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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1926
Page
6
Local residents share visits and family milestones. Townsfolk attend church, shop in Ada, and host guests while noting weather, street work, and school events. Frisco game results and upcoming Mother’s Day program appear amid community life updates.
Events, visits, and gatherings across several families in Brown Eyes including Thelma Wortman, J R Newby, and Ed Sherrell. School plays planned May 12 and 13 plus a Negro show The Coonville Aristocrat Club. Baptism at Sheep Creek. cotton planting underway. club meeting May 10. Sunday school progress. numerous family visits and dinners noted.
Brother Pillers preached Saturday night and Sunday at this place. Sunday school was well attended. Miss Lizzie Dunn spent Saturday night with Miss Bee Brecheen. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Watts and family visited Mrs. G. W. Evans. Farmers plant cotton this week. Mrs. Alfred Summers visited Mrs. Pannell. Sylvia Dalton and Liltiie Bell Brecheen with Miss Vivian Turner were mentioned.
The rain Sunday night was welcomed by a local farmer. Nick Ward stayed with his sister Mrs. McNeal of Pauls Valley Saturday night and Sunday. Ruth Wortman visited Lela Newby Sunday evening.
Sunday night disappointment followed by school programs and weather woes. A Prairie Oil and Gas No 1 Alexander well near Okemah yielded 25,000,000 feet of gas as the area reports a major discovery.
Lloyd Waner left at noon for Pittsburgh to join the Pirates spring camp after a brief stay with friends. Francisco Seals rumors of his release prompted Pirates scouts to view the move as a scare tactic to avoid contract price. Joel Devine, Pirates scout, predicted Waner could stay with the club or be farmed to New Haven or Birmingham for development.
Paris May 5 Premier Briand convoked an extraordinary cabinet council for tomorrow to discuss measures to stop the franc fall which slid to 31.73 to the dollar by 1 30 this afternoon Finance Minister Perez returns to the capital Speculation arises in official circles and a mass maneuver backed by the Morgan loan of 1924 may be considered if selling continues.
Lotau, Oklahoma May 5. L. E. Carmichael convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years was granted an appeal to the criminal court of appeals after a denial of a new trial by Judge D C Mccurtain in district court. He was charged with murdering his brother in law and business associate L. E. Thrasher.
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