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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1909
Page
5
A notice explains rates for notices and classifieds in the Ade Daily News. It outlines a starting price of one cent per word for first insertion and a reduced half cent per word for subsequent insertions, guiding customers on affordable advertisement placement.
Citizens are reminded of Mayor Little’s weed cutting proclamation and urged to comply with the notice.
The Ada Weekly News announces subscription and advertising opportunities in its long established Oklahoma edition. Readers are invited to join the patronage of the oldest all home print paper in the region.
Property owners are urged to cut weeds to comply with health and safety duties. The notice stresses legal obligation to maintain yards for public health and family welfare.
The editor lambasts customers who shop out of town while merchants defend sending work to distant firms. He notes loyalty to local suppliers, yet reveals a habit of sending orders elsewhere and even using wrapping paper to write invoices, highlighting a paradox in community buying.
The Denison Herald urges residents to reflect on the idea that a town is what its people make it. It argues that growth and prosperity depend on active support and cooperation from every citizen to advance the general interest.
In the June 7 issue, the Kansas City Star calls Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich’s faith in the party and the people’s subservience to green goods politics implausible. It denounces Senate actions from Rhode Island as insults to popular government.
A factional fight in Oklahoma City pits a Democratic mayor and city council against a Republican police chief who claims control of the police department. The mayor appoints an assistant chief with equal powers, whom the chief refuses to recognize.
The Oklahoma Times notes Roy Stafford editor of the Oklahoman backed Gore decisively, while he once lived in Medicine and worked a printing office earning three dollars weekly. He saved from ninety cents weekly to become Oklahoma's wealthiest editor.
Citizens expect a renewed moral enforcement push as Ada officials shift focus from bond sales to pursuing bootleggers and other lawbreakers. Rumors say county attorney will lead a determined campaign amid upcoming revival meetings and public improvements.
Washington July 12 by a 317 to 14 vote the house approved the senate joint resolution to submit the income tax amendment to the states. Republicans cast all negative votes. The measure now goes to the president for signature amid fiery debates.
Oklahoma City records 110 degree heat as a cousin of the city clerk dies from heat. Ardmore hits 108 while ice shortages persist despite shipments from Kansas. Dealers warn only cooler weather will ease the famine and urge continued efforts to deliver ice to hotels and drink stands.
Muskogee Oklahoma citizens will see Sunday showings resume as Judge Bailey rules no Oklahoma state law prohibits Sunday theater. The ruling frees thirty managers ticket sellers and actors arrested last Sunday for running theaters. Prosecution plans unclear but a renewed fight to close Sunday theaters is anticipated. A sister was returning home to Sulphur Springs Texas.
Joe Huckleby of Seminole faced Justice Brown in Ada after a disturbance in West Main Street. He pleaded guilty to obscene language, receiving a $100 fine and 30 days in jail, with potential highway labor if costs remain unpaid.
Hot weather worries farmers in Sulphur Oklahoma about corn yields unless rain arrives soon. Cotton remains in good shape but boll weevil presence clouds expectations. In Spokane Bishop Quayle claims sparking a woman requires holding her hand and muses on marriage and home life with several sermonettes.
The retired U S Navy admiral Winfield Scott Schley was seen in Oklahoma City on private business and planned to visit El Reno to meet a cousin. He declined to discuss his purpose and said he would stay several days, avoiding attention.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars will be paid to the Indians of Southwest Oklahoma with an estimated seven dollars per capita for the Comanches and Kiowas. The payments include lease money and the regular quarterly sums from the department, starting Monday. The total may rival last year’s $375 000 special relief distribution secured by Congressman Scott Ferris.
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