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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1954
Page
1
Pontotoc County reports total assessed valuation rising by 211 794 as gains in real estate and public service offset a 388 980 fall in cattle. Personal and real estate rise 110 479 to 17 964 334 with intangibles at 3 703 534 and other categories lifting the grand total to 22 682 225.
Scores of people attended a community supper in Jesse raising about 140 dollars for cemetery improvements. Mrs. Chester Nix led the kitchen with a volunteer team while attendees from Stonewall Ada Konawa Connerville Tishomingo Pontotoc gathered after a 6:30 p.m. serving. A business meeting was postponed due to crowd size.
Charley L Moore and Annie Orell married in 1903 and settled in Center after a 1903 move from Lebanon. They share Center’s brief heyday as a cotton town with two cotton gins, Deadman Creek nearby, and a rough past at Corner.
Latta FFA under Jay C. Pruitt reports high honors for two students, James Price and Billy Houser, earning Junior Master Farmer state recognition. Pruitt surveys interest among local cattlemen in a $400 portable sprayer to treat about 4000 head, usable for fall grub and tick control. contact Latta School at 3262-R.
The July session of the Summers Chapel Home Demonstration Club, originally set for July 5, is postponed to July 12. Affected members should note the new meeting date.
Early Sunday morning Louis McDonald was thrown by a horse and dragged a distance, losing a large piece of hide. He groaned of an aching side as his wife was in California and did not return until Wednesday to provide care.
Summers Chapel correspondent Mrs. J. G. Nelson recalls Bob Kerr teaching at Summers Chapel. He carried lunch in an eight pound lard bucket and stayed with Mrs. Galey. Kerr coached the boys baseball team and once hit Rance Tucker in the stomach with a bat, yet he kept his votes in the deal.
A gubernatorial candidate arrives in Stonewall and sets up a loud speaker. Across the street a woman delivers a forceful talk while the man waits, watches his watch, and finally packs up and leaves defeated. The piece notes the woman’s dominance in the scene.
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