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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1919
Page
5
An advertisement touts Calotabs as a nausea free liver booster to prevent influenza and pneumonia. It claims one tablet at bedtime cures a cold by morning with no side effects, sold by druggists for thirty five cents with a money back guarantee.
Ohnadriey Mosier tours New Mexico with his brother Lon while Mrs. Bailey returns from California to visit Mr. W. W. Norton. Mrs. Brandon visits Maxwell relatives as flu cases ease and Miss Mary Rushing is the only new patient. Rain delays plowing as Berry Smith plans to leave. School enrollment improves and residents report a rare sight a hen with six young turkeys.
Summers Chapel reports a busy period of land work and preparations. Uncle Wiley Davidson was injured breaking land and confined to his room. A pie supper raised 14.95 for school needs including a basketball and other items. Several local visits and family news are noted, including a birth on the 23rd, a church appointment, and ill health updates.
Washington January 29. The senate committee on contingent expense approved a favorable report on the resolution for the Michigan Ford Newberry senatorial campaign inquiry. The vote was strictly along party lines.
Small attendance this week due to heavy rain and high creeks. New entrants listed include Bill, Lester, Grace Austin, John Hinton, and Carl Nunner. Various local trips and visits noted, with plans to boost turnout for the next third Sunday.
A humorous meditation on changing social habits from old time parties to slang about roosters and cockerels, telegraph boys, and the oddities of street life. The narrator contrasts living characters like painted ladies and pill peddlers with the notion that the living expose both good and bad in a quirky modern world.
The Center Community Builders Association met at Mrs. J. J. Copeland’s home with a good crowd. The main topic was building a new church in Center. Miss Lillie Gresham of Ada visited Miss Esther Sutherland Sunday. Center high boys lost basketball 18 to 24 to E C N last Saturday. Nettie Brandon and Myrtle Sutherland spent weekend in Ross. Lois Sloan hosted a youth gathering Friday. The Center gun was destroyed by fire last Wednesday with unknown cause.
G B Smeathers on a motorcycle traveling toward town on East Main was injured in a collision with an automobile driven by Mrs J L Barringer heading toward the normal. Smeathers sustained shoulder and ankle injuries but they were not serious. Immediate medical attention was given and damage to vehicles was minor.
Lieut. O. Locklear of the aviation service from Fort Worth Texas is pictured in two feats. He hangs by his legs from the axle of a machine 500 feet aloft waiting for another plane to fly beneath him, then lands safely on a wing of the second aircraft. The photos were taken from a third machine. Locklear has long been interested in aircraft and built one of the first airplanes in Texas. He is a nephew of Mrs. James Fauntleroy of Ada.
Sergt. C. T. Davidson informs his mother he is waiting for his time to come home. He expects to spend a few weeks in Germany and plans to be back at the camp by the time the letter arrives.
From Har old Constant in France comes word of his steady ascent to sergeant major of his battalion. He notes he was on the front seventy seven days before the armistice. Local readers also hear of recoveries, arrivals, and visits as soldiers and townsfolk move through wartime days.
Daily Judge notices Mr and Mrs C A Galbraith have moved back from Oklahoma City and occupy rooms at W H Ebey and wife home until they can obtain possession of their own residence. Mrs Mabel Lee Hurd of Francis dies after long illness. Body shipped to Little Rock Ark for burial. she leaves husband and three children. Sidney Cassidy, son of H J Cassidy, discharged from the navy after wartime service including a shipwreck injury and continued duty for Uncle Sam.
J L Sizemore departed Sunday for Mc Alester to pursue the de grees in the consistory. Mrs J C Cates suffered a stroke Sunday morning, paralyzing the left side.
Brussels reports severe hardship as prices soar for food coffee meat and sugar while wages lag. Markets close and streets fill with idle crowds as Belgium rebuilds railways telegraphs and roads after German destruction. The piece criticizes reliance on professional politicians and urges active citizen participation in democracy.
A wartime verse laments weariness of service with lines about the old Depot Brigade and K P duties. Community notes report illness and visits from Camp Funston Kansas and local residents including Bonnie Mitchell and Edna Brown.
A fragment discusses the belief that certain people are by birth suited for politics and public life, reflecting on historical views of governance and leadership.
The piece argues that suspending newspaper ads even briefly would harm commerce nationwide. It cites a Chicago pressmen strike as a past example where reduced ad pages disrupted business, noting large cities rely on newspapers for rapid, widespread advertising and daily consumer demand.
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