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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1970
Page
2
Sunday School attendance at Sunshine drew 33 with Don Parr in charge. Ada area families and visitors from Tulsa and Stratford frequented homes of Parr, Hewetts, and Law while attendances at nursing homes and hospitals marked several health matters and family visits.
Local families and friends from Ada Konawa Latta and surrounding areas visited kin in Center Oklahoma over the weekend. The Center homecoming included a history talk and gospel singing as numerous relatives gathered for church activities.
Mrs Lola Mitchell visited Wednesday with Jim Marshall in Frisco. They were later joined by Mrs Roxy Mitchell and by Delores Marshall and Mrs Winona Minor that night. Continued on page three.
Larry Horton and family visited Mrs. Lynnia Horton. Austell Horton called on Togo Wood. Togo Wood and Mrs. Lynnia Horton spent time in Stratford on business. Mrs. Joan Dorgan and Teena Horton traveled to Oklahoma City. Several locals attended visits with Mr. and Mrs. Togo Wood, including Irene Wood, Howard, and Gregg.
Miss Ruby Dryden attended the funeral of Clyde Hobbs, marking the community’s mourning and final tributes. The service reflected local ties and the loss felt by neighbors and friends.
This week’s column offers travel friendly cookie recipes for sons and daughters away in the armed services or at summer school. Home makers are urged to mix a batch to mail to the “little” one, with comforting notes on chasing homesick blues.
A vintage brownie recipe outlines mixing sugar, butter, eggs, flour and cocoa with vanilla and walnuts, baking in an 8x8 pan at 350 degrees for 25 to 35 minutes. Frosting combines sugar, egg, butter, light cream, vanilla and melted chocolate, boiled briefly, then spread on cooled brownies and cut into 2 inch squares.
A compact baking sheet note outlines a fruit filled bar recipe with seedless raisins glazed fruit walnuts orange juice vanilla and spices. Steps include soaking creaming butter and sugar adding dry ingredients folding in fruit then chilling baking at 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes and cutting into bars yields about five dozen treats.
Russell Gray and his grandmother Mrs. Terri Gray hosted a week of visits with relatives from Del City Oklahoma City and Shawnee. The group traveled to Sulphur for a day with Thurman Gray Ken Little and Linda Roberts families. California visitor Lillian Morris stayed at Valley View Hospital.
A vintage recipe yields a 9 by 13 pan treat. Ingredients include flour sugar butter eggs coconut nuts vanilla and lemon. Bake first layer slowly then top with a coconut nut filling and a lemon sugar frosting. Cut into about 24 two inch squares.
Union Hill residents and relatives are listed visiting and being visited across multiple states. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Karr visited Ada and P. S. Karr in Ada while Sgt. and Mrs. Glenn Jones, now bound for Anchorage, Alaska, spent time with Olen Tilley in Bucklin and Cecil Crockett in Myrtle Creek en route from Tampa to Alaska. Other visitors include Bill Bramlett, Linda in Tulsa and Lena Cochran with Leroy Bailes in Riverside.
Mr and Mrs Charles Coplen and Debbie took a business trip to Oklahoma City on Monday. Debbie Basil and Kevin with the Coplens and the Keelings attended Ran dell Sellars graduation at Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha on Tuesday night. The Coplens and the Smiths went fishing at the Wrights water shed and held a Sunday cookout.
Mr and Mrs Roger Richardson and family Ada Mrs Car lene McNutt Lisa Eddie and R FE Tilley visited Mr and Mrs Matt Richardson recently Cerral Richardson is at Fort Polk La for reserve training Visiting Mr and Mrs Warren Cunningham Oil Center recently were Mr and Mrs Larry Cunningham and family Sales and family Electra Tex ham and family Odessa Tex
Mrs Mary Kite and other guests were noted during a social visit at the Haines residence with mention of accompanying attendees and casual conversation.
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