Cotton crop hope hinges on weevil fight in Pontotoc county
Editors note two Texas A and M officials tour Pontotoc county fields. They stress mulch and dust mulch to control the cotton weevil, citing varied infestation and field by field progress. Farmers like Haines Bailey Page and Lowden fight with drag, brush, and multiple passes to protect potential yields amid rains and heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc County
T. A. Milstead
E. E. Schell
Bcgent of Entymology
A. and M. College of Texas
Milstead
Schell
Texas
Page Haines
Lawrence
Mr. Haines
Smith Bailey
Abbott’s Mill
D. Wright
Bailey’s
Page
Sam Haines
Bill Lowden
Ada
Producing Fertile Eggs
In a grocery setting a grocer notes quality and appearance drive egg sales and demand. A producer asks why prices vary. the grocer explains higher quality and palatability fetch higher prices, while common eggs cost less per dozen, illustrating market pricing dynamics.
Pepper Relish Recipe From Dixie Style Process
Instructions describe a relish method using green and red peppers onions and a brine with salt vinegar and sugar. The mixture is boiled drained resealed and processed in jars similar to Dixie Relish with sealing.
Boll weevil conditions improve in New Bethel fields
Observations with E. G. Brans, M. C. Wilson, and C. W. Stringer show the boll weevil situation in several fields around New Bethel is better than a week earlier. Stringer’s cotton is progressing, punctured squares decreasing, and stung squares reduced where drag and brush were used. A younger cotton field owned by Mr. Smith also looks healthy with fewer infested squares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bethel
E. G. Branscome
M.C. Wilson
C. W. Stringer
Sweet Pickled Peaches Recipe Steps and Timing
Instructions detail preparing firm clingstone peaches for a sweet and spicy pickling process. Include scalding, precise syrup boiling times, vinegar and spices infusion, staged cooking, and overnight rests to achieve clear peaches.
Ku Klux Klan Holds Public Initiation at Ada
Crowds of 1,000 to 1,500 robed Klansmen gathered by the Ada golf links for a public initiation. An immense fiery cross lit the hillside as caravans of cars from Holdenville and nearby towns filled streets, with 150 candidates taking part and prayers and patriotic music marking the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
Ku Klux Klan
Vanguard
America
Roff, Francis
Stonewall
Allen
Diamond: a pure carbon under extreme pressure
A diamoid is defined as pure carbon that has undergone substantial pressure, resulting in altered properties and structure.
Ada Battery Chosen To Fire Salute For Governor
Walter Smith city commissioner returned from Fort Sill where Battery F earned the salute to Governor Robertson after one day on the line. The Ada district band is praised as the best at the encampment. The battery will fire again today and tomorrow, with camp to break Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Smith
Fort Sill
Governor Robertson
Ada
Little Change In Strike Situation Across Railways
Government controls freight at midnight as eastern roads seek a shopmen union. Montreal reports 40000 Canadian shopmen authorized to strike. Baltimore meeting aims at settlements. Some maintenance crews quit under armed guard. Clerks threaten economic power but foresee no immediate strikes. Motor mail trucks roll in upper Midwest states. Curtailment of trains minor. Chicago plans to switch to oil fuel. Violence grows with troops deployed in several states including Texas Oklahoma and Kentucky. Public order actions extend with marshal law in Denison and troop mobilizations in Birmingham and other areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eastern Roads
Montreal
Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Shawnee
Oklahoma
Mobile
Missouri
Upper Michigan
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
North Dakota
Montana
Great Northern Railway
U. S
Harve Ana Wolf Point
Denison
Texas
Neff
Alabama
Birmingham
Kentucky
Fonde
Jellico
Tennessee
Doctor and Wife Seek State Offices on Shared Ticket
In Sequoyah county Oklahoma Dr. R A Ballance and his wife Mrs Clara Ballance run for secretary of state and state house respectively on the Republican ticket. He is certain to win and plans to move to Oklahoma City while she campaigns, proposing a ban on sex pictures for children. Both are university graduates with Ballance farming near Gans and Mrs Ballance breeding poultry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisaw
Okla
R. A. Ballance
Clara Ballance
Sequoyah
Oklahoma
Ballance
Gans
Barnes University
St. Louis
University of St. Louis
Fight at Steedman Results in Arrest
Five charges filed Saturday against Bob Allison after a disturbance at a Steedman religious meeting. He faces drunk in public, three assault and battery counts against pastors, and a county charge for disturbing the meeting. Bond set at 150 each for four, 500 for county. August 3 hearing before Justice Brown. Deputy Hilton arrested after shooting down Allison's horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Court
