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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
2
A call to form a Law and Order League in Ada and Pontotoc County urges citizens to support law enforcement and end violence. The editorial emphasizes community action, reducing crime, and backing officers to end repeated killings and fear in local streets.
In Pontotoc county, outsiders have instigated most murders over six years, yet Ada and the county uphold moral peace. The city brags of church property and solid schools, promising that murder is ended and law will prevail.
Harry Orchid, condemned for the murder of former Idaho Governor Simonenburg, was baptized at the penitentiary in Boise. Elder Seward led the Seventh Day Adventist service and Orchard expressed contentment to spend his life in prison, saying he found forgiveness and will not attempt suicide.
Governor N. Haskell arrives in Muskogee in a light suit and spends the day meeting old friends. He plans to attend a Sapulpa vs Muskogee game at Pioneer Park and then travel to Durant and Madill for speeches and a town birthday picnic.
In Brandon Mississippi on July 23 Will Minck a Black man who assaulted the 15 year old daughter of a Rankin County farmer in 1908 was hanged before about 4000 spectators including some of his victim’s family. The noose broke his neck after an eight foot drop and souvenirs of rope circulated as the body was cut down Mack confessed to guilt at the last moment.
A three day reunion of the Chickasaw Brigade of Confederate Veterans ended in Francis with about one hundred veterans registered. Ada band provided music, Sidney Suggs spoke, a barbecue dinner was served, and Seminole tribal members played an Indian ball game. JA M Crow of near Ada elected general for the year.
From Saturday's Daily John Chapman a republican deputy sheriff of this county enjoys broad public confidence. At this juncture it is believed he is a highly valuable citizen of Powiotee County.
Burke and Cox, twelfth street paving contractors, are in the city to conduct preliminary business and anticipate starting the paving project by next Wednesday. The note also urges every nonofficer to lay aside his gun.
The News highlights Drs Castleberry and Massie in Ada's professional pages. Massie, a Chicago trained physician, studied surgery and diseases of women for three years at Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery and with Chicago physicians. He comes from Ft Worth where his father, a noted surgeon, has prepared his son for medicine. Castleberry’s colleague is seen as a capable addition to Ada’s respected medical staff.
George Mayes a 60 year old Holiness member was arrested on charges of starving his nine months old child. Neighbors testified the child weighed less than at birth and Mayes fed it only twice daily despite owning property and farms in Kingfisher county. He claimed only he and the Almighty could raise the child and travels in a chair due to paralysis while his wife died soon after the birth.
A houseboat with a bar and arms crew reportedly roams the Verdigris and Arkansas rivers from above Catoosa to below Coweta and toward Fort Smith. Officers from three counties patrol the waters as residents describe five armed men running the floating saloon, defying law and planned mass meetings of anti law violators.
Governor Haskell endorses a statewide weekly now based in Oklahoma City. The paper aims to serve Oklahoma business interests with strong advertising and a broad readership under editor Ang with the versatile Ben Watt as general manager.
Prof Chas Briles and Judge Tom Owen discuss speed regulations on Guthrie's main street after a speeding automobile passes. Briles notes danger and contrasts Ada streets with Guthrie's busy thoroughfare amid commerce and travel.
By noon the downtown streets were lined with farm wagons and buggies totaling sixty three on three blocks of Main. Ada business leaders had pursued manufacturing and other payroll jobs to expand the town's economy, and the confirmed payroll growth signals continued progress.
Dozens of people are turned away daily from Ada hotels in July raising concern for fall and winter demand. The note suggests Sam Harris might enlarge and modernize his hotel property, though public faith in immediate action is waning. The editorial urges readers to place a want ad in the News when seeking what they want.
A field near Jack Fork produced about one hundred bales of fragrant hay out of a larger harvest. The bales belong to James Cooper and Frank Colbert, nine miles from the market, valued around six dollars per ton. The total output could reach about one thousand dollars.
The News published copies of its story on the Hatcher murder to Jack Fork and Spring Brook callers. Black subscribers who forgot to remove hats were reminded that hat removal is the office custom, tied to the murder and seen as proper.
Frank Hatcher, murdered, was laid to rest this afternoon in the Frisco cemetery. A vast assembly of friends and relatives attended the service. It is understood the burial aimed to fit the Ada attendants’ four o'clock train schedule.
Ada celebrates near completion of a $40,000 high school building and Hast Central Normal school, with the first term to begin in the new facility. The upgrades are seen as uplifting for the community’s moral tone and future prospects.
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