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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
8
W B Cochran of Coleman and W J Walker travel to Purcell to manage Cross tie business. They pay for ties delivered on O C and run a biweekly settlement. Local items note new residents M S Cullins and family, mixed views on federal Indian land protection, measles affecting school, and plans for teachers and cotton timing.
A long reader letter laments neglect of worship and criticizes probate courts handling of full blood and minor Indians. The piece urges fathers to model good conduct for children. Reports cover Bro French at East Lanham, teachers examinations, center’s Mother’s Day program, and local social visits across Egypt and nearby towns.
Oklahoma booster train visits Roff Ada and Francis in Pontotoc County. Roff showcases banks, gins, cement mill payrolls, and strongest cattle shipping. Ada reports six thousand residents, five gins, four banks with large deposits, cementing industries, and hefty cotton and ice outputs. Francis serves as Frisco division point with a $25,000 monthly payroll and a $50,000 waterworks system.
Prayer and biblical readings accompany a May Mother’s Day event featuring recitations by Tom D. McKeown Noah Garret Erica MccCulloh Myrtle Austell Grace Griffith and W T Peck with songs My Mother Sang Mothers Home and Mothers Way plus a seven girl dialogue God Be With You Till We Meet Again and a Benediction.
The column mentions farmers planting cotton and a convention with expectation of a square meal. It references H. H. Moss leaving Pecan Grove and jokes about cotton prospects there. Isaac Mullinax is ill with measles and hopes for a quick recovery. A Lost Boy note appears in the text.
An old advertisement promotes Herbine as a purifier for the liver and bowels to restore a rosy complexion. It notes the product sells for 50 cents and is offered by Ramsay Drug Company.
The Pontotoc County Poultry Association met Monday night and scheduled the next poultry show for Ada around December 20. Officials expect a memorable event following the success of the first show.
Oklahoma City hosts the state championship spelling contest during the county superintendents meeting May 19 to 21. Nearly every county sends its champion. Dr L G Miller of the State Dental Association delivers a daily address on Oral Hygiene, highlighting the program.
An advertisement extols Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as a prompt and pleasant cure for bad colds. It claims the medicine relieves the lungs aids expectoration opens secretions and restores health, noting worldwide sales and dependable performance. Sold by all dealers.
This afternoon Mrs. W. H. Fisher learned her sister Mrs. T. H. Edmiston is at the point of death at her Lewisville Texas home. She will go to her bedside this evening with Mrs. L. J. Crowder and Claude Pitt accompanying her.
An advertised medical preparation claims to cure piles both internally and externally with no equal. The Ramsey Drug Company promotes the remedy and invites readers to learn its advantages.
A permanent organization for better farms in Oklahoma was created as the Oklahoma Farm Congress Association. J F Darby of Muskogee is president and O H Leonard of Tulsa treasurer Julius Letcher of Tulsa serves as secretary Two vice presidents were chosen from each district, with plans to represent Oklahoma at the International Dry-Farming Congress in October Exposition commissioners will tour counties in May and prize money is pledged by Blaine Tulsa and Muskogee counties for October events DR SIMMONS SQUAW VINE advertised as a women's remedy with $1.00 price per bottle. Sold by Gwin Mays Drug Co
Local auction offers five dollar prizes for best butter, dressed hen, milch cow, and young livestock with restrictions on recipient. F F Ferguson to award at 11 am, stock at Chickasaw Wagon Yard, trades at Frierson Bros office. Free Good Roads picture show at City Hall 1 30 pm. Ballard's Snow Liniment ad touts healing powers for cuts and sprains at Ramsey Drug Co.
John W. Simpson the agricultural agent for the Indians visited from Sulphur and said crop prospects are generally good in the area, with some oats in patches not well put in.
A nineteenth century style ad promotes Merital Rheumatism Powders from the American Drug and Press Association. It claims a satisfactory century proven formula after expert review and guarantees results. Ramsey Drug Company is listed as exclusive agents.
T C U defeated the Oklahoma A and M team on the local campus yesterday by a score of 4 to 1. Beessler pitched effectively in relief for Christians and allowed five hits, while his teammates collected ten off Terry. Terry pitched steadily, but Bessler weakened in the sixth, surrendering four of the five Farmers hits.
Advertisement touts Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid as a wonderful disinfectant and healing remedy. Claims it heals long standing running sores that resist ordinary liniments by destroying poisonous germs and cleansing foul matter to aid tissue repair. Price 50 cents per bottle, sold by Gwin & Mays Drug Co.
In the second game at Fort Worth the T C U ball team defeated the A M boys of Oklahoma by a score of five to zero.
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