Bob Allison
Steedman
Allison
R. E. Brothers
Asbury Methodist Church
Ada
J. A. Williams
Royal Isaac
H. J. Brown
L. M. Hilton
Steelman
Woman Charged With Attempted Murder in Lula Shooting
Mrs. Stella Bullied of Clarita posted 2500 bond after a Sunday shooting at her brother Tom Phares home near Lula. She faces assault with intent to kill for shooting her sister Mrs. Bessie Aycock in the right breast. Preliminary exam set today, likely continued as witnesses were not subpoenaed. Doctors report Mrs. Aycock out of danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella
Clarita
Justice of the Peace
H. J. Brown
Bessie Aycock
Tom Phares
Lula
Justice Brown
Phares
Bullied
Aycock
Two Diamond Rings Are Stolen From Cullins Home
Two diamond rings valued at 1500 dollars were taken Friday night from the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Cullins at 901 East Twelfth street while family members were at a city lake swimming party. The theft appears to involve a person familiar with the hiding place, as other valuables were left untouched. Mrs. Cullins wore the rings at all times except during the party. no clues were found by officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beause
T. O. Cullins
East Twelfth Street
City Lake
Austin Officer and Three Others Named In Murder Charges
Bassett Miles United States prohibition officer and three others were indicted by the Travis county grand jury on a murder charge connected to the shooting death of Peeter Clayton in an alley behind the Ku Klux Klan hall in Austin. Indicted are Lafe Young Boston chief of detectives W E Mayberry custodian at Camy's Mary and J L McNeal Austin policeman. The indictments were returned yesterday and released today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Lafe Young
Boston
Camy' sMabry
J. L. McNeal
Clayton
Ku Klux Klan
Election returns expected statewide and in Pontotoc
The News will relay election results statewide and for Pontotoc County Tuesday night as soon as figures are available. Readers are invited to attend and the paper notes it will incur considerable expense to provide timely returns in its public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc County
Lenroot Attacks Wool Tariff Debate in Senate
In Washington on July 26 Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin launched a sharp attack on Senator Gooding of Idaho, chairing the Republican tariff bloc, during a heated Senate exchange over the Lenroot amendment lowering coarse wool duties. Lenroot called Gooding the greatest enemy of American farmers and warned the Democrats would gain control with free wool and its consequences for wool growers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinton
Senator Gooding
Idaho
Republican Agricultural Tariff Bloc
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Senate
America
Gooding
Mayfield Leads IR Tex Senatorial Rage
Dallas July 26 Senator Charles A Culberson appears doomed to retire from the United States Senate next March 4 after 24 years in the upper house. Democratic primary returns show Earle Mayfield and former governor James E Ferguson with leads, Ferguson by 19 792 and Mayfield by 30 110 in preliminary tallies. A runoff between Ferguson and Mayfield will be held August 26. Congressional races largely unchanged with Thomas L Blanton maintaining a lead in the 17th district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Charles A. Culberson
United States Senate
Texas
Earle Mayfield
James E. Ferguson
Barry Miller
Culberson
Texas Election Bureau
Ferguson
Mayfield
Thomas L. Blanton
Tate Granted New Reprieve By Order of Gov Robertson
Oklahoma City July 25 Will Tate sentenced to die for the murder of Russell Sprague Lawton service car operator was granted a reprieve until October 26 by Gov J B A Robertson The stay of execution followed an appeal filed yesterday by Cleo Gobin who was twice convicted and sentenced to the electric chair for the same crime Both men were to have been electrocuted tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Will Tate
Russell Sprague
Lawton
J. B. A. Robertson
Cleo Gobin
Gatlin Family Reunion Heads to Sulphur Oklahoma
Last Friday morning Mr and Mrs F H Gatlin and their children and grandchildren from Oklahoma and Ohio traveled by car to Sulphur for a ten day family reunion. Attending are Russell Austin Gatlin Earl Gatlin W F Whitney family Middletown Ohio Lilburn Gatlin Weatherford R W White and daughter Josephine Purcell and Aubry Mildred Harriett Dee Combs. A camping outfit was shipped in for the stay at the popular summer resort. Middletown residents work in oil while Lilburn Gatlin is a traveling salesman and Mr White is a Purcell businessman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Ohio
Lilburn Gatlin
Weatherford
R. W. White
Josephine
Purcell
Aubry
Mildred
Harriett Dee Combs
Wright Speight Miss Neva Wright Marries Robert L Speight
