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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
10
All church members are urged to attend at eight o clock Thursday evening at the church for about an hour. The Anthem for next Sunday morning will be worked on and plans for the Christmas cantata announced. Pastor Wallace M Crutchfield urges a full choir to attend each rehearsal.
The Christian Church invites all to a prayer meeting this evening at o oclock. The hour is devoted to the churchs new members and those new members are especially urged to attend.
Classified notices include a wall posting at the county clerk and a lost alligator hide pocket book with reward. Other items list three furnished rooms for light housekeeping at 827 E 8th St and a bid to trade for ADA property a small farm with a four room house barn outbuildings fruit tank and cement cistern priced at $1500.06 plus a phone contact. Baptist prayer meeting at First Baptist Church tonight led by C C Morris with Genesis study notes.
A. T. Trimm and wife left this afternoon for Los Angeles to visit their daughter Mrs. Harlacker for several months. Mrs. Trimm received a message that her brother M. B. Thornton of Seattle would meet them in Los Angeles for a joint visit to his parents and sister.
In district court an accommodation session saw Clarence Owens get one year and one day for grand larceny after stealing a watch during a fishing trip near Byng. Arthur Smith drew three years for auto theft with potential suspension after two good-behavior years. Glover Odum and Townsend each got two years for forging checks with suspended sentences if they attend school four months annually.
Motor trucks solve quick transport from Maxwell cotton market to Ada yards. Each morning two loaded trucks leave Maxwell and reach Ada about eight, returning before noon for a second load. The twenty one mile route yields about eighty four miles daily, saving time and labor versus farm wagons and boosting farming output and lower consumer prices, provided good roads exist.
Oklahoma City Sept 30 Judge George C Crump of Hughes County district court has resigned He formerly presided over Hughes and Okfuskee counties but a new legislative act attached Okfuskee to a different district leaving Crump’s district altered by the change.
The Ada High School senior class met on Tuesday September 30 to hear the nominating committee report and select nominees for the Boomerang school year. Election names include Eunice McNew Travis Kerr Don Evans Bernice Hargis Lettie Rock Erle Fentem Arnold Mallory Esther Tobias Alys McLachlan Nora Abney with A L Bullock to assist his wife as class chaperone.
Yesterday a marriage license was issued to John Wells age 23 and Miss Mattie Bethel age 16, both residents of Bebee.
The church choir will meet for practice this evening at seven o clock. A full attendance is desired.
The Ada union barber strike was settled last night with shops opening at 8 returning to earlier hours and prices remaining unchanged unless owners decide otherwise. A one year agreement effective immediately was signed by both proprietors and union barbers, restoring full operation and work.
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