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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1924
Page
6
Renshaw inquires Campbell about a buyout arrangement as he moves into Tawnaver house. The tale follows his battle with nerves and the eerie atmosphere created by strange guests and a looming interview with the master, David Campbell, while recalling Elizabeth Jordan’s connected literary world.
Renshaw stops before the country house Tawne Ker, home of David Campbell, as autumn light fades. He contemplates the new employer and his uncertain future, weighing whether to enter to take the job or walk away. His detached mood and weary gaze set a quiet, unresolved tone.
Washington December 23 Post master General New testified before the senate post office sub committee on the administration plan to raise rates on most mail classes except letters to fund the pay increase for postal workers approved by Congress but vetoed by President Coolidge.
Ada residents flood plumbers as dozens of water lines burst from subfreezing weather. City officials report hundreds of calls for help with flooded kitchens and bathrooms while crews work many lines to stop seepage.
Houston Texas December 23 Estimated cattle losses across the Houston territory from the weekend sleet and ice storm reach 2 187 500 dollars. Henry Fox the Houston banker and others with weather studies put livestock deaths at just over 17 percent or about 875 000 head.
Foreclosure sale notices issued in Pontotoc County Oklahoma under two court orders. The first lists Exchange Trust Company as plaintiff and multiple defendants with a 160 acre southwest quarter of section 10 as subject, sale without appraisement on January 13, 1925. The second identifies The American Investment Company as plaintiff with North 30.07 acres of Lot 1 and other parcels in section 6, with sale without appraisement scheduled January 13, 1925.
No 6438 district court order directs sheriff to advertise and sell land in Ada Oklahoma without appraisal. The stake includes Lot 2 and various quarters totaling about 169.95 acres in Section 3 Township 3 North Range 6 East held by R B Smith against defendants including A B Meyer and The First National Bank of Ada. Judgment of 4404.40 plus interest, 370 attorney fee, 18.35 costs, assigned to P A Norris. Sale set January 13 1925 at 2 PM in Ada county court house West 12th Street.
Sheriff announces public auction of lands in Pontotoc county under foreclosure No 6200 based on a 1924 judgment for 3501.81 plus interest and costs. The Equity Farm Mortgage Company holds a $3000 loan with taxes unpaid, sale set for a specified December day.
Amsterdam reports Director Busiman of the Dutch Hydrodynamic Institute cites Anton Fiettner and his discovery that air currents can generate heat and energy. He argues the Fiettner system, once fully applied, could reduce world coal consumption by ninety percent, stirring engineering debate.
James Overstreet, named as an alleged member of a party that robbed the Federal National Bank in Shawnee of 18 090 on December 10, is to have a preliminary arraignment December 30. He was arrested at a hotel in Port Worth after the heist, where he posed as a capitalist investor and spent freely.
Shawner Texas December 22 James Overstreet the so called gentlem bandit arrested last week at a fashionable Fort Worth hotel and transported to Peotta watomie county faces arraignment at 3 p m today. He is charged with robbery with firearms in the Federal National bank hold up a crime carrying a sentence from 25 years to death. Overstreet is believed to be part of a four man gang that escaped with 18000 in currency. Guards are tight and precautions tight as the jail keeps him under constant watch. His wife Bobbie was arrested earlier but no statement has been issued by or about Overstreet with officers saying he has largely remained silent.
Governor W. J. Holloway of Hugo handles a flood of mail from citizens and interest groups. Secretaries triage requests to rebuke postmasters, locate missing persons, help with romances, grant state aid, or offer jobs. Office seekers dominate letters, and one anonymous adviser provides notable counsel about monthly.
Jim Brown Cecil Berryman Jack and Bill Anderson faced a grand larceny case over alleged cotton theft from a farmer near Ada. The preliminary hearing occurred today before Justice Joseph Anderson.
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