Notice of Hearing of Final Account and Distribution
Wilbur P Lee as executor of Emma H Barton estate filed a final account and motion for distribution and discharge. The hearing is set for Tuesday June 1 1937 at 10 a m in the Ada county courthouse courtroom. All interested parties may appear to show cause why the account should not be settled and the estate distributed and the executor discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherif
District Court of
Pontotoc County
State of Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Bank of
Ada
Oklahoma
T. Walters
District Court
Ll. T. Walters
Josie A. Walters
Kittie E. Stout
Range 6
Clyde Kaiser
Claude Sturdivant
Harrell & Kerr
Plaintiff
Pontotoca County
State of
Theodore B. McKeown
Roy 8. McKeown
Pontotoc
Wilbur P. Lee
Emma H. Barton
John Boyce McKees
Local community notes on graduates and gatherings
A group of students received new diplomas amid pride and well wishes for high school. Many families shared meals and visits across Ada Holdenville Francis Hammon and surrounding communities. Church events at Oakman continue with weekly services and B Y P A meetings inviting all.
Sunday School Attendance Dips For Mothers Day Trend
The column notes reduced Sunday school attendance due to Mothers Day activities and records various local visits and gatherings. Erma Mitchell and Mayme Cantrell are mentioned, along with multiple families hosting dinners and visiting neighbors over the weekend and midweek. Mayme Cantrell is listed as sick.
Local Social Gatherings and Religious Event Recap
Mrs Grover Keeling spent Saturday with sister Beulah McGee. Families including Murry Golden Bottoms Cantrell Estes and children visited the Williams home. Mothers Day program at Egypt Sunday night was well attended. Edna Simpkins stayed with kin in Ada and Evelyn Williams visited Winnie Bottoms Saturday. Remember Sunday school and singing Tuesday night. all invited.
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Bill Huddleston
Francis
Grandpa Myrick
Holdenville
Olaf Myrick
Hobart
Letha McDonald
Mary Katherine Smith
Ada
Gann
Dorotha
Adam
Jackson
Baby
Neal McDonald
Evelyn Meeks
McAlester
T. O. Meeks
Gene Munger
Stevenson
Jet Munger
Bell
Hammon
Okla
Oakman
Sister Smith
Erma Mitchell
Mayme Cantrell
Jim Melton
Winie Bottoms
Luther Fox
Casey Corvin
Henry Corvin
T. A. Sammons
Edna Mae Hart
C. H. Mitchell
Gracie Mae Corvin
Juanita Campbell
Claudie Norton
Edna Simpkins
Otis Webb
Spurgeon Solomon
Bill Howard
Cecil Corvin
Daisy Barnet
A. H. Simpkins
Alma
George Simpkins
Haley Williams
Murry Golden
Grover Keeling
Beulah McGee
Roy Bottoms
Edward Cantrell
Barney Estes
Esties
Williams
N. C. Mitchell
Rebee
Ray Mitchell
T. L. Bottoms
In Memory of Geneva Dunlap
A sister writes of Geneva Dunlap’s passing with devotion and faith. The tribute speaks of peace in death, a heavenly home, and a hopeful reunion in the city of gold. The writer Juana McGee mentions the sister’s sorrow, calm resting, and the belief in eternal spring in heaven.
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Geneva Dunlap
Pettit Family and Community Gatherings Highlight Sunday
The dinner was well attended for Mothers Day at the church with plans to return Sunday and Thursday nights. Families visited include the Skaggs, Coley, Smothers, Armstrong and Luttrell households. Several overnight and day visits occurred among neighbors and relatives across town.
