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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1924
Page
5
To Correspondents note explains several letters may miss this week as the paper prints Wednesday morning due to Christmas Day holiday. The News force takes a holiday on Christmas, wishing readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Editor.
The town endures zero weather with pipes bursting and water damage as homes stall. The Oklahoma Pipe Line Co keeps crews at the plant while other work halts for holidays. Local officials report council changes and telecom upgrades soon. Community life continues with coal delivery, busy post office, and growing bank business despite cold.
Ada and Vanessa residents arrive and visit for Christmas holidays. Names include Willard Owens Alvertia Berger Virgie Smith Amnazo Smith Mrs Holmes Mrs Woodie Templeton Dixie Buck Lester Shaw D. W. Hodges Clark Wauton Price G W Snerd Evelyn Johnson Milton Keating H M Tilley and the Standridge family. Vanessa school closes for Christmas and staff host a festive tree. The report notes hospital visit for appendicitis and safe travels for several residents.
Janet Pannell Jr of Colorado visits relatives as Jim Pannell Sr recovers from facial burns after a Maxwell explosion. Wold Burnsed, with a wounded knee, shows partial improvement while Eddie Summers and wife visit relatives near Mountain View. Some begin field work for the 1925 crops as winter tightens.
Skating and rabbit hunting mark the day in Walaut Grove as residents share visits. Several families are mentioned visiting relatives in Union Hill and Hopkins homes. School closes for Christmas. townsfolk await Santa with well wishes for the News and all readers.
A well attended pie supper on Tuesday netted 46.90 from 35 pies and 18 from the cake for the prettiest girl to fund a Christmas tree. The community notes visits, travel, and routine farming chatter among residents including Earlin Haskins family and others in Ada and Summers Chapel.
The piece lists numerous social visits among GALey residents over a weekend. Mentions bad weather affecting a Christmas tree sale and shows many family and neighbor interactions. It notes deaths in Ada and sympathies extended to affected families, plus local travel to Shawnee and Iron Post.
The News starts a new serial titled The Blue Circle with thrilling interest from start to finish. The paper plans four or five complete novels yearly in serial form, a value beyond the subscription price in book form.
Stonewall reports visitors from Arkansas City Ada and Konawa plus relatives in town. Several locals travel for Christmas, a student group returns for holidays, and a serious operation looms for T P Phillips. Drama club program entertains, and infant dies near Boggy. Cold weather tops twenty year lows. school dismisses for holidays.
Ro ff residents share visits and travel with reports from Wetumka Tulsa Sherman Ada and Whitesboro. Notable items include deaths and hospitalizations in Sherman and Ardmore, church services in Methodist and Baptist communities, Christmas plans, school events and postposed programs due to bad weather, and a piano payment project.
Oklahoma City hog buyers pushed prices up as a light run and strong demand lifted bids. About 900 hogs were received with shippers paying around 10.15 for two loads and top hogs at 10.05 to packers, bulk sales at 9.85 and up. stockers and feeders fell 25 to 50 cents with a 7 dollar top, while sows and stags rose 25 to 50 cents to 7.50 to 8.30.
A small hummingbird around the size of a housefly is commonly observed across many East Indian nations. The bird's diminutive size and presence in local ecosystems are noted in regional avian folklore and natural history observations.
Oklahoma farmers increased chicken numbers from 8.5 million in 1910 to 11.9 million in 1920 and expect further growth. Eggs produced reached 45.5 million dozen valued around 16 million dollars, with 1920 egg value about 7.0 million. Ford Mercer of Wellston, Oklahoma, wins national club leadership trophy for his corn and poultry work. A separate profile shows Frazier O’Rear near Headrick earning nearly 100 dollars monthly in net poultry profits from a white leghorn flock and winning fair prizes.
Pottawatomie county club women stage pressure cooking demonstrations to compare terracing methods. The county demonstrator notes pressure cookers save time and money and many rural women have bought them with many more prospective buyers. Shawnee News.
E. E. Scholl outlines winter loss causes and practical steps for Oklahoma bees. Recommendations include reducing hive space, tightening entrances, south facing hives with wind protection, drainage and shade, stocking honey or sugar syrup, wrapping hives, storing equipment, keeping livestock away, clearing hive surroundings, and obtaining Extension Circular No. 106 and Farmers' Bulletins 695 1012 1198. Oklahoma youth shine at the International Livestock Show in Chicago.
Mrs Norrel and I plan to become suburban residents soon moving from town to John Skinner’s five acre post oak grove place a mile south. We may sell part or all later if profitable and will raise chickens and move bees with hopes of profits as berries bear within a year.
The county poultry club presents top entries judged by Fisher, honoring the finest submissions at the annual event.
The Crop Reporting Board estimates Oklahoma lint cotton production in 1924 at about 1.54 million bales of 500 pounds gross. Previous years ranged from 481,000 to 1.336 million bales, with ten year and five year averages noted. Nationally, the US is projected at 13.153 million bales, with Census running bales at 12.225 million prior to December 1, 1924.
G C Gibbons of A and M confirms sweet clover is gaining headway in Oklahoma but often misunderstood. He notes about half of sowings fail due to negligent seed bed prep or seeding, urging farmers to plan for next year, source seed now, and begin early ground preparation in November or December.
The National AAU wrestling championship will be held at Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater next March marking the first time the event is staged at a college. E C Gallagher says colleges will see more student participation, with dates set for a Friday and Saturday in March and the high school finals that week. Big Ten schools along with Missouri Valley and Southwestern conference officials have shown interest in entering competitors.
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