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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
4
Ada clatters with campaign energy as Bryan and Kern draw backing in Indiana and Oklahoma. Voter registration closes next Tuesday while calls for good roads and public involvement echo through Pontotoc County Ada businesses and cement plant activity remain a civic focal point as Kern receives a homecoming ovation planned with Fairbanks participation.
Before press, contestants listed with locations and scores including Miss Waldy Bebee Miss Bailey Bebee Miss Frost Elmore and others. The note asks debtors to call and settle at the Nickle Store with Mr Shaw to receipt payments.
Authorized by the county commissioners, Pontotoc County township trustees and interested residents are urged to meet at the courthouse on Monday July 20 to discuss improving county roads. Also includes an advertisement for ManZan Pile Remedy priced at 50 cents, sold by Gwin Mays & Co.
The piece extols Ada as an ideal travel hub with ten passenger trains daily on three lines. It highlights accessibility, healthy locality, good schools and churches, up-to-date conveniences, and strong nonpartisan civic spirit. Traveling men and families are urged to relocate to Ada as boosters.
The selection of William Jennings Bryan to lead the Democratic ticket for the coming national election is significant. Without a political machine or vast wealth, he has stayed in the forefront for over a decade, guiding the rank and file with a clean life and strong advocacy for measures benefiting the masses.
C B Mack filed an affidavit noting three estrays taken up on May 11 1908 at SE quarter section 16 township 3 north range 7 east Ahloso Oklahoma. Descriptions include a red roan mare about ten years old fourteen to fifteen hands high with C brand on left shoulder F on left hip and enlarged left ankle a dark brown mare about eleven years old fourteen hands with EE left shoulder and CF left hip a reached mane white hind feet and a brown yearling horse colt without marks or brands. Date of affidavit June 6 1908 witnessed by W S Kerr county clerk and R H Erwin deputy. First published June 25 1908.
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