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Skaggs
Ima Gean Coley
Tess Smith
Clarence Chilcoat
Mable Smothers
Nolen
Armstrong
Dewey Armstrong
Argie
Margie Skaggs
Grissom
Smothers
George Luttrell
Gertrude Penrod
Martha Lee McCracken
Leander Coley
T. L. Coley
Dee Sparks
Frank Coley
Everett Coley
Ida Lou Coley
Ahloso
Hickory School Play Impresses Local Crowd
The grade school operetta Thursday night drew a near full house and high praise. Hickory High tied seventh in the state interscholastic meet at Norman with two students earning points for the school. Aleen Kimbrough visits from Denton for the weekend, and local notices honor mothers with a lyric tribute ending in a Mother’s Day blessing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Little
Wewoka
Hickory High School
Norman
Aleen Kimbrough
Denton
Texas
Ida Bradley
Mary Crumb
Mothers Day program and rain relief noted in Bebee area
A rain on Monday night aided gardens and crops. A Mothers Day program at the Be bee schoolhouse drew a large crowd. Mr. and Mrs. Rayford Duke and Mrs. Lorene Haggard organized it. The oldest father was Mr. Waldby and the oldest mother Grandmother Hood.
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Bebee School
Rayford Duke
Lorene Haggard
Waldby
Grandmother Hood
L. D. Haskins
Roy Briggs
Editor Plans Brief Mexico City Trip for Absence
The editor announces a two to three week absence to travel to Mexico City and asks correspondents to manage the staff in his absence or take vacations themselves if preferred. He asks for cooperation with Mrs Norrell and the News force during the trip.
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News Force
Local Families Attend Mothers Day Program Nearby
Mrs. John Crane and Mrs. Floy Standridge are mentioned with Standridge ill. Paul McCutcheon visited the L. D. Haskins home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Crow and family from Graham, Oklahoma, visited relatives in the community Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Crane
Ada
This Place
Floy Standridge
Paul McCutcheon
L. D
Happyland Community News of Mothers' Day Homes and Visits
The Sunday dinner and Mothers Day program pleased attendees. Adrian Price and families visited friends, with several relatives from Cedar Grove and Farris, Oklahoma. Walter Price, Bertha Head, and others shared time, while Little Bettie Jeans is sick and residents urged to attend Sunday school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian Price
Wallis Burgess
Russell Head
Bud Gann
Conway
John Gann
Claude Carpenter
James
Henry Lamb
Bird Nickell
Farris
Okla
Sherman
Alva Lamb
Cedar Grove
Bertha Head
Jess Price
Ahloso
Walter Price
Walter Price, Jr
Marie Shepherd
Tulsa
Annie Price
Ingram
Little Bettie Jeans
Delphia
Nova Head
Oil Production Stays High Amid Stable Refined Fuel Movements
Tulsa May 12 A spot crude oil overproduction in some areas was the only flaw in an otherwise hopeful petroleum picture. Output remained around 3.4 million barrels daily though some curtailment may come as season demand rises. Refiners noted gasoline stock gains and seasonally solid activity with a 10 percent higher first quarter consumption versus last year. Labor trouble talk faded as the gasoline market stayed tight and tank car prices could rise.
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Tulsa
Ambassador Warns of U S Dictatorship Plot
Berlin dispatch reports U S Ambassador William E. Dodd warns democratic leaders that a very wealthy individual is ready to back and control a dictatorship in America. He cites fears of a party split and cites past crises, urging support for the president.
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U. S
Berlin
United States
William E. Dodd
Dodd
Robert J. Bulkley
Ohio
Carter Glass
Lincoln
Roosevelt
South
Huey Long
Senate
Moscow
Rome
der Angrief
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Propaganda and Public Enlightenment
der Angriff
Lewis
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
F D R and Followers Face Clash With Old Line Democrats
Washington report outlines a fundamental split between Roosevelt liberal followers and conservative Democrats in Congress led by southern senators. The court plan and New Deal reforms spark battles over 1940 nomination and party direction, with Garner Robinson and a Texas progressives bloc shaping strategy.
