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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1935
Page
8
Sunday school attendance is reported as strong and a large crowd joined the ice cream supper hosted by Mr. and Mrs. H N Estes Friday night. Several locals visited, shared illness improvements, and relatives gathered for church services and family visits across Stratford, Center, Lindsay, and Sulphur areas.
B Y P U organized at this place Sunday night electing Rat Duke president Noah Garrett vice president Mrs Amy Duke secretary Lorene Summers assistant secretary Everyone is invited to Sunday gatherings Another note reviews a Victory Leaders Band program at Worstell and multiple local visits and visits between residents.
Mrs Dallis Lamb planned a Wednesday afternoon meeting. Betty Reed visits her brother John Reed in Oil Center for a few days. Geraldine Brumley and Pauline Reed visited Annie Price on Monday night. Annie Price and Ophelie Kimble spent Monday with Mrs Davie Lamb. FERA workers are active on the school yard this week.
Church crowds gathered Saturday and Sunday with Bro. Mc Clure of Oklahoma City and Bro. Ferris of Sulphur preaching. Marie Ford visited Mrs. Cooksey. Ben and Mrs. Allison and relatives near Byng and Jess Green hosted dinner. Jewel and Opal Fussell visiting Ada. Cruell couple from Upland California arrived to spend the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Winor.
A community day event attracted about 300 attendees from McAlester Homer Lovelady Ada Owl Creek High Hill Happyland Steedman Rocky Brook and Lula. The revival begins July 7 led by Brother Charley Reed of Lula.
Canning and field work fill days as families stockpile for winter. Oma Jamar and wife visited his parents E. C. Jamar and family. Minnie Wooten from Sulphur stayed with sister Mrs J R Newby. Lela Shue and Oklahoma City children stayed with her mother Mrs J R Merby. Several gatherings occurred at the Ward and Nichles homes with relatives from Oklahoma City, Seminole, Mill Creek, Shawnee and other towns.
Sunday events at Conway featured families visiting and children listed among attendees including Mr and Mrs David Gray Mr and Mrs Jack McMeans Evertt Neely Mary Kerr Gloria Jean Alline Stephens Irene McMeans Lois Kerr and others. Social visits followed with relatives and neighbors from nearby towns.
Brother Blige Williams led a regular appointment and preached strong sermons. Many locals attended Sunday school and invites encouraged more to come next Sunday. Friends and relatives from Ada Tulsa and Cotton Creek Ridge visited family and neighbors, sharing time with West, Lamb, and Chandler households.
Jackie Ponder spent the day with Mallie Cape Tuesday. Mrs Guy Welker and Mrs Minnie Miller have been very ill this week but are somewhat improved. Mrs W L McKinley and Mrs Etna Turner visited in the Miller home Saturday. Mallie Capes and Jackie Ponder called on Mrs Lora Thomas last Thursday. Mr and Mrs Bill Ponder have returned home from a few weeks visit in Hugo. Jackie Ponder took dinner with Edith Maurine Miller Monday. Mr and Mrs Lee Thomas and children Carl Charlie and Virginia, Mrs Mallie Cape and children Helen and Ellen and Charlie Chambers attended the Church of Christ meeting Sunday at Ada. Mrs Alice Thomas was operated on Friday night for appendicitis. She is getting along very well. We are wishing for her a speedy recovery. Miss Helen Ragland spent Sunday night with Mrs Ella Hodges.
Citizens describe fine weather as they cut weeds and grass. Families and friends like Other Head and Ila Thorp spent Thursday night with Mr and Mrs Adrian Price. Mrs John Brumley visited Mrs Ed Brumley Monday. Dallis Lamb traveled to Oklahoma City Monday. Annie Price Effie Kimbell and Walter Price of Happyland Sun visited their uncle Ben Morris of Ahloso Sunday. The ladies Community club will
Farmers face cotton replanting due to woolly worm damage. Town residents and visitors share calls and visits across Ada and Welch communities. Birth of an eight pound boy celebrated by Mr and Mrs Earl Dame. several relatives and neighbors mentioned in brief social notices.
The notice lists numerous visits and gatherings across Lindsay and nearby communities. People include Leroy Dame, Miss Rosie and Norma Lee Henry, Edith Sutton and children, Etta Sutton and Alene, Clinton Dame, Everette Esque, Ada visitors, Pearl Wells of Bebee visiting Bus Kirk family, Dora Parker visiting Effie Henry, Latitia Old visiting Donnie Tucker, Bro. McCloud and Bro. Andy Dame with sermon appointments, Lorene Huddleston of Blackwell visiting Floyd South, and attendees at the Indian stamp dance near Ada.
Community activity centers on cotton chopping. Social visits include Chester and Mae McDonald families and Ben Barnett, Buchanan, Holloway, Watts, Tyree, and Borcher households. Local residents Earl McDonald Grover Tyree and Miron Powell shop in Ada.
The article lists multiple farm families enjoying sunny weather with visits and gatherings. Notable items include weddings in progress such as the quiet marriage of Nelson Woodcox of Corpus Christi to Beulah Jackson, and a busy slate of Sunday calls among Odoms, Barneses, Tods, and Williamsons.
Sunday afternoon singing drew a good crowd and invites all back. Neighbors and relatives including Mr. and Mrs. Willis Melton and their son, Mr. and Mrs. Dow Thompson, and Mrs. C. H. Brannon visited friends. Several households hosted gatherings and visitors from Lovelady, Ahloso, and Hardin City were mentioned as well as plans to start a singing school and a Wednesday night sing.
A Sunday crowd attended the program. Mr and Mrs Joe Rodgers and Jack Henderson were present at the O S D commencement exercise Monday night. Pauline Rodgers accompanied them home after nine months at school. Odra Mae Glover returned home Tuesday after a stay with her sister in Lindsay. Arnold Phillips Marie Jones and Jack Bean of Red Oak attended the program. Oma Whisenhunt and Miss Ha Byrd hosted visits Sunday with Miss Pauline Rodgers and others. Clit Whisenhunt motored with W R Roberts and Eula Davis to Wardville.
Mrs Bellar and niece Inez Bellar of Seminole visit Arch and Mrs Bellar. Multiple families gather at Stephens and Turner homes. Various locals and relatives share time in Ada and Vaness areas. End of report repeats threat to filibuster NAA.
Senator Long of Louisiana led a lengthy floor fight as Democrats pushed a resolution extending the NRA in abridged form. A test vote 44 to 26 signaled possible reconsideration of a rider requiring Senate confirmation for all federal officials earning 4000 or more, amid a tangled parliamentary dispute and threats of a Sunday deadline.
Senate action shows Roosevelt forces recessing after adding the Gore amendment to block a rider aimed at quick NRA resolution action before the recovery law expires Sunday night. A 44 to 36 vote supported the administration on a parliamentary point, with reconsideration motion still possible. Controller McCarl ordered about 180 staffers from three act groups to sever ties at midnight Sunday despite Ickes warning of chaos.
Secretary Wallace tentatively accepts invitation to address Stillwater Farmers Week later this July. Oklahoma A and M president Dr Henry G Bennett said Wallace agreed to appear if Congress is not in session.
Oklahoma City report shows automobile and truck license tag collections for the first five months of 1938 rose by 332,565.65 dollars from the previous year. Total collections to June 1 reached 2,969,836.43 dollars versus 2,537,270.78 dollars last year, Ike Conners, head of the state tax commission motor license division, announced.
Sunday attendance was high as Egypt edged the opponents 3 to 2. Local residents shared visits and social gatherings through the week with notes of pie suppers and family visits among the communities.
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