School reopens with renewed effort after holidays
The student body returns from a three week break ready to work. Basketball practice resumes as East Central prepares for games with Edmond University. Mr. L. W. French teaches until summer near Mill Creek. A state debate on commission government is chosen with Durant and Tahlequah as sites. Teachers show mostly opposition to the Aiken bill while a teacher-training survey finds 144 of 188 students training to teach.
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East Central
Edmond
L. W. French
Mill Creek
Durant
Dramatic Club
Aiken
Oklahoma City
Teachers’ Association
Association
Freeholders Offer Charter Writing Services
J. T. Conn and L. W. Hardin pledge to write the city charter if others donate their services in writing as well. Judge Currie makes a similar proposal. The reporter could not meet the remaining nominees, but the charter writing should take only a few days. The News believes modest compensation is fair, while patriotism in offering services counters major opposition arguments.
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Cur
Rural Happenings Parish Chapel Items
School enrollment for December was 36 and Bro. Myers delivered services on Sunday. Families and neighbors attended prayer meetings and Christmas events. Local residents planned moves, renovations, and land sales while farmers welcomed snow and rain and began plowing for a promising crop year.
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Bro. Myers
R. W. Love
Texas
Antlers
Okla
Bud Hawkins
Pickens
Ben Downing
C. A. Pennington
Ross Robinson
Pennington
Walter Pickens
Vaness
Luther Dryden
Ada
Geo. South
Chas. Nail
Walter Floyd
Claud Jones
Christmas Cheer and Local Marriages Highlight Lanham Clippings
The community enjoyed good health and a quiet Christmas. Sunday School superintendent Mr. Taylor Lanham gave children a fruit and candy treat. Families hosted guests including Lanham, Griffith, Eddings and Floyd members. Crystal Gaar married Burriss Horton in Ada. Ethel Gaar and Irma McCullough attended the State Teachers Association in Oklahoma City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor Lanham
Glennie
Guy
Garnett Griffith
J. H. Griffith
Scott Lanham
Bessie Lanham
Joe Staats
Earl
Ray Lanham
Mattie
Grace Eddings
Lanham
Walter Floyd
Rube Martin
Will
John Myers
Claude Jones
Floyd South
Winnie Floyd
Maud South
Ora Vaden
Egypt
Walter McGlassin
Ada
Crystal
J. D. Gaar
Burriss Horton
Center
Ethel Gaar
Irma McCullough
State Teachers’ Association
Oklahoma City
Community Health and Local Visits Noted in Ada Area
Health in the community is very good. Residents and visitors from Lanham Kirkland Tyrola Konawa Ada and Bellview are noted visiting relatives and hosts. Local schools are progressing, with families including Floyd, Gregory, Sturdivant and Vaden mentioned during Christmas and weekend visits.
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Sloane
Carrie
Lester Palmer
Madill
Rosa Griffith
Garnet
Grace
Gladys
Guy
Clyde
Lanham
C. Sturdivant
Ada
McCrackin
Bellview
Tyrola News Hails Neighborly Spirit and Local Moves
Community notes praise Kinship and cordial talk among residents. Mrs Manley visits sick daughter Maud Smith in Konawa while Mae Manley spends Christmas at Colbert. New Bethel social night features Greer Walker and Myers contingent. Delbert and Mrs Lumsford relocate to run local post and groceries. Iva Greer starts school January 1 as the town plans to reorganize Sunday school.
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Tyrola
A. T. ‘Walker
Ausburn
Ada
Jim Fulton
Hunnicutts
Iva Greer
Review of the Cotton Market for Year 1911
Theodore H. Price reviews 1911 as the end of a cotton famine and expects 1912 to show adequate supply. He notes Southern governors’ New Orleans convention restrained panic selling, predicts prices around 11–12 cents in 1912, and argues diversification and economic understanding will sustain profits.
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Theodore H. Price
New Orleans
Worth Record
Clarence Quiley
Graphite From Coal Through Natural and Artificial Means
The article explains graphite as almost pure carbon found in coal beds where heated rocks metamorphose coal into graphite. It cites USGS reports on the Raton coal field in New Mexico and notes large quantities of high grade graphite are also made artificially from ordinary coal. It describes pencil leads where graphite is mixed with clay to vary hardness.
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United States Geological Survey
Raton
New Mexico
James Arms Returns to Francis and Resettles on Farm Near Sulphur
James Arms comes back to Francis to live after purchasing a farm near Sulphur. He briefly explored seed buying but left the venture and chose Francis as the best town in the west. Tariff, water works superintendent, reports the main is being tapped and water is available for all uses. The A F and A M lodge installed officers on December 27 with a fine dinner for Masons and families, aided by Eastern Star ladies. Mrs L N Petty, recently hospitalized in Sherman, Texas, returns home nearly recovered from surgery. The township board of trustees meets today, overwhelmed with work. St Louis and San Francisco Railroad Co erected a bay window for Master Mechanic Foot’s office.
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James Arms
Francis
Mr. Arms
James Tariff
Turiff
Round House
A. F. &A. M. Lodge
Eastern Star Lodge
L. 'N. ‘Petty
Sherman
Tex
Township Board of Trustees
St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Co
Foot
Oklahoma Central Railway Time Table In Effect June 18 1911
The Oklahoma Central Railway reveals its timetable set to take effect on June 18 1911 detailing train routes and schedules. The publication lists departures arrivals and operating lines for the railroad in Oklahoma.
Tour of the Prairie tour to Oklahoma by Boy Scouts
Washington Irving sketch highlighted as historic Oklahoma route to be marked by Boy Scouts in spring. Readers invited to obtain a map and the story of his trip in Wide West Magazine and Ada News subscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Irving
Oklahoma
Boy Scouts
Irving
Wide West
Ada News
August Fischbeck Moves from Lumber to Farming Life
August Fischbeck proclaims himself the real article in farming while retaining interest in the lumber business. He now resides in a six room bungalow south of Ada, among numerous suburban homes reshaping the area.
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August Fischbeck
Ada
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First National Bank
Ada, Oklahoma
United States Bonds
M. D. Timberlake
P. A. Morris
W. C. Duncan
H. T. Douglas
Identiriles
The
J. T. Conn
W. Hardin
Rie
Gwin & Mays Drug Co
Democrat
Lanham Clippings
Chrismas
Joe Smith
Knox
Roy Floyd
Grandpa Floyd
Tony Floyd
Chas. Floyd
Floyd
E. B. Gregory
Tyrola News
America
South
Oklahoma Central Railway
Asa E. Ramsay
Lehigh Ar
Nixon
Stonewall
Frisco
Truax
Ar Vanoss
Stratford Lv
Arj
Byars
Rosedale
Ar Vincennes
Lv Purcell Lv
Gibbons Spur
Ashington
Blanchard
Middleberg
Cornville Tabler
Chickasha
B. M. Baile
Purcell
Oklaf Dma
Daily News
Ramsey Drug Co
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