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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1921
Page
5
The Planter and Ranchman, a weekly supplement to The Ada Weekly News, announces Ada Oklahoma publishers The News Publishing and Printing Co. Marvin Brown serves as president and general manager.
Editorial lauds President elect Warren G. Harding's cabinet choices with emphasis on Edwin Denby Andrew Mellon and James J. Davis. It notes Charles Evans Hughes Herbert Hoover Henry C. Wallace Will Hays Albert Fall Andrew W. Mellon Edwin Denby and James J. Davis as prominent selections and outlines their backgrounds and qualifications. The piece highlights their professions from law banking farming and labor leadership to military service and public office.
The Alpine Club of Canada plans Lake O’Hara as its summer camp this year drawing painter John Singer Sargent who spent a week there. Walter D Wilcox calls Lake O’Hara the finest natural scene in the Canadian Rockies and the club highlights its Sulphur Mountain base with a growing membership and annual expeditions including Mt Assmine’s ascent with four women among the 35 climbers.
A movement to incorporate Schuster Oklahoma six miles south of Okmulgee aims to establish water sewer and lighting systems turning the squatter town into a model village. Citizens cite coal mining as economic strength and plan a bank and a community hall alongside existing school facilities.
McAlester Oklahoma February 25. Two condemned men Robert W Blakely and John Ledbetter were executed in the electric chair at the state penitentiary shortly after midnight. Both admitted guilt and spoke to onlookers before dying. Ledbetter had been baptized and seemed changed after immersion. The burial plans involve Muskogee church workers led by Abraham Taylor. About seventy five people witnessed the execution.
James Norton a 26 year old from New York surrendered to Sheriff Duncan after three months as a fugitive from the United States Army. Norton requested return to Camp Norman where Sergeant Lofton escorted him back to his unit. He cited fatigue with army life and recalls wounds in France as part of his displeasure with the service.
In McAlester Oklahoma on February 24, Mrs Lester Clark and Hale Taylor of Eufaula faced district court for involvement in the killing of Jailer Jack Hunter at Eufaula last May. Judge Edward A Summers of Wagoner presided as special judge. Clark denied smuggling the gun to her husband. Lester Clark escaped jail then was killed at Alma Arkansas.
The eastern Oklahoma district basketball tournament in Okmulgee on March 17 and 18 is shaping up as the largest ever with many teams already entered. The winner advances to Stillwater for the state tournament on March 5 and 26.
From McGREGOR Texas February 28 a lamp explosion started a fire that killed Mrs Ike Markum and two children aged four and six while husband rescued his two month old baby who probably will recover he sustained severe burns in the blaze
George C. Pohler of Tulsa president of the Purchasing Agents Association of Oklahoma returned from Pittsburgh where he joined a national fuel committee meeting. He and four combustion engineers discussed fuel oil combustion, equipment construction, market costs, and economy from fuel oil. Pohler was delegated by W. L. Chandler to draft a tentative fuel oil contract for the national association.
The Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin, former liquor license inspector, was acquitted of murder in the shooting of Beverly Trumble, a keeper, during a raid in Sandwich Ontario. The verdict came minutes after the jury retired.
A burned out 1,600 foot main cable of Oklahoma Light and Power, spanning the South Canadian river near Ayne, cut power to Konawa Maude Seminole Prague and Harjo leaving Shawnee to supply northern towns. Repairs delayed until a special cable arrives from St Louis.
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