Treatise on Cotton Growing and Boll Weevil Control
Byron Norrell and Hardy Diaz advocate a fall plow and bed system to protect cotton in the South. They urge thorough soil preparation, dead-plant removal, and use of disk and brush tools to combat the boll weevil, with emphasis on preparedness and soil fertility through humus formation.
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Hardy Dia
Rei
Farher
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Theim
Crows prove ally to farmer in McKinney report
A McKinney farmer reports crows are busy near his fields and may prove useful, challenging the common view of crows as pests. This item continues on Page Two.
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McKinney
New Faces Seen in Court House Family Changes
New county officials begin a two year term after filing bonds and preparing to take over duties. Sheriff Joe Sloan succeeds Bob Duncan. J W Dean becomes county attorney. Under sheriff P H Deal and deputies W B Walker and W W Walker join the Sloan administration.
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Court House
Joe Sloan
Bob Duncan
J. W. Dean
J. W. Bolen
Crawford
L. Franklin
Nickle
Rit Erwin
B. C. Harbert
J. W. Westbrook
A. Floyd
P. H. Deal
Sloan
W. B. Walker
W. W. Walker
W. S. Condren
Jim Byrd
Stonewall
Ada
Ada Georgia Weather Summary from Past Year
Weather observer reports total yearly precipitation of 35.93 inches near Ada with 68 rainy days and 226 clear days. December yielded 0.63 inches and 3 rain days, while August saw the record high 107 degrees and March the low 10 degrees.
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E. A. MacMillan
Ada
Harding vetoes pension bill for veterans
President Harding vetoed the Brusum bill that would raise pensions for civil and Mexican war veterans. He criticized the increased government spending as heedless and objected to the bill’s liberal provisions for pensioned widows.
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Harding
Washington
Turk Uprising Reported in Mosul Iraki Oil Region
An official Angora telegram reports a rising in Mosul within Irak demanding the territory be ceded to Turkey. The insurgents are described as occupying the oil producing area and seeking Turkish control.
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Constantinople
Mosul
Irak
Angora
Turkey
Court sessions scheduled here for January opening
Court officials anticipate a heavy caseload as Ada and Pontotoc county resume court activity after a January 15 adjournment. Grand jury and civil terms will begin January 15 with 48 jurors called for both grand and civil juries, as District Judge J W Bolen takes over in district court.
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Tal Crawford
J. W. Bolen
Boley
Ada
Pontotocc
Oklahoma Senate Begins Ninth Legislature With Salary Bill
Oklahoma City Jan. 2. Senate opened for the ninth legislature with a bill by Senator Cordell to make whiskey sellers whose product causes death guilty of murder and another bill to make possession of any distilling apparatus a felony. The session also heard Governor Robertson’s farewell as Clark Nicholas introduced a plan to raise state official salaries on average 100 percent with specific new pay scales for each office.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Harry D. Cordell
Manitou
Oklahoma
Cordell
M. E. Trapp
W. M. Wilson
Committee On Employment
Tom Anglin
Robertson
Clark Nicholas
Eufaula
Charities and Corrections
Board of Agriculture
Heavy county court docket faces ten day hearing
J. W. Dean and G. W. Burris, new county attorney and assistant, tackle a crowded docket in a ten day session starting yesterday. Judge Tal Crawford presides as motions demurrers and non jury matters are handled. The County vs Callie Cunningham Oliver Jackson and Bill Chambers for illicit manufacturing of liquor occupies the morning with jury selection.
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J. W. Dean
G. W. Burris
Dean
Burris
Callie Cunningham
Oliver Jackson
Bill Chambers
Tal Crawford
Reformers Question Broad Film Barring Over Actor Involvement
Movie reformers weigh a drastic step to bar films featuring any actors connected to use of certain industry practices. Debate centers on blanket exclusion versus targeted reforms amid ongoing industry scrutiny.
Socialists Break With Walton's Support in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City January 1 delegates at the state socialist party convention condemn Governor-elect J C Walton and the Oklahoma Leader as misleaders. They call for the release of all prisoners convicted for wartime activities and denounce acts by Oscar Ameringer Pat Nagel and others. Stanley J Clark of Dallas led the main speech.
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Oklahoma City
J. C. Walton
Oklahoma Leader
Oklahoma Socialist Party
Walton
Democratic Party
Socialist Party
Cooperative Commonwealth
Oklahoma
Millwaukee
Oscar Ameringer
Pat Nagel
Stanley J. Clark
Dallas
Kidnap Probe Focuses on Morhouse Case Near Spyker La
Bastrop reports state justice agents and federal investigators probe an alleged kidnapping of Harrell Teegerstrom time keeper for a Carbon plant at Spyker Louisiana by sixteen men using six cars with plates removed or covered. Teegerstrom was taken at midnight Friday and may testify at next Friday’s public hearing. Henry Jones, a nearby millman, lent Teegerstrom forty dollars before he disappeared.
