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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
5
Ada citizens and visitors share routines and travels. Joe Foster and I H Van Eaton from Stonewall visit Ada. Many locals travel for Fourth of July activities, attend church events, and note rain and crop conditions across the region.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Lewis of West 12th street celebrate the arrival of a daughter on July 8. F F Brydin returned Tuesday evening from an extended trip.
The community notes a rain event last week after seven dry weeks. Mrs Saunders and children visited Ross relatives, returning Sunday. Miss Ethel Gaar to teach a summer school at East Lanham beginning 21st inst. Mrs Prior began a series of pen Manship at East Lanham Monday. Mr Pierce Standridge and Rosa from Pauls Valley stayed with Uncle Bill Standridge the past week. Mrs Lena Garret ill the past week. Bro Martin, a Christian minister.
Announces 11 o clock first Sunday pulpit. Bro Peck to preach at night. Socials include Milton Garner visiting Parker home. North Lightning Ridge picnic attendees report a good time. B Y P U officers elected for next term. Mrs Standridge takes West Lanham school post. Several local visits and community notes conclude the item.
This afternoon C. T. Ingalls general manager of the Oklahoma Inspection bureau held a conference with Ada businessmen on the insurance situation. He urged removing trash likely to start fires from alleys, licensure for wiring inspectors, and city purchase of more fire apparatus to improve insurance rates.
Tuesday set a year to date high as thermometers climbed to 104 degrees breaking previous records. The heat wave persisted with readings reaching the 104 degree mark across many areas.
Sheriff Mitchell and Deputy Dun can along with County Attorney Roland spent Wednesday night in the brush seeking Jack Peters wanted for a fatal Saturday night killing. They did not find him but arrested Israel Blue on a charge of harboring the fugitive.
Citizens A Kilpatrick and W H Rogers protest a city well being used as a garbage dump. They warn contamination of wells and possible epidemic for nearby residents, many without water mains connections, while objecting to the garbage filling rather than the well itself. Surpassed Them All notes a southern town race riot with whites firing into the air and blacks fleeing. A plantation owner asks a worker if he joined the crowd.
The sapphires of Ceylon are celebrated for beauty and range from soft blue to near white. Sapphires also appear in greens and yellows with the Orient emerald and Oriental topaz names. A red sapphire, the Ceylon ruby, rivals Burmese rubies in value.
A Paris burglary leaves only old skirts and pannier dresses taken from the mistress of the house. Police suspect a fashion expert, while readers joke the husband staged the theft to dress her better for a while. The remark comes from a Paris correspondent via the Bystander.
A southern man with a distinctive voice questions whether the world treats religious services fairly. He notes we criticise long sermons and prayers but tolerate extended political speeches and even a monkey show, inviting reflection on attention and bias.
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