Construction Progress On East Main Street Buildings
Multiple projects advance across Ada area with J C Ray supervising Rives buildings on East Main and a planned East Central college health building from an architect yet to be named. Keltner Grocery to occupy North Townsend site. First Baptist seeks August 1 use. numerous residences and business facades updating.
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Eeast Main
J. C. Ray
A. T. Boggan
East Seventeenth
East Central
Albert S. Ross
Albert
Keltner
North Townsend
J. M. Keltner Grocery Company
J. C. Hynds
Chamber of Commerce
Rains Grocery
Green Drug Store
West Main
Jim Lewis
L. L. Hill
W. D. Little
West Nineteenth
Ross & Todd
Fleet
South Francis
Hughes
Allen Highway
Oak Hills Country Club
East Central College
Cradles Nearly Extinct In Oklahoma Historical Find
Oklahoma City May 26 A wheat cutting cradle once common is nearly extinct and a single example was found by Rev L J Dyke who restored a small field harvest with it He donated the cradle after his death to the state historical society where it will be kept on display The cradle resembles a scythe and includes a large wooden rack to catch the cut wheat
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
City
J. B. Thoburn
State Historical Society
L. J. Dyke
Oklahoma City
First Wheat by Air Mail Sent From Enid
America's first air mail wheat shipment left Enid for New York exporters. A five pound parcel contained the first 1927 U.S. wheat and was mailed by Cecil Munn, president of the Enid Terminal Elevator Company.
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Enid
America
New York
United States
Cecil Munn
Enid Terminal Elevator Company
In memory of baby Deneway Tilley
In memory of Deneway Tilley 2 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Dewey D Tilley of WeWoka was buried at 2 o clock.
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Deneway Tilley
Dewey D. Tilley
Wewoka
First Oklahoma Wheat Markets Earliest Move to Market
Wheat grown at Grand Field by Wesley Cox arrived today marking the first U S marketed wheat of the year. It tested 60 pounds and averaged 15 bushels per acre. This is the earliest wheat movement to market in Oklahoma history as the parcel was shipped by air mail to exporters to open the new grain year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandfield
Wesley Cox
United States
Oklahoma
In Memoriam Iretta Cathey 1927 obituary note
May 19 1927 death of Iretta Cathey due to acute appendicitis. Funeral from Cummins Undertaking with Bro R T Blackburn. interment at Rosedale. She leaves husband two children mother father a brother three sisters and many friends. She sought God early and found a home in heaven. Tennie Littlefield signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iretta Cathey
Cummins
Bro. R. T. Blackburn
Rosedale
Iretta
Golden
Grim Reaper of
Death
Ike Iretta
Tennie Littlefield
Record of perfect attendance in city ward schools
The city reports many pupils achieved perfect school attendance last year earning special certificates. Hayes School lists names across grades from first to eighth. Irving, Washington, and Willard and Glenwood schools' totals are incomplete with Willard and Glenwood not reporting.
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Annaline Bond
Elva Lindsay
Vaunita Pitt
Curtis Proctor
Letha Richmond
Washington
Katherine Pitts
Paul Petty
Margaret McMillan
Catharine Duke
Alma Emery
Mary Lee Fabree
Louis Rogers
J. C. Melton
Leon Morris
Lessie Mayes
W. D. Brooks
Alfred Keithley
Jack O'Neal
Elmer Breeden
Allyne Barton
Haraldene Cunningham
Marie Hennigan
Opal Stevens
Jimmie Petty
Gaines McKaskle
Flosse Davis
Alma Fletcher
Edwin Dorsey
C. A. Hardee
Glen Watson
Edna Earl King
Katherine Treskeld
Charles R. Goddard
Kenneth Gillock
Francis Cromwell
Frank Gargis
Myrtle Tisdale
Vera Hale
Doris Watson
Grant Breeden
Mabel Atkinson
Alma Deer
Audits Under Way in Oklahoma County
In Oklahoma City on May 27 the office of John claims several county audits are under way.
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Pontotoc County
Hughes
Oak Hills Club
J. C. Hynds
Allen Highway
Mayhue
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
John
Atoka Parley Shapes Choctaw Chickasaw Agreement
Native leaders Green Mc Curtain J. S Standley N B Ainsworth Ben Hampton and Wesley Anderson joined United States Senator Henry Dawes in the Atoka talks between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The joint session passed the 1897 agreement October 30 with A H Humes and Lewis Keel signatures. Civil code sections from Arkansas were adopted and criminal procedure was agreed. Governments remained until statehood merged Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory.