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F.D.R
Rodney Dutcher
Ada News
Washington
NEA
United States
Roosevelt
White House
Rosevelt
Congress
John W. Davis
Morgan
Jimmy Byrnes
South Carolina
Garner
Byrnes
Connally
Texas
Bailey
North Carolina
George
Georgia
Byrd
Virginia
Copeland
New York
Burke
Nebraska
Senate
Joe Robinson
Arkansas
Robinson
Black
Alabama
Pepper
Florida
Maury Maverick
House
Sam Rayburn
Marvin Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Hatton Summers
Judiciary Committee
Jesse Jones
RFC
Jesse
Roy Bean West of the Pecos Pioneer Judge Who Enforced His Own Law
The account traces Roy Bean’s volatile rise from a Louisville youth to a famed frontier figure in Langtry Texas. He fled, fought, and rode through New Orleans San Antonio and Chihuahua then became a liquor trader and self appointed justice. Riding with a sixgun he dispensed harsh punishment and set his own statutes on the Pecos frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
Texas
Roy Bean
Louisville
New Orleans
San Antonio
Sam
Texas City
Chihuahua City
Mexico
Roy
San Diego
California Rangers
New Mexico
Free Rovers
Southern Pacific Railroad
el Paso
Vinegarroon
Langtry
Tribunal of Justice
Oklahoma faces flood of petitions after legislative anger
Oklahoma politics heats up as lawmakers adjourn with critics pushing initiative petitions. Proposals include unicameral or reduced legislature, impeachment moved to courts, two year terms, limiting governor appointments, plus tax changes on oil, foods, and highway funding. Party leaders clash in a heated Democratic meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
House
Senate
Court opponents claim majority for Roosevelt court bill
Opponents said administration leaders advised the president that Senate approval was doubtful while supporters claimed enough votes to pass. Shipstead’s late declaration left 38 percent publicly opposed as debate focused on size of the court and a 75 year retirement amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Shipstead
Minn
Supreme Court
Elizabeth and Margaret Rose Steal Abbey Show
London May 12. Little Princess Elizabeth and her six year old sister Margaret Rose drew notice as the coronation day crowd awaited their parents arrival. Margaret attracted attention with blue eyes and dancing in silver slippers while Queen Mother Mary wore five ropes of diamonds valued around 2 million dollars.
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London
Princess Elizabeth
Margaret Rose
Margaret
Elizabeth
Mary
Suspended sentences for Roe and Dorsey in Tulsa case
P Zell G Roe and James A Dorsey partners in the Whitney Investment trust were given five year suspended sentences on mail fraud and securities act violations. E L Whitney, third partner, faced 20 day delay. Roe and Dorsey seek parole after failed prior securities cases.
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Tulsa
P—Zell G. Roe
James A. Dorsey
Whitney Investment Trust
Franklin E. Kennamer
E. L. Whitney
Whitney
Roe
Dorsey
Securities Service Company
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Kenneth Baker
SEC
Attorney General’s Office
Oklahoma youth get chance at summer college farming program
Applications for a three month work training program in Oklahoma agriculture target needy Pon totoc county farm youths. Selected ages 18 to 25 come from WPA fed families and those on old age pension or aid to dependent children. Participants will study farm agriculture and homemaking while working part time on NYA construction projects earning about 21 dollars monthly, with dormitory living costing about 15 dollars per month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Agricultural Colleges
Pontotoc County
J. W. Crow
NYA
Harden Ray
Windsor Wedding Delayed as Royal-Government Rift Shocks Europe
The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield plan to postpone their Windsor marriage to early June amid reported differences with the British government. A radio broadcast of King George VI’s coronation aired as the pair discussed the delay in the Château de Candé suite, with officials noting royal family pressure for publicness versus government preference for privacy.
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Warfield
Edward
Chateau
George
Mary
Britain
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County of Pontotoc
Thelma Voisin
Roy Voisin
Della Bedford
Vol
Crawford
John Boyce McKeel
Pottawatomie County
John J. Cuff
Pottawatomie
Shawnee
Ola A. Cuff
Holley and Holley
Park Wyatt
Church House
Zellma Carter
Melba Lee Eppler
Jean Berry
Ada Cotton Oil Co
T. A. Hooser
Route 1
C. L. Griffith
Isaac Koney
Agnes Stephens
F. Robinson
Bob
Gold
Juanita McGee
Pickett
Bebee
Happyland
TVA
Walsh
Massachusetts
King
Utah
Tydings
Maryland
the Forum of the Press
Felix Church
Democratic Senate
Sam Battles
Democratic Central Committee
Billings
Gate
Paul Stewart
Homer Paul
Franklin Roosevelt
Sammy
Democratic National
Elizabeth and
Roe and
Windsor
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