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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1927
Page
5
Lula community reports start of school with good turnout and ongoing visits, church events, illnesses, and family news. Mentions Ada and Stonewall travels, revival start August 23, hay harvesting, and a large Sunday school section with local families and area churches.
A recent beneficial rainfall boosted corn prospects. yields could rise if dry weather continued. Local residents including Widie Files of Frisco and Miss Rubye Inez Glenn of Wichita Falls visited friends and relatives, with several gatherings noted over the weekend. Incidents included Miss Never Waters veering into a ditch while driving near Fulton crossing, though she was uninjured.
Wes shines a week as farming slows and crab grass wilts while Mrs. Ross convalesces. Mrs. Burns and daughters visit, Kelly Barnett family and Joe Isaac visit Ada, Tom Brecheen family out Sunday, Nelsons convalescing, Tyree visits Pauls Valley, Rutledge and Nelson visit Luman and Deveraux, Goreen Nelson visits Price McGalliard, Lynch listed as sick, Burns daughter Marguerite motors to Ada. Princess Pat.
Franks School reports good attendance and four of the county’s best teachers. Icy Roland spent Sunday with Ethel Stewart. Lewis Lea traveled to Aca on Friday for business. Ber 2 Jones dined with a friend and Lucilie Cavner Sunday night. Mrs. Roland left Friday for Oklahoma City to visit her hospitalized son.
Jack Woods and son Roger return to Oklahoma City to sit at the bedside of Wilburn Stone who relapsed after surgery. Wayne Gibson and Stonewall native’s daughter stay with Mrs. Oscar Holland for over a fortnight. Community notes list visits, new stoves, church activities, a fatal illness, and many local social calls across Ada and Worstell areas.
Community reports grain thrashing underway this week and a string of social visits. Jodie Tulley works in Vanoss barber shop. Eula Ennes visited Verlin Walls. Liwana Wise stayed with Myrtle Frazier in Vanoss. James home hosts Fails family and Payne relatives. Noveta Ennes visited Oakman. Ray Cosby returns from near Pauls Valley. baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. James on July 19. Tulley family attended Vanoss singing. Little family visited Eld. Chambers in Vanoss. Fails family took a Wayne excursion.
A large group attended the county singing convention in Vanoss and enjoyed a noon spread described as generous hospitality. Miss Vivian Turner visits Shawnee to stay with her aunt Mrs Mollie Hooton who is under medical care. Mrs Kirk Ledford of Yeager spent Sunday with daughter Mrs Ace Harold. Mrs Lottie Bear and her daughter Alleta of Lanham visit Mrs A E Easley for the weekend. Grandma Turner joined Mrs L D Haskin for Sunday afternoon. Mrs Warren hosted Sunday dinner with Liz Burks, his wife, and Mrs Louise Warren of Worstel.
Farmers report thriving crops while residents share visits and family news. Miss Elsie Robertson improves from illness as families gather with relatives including the Duncans who welcomed a 104 pound boy. others host and visit in a bustling weekend round of small-town life.
Farmers enjoy good weather as crops near completion. Claude Pennington and wife move to Horse Shoe Ranch where he will teach. Impson Anderson buys an Oakland couch. Austell Horton and Blanche Wood start at Center School with Austell in ninth grade and Blanche in eleventh. Reginald Gibson hosts at Howard Wood’s after visiting Zella Pennington and Debbi Thompson. Ray Isaacs, Sybie attend Vanoss school. Grandpa Downing visits. Sunday school and prayer meeting plug. Frank Dryden drives to Vanoss with local youths to a singing convention. Leona Sullivan visits Lela and Beatrice Sullivan. Grandma Dame and daughter visit Ada. Charlie Grindstaff and wife noted. Jesse Fike visits W. Von Buskirk home. Arthur Weiss Bebee and family visit local friends.
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