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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
6
Numerous residents and guests are noted in Ada from nearby towns and states. People from Stonewall, Sapulpa, Sulphur Springs Texas, Tupelo, Chicago, and Konawa are listed visiting, staying, or moving through Ada.
Officers Reid the Fiste and city marshal led a dawn sweep on Bill Watsons popular Negro hostelry in the Flaw. They detained six women and five men in a joint federal and city action charging bawdy house nuisance and lewd vagrancy. Eighteen prisoners remain in the U.S. jail with more expected at sunrise.
Ordinance No 111 amends Ordinance 52 to require the Ada Oklahoma property assessor and collector to assess all taxable property between February 1 and May 31 each year, including railroad property except rolling stock, under applicable acts and ordinances. The ordinance takes effect after passage and publication, dated May 7, 1906.
A mass meeting in Ada Indian Territory adopts resolutions urging President and Congress to remove restrictions on alienation of Five Civilized Tribes lands beyond homesteads. The measure warns against conditional relief that could cloud titles and harm business, dated May 3, 1906.
The Muskogee Phoenix reproaches The Tulsa Democrat for insulting Muskogee by labeling the Central league team as Africans. The letter urges fair play and cautions against insulting Tulsa by suggesting the Oilers be renamed.
A Lula letter reports heavy rains since April 26 damaging crops. Farmers restart cotton planting due to seed scarcity while corn struggles in weeds. Lula town improves with new large store and a big gin as A B Brown signs the notice.
Judge J M Doss reports from the Birmingham Alabama Methodist conference opening with hymn No 78 Holy Holy Holy and Bishop Wilson leading prayer. Nearly all delegates present, first church valued at 1650000 dollars hosts the event as Doss plans three weeks of sessions and a June return.
The ordinance posted in yesterday's News bans any boy under eighteen from street presence after 9 p.m. The measure, praised widely, aims to curb nocturnal loafing and insists parents who cannot control their children need the law to intervene.
City council met Tuesday night to approve the $5 000 official bond of city recorder J Warren appointed Monday night. Bond found satisfactory and approved promptly.
Mr and Mrs John McKinley hosted friends from Sun rise addition last night. The reception featured dainty refreshments prepared by the hostess and was described as a most enjoyable affair.
Miss Kathryn Yater, a recognized Indiana newspaper journalist, is doing local reporting and soliciting for the Evening News. Ada residents are asked to extend courtesies to her during her visit.
Ada baseball team invites five boys to a Friday afternoon charity game to raise funds for the department. Leslie Martin, manager, reports the event.
A newly married pair in Ada attracted onlookers as they walked the streets hand in hand after the ceremony. The magistrate had joined them in marriage and reportedly tied their hands together, leaving the couple blissfully unaware of curious stares.
A Tuscumbia Alabama paper reports a severe accident on Friday injuring Joe Cooper a well known Ada resident. While on a railroad track he was struck by a passing train and run over resulting in a crushed leg amputated near the body severe bruises and other wounds. He is not expected to live.
Ada residents joined the M. E. & T. trip to Oklahoma City on Sunday with four extra coaches. Seventy eight tickets were sold at Ada station, weather dampened potential turnout, and five window panes were broken in one coach, suggesting a lively outing.
Prof W J Bumpers and wife visited Bebee today and discussed starting a cotton gin there. He regrets not reading the News and will read the great weekly from now on.
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