Neva Wright of 801 South Stockton united in marriage with Robert L Speight of Mexia Texas at the bride’s parents home Thursday evening. Rev R A Hutson performed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs A F Wright and a Teachers College graduate who taught in Francis schools this year. The groom is a University of Texas graduate and will be superintendent of schools at Littlefield Texas next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Texas
Littlefield
Texas
Marriage Licenses Include Stratford and Seminole Couples
Jeff Reed aged 18 of Stratford marries Miss Buena Stinette aged 18 of Stratford. John W Hoffmann aged 21 of Seminole weds Miss Anne Mae Parrott aged 19 of Seminole. Robert Speight aged 17 of Mexia Texas weds Miss Neva Wright aged 21 of Ada. George Ford aged 31 of Ada weds Ivie Southerland aged 18 of Ada. Tom Cox aged 21 of Tishomingo weds Miss Bessie Seawright aged 18 of Ada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeff Reed
Stratford
Buena Stinette
John W. Hoffman
Seminole
Anne Mae Parrott
Robert Speight
Mexia
Tex
Neva Wright
Ada
George Ford
Ivie Southerland
Tom Cox
Tishomingo
Bessie Seawright
Ada Guardsmen Head Home After Fort Sill Drill
Ada national guardsmen return from two weeks at Fort Sill with honors in military arts. Battery F fired salute to Governor Robertson and the guard band praised as top musical unit. They will arrive Thursday around 2 p m on a special train via Chickasha. city league games to resume soon with revised schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Sill
Ada
National
J. H. Shackleford
Santa Fe
Chickasha
Oklahoma
J. B. A. Robertson
Robert Kerr
Byron Siedge
American Legion
Ada Athletic Association
College
Wisconsin Court Upholds Filled Milk Law
Madison July 20 The Wisconsin supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the filled milk law in a Carnation Milk Co suit over Hebe containing coconut oil substituted for butter fat. Justice Crownhart wrote that the legislature has power under police powers to prohibit sale of filled milk or other foods deemed deleterious to public welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Supreme Court
Carnation Milk Company
Charles H. Crownhart
McIntosh County to vote on big bridge program
In Eufaula Oklahoma on July 21 the county commission set August 1 for a bond election of 285000 dollars to fund a county wide bridge building plan. The proposal envisions 200 bridges with two major structures costing about 25000 dollars each across the North Canadian river at two sites linking Eufaula to Henryetta and across the same river at the Jefferson highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eufaula
Okla
Oklahoma
McIntosh County
North Canadian River
Okmulgee
Henryetta
Jefferson Highway
Germans Ordered to Stop Kiel Canal Fire School
Paris July 26 The council of ambassadors demands the immediate destruction of a fire control and range finding school quietly established by German naval authorities on the Kiel canal. Allied expert opinion says the site could be converted into a fort commanding the canal entrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Council of Ambassadors
Kiel Canal
District Court Recent Actions Listed
In the district court recent actions include Merchants and Planters National Bank versus H. Reed replevin O P McDinney versus Bob Duncan and George Rowe intervenor appeal from justice court Empire Electric company versus J B Wall abstract of judgment and Alice King versus Mack King divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchants and Planters National Bank
H. Reed
O. P. McDinney
Bob Duncan
George Rowe
Justice Court
Empire Electric Company
J. B. Wall
Alice King
Mack King
Civil actions filed in district court foreclosures and notes
Civil actions filed in the district court include Clement Mortgage Company vs Wynona Elizabeth Statler nee Stewart foreclosure Severin Tire and Rubber Company vs Thomas Motor Company money on account Merchants and Planters Bank vs R M Martin and Joe Myers money due on promissory note Merchants and Planters Bank vs C H Myers money due on promissory note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clement Mortgage Company
Wynona Elizabeth Statler
Stewart
Severin Tire and Rubber Company
Thomas Motor Company
Merchants and Planters Bank
R. M. Martin
Joe Myers
C. H. Myers
Iowa Legionnaires to Attend National Convention by Train
Several thousand Iowa Legionnaires will travel to the national American Legion convention in October aboard five special trains. A Iowa department representative visited New Orleans to arrange parking for fifty seven Pullman cars where Iowans will live during the Southern city stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Legionnaires
National American Legion Convention
Iowa Department
New Orleans
Also Mentioned on This Page
First National and Security Banks
Harry Embleton
Poultry Husbandry
Oklahoma A
M. College
Anther
Cullins
Tate
Robertson
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