Christmas Socials Fill City With Yuletide Cheer
Miss Blanche Olds notes a week of post Christmas celebrations across the city. DeMolays host a dance at Aldridge Hotel with a purple and gold scheme while the Thursday Night Club shared a holiday dinner dance at Oak Hills Country Club. Braly family reunion at 331 West Twenty Fifth features a genealogical poem and a family tree. Sodalitan class gathers at Mrs. J. W. McBride’s home for reading and games. Gargis Dew ties the knot in a Christmas eve ceremony at the Gargis home. Mrs. C J Skirvin hosts a stag dinner for town boys and a later dance. Hunters hold a game dinner at the Case home. A miscellaneous shower honors Mr. and Mrs. Lane. Mrs. Don Skirvin hosts a nine o’clock Christmas breakfast with Francile Thompson from Arkansas as guest.
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Oak Hills Country Club
Roy L. Givens
W. A. Delaney
Denver Davison
Mrs. Roadhouse
Okmulgee
R. W. Simpson
Charles Chauncey
Pontotoc County
Tom Roff
West Twronty-fifth
L. A. Braly
Ada
Mr. Braly
Lon
Joe Braly
Braly
Gargis-Dew
Geneva Gargis
Henry Dew
Dick Gargis
West
C. C. Morris
Virst Baptist Church
East Central Teachers College
Gaicy School
Dew
Aso Ani
East Seventeenth
C. J. Skirvin
S. Stockton
Roderick
George Kitchel
John Fleet
Paul Hynes
John Case
Morris Spencer
Ross Skirvin
Don Skirvin
South
Stockton
Dor Skirvin
Marjorie Kitchel
R. A. Herndon, Jr
Houston Harris
Margaret Bledsoe
Nell Chapman
Francile Thompson
Ruth Ada Gee
Alice Blanks
Franele Thompson
Ankle Crushed Rancher Shoots Self to Death
Guy Burr a 28 year old Wyoming rancher died by suicide after his ankle was crushed by his horse. He left a note to his mother saying the horse slipped on his ankle and he could not bear the pain. A passerby found Burr near Rozet four miles north of his home with his revolver and note dated December 24.
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Gillette
Wyc
L?p
Wyoming
Plains
Guy Burr
Guy
Burr
Rozet
W. H. Burr
Hastings
Neb
Holidays Bring Visits Across Towns and States
Mrs. Bowman and children and Mrs. B E Braselton and son visited Byers for the holidays. Anita Seaborn had tonsil surgery in Ada and returned home. Juliet MecWhirt traveled to Anadarko to spend holidays with her daughter. Numerous young people from Ada, Okemah, Chickasha, and Marlow visit family and attend celebrations.
Christmas Week Community Notes From Roff and Ada
The small town notes describe numerous visits and guests in Roff and Ada Oklahoma including Mrs Pinnieck Lloyd Pinnick Hamer Jones Heathman Leeper Crumley and others. A local incident details Buddy a boy shot in the back by three older hunters while sea gull hunting with a .22 rifle. suspects fled in a car and police have license information.
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Homa City
Kirk
Pinnieck
Oklahoma City
Lloyd Pinnick
Raymond Hamer
Hamer
P. B. Hamer
J. P. Jones
Joplin
Ralph Hamer
Nedra Bullock
Ada
Roff
Methodist
C. B. Holland
Geneva Joe Heathman
Holdenville
J. W. Leeper
Bill Johns
Billy Lou
Richardson
Texas
Rowena Fisher
Ft. Worth
C. A. Walker
Helier Crumley
Jim Estes
Okemah
John Avon
W. E. Smith
Ross
J. W. Ponder
Virgil Stanfield
Enid
E. C. Larsh
Norman
Vierra
Buddy
Boy Succoring Wounded Bird Shot by Hunter
In San Francisco on December 28 a 10 year old boy Budd helps a wounded bird when a hunter shoots it. The incident highlights compassion clashing with hunting actions and raises questions about safety and ethics.
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Hunter
San Francisco
Budd
Ada Lodge 119 Calls Meeting for B. A. Work
The Ada Lodge No. 119 called a Monday evening meeting for Master Mason work in the Blue Lodge. Visitors were welcome, announced W. J. Witcher Worshipful Master.
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A. F
A. M
Ada Lodge No
W. J. Witcher
W. M
Rebekahs Invite Members to Regular Meeting
Rebekahs announce a regular meeting Monday night at 7 20 with all members cordially invited. Noble Grand Mrs May Lollar signs the courtesy notice.
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May Lollar
Noble Grand
New Year Prohibition Drive Afoot in Chicago
Prohibition administrator E. C. Yellowley will deploy his entire force of men and women stenographers and undercover agents to prevent drinking in Chicago cabarets, night clubs, and hotels as New Year celebrations begin.
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Chicago
E. C. Yellowley
Prohibition
Raid plan prompt calls for force to seize office
A directive orders the force to call up their office to organize a raid. The instruction frames the action as a coordinated seizure tied to a targeted location and operation.
Women Census Supervisors Appointed for 1936 Census
Washington reports that 24 women have been named as census supervisors for the 1936 census, following the successful work of five women on the 1920 count. Julie R. Jenney of Syracuse was the first woman selected in 1919, marking a shift from the prior assumption that supervisory roles were limited to men.
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Washington
W. M. Steuart
United States
Julie R. Jenney
Syracuse
N. Y
Steuart
Bishop Morrison Fatally Injured by Automobile in Davenport
The right Rev. Theodore Nevin Morrison Episcopal bishop of Iowa was fatally injured when struck by a car driven by Margaret Volz of Davenport. Miss Volz posted a $2,000 bond as police investigated the accident she says she did not see anyone in the path of her vehicle. Morrison led Iowa's Episcopal church for 30 years after 23 years in a Chicago parish.
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Davenport
Theodore Nevin Morrison
Iowa
Margaret Volz
Volz
Morrison
Episcopalian Church
Chicago
Dry Salt Lake City finds a hidden still
Federal prohibition agents discover a still near a dried spring. A garden hose about a mile and a half long connected the still to a pipeline as officers close in.
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Salt Lake City
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Robert L. Gee
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Hoyt Pryor
Varaboncs
Plymouth Rock
Silver Sea
Yami
J. W. MicBride
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Virginia Mitchell
Mitchell
L. Warr
G. B. Napier
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Reartes Wars
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Pianis
Case Home
John L. Case
John Case Jr
Philip Norris
Charles Case
Walter Grindstaff
W. Seventh
B. B. Lane
Carnegie Foundation
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McKinley & Gilstrap
South Broadway
Hunt T. Dickinson
Nassau Country Club
Glen Cove
L. I
Reiff News
Sibyl Thacker
Chickasha
C. A. Thacker
R. F. Crumley
O. U
Margaret
Bernardine Givens
W. T. Givens
Allyne Merritt
L. M. Merritt
N. C. Bowen
Norman C
Marlow
O. U. Gaither
Snoddy
McAlester
T. A. Strother
Tulsa
Elizabeth ~Arden
Elizabeth Arden
Eurasetu Arpen
Hensler & Smith
West Main
Fifth Avenue
New York
Paris
Gordon Hose
Dgeszclubs
Rebekahs
Mr. Yellowley
Bishop Morrison
Owa
QAK Hills Country Club
Eugene Ford
Country Club
Home Journal Patterns
Coats
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