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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1922
Page
12
An old timer laments the coming political spillovers in Oklahoma and comments on campaign customs. He and others mock slogans and Vox Populi language while predicting a long calm before new movements reform efforts. The piece also recalls Pond Creek track stories and local social happenings with Miss May Flowers and Miss Minnie Burk.
In Enid Oklahoma an old settlers meeting recounts frontier trains refusals to stop and clashes with the Rock Island line. Henry Sturgis and Joe Meibergen describe leaping from freight trains to claim land while a woman tries to scale a right of way fence and a man helps her.
Absent week ends as cool weather settles. Miss Della Eddings spends Saturday night with Ollie Wood. Augusta Thompson visits her uncle in Wellston. J. E. Maddox and family and J. N. Thompson with C. A. Pennington make a business trip to Ada. Jim Isass’s bargp burned Sunday morning. Irene Cantrell visits Blanche Wood. Sunday gathering with S. D. Maddox family. Fannie and Ethel Malloy stay with Lillian Maddox. Church service and large crowd Saturday night. Lavenice Oleta Otis Maddox visit uncle’s family from Rebee. J. N. Thompson plans move to Sulphur. School begins next Monday with Peck and Nepma Eddings as teachers. Community invites Rebee and Worstell to respond.
Summers Chapel residents engage in cotton picking as harvest winds down. Mr and Mrs George Brown were guests of Frank Lewis on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Dewey Northam visited her parents A B Rains Saturday night and Sunday. Guests of Miss Lillian Maddox Sunday included others. Miss Beulah Magar shopped in Ada on Saturday. Otis Light visited Raymond Rains Saturday night.
Women control more than 31 percent of the total outlanding stock of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company according to the latest figures. The data highlights a significant share of ownership among female investors in the railroad firm.
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