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Sion
Atoka
Tuskahoma
Tishomingo
United States
Henry Dawes
Charles G. Dawes
A. H. Humes
House of Representatives
Lewis Keel
Senate
Choctaws
Atoka Parley
Green McCurtain
J. 8. Standley
N. B. Ainsworth
Ben Hampton
Wesley Anderson
Amos Henry
D. C. Garland
A. S. Williams
Chickasaws
Governor Harris
I. O. Lewis
Holmes Colbert
P. S&s. Mosly
M. V. Cheadle
R. L. Murray
William Perry
A. H. Colbert
R. L. Boyd
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma Territory
Original Copy of Old Atoka Treaty Found
An original copy of the Atoka Agreement granting allotments to Chickasaw and Choctaw members is filed in the Oklahoma Historical Society museum at the state capitol. Governor R M Harris of the Chickasaw Nation donated the 1897 treaty, which established tribal property rights, to the society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
New Arctic Expedition Begins From Fairbanks
Captain George H. Wilkins and aviator Alger Graham launched the Detroit News Second from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow seeking to cross unexplored Arctic regions. They aim for Grantland or Greenland, plan summering in ice if needed, and will collect meteorological data for Arctic aviation.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
George H. Wilkins
Alger Graham
Detroit
Point Barrow
Grantland
Greenland
Detroit News
Brooks Range
Barrow
Wilkins
Graham
Arctic
British Publish Documents On Soviet Espionage In London
The British government released a white paper showing documents from the raid on the Soviet house in London and Arcos Letd. It cites Anton Miller and claims London is a world center of espionage and propaganda with Moscow aims spreading to the United States Mexico and Australia. It links Chesham House with easy diplomatic contact and cites Soviet agents allegedly influencing Australian shipping strikes.
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Associated Press
London
Arcos, Letd
Great Britain
Anton Miller
Baldwin
House of Commons
United States
Mexico
South America
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Chesham House
Moscow
Deputy Sheriff Injured by Rock Attack at Bowlegs
Deputy Sheriff Ben Barrick of Ponele County was in critical condition after a rock attack in Bowlegs. He fired two shots at the attacker and collapsed, with injuries described as chest impact crushing a rib and possible internal damage. Barrick had been active in arresting bootleggers and thieves.
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Oklahoma City
Ben Barrick
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Aid and Handicraft School
Sapulpa
Ada
Ada Boy
Elk Hall
Clifford Byrne
Molay
Flower of
Masonic Lodge
Bristow
Garber
Parkfield
Legion of Honor
Cross of ‘Honor
Muskogee
Meritceus
Hebron Hixson
Bartlesville
Z. B. Hyde
Okmulgee
Ed S. Burks
McAlester
Vernon Sanfords
Shawnee
Louis Dakil
Demelay
Paiot
Order of DeMelay
George E. Poulter
Ardmore
Floyd Filson
el Reno
A. B. Hubbard
Barnesville
Eastern Star
Rainbow and
Marc
Harry Kaplan
P. A. Norris
Oer
The
India Temple
First Presbyterian Church
W. D. Faust
S. A. McKeel
Wilson H. Lane
M. M. Webster
B. B. Dawson
S. P. Ross
C. F. Needham
J. A. Rutledge
M. C. McNew
O. H. Miller
W. H. Enilee
Granger
F. R. Laird
G. C. Alspach
L. Cummings
Jas. P. Fitch
Boy Scout Council
Farley Smith
Norman Howard
Boy Scout Headquarters
Convention Hall
Roy Meek
Clyde Alletag
C. F. Morgan
Frank Spencer
Ralph Morrow
Lloyd Tipton
Carl Marsh
Alvin Greer
Messrs
Earl Emerson
Beggs
Ray Stegall
Coalgate
Claude Foreman
Francis
Roy Watson
Fitzhugh
Clay Gregory
Lawrence
J. N. McKee
Pickett School
Willard Owens
Galey School
Jas. Waters
Colbert
J. E. Teague
New Bethel
Raymond Young
Joy School
Garvin County
Claude McMillan
Olen Blake
First Baptist
Baptists
Haskell Tilley
Noble
Garfield
Ottawa
Ellis
Lawrence Harris
Billie Lane
Doyle Smith
Theron Wilson
Audry Click
Glynn Todd
Doris Marie Henry
Melba Huddleston
Benna Russell
Barbara Woods
Lucille Wright
Castleberry
Mary Dixon
Earnest Drake
LaJean French
Mary Frances Holloman
Elizabeth Stubblefield
LaRuth Tipton
Evaline Wilson
Paul Holloman
O'Meara McEneely
Helen Meaders
C. H. Russel
Claude Click
Carl Ledford
Wayne McGaha
Leon Todd
Aids
D’arcy
Jake’’ Flowers
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Dodgers
Robins
Continent
Shaw's
Munson
Goodyear
Shaws Department Store
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