Rural Communities of Pontotoc County News Highlights Local Notes
Weekend visits in Vanoss Ada and Sunshine. Burial of Molly Bohannon in Vanoss First Baptist with pastor Teague. School recess due to scarlet fever threat. weather brings winter conditions and upcoming revival. Latta and Worstell basketball results and community events including marriages and gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E
Molly) Bohannon
Alex
Okla
Old Midland
First Baptist Church
Vaness
Eld. F. E. Teague
Bohannon
Ano
J. W. Law and
R. M. Crumpton
Local couples wed and visit across towns in Oklahoma
Miss Bessie Sinclair and Theo Hoggatt wed on Monday and will reside in California. Several residents including Joe Scott, Clara Fish, Edgar French, and Mrs. Eula Williams are noted visitors and movers. A birthday party hosted by Mrs. Ernest Miller featured many attendees from Tulsa and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Sinclair
Theo Hoggatt
California
Joe Scott
Fitzhugh
Clara Fish
Ada
Edgar French
Queen City
Texas
John Murphy
Howard Elkins
Loman
Elkins
LaVerne Odom
Oklahoma City
Eula Williams
Barnsdall
Tom Godby
St. Louis Mo
Bill Godby
Nancy Sallee
Walton and Daughters
Tulsa
Bud Murphy
Pat French
Ernest Miller
Melva Gibson
Esta Lee Murphy
Esther, Fish
Mary Ann Elkins
LaVerne Weaver
Hazel Beck
Alice Slagle
Ortha Garrison
Francis Byrd
Margaret Johnson
Sybil Jennings
Moffett Nyche
Oleta France
Edna G. Johnson
Jona Mae Harper
Helen Beck
George C. McKay
Morris Harper
Jim Byrd
Chas. Dehoney
Matt Hillis
M. C. Jennings
John Elkins
Glenn Jones
Deward Miller
Pete Engram
Raymond Brown
Ralph Dennis
Chester Dodd
Cold Weather Notes From Local Social Roundup
Community gossip lists visits and ailments as residents endure cold. Ona Boucher, May Barnett, and several others share days with friends and neighbors. Lonnie Buchanan and Etta Hilton are mentioned in illness updates while families move and miss others in club activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxwell
Ona Boucher
May Barnett
W. A. Berry
Lora Ellis
Mae Barnett
C. A. Barnett
Mildred Barnett
Earnest Hampton
Mary Tyree
Edna Buchanan
Lonnie Buchanan
Etta Hilton
Laura Isaacs
Loretta Walden
Etta Ellis
Mona Jean Carmichael
Ruth
Louise Bailey
Pauline Barnett
Ruth Bailey
J. W. Tipps
Ada
Tipps
Dikes Boucher
Nora Bailey
Winter Sickness Affects Local Farmers In Ada Area
The community notes widespread illness while farmers welcome home winter. Names include Mrs Ragland Billie Workman and Jess Ward s baby with various visits and travel among Ada Hartshorne Holdenville and surrounding towns. Many local residents visit relatives and attend events, with lingering health concerns noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ragland
Billie Workman
Jess Ward
J. R. Newby
Shue
Winston Myers
Odar Wardlow
Lee Fowler
Whitehead
Wardlow
Mary Workman
Ada
Ruth Wilson
Summers Chapel Community Notes Show Early Winter Signs
The Summers Chapel column reports cold winds and a steady social scene with a midweek pie supper raising funds for school yard improvements and community gatherings at Jewell Burk’s in honor of Lorena Walker. It covers club officer elections, visits, dances, sports wins for the Rebee basketball team, farewells, and a large farewell dinner for L. W. and Russell Easley and Yollie Lane with music, games, and food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old North Wind
Juanita Bureh
Lee Tucker
Jewell Burk’s
Lorena Walker
Seminole
Aubrey Ruth
Prentiss Horton
Center
Bud Horton
Campbell
Lawson
Abbott
E. A. Easley
L. W. and
Russell Easley
Yollie Lane
Oil Center
Maxwell
Summers Chapel
Rebee
Latta
Ada
Pickett
Galey
Oklahoma City
Maudine Bullock
Mrs. Edwards
Glenda Easley
L. G. Robertson
Vernon Robertson
S. M. Green
Los Angeles
California
George Flowers
Arizona
Texas
K A. Easley
Trave East
Jester Flowers
Shamrock
Young reformer found guilty in Arkansas plantation case
