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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1912
Page
5
Fragmentary financial note shows liabilities, capital stock, surplus and undivided profits figures with small negative adjustment. Missing context prevents full interpretation but indicates balance sheet components and a minor deficit.
Advertises a combined one year mail subscription for the Tulsa World and Ada Weekly News at a total $3.00, listing individual prices as $4.00 and $1.00, urging immediate payment by check.
Ada correspondent reports Editor Clark of the Francis Wig ram visiting the city today.
A Guthrie Leader baseball column cites Lon Ury as saying catcher Arthur Jeffries named towns in Oklahoma during a tour with a bloomier girl group. He supposedly gave Maud the town first, then Ada named for Maud’s companion, making Ada a county seat in a prosperous region.
Sidna Edwards age 22, captured by a posse in Hillsville Virginia after a week in the Blue Ridge thickets. He is accused of murder in the courthouse killings that left a judge, a prosecutor, a sheriff and two bystanders dead and two wounded. Jack Allen joins the pursuit toward other Allen family members including Wesley Edwards and Sidna Allen.
A note from Harper's Weekly hints at an upcoming publication about Theodore Roosevelt. The piece mocks critics and defends Roosevelt as a steadfast public figure who has long shaped speech and action with clarity.
In Norman Oklahoma Judge McMillen presided as the Rutry murder trial drew a large crowd including many women. Defense witnesses testified they heard two shots before the general firing while the shooting occurred near the school yard. They alleged the school party fired first and that Colby and Stovall were unarmed. The state prepared to impeach this testimony with further evidence and photographs as a map of the crime scene remained central to the case.
Rhode Island Reds lead winter egg production in the Mountain Grove Missouri egg laying contest. John Thrasher invites buyers to see his eggs and hens offering settings of 15 for 1.50 dollars. 611 West Third Street.
F P Lieuallen Bailey Bobbith Jesse Warren and Murrell Matthews returned from Roff elated over organizing a Young Men's Democratic club Saturday evening. Sixty members joined with Clay Jones elected president. The group plans to discuss current questions and hold a debate on Federal judges at the Friday meeting on April 5.
The Scientific American cites 400 miles of first class roads in Oklahoma out of 72 000 miles of public highways. Delaware with under 2000 square miles has 3000 miles surfaced with stone gravel shells or sand clay. Kansas shows the strongest push for improving roads.
Fort Smith Arkansas March 22 General Manager W M Bushnell of the Ft Smith and Western Railway Company owner of the Sans Bois Coal company says the death list at the Sans Bois mine in Mc Curtain Ok will not exceed seventy men. Twelve bodies were recovered today bringing the total to sixty four. Fourteen rescued alive making twenty five survivors. three brothers and two brothers in law among the victims. Citizens have raised relief funds and supplies have been sent to Mc Curtain to aid the town amid famine conditions.
A man recalls doctors saying two years to live after a death diagnosis of consumption. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for his recovery and current health. The ad touts the remedy as the safest cure for coughs colds and lung trouble with trial bottles offered at G M Ramsey’s.
The road between Stonewall and Frisco was well attended and improved though not finished. Commissioner Richardson aided with arrangements and said county convicts would assist when Jesse road work starts. The plan lowers the southern hill and reroutes the road around the second hill.
The Pathfinder notes Oxford now has 175 Rhodes scholars with 90 Americans. Each receives 1500 dollars annually. Most opt for jurisprudence and other practical courses. few pursue the “greats” classics. Since 1910, 250 Rhodes alumni left Oxford mainly into teaching, law, pulpit work, and medicine.
Tom Morris of Sasakwa aged 23 and Esther Richie of Gesakwa aged 17 obtained a marriage license. The union was recorded under local civil authorities.
A conference between ex Gov Haskell and supporters of Robert Galbreath led to George Keys of Lawton being named state Democratic chairman to succeed Fred P Branson. The move favors Haskell Galbreath forces and pressures Wagoner man Tom Harrell, with internal divisions over committee choices and potential substitutions of Boon Williams of Lehigh.
In the tally jky-one and Linebaugh have twenty seven votes leaving eighteen that may go to Harrell. Linebaugh is said to withdraw in favor of Harrell but his support cannot be solidly transferred. The election of a chairman occurs here on April 6.
Washington dispatches say Lorimer will again be given a clean bill of health by the senate. Yet he has received no such approval from the people of the nation. Brickbats mark the reaction from the citizenship.
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