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Bastrop
Department of Justice
Freq
Taggest
Henry Jones
Teegerstrom
Jones
Public hearing on Dr. McKain's return to Louisiana
Governor Ritchie ordered a public hearing here next Wednesday to decide whether Dr. B. M. McKain should be sent back to Louisiana. The move follows a formal request from Morhouse parish officials in Louisiana, signed by Governor Parker and Attorney General Coco.
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Baltimore
B. M. MecKain
Louisiana
Ritchie
Calhoun
Morhouse Parish
Glynn
New Orleans
McKain
Parker
Coco
Old Pillow Cases Made into Useful Bags
Old pillow cases dyed deep blue become sturdy bags ideal for packing baby clothes and fine table linens not for regular use. The simple repurposing highlights frugal craft and practical storage.
Sapulpa Race Tensions Ease After Police Slayings Incident
After a night of tension in Sapulpa a cordon of over sixty officers and deputized citizens kept negro and white districts separate. A white mob attack left one policeman dead and four officers wounded. Fire destroyed four Ed Glass properties. Glass and three others remained at large as a $100 reward was offered for captures.
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Sapulpa
Ed Glass
Glass
Walton Victory Reinforces Oklahoma Caucus Leadership
Governor elect J C Walton wins landslide. Tom Anglin of Holdenville named president pro tempore with Murray Gibbons as speaker. McAlister re elected secretary of senate and state election board. W J Holloway withdraws for Anglin. Dave Stovall loses to Walton backed slate. Wash Hudson unopposed as caucus chairman. Carl Monk named secretary. Committees appointed. Louthan sergeant at arms. W M Wilson chaplain. McBride messenger. Cordell re appointed reading clerk. FE B Collins to head engrossing and enrolling.
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Oklahoma City
J. C. Walton
Tom Anglin
Holdenville
Senate
Murray Gibbons
Purcell
House
McAlister
Senate and
State Election Board
W. J. Holloway
Hugo
Anglin
Dave Stovall
Reconstruction League
Walton
Hudson
Wash Hudson
Clark Nichols
Eufaula
Carl Monk
McAlester
Monk
Holloway
Committee On Committees
Ross Lillard
Joseph C. Looney
Ada
W. M. Gulager
Muskogee
Charles E. McPherron
Durant
C. M. Feuquay
Chandler
L. L. West
Hydro
Wallace G. Hughes
Guymon
Dick Louthan
Chickasha
W. M. Wilson
Jennings McBride
William Cordell
FE. B. Collins
Four Rebels Executed in Ireland Dispatch Says
A Dublin dispatch reports four rebels arrested in the Traylee district were executed by the Free State today. Named were Matthew Maroneyn, Thomas Devane, Cornelius Casey, and Dermot O Connor.
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London
Dublin
Evening Standard
Traylee
Free State
Matthew Maronoeyn
Thomas Devane
Cornelius Casey
Dermot O’connor
Reported Differences in China Now Settled
An unconfirmed report circulated that Canton factions settled their difficulties and that the southern party would recognize the Peking administration as representing a united China.
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China
Peking
Canton
South China
Consolidation Creates Ada First National Bank
Officials from The First National Bank and Merchants and Planters National Bank of Ada merge to form the First National Bank of Ada with assets near $2,000,000. P. A. Norris chairs the board and remains influential, while J. I. McCauley serves as cashier and key executives from both banks continue in principal roles.
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First National Bank
Merchants and Planters National Bank
First National Bank of
Ada
Consolidated Bank
P. A. Norris
F. P. Lieuallen
L. C. Kelley
N. B. Haney
J. A. Smith
J. I. McCauley
Norris
Choctaw Cotton Oil Company
Osage Cotton Oil Company
Jackson
Lieuallen
Kelley
Kansas
Fourth National Bank of
Wichita
Oklahoma State Bank
C. H. Rives
Oklahoma
Security National
H. W. Wells
W. M. Pegg
Overlooked County Official John Ward Named Weigher
Sunday issue of the News omits John Ward from county officials list. Ward, a Mississippi native, longtime Pontotoc county resident at Center, has earned broad respect and now secures his third term as county weigher.
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John Ward
Mississippi
Pontotoc County
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Byron Norrell
Heavy County Court
Solialists
Clark
Rauial
Gibbons
Get. Walton
Dispatch
Ireland
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