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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1957
Page
8
A large crowd at Pleasant Hill church celebrated the Coal County Fifth Sunday Singing with quartets from Dallas and the Stamps organization. About 2000 attendees enjoyed a beef feast donated by Frank King and a spread of baskets as locals hosted visitors and planned for next year.
Homecoming returns as Gene Jennings and family settle back in Oklahoma from California. Ada visitor Glenda Gypson shares time with grandmother Mrs. Barrett. Rural notes report illnesses, hospital updates, and family gatherings across communities.
A traditional Father's Day menu centers on porterhouse steak. Reba Stages offers simple broiling tips with a 1 inch steak 2 inches from heat or a 2 inch steak 3 inches away, then finishing on the second side. Accompaniments include french fries carrots salad sour cream dressing bread and apple pie.
The piece discusses July weather as wet and cool with a chance of a strong fall garden, suggesting substitutions in vegetables and a focus on ground preparation by August 10. It notes squash bugs and red spider issues and recommends treatments, plus guidance on peach tree borers and berry crops. It introduces hog parlors as a new efficiency concept and estimates potential 30 percent return on 50 hogs, then briefly mentions household pests in summer.
Summers Chapel Free Will Baptist Church hosted a Sunday with 61 attendees and two sermons by Rev. Scott Jones. The column lists numerous local visitors, birthdays, trips, and family gatherings centered on the Nelson, Ellis, and Wood families, plus casual remarks on weather and friendly notes.
Local notices recount visits among neighbors and relatives across Ada Oklahoma including Cowper Cowker Ray Cox Ellis Nelson and several families. It mentions hospitalities, church attendance, travel from Carlsbad and Clifton and efforts in tuberculosis case finding.
Martha Mote and Yaldene Koqzel announce a 4H record book workshop led by Miss Mary Abbott on July 1 at 9 30 AM at the First Baptist Church Ada. Bring record books pencils and paper. forms furnished. Entries due August 15 for judging. Also notes on vegetables for warm weather and onion curing and lime water pickles with steps and storage tips.
Remove cucumber slices wash well through several waters and jet stand in cold clear water three hours. Mix spices vinegar and let stand on cucumbers overnight. Simmer thirty five minutes. Add one cup raisins to cucumbers simmer five minutes longer. Pack in jars pour vinegar mixture over and seal. Place in hot water bath let come to daily then set until cool.
Ada Safety Council endorses the thumbs down signal as a deterrent for dangerous boating and driving behavior. The plan targets reckless operators on inland waters and highways during the July Fourth holiday, with a slogan urging offenders to stop clowning and endangering others.
Legal ages observed as M McDaniel of Atoka weds Addie Fryer of Atoka. Paul G Reeves 22 of Allen weds Theda Presser 16 of Ada. Melton O Biggs 20 of Ada weds Elwanda McFarland 18 of Ada. Robert Montgomery 23 of Ada weds Mary Low Young 22 of Ada.
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