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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1925
Page
6
The editor notes unpredictable Oklahoma weather and cuts Sunday correspondents weather references. He seeks reader opinions on the cross work puzzle feature and invites letters to gauge reader preferences.
Miss Rowena Asbury of Galey and Elmer Ward, both of Galey, aged 16 and 18, quietly wed Saturday night with Reverend Moody officiating. Numerous visits, gatherings, and church activities fill the week, including prayer meetings, school notices, and community notes from Ada to Stratford.
Miss Ruth Piie spent Thursday evening with Mrs. Johnnie Foster while Mrs. Bud Creech visited her mother Mrs. J J Webb last week. Ada trips involve Johnnie Foster W T Price Ed Chapman and Arties Ethel Smith. Several residents listed their sickness and visits across Vanoss Rosedale Parsons Stratford and Payson Oklahoma with many social calls and a scarlet fever improvement update.
Sunday night at Bebee drew a large crowd for singing. Neatta Roddy spent Tuesday night with Mamie Farmer. Maxwell beat Bebee 23 to 14 in basketball on the Bebee ground. Teachers attend Ada meeting Thursday night. Several residents visited relatives in Ada and Cromwell Oklahoma. A large Sunday school crowd gathered and children spent time with grandma Rains.
The weekly roundup lists guests visiting the Manley and nearby families including J. F. Manley Oct Myrtle and Lora South Novella Manley and others. School progress noted with forty five pupils. Various local families hosted Sunday and Saturday gatherings and nightly calls across the area.
BLUE MOUND area church services were well attended with social visits across Ada Hickory Pontotoc and Sunshine. Residents note cooler weather and desire for rain while listing numerous Saturday and Sunday visits, dinners, and prayer meetings at various homes and farms.
Eighty eight attended Sunday school as the Sun beams class elected Inez Conventon president and Minta Lee Rushing secretary. Local families, visits, and social gatherings are noted, including Ada visitors and village residents spending Sundays with kin and friends. A pie supper raised 24 dollars and 65 cents.
Francis J T Fulton was seriously hurt last Tuesday after being caught between his car and a wall. He is now able to be out again. Oklahoma Pipe Line company has all machinery installed and is pumping twenty four hours daily. They are working on the grounds to beautify the site. Last Saturday morning, old but fragmentary text continues.
Sol and Miss Luna play hide and seek while Francis people watch through smoked glass as a cloud blocks view. Drill at the oil well in section 19 57 reaches 3200 feet with oil prospects. J B Pearson opens a cafe on West Main in the old Boggs building. he is from Ada. Cold north wind chills residents. farming and planting delayed. Windsor and Allgood plan a general blacksmith and repair shop on Rowland Avenue. Light snow and near zero temperatures give way to a sunny day and rising mercury.
Bro. Ford preached to a large audience on Saturday and Sunday. Francis joined Misses Edna and Eula Reed as guests, with Lilla Perry visiting Ruth McCord. Claude Owensby visited Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCord, while Edgar and Hillard Oliver of Ada stayed with Calvin McCord. Ahloso defeated Union Valley 36 to 18 on Thursday. Sunday school and singing were urged for Sunday at 10 o'clock.
Attendees across Egypt and nearby locales enjoyed a Saturday singing at Dee Campbell's with note of 42.64 dollars raised for new song books and lights. Neighbors including Opal Jones Autry Yancey Graham and Roddy families share visits and church events through the week.
Mr and Mrs George Laseman and daughter visited in Roff Saturday. Hazel Mitchell and Bernice Gilland stayed with Blanche Tyree Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs J A Feaster and her mother spent Sunday with Rosa Lynch. Willie Teaman visited Troy Whitaker Saturday night. Mr Kelly returned from Sherman after visiting his hospitalised son. Cerile Winnie and Zetta Whitaker drove to Lawrence Sunday. O M Lynch J A Feaster and son went to Laxton Sunday. Mrs Leonard Laseman and Hettie Laseman dined with Corbett Smith Sunday.
Regular services by Bro Yandell as community notes report. The piece includes visits, family updates, a pie supper proceeds for yard work, school absences, basket ball team formation, and upcoming preaching events at the parish chapel with neighbors from Gazebo and Ada.
Miss Jessie Allen joined Miss Nellie Prewett as guest. A Sunshine Sunday night prayer meeting drew Nellie, Minnie, Maye, Hattie Prewett, Minnie, Myrtle and Irene Shackleford, Rosa Brady, Letha Rice, Ruth, Bettie and Jessie Allen, with Jake and George in attendance.
Mr and Mrs E A Hester visited the Hagler home Tuesday night last week Miss Letha Rice from Ada spent the weekend with Miss Hattie Prewett Lena Rucker called on the Hagler home Sunday afternoon Jake Odom had dinner with Jack Prewett Sunday A Little Kitten.
Hogs hovered around 11 cents in Oklahoma City with Kansas paying up to 11.15 per cwt for two carloads. Receipts were light, packers seeking hog patronage, with bulk sales at 10 to 11 dollars. Stockers and butcher pigs brought 7.50 to 8.75, packing sows 9.50 to 10.10. market over four dollars above a year ago.
The Oklahoma City based Cotton Growers Association distributed 1,210,000 dollars to its members. The payout highlights shared profits from the season and supports cooperative member finances.
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