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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1929
Page
3
J B D Eaglush of the 8 and F Grocery returned home Saturday after visiting Winnsboro Texas with his sister Mrs Pickett.
Mrs. Bruce Cleveland remains in Tulsa today after visiting her sister and brother in law, Mr. and Mrs. Denver N. Davison, at 807 East Fifteenth.
Mrs Shea offers handmade useful and fancy articles for all ages for sale at 612 South Broadway. Open daily from 2:00 to 5:00 p m with a pause from 12 to 1 p m.
Donald Huffman motored to Oklahoma City Thursday and returned with Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Griffith and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Fowler to spend holidays with their parents Mr. and Mrs. C. E. F. Qualis. Mrs. B. E. Hennigan and children drove to Greenville, Tex., to visit her daughter and son, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Barringer.
R. B. Faunt LeRoy notes better views at Duncan Bros. on 12-5-1. Cecil Qualls spends a few days in Oklahoma City visiting relatives and friends.
Mary Frank and Zach Hall spend Christmas in Greenville visiting Mr and Mrs Frank Hall. Mekle Qualls stays in Oklahoma City with sisters Mrs C M Griffith and Mrs R W Fowler. Unredeemed watches and diamonds offered at Ada Credit Co near First National Bank. 12-4-1m.
J. D. Budd Jr. and Norman Criswell are due to arrive today from Harrison Arkansas after spending the holidays with Budd’s parents Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Budd.
Helen Burns and Rosemary Hill spend the week end in Tecumseh with relatives and friends. T B Ganey in Ada hospital is reported very serious. Miss Zula Scott returns from the Seminole school system after holiday with parents. Mrs Ruby Lee came from Shawnee with sister Mrs Joe Jackson for several days. Pon Montgomery leaves for Okmulgee and Muskogee to visit friends during holidays. He returns to Norman January 6 as University of Oklahoma student. Clyde Lowery of Seminole visits in the city yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Hubbard came back Friday from Springfield Missouri where they visited his mother Mrs. J W Hubbard who accompanied them to spend several days visiting.
Miss Avis Saunders of Oklahoma City spends the weekend with Miss Maurine Hill. Miss Elizabeth Weaver and her mother Mrs. W A Weaver return to Hartshorne where Elizabeth teaches. They visited Miss Inez Mayfield at 1030 E Ninth. Julia Hillhouse returns to Pauls Valley to resume school duties after holidays with her parents. Mrs Jervis Bills Bentley, a Tulsa teacher, visits her mother Mrs Melissa Bills at 112 E Sixteenth.
Miss Sylvia Smith travels to Boynton with friends for a week long visit. Roy Stout, holidaying with his mother in Allen, spent the weekend in Ada with friends and is manager of the Bell Shoe Shop in Cleburne. Murphy Barker drove to Shawnee to spend the day with sister and husband J. P. Shepherd. Reduced prices on gas heaters at R. C. Jeter Hardware. J. Allen Brown attended business in Seminole Wewoka and Holdenville yesterday. Mrs. Snyder, mother of W. R. Sturgess, returned from two months with relatives in New Orleans. Baim Biles, long ill in Ada hospital, is improving and will go home to Holdenville today. Orlie Kyle spent Christmas with relatives in Amarillo. John O. Southern of Shawnee visited on business Saturday. Sunset Hour at First Christian Church features The Court of Father Time pageant reviewing the months of the year at 5 30. Virgil and Vernon Burrows will return to school near Maud and Weleetka after visiting parents.
Mrs. G. S. Fowler of 705 East Mirth is visiting Claremore for a weekend stay with her husband.
Miss Mattie Lou Patterson resumes duties at Ryan school after vacation with family and friends. Mrs. Fred Bowies and her son Bob drove to Holdenville to see Mr. Hardwick in Holdenville hospital.
Mrs. C. C. Burrows and her daughter Mrs. Jesse Cox traveled to Claremore Saturday morning to visit Mrs. Burrows' sister Mrs. W. F. Hays for the weekend.
Arthur Sanzo leaves for Oakland California to join a glass factory as a pattern maker, continuing the same work he performed at the local plant.
John and Red Dougherty of Purcell Ed Gill of Tishomingo and Sam King of Paoli returned to East Central the day after Christmas to continue with their basketball practice.
Miss Ruth Turner of Sasakwa returns today. At 5 30 o clock tonight The Sunset Hour Service of the First Christian church features a pageant titled The Court of Father Time presenting the Months of the Year and a Time message. Mr and Mrs Jack Jackson of 707 West Ninth left for Fort Worth Texas to visit relatives over the weekend. Miss Wilma Davenport of Okemah will return today to be here when school reopens tomorrow.
