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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1929
Page
4
A longtime editor explains how newspapers serve diverse readers by mixing sports, legislature, markets, editorials, society, and serials. Pardons and corruption rumors touch politics. calls for improved enforcement, highway work, and local library gain attention. Oklahoma growth, Hoover era reform, and local industry plans frame the issue.
Four youths were caught with stolen dry goods valued at about 300 dollars from the 231 West Main street store owned by Marshall Jones. They hid items under cottonseed at the oil mill and intended to move them to Seminole before being arrested. Indictments were filed against those in possession, marking a second robbery attempt in months.
No. 6 net selections with the president elect during a brief forenoon conference. He declined to detail his conversation. Representative Cramton of Michigan voiced opposition to moving the prohibition enforcement unit from treasury to justice. Former Senator Owen of Oklahoma, a Hoover supporter, paid respects. Also present were Representative Sumners of Texas and Pat Neff, former Texas governor.
Abstractors report a quiet period for leasing in the county with September and October the last busy months. Royalty deals surge with new wells, especially near Stonewall, while many leases expire and renewals occur. Northern sections remain saturated with leases, and overall oil activity has little current impact on abstracting work.
Mr. Neff, backed by the president elect for the labor board, did not meet Mr. Hoover but spoke with Hoover’s assistant George Akerson. The encounter suggests groundwork for labor board appointments and ongoing advisory talks.
Capt. S. H. Hargis returned from Oklahoma City where he urged a bill to raise Confederate veterans pensions to five dollars monthly Senator Jess Pullen of Sulphur agreed to introduce the measure and promises strong support.
Della Owens appeared before Justice of the Peace T. Cullins and was sentenced to 36 days in the county jail and fined 25 dollars plus costs after admitting she passed a check to the Marshall Jones store with insufficient funds.
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