon maps readers and World books. Workers leveled ground installed a giant stride and a sanitary drinking arrangement while a Friday work day saw men and boys team up. the school boys defeated the visitors 28 to 18 in a basketball game.
In Leavenhesth Suffolk England about 80 of the roughly 100 residents are bachelors leaving a small married and family contingent. The notice highlights an unusually high bachelor proportion in the village.
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