Norman Thomas and Commonwealth College supporters vow to aid Ward Rogers Vanderbilt graduate in appealing a six months jail term and 500 dollar fine for urging tenants to overthrow the government. The trial linked to efforts to abolish the plantation sharecropper system and possible threats of violence were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Rodgers
Mary Connor Myers
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
South
Marked Tree
United States
Reilly Clinches Fingerprint Debate in Lindbergh Trial
No. 2 Edward J. Reilly challenged Kelly on fingerprint evidence in the Lindbergh case trial. The defense lawyer demonstrated with paper and powder, arguing prints were of no value on the nursery note and ladder, while noting New York expert Hudson’s claimed 500 prints using silver nitrate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Reilly
Defense Legal
Kelly
Reilly
Thomas W. Tranchard
Chambers
New York
H. M. Hudson
David T. Wilentz
Lindbergh
Conway Miller to Lead Services This Weekend
The local pastor Conway R. Miller will fill his regular appointment Sunday and Sunday night. Weather brings rain Friday through Sunday with a freeze expected Sunday night into Monday. Grandpa and Sherwood Wallace drove to Ada Saturday. June Sawyers of Ada and Hilger Kifer of Steedman were part of yesterday’s events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Denton
Alton
Alberta Sutton
Hughes
Ona
Tiner
Sutton
Mr. Hughes
Mr. Hayes
Ona Hughes
Mae McDaniel
Ada
William Miller
Knox
Leroy McDaniel
Lorene Allen
Juanita
Eulah Simpson
Illamae Crawford
Jean Munger
Albert Munger
Ww. H. Bandy
Denny
Bernice Wilson
Paul . Higginbotham
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Wayne Moberly
Addie McDonald
Betty Jo
John
Edith Foxx
R. W. Miller
Grandpa
Sherwood Wallace
June Sawyers
Hilger Kifer
Steedman
Ada shoppers enjoy weekend visits and rain renewed mud
Mr and Mrs Quanah McDonald shopped in Ada on Saturday. Miss Maxine Jackson shopped and visited friends in Ada Saturday. Weather jokes about Old Winter and black mud accompany the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn
Ada
G. A. Pitt
A. E. Ford
Sunshine
G. M. Pitt
Quanah McDonald
Maxine Jackson
Rainy spell hits town with sickness and sports losses
The community faces more illness as flu and pneumonia rise. local teams lose two ball games and independent squad falls to Ada Phillips 66. January dates 25th and 26th are noted as upcoming events with 40 invited schools. Ada and Gladstone Hall attend games. Obituary for seven month old Patricia Dovalene McDaniel notes pneumonia and calls for sympathy.
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Tupelo
Ada
Gladstone Hall
Jim Whisenhunt
Lewis Echols
Joe Rodgers
Will Moore
Dan
Lillie
Fern and
Leroy
John Ray
Earl Phares
Lula Glover
Maude Harbin
Ernest Harbin
Carl J. Davis
Alford Cook
Clint Whisenhunt
Roy Hamilton
Herb Antle
In Memory of Franklin D. Palmer
A short obituary notes the birth on June 1 1933 and death on December 29 1934 of Franklin D Palmer. He is survived by his mother and father Mr and Mrs W M Palmer two brothers Eugene and Calvin and twin sister Joyce Marie. A poem by cousin Gertrude Penrod Ada Route 5 accompanies the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard McDaniel
Little Patricia Dovalene
Patricia
Jesus
Franklin D. Palmer
W. M. Palmer
Eugene
Calvin
Joyce Marie
Stonewall Baptist Urges Membership Drive and Regular Services
Stonewall Oklahoma report notes Baptists not attending church, with Pastor visiting homes to enlist members. The church adopted a new year's budget on January 13 and now has treasury funds. Sunday preaching is scheduled and congregants are urged to attend and support offerings.
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First Baptist Church
Vaness
Okla
Milford Hale Evans
Y. C. Horton
The
Baptist Association
Ada
R. S. Jones
Richmond
OO. B. U
Stonewall
Clay Gregory
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