Miss Mamie McCormick spent holidays with relatives in Sedalia Missouri. Mrs B Deaver visited with her parents in Shawnee over the holidays. A Pollock returned Friday after visiting relatives in Idabelle. Dr Bradshaw spent the holidays with relatives in Missouri. J W Brown minister of the Church of Christ spent the holidays with his parents in Dallas Texas and will preach at 11 today. Miss Gertrude Davis returned to Lamar after visiting Mae Davis. Olive Casey returned home after holidays with her father in Shawnee. Mrs B B Catton hosts guests at 123 W Thirteenth Street.
The news mentions Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Gullatt and their young son Billy of Wetumka, another son Emmis Gullatt in Oklahoma City, and Miss Mae Davis of this city as parents in Lamar.
A Town Doctor essay urges Ada to seize opportunities for factories and housing, urging residents to act on available economic potential. The piece stresses knowing Ada’s strengths and weaknesses and getting moving toward readiness for development. A separate court filing alleges a former husband portrayed as entangled in a troubled marriage and affecting his mental state.
Mr and Mrs Orville Snead came home Saturday after visiting relatives in Dallas and Rockwall Texas They left on the day before Christmas.
Walker Story leaves for Muskogee today following a Christmas holiday visit with his friend Leon Todd in this city.
Miss Marie Southern longtime college alumna and Tulip teaching nearby Tupelo arrived in the city yesterday to be guest of Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Needham at 1018 High School for several days.
Guests at Mr. and Mrs. John L. Case over Christmas included Mrs. Ralph Budd of Temple Texas, Harry W. Thompson of Memphis Tennessee, W. H. Whitesides of Dawson Texas, and Mr. and Mrs. George Clark of Tulsa. They departed for home the latter part of the week.
John and Ben Wheeler of Merkel Texas, brothers of R O Wheeler, have returned to their homes after visiting Mr and Mrs R O Wheeler for the holidays.
Mrs Mattie Mooreland has returned to her home in Chattanooga Tennessee after a Christmas visit to Mr and Mrs R O Wheeler of this city.
Ada Evening News with Ada Lion Club presents a town doctor feature from 1929. Reproduction prohibited in whole or part. Copyright 1929 A D Stone.
The pastor Clyde Calhoun Morris urges all resident church members to attend Sunday morning service to hear the sermon on Ada Baptists Going Forward. Non members are invited as matters of supreme importance to the church will be discussed.
In southern Kentucky, No. 6 and residents tried to halt a bandits' car after a bank robbery at Oakland. Kirby was killed during the confrontation. The car was abandoned and about $400 of the roughly $700 stolen money was recovered from the scene.
Weunch of Joplin Missouri was named ancillary receiver for the Missouri Kansas Zinc Corporation by federal judges in Missouri and Kansas. An involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed in New York on December 24, with Irving Trust Company named receiver on behalf of Benjamin Graham. The company, facing insolvency with liabilities over 1.25 million, owns equipment valued at 600 thousand and holds mines in Jasper County and leases in Cherokee County Kansas.
Alexander Pantages, a wealthy vaudeville magnate, asks the appellate court for temporary freedom on bond while appealing a conviction for assault on Eunice Pringle. Superior Judge George Kricke denied bail after a hearing noting Pantages’s frail health and illness.
They Had to See Paris opens a 3 day engagement at the McSwain Theatre with Will Rogers as Pike Peters of Oklahoma. Irene Rich Marguerite Churchill Owen Davis Jr. Fifi Dorsay Rex Bell and others star in a Sophie Wachner costume creation debate on Hollywood as fashion capital.
Leonard Kip Rhinelander, heir to a New York family, secured a divorce in Las Vegas from his wife Alice Jones Rhinelander. The proceeding, granted yesterday, was not contested and Mrs Rhinelander had no representation. Rhinelander arrived a year ago to establish residence before filing against the daughter of a New Rochelle coachman.
In Chicago on December 28, Sergeant Tony Hintz of the Calumet City police arrested a man who proved to be a mesmerist. The sergeant doubted the claim but prepared to demonstrate the craft. The incident follows the suspenseful long count reference to Gene Tunney at Soldier Field.
A sergeant tests a mesmerist with nonsense words and a bark routine. The trick escalates as the mesmerist asks the sergeant to count to 1000, the sergeant succeeds, and the illusion vanishes. The fragment also lists names and ages in Ada and Sasakwa. The passage ends with a stray stock market aside about heavily watered stock.
A list of individuals with ages and hometowns seeking or obtaining marriage licenses. Names include Carl Davis 21 Lula, Cleo Polk 18 Stonewall, Carl Woolly 21 Lula, Annie Reed 18 Lula, Andrew Cloughey 22 Cleveland Okla. Wonnie Patrick 24 Allen, Cl aud Sharp 22 Ada, Filetta Preyear 18 Ada, Charley M Clarke 21 Ada, Caldonia Allen 24 Arkansas City Kan, Lilbern Allen 27 Centrahoma, Elois Hudgins 18 Centrahoma, Ivan Salter 21 Francis, Eunice Mary Cloud 17 Francis, R K Iker 20 Allen, Lucile Holley 15 Ada.
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