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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1905
Page
5
A compact dealer note lists enamelware prices for milk pans four quarts soup and sauce pans dippers and stands ladles and irons. Items include CORPSE POTS large set six SAD IRONS Mrs Ports nickel plated detachable handle and stand set of five irons.
A small sale notices croquet sets including 4 ball and U ball sets and baseball bats for Slugger League Junior League and small bats for young players. Includes price references and product variety for youth and beginners.
Ada and surrounding towns see visitors and residents traveling for business and social affairs. Notables include R E Duncan of Francis C M Parrish of Roff and J J Johnson of Center. Local messages mention Henrys, weddings, and church society meetings amid ongoing Katy railroad developments.
Mrs Frank Davis of Jesse and her Dallas cousin Miss Crane visit Ada for a Reed and Harrisons millinery opening on April 5 and 6 with evening hours 9 to 6. Carney learns of sister family in Owl where Paul Kirby dies from stomach congestion. Temperance lecturer Mrs Zehner drew a full house at the Methodist church last night.
The Chapman shoe house adds a free shoe shining department. A tall new chair sits near the entrance where Billy Carrington from Sulphur Springs Texas polishes shoes to perfection for both ladies and gentlemen.
News from Coalgate reports the death of Mrs. Geo D. Hodge after a brief illness. She was an estimable resident of three years in Coalgate with hundreds of friends and a Presbyterian member. Funeral held Wednesday. In Missouri Gov Folk abroad Lieut Gov McKinley acts as chief executive until Folk return.
Mrs. Caro lina Jobes aged 72 of Wellsville was attacked at the Semple sanitarium in Ottawa during the night. She suffered a fractured skull from an ax blow and her body was mutilated. Tracks around the building offer the only clue and the mutilation recalls a recent Topeka Nickum case. No motive given.
Mrs Cassie I Chadwick faces nearly a decade in the Ohio state penitentiary after Judge Robert W Taylor imposed a ten year sentence in U S district court. The ruling followed a full day of arguments on a motion for a new trial which was overruled.
Gov Joseph W Folk of Missouri arrived in New York escorted by a Missouri Society committee. He will attend a Missouri society dinner and plans a brief stay in the East following the train arrival at Jersey City.
Topeka Kan March 29 Government irrigation experiments will begin soon. A board of irrigation experts works on a complete plan for western Kansas. The scheme will extend to Garden City and increase thousands of acres of tillable land.
Nashville Tenn March 29 The resignation of United States Senator elect James B Flavier as governor of Tennessee was delivered Monday afternoon to Speaker John I Cox of the state senate Cox then took the oath as governor to which office he succeeds under the state constitution
Charles Turner a 30 year old convict was murdered at the western Pennsylvania penitentiary in Pittsburgh during an early Tuesday bake house altercation with fellow convict Paul Kruger. Kruger used a hidden knife to fatally stab Turner.
In Topeka March 29 Judge Pollock granted 17 additional restraining orders against farmers opposing the Kansas City Topeka line of the Union Pacific. A total of four orders now in effect. Hearing dates yet to be set.
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