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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
5
Ada Oklahoma weekly edition details the Evening E¢-2 publication for Thursday with address 78 Weaver Masonic Block 12th and Broadway. Editor and Owner B Weaver notes second class matter entry March 26 1904 at Ada post office under March 3 1879 act.
A list of Democratic candidates for public offices to appear on the August 2 primary ballot including Governor Lee Cruce Attorney General Clint Graham Judge Henry Furman Clerk W H L Campbell and others across state districts and counties with names such as Tom D McKeown Reuben M Roddie John P Crawford Conway Barton M Croxton and J K Scroggins among many nominees for sheriff county clerk district clerk treasurer and school superintendent positions.
Campaign pursues countywide explanation of the Grandfather Amendment with speakers disputing GOP and socialist misrepresentations. The tour opens Saturday night at Price Schoolhouse with Geo. Thompson and others, listing nightly appointments across towns and dates.
The steamer Normandy sank twenty miles south of St Johns in dense fog just after midnight while sailing near Bay Bulls. All crew members escaped in the boat to shore. Details of the accident were not available at press time.
Capt Warren Dean at Oklahoma City Army recruiting station follows Washington orders to reinstate Edward Warfield of Company C Twenty Fifth Infantry Brownsville veteran. Warfield to receive back pay from discharge date and return to former rank.
The Ada Oklahoma Board of County Commissioners met in regular session with J D Rinard and G M Short present. Claims were allowed on supply road and contingent funds including lumber supplies jail coal disinfectant postage rent and salaries. Several disallowed claims listed. Continuous notes show payments to Ada Drug Co Ada Ice and Fuel Co Pioneer Tel Co and others.
A new oil gusher in Sapulpa Oklahoma continues to produce about 5000 barrels daily. The wildcat well sits on the Thelma Weaver allotment near section 16 and may yield more after remaining tools are removed. A earth dam is being built to conserve oil and hold up to 50000 barrels. Nearby events include Murray’s gubernatorial campaign stops drawing large crowds across Okmulgee Holdenville Sapulpa and the Cherokee Nation.
The Commercial Secretaries Association urges every citizen to act as a one person publicity committee to attract immigrants and investors. A California merchant won five influential visitors over in one afternoon, highlighting how individual effort can create permanent residents and increased wealth for a town.
Multiple guardianship proceedings in Oklahoma detail court orders for sale of ward property. Notices list petitions in Johnston Pontotoc and Grady counties with sales set for May 1910, publication in Ada Weekly News, and required kin notice and court confirmations.
For suspension or open span, $1.10 per lineal foot. R. M. Nash and J.F. Kehoe were appointed tax ferrers for the county. Attest: W. S. Kerr, County Clerk.
Fire broke out at the Palos Coal and Coke company mine shortly after 9 am trapping scores of miners entombed since Thursday. Rescue workers were ordered out as flames threatened to destroy bodies. Birmingham laborers arrive to dig graves at a new Palos cemetery for white and negro workers.
Oklahoma City May 8. H J Wilkins a Chickasha farmer robbed at Main street and Harvey avenue Friday night by a negress recovered his pocketbook Saturday morning. He found it in a nearby alley containing $130 in paper money and $5 in silver stolen.
In Ada the court orders the sale of the minor ward Francis Cleo Hattox real estate after petition by John W. Hattox. The order sets dates for publication and publication in the Ada Weekly. Also notes obituaries and editor incident reports from Guthrie and Montgomery Alabama.
John W Hattox guardian of the estate of Azile Hattox a minor filed a petition in 1910 seeking the sale of the ward's real estate citing a stated reason and scheduling a hearing at 10 o'clock A M to determine if the sale should proceed.
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