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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1920
Page
8
Washington reports Food Administrator Figg predicts a 25 percent drop in living costs before June 1 after talks with business leaders. He cites cooperation from manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers and notes textile imports and wage-advance limits as key factors driving relief for households.
Cardiff moves from clerks to millionaires as ships become gold, with odds and ends of fortunes from £200 investments to £500,000 windfalls. A former porter runs sixteen companies while a 21 year old inheritor controls eleven ships.
Notice states Pontotoc County will hold an election on January 24, 1920 to decide issuing two hundred thousand dollars in negotiable coupon bonds to fund a combined courthouse and jail. Voters will decide for or against the proposition with semiannual interest at 5.5 percent and a 25 year term. Precincts, polling hours, and eligibility rules are listed, with names of election officers and polling places across Ada and surrounding townships.
The Associated Press reports that two rebel chiefs were captured by the federal government in Mexico in recent days. Luis Medina Barron, a key figure in the rebellion in the state of C, surrendered with his personal staff.
Women financiers Miss Isabella Milmoe and Miss Irma Atwater organize a drilling venture in Snake Hollow near McKeesport Pennsylvania as gas field activity booms. Local land prices rise sharply while new wells attract bold financing and wildcat excitement. The article also includes court notices from Pontotoc Oklahoma and a tax deed notice in Ada Oklahoma.
Paris reports the French government granted permission to move 20 000 American soldiers buried in France to the United States. The transfers cover graves outside army zones and exclude those in large American cemeteries within army zones.
Representative Scott Ferris returns from Oklahoma praising bank liquidity and crop gains while noting Republican momentum and strikes. He discusses the Senate race, the soldiers land bill, and then a Pontotoc County probate notice alerts guardians and unknown heirs of Steward Wright about estate claims and a March hearing in Ada Oklahoma.
William G. McAdoo argues for five years of federal control of railroads and the merchant marine to energize transport, stabilize exports, and meet postwar world trade. He links peace, economic order, and railroad funding to national prosperity and urges tax reform and industrial democracy.
If you need an auctioneer phone 598 or write William Esser Box 113 a11 tf.
Preliminary geological survey data show Alaska produced about $18.85 million in minerals in 1919, the lowest since 1910 and far below 1916. Copper output fell as prices dropped, gold value halved, with eight copper mines yielding 44.8 million pounds worth $8.5 million.
Cotton ginning in Pontotoc County for the 1919 crop reached 19 710 bales before December 13 with round bales counted as half. The 1918 figure for the same period was 13 084 bales, and farmers believe more cotton remains in the fields than ever before at this season.
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