Ada County Industry Expands with Pontotoc Crops and New Pottery
J B Hill reports 1928 Pontotoc shipments show cotton 7,984 bales valued 718,560. cattle 324 cars 583,200. hogs 146 cars 175,200. poultry eggs 90,000. cream 107,000. corn 95 cars 49,000. hay 56 cars 8,400. peanuts 40 cars 40,000. pecans 7 cars 23,100. Ada consumes much locally. A new Ada pottery kiln launches a state unique industry with potter’s clay capitalized by local investors and expected rapid capacity growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Hill
Pontotoc County
Ada
Oklahoma
W. H. Ebey
Oklahoma progress cited in Pontotoc and state road hopes
The piece praises Oklahoma’s 25 year growth from a sparsely developed Pontotoc county to improved roads, bridges, schools, and government. It discusses farm relief debates, Lew Wentz’s highway chairmanship, and tariff chatter affecting sugar and farm products.
Impeachment Proceedings Adrift in Oklahoma Senate Court
The Oklahoma Senate court met at 1 30 p m to hear demurrers against nine of ten articles of impeachment against Justice Fletcher Riley. A motion for delay and a later 1 p m tomorrow session followed as a quorum proved elusive with only 23 present. Chief Justice Mason and his attorneys pressed for immediate trial while the board of managers sought more time, arguing witnesses would be available. A noon roll call found the chamber short of a quorum, but a 23rd member arrived and arguments began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torney
Fred P. Branson
Supreme Court
Tom Duffey
Riley
Ira A. Hill
Senate
Fletcher Riley
State Supreme Court
Wade H. Loofbourrow
Buffalo
C. B. Cochran
Oklahoma City
Justice Riley
Mason
Board of Managers
Atterson
Clark
State Senate
Patterson
Harve Maxey
House Investigating Committee
Maxey
House of Representatives
House
Senate Court
Kimerer
Dover
W. T. Clark
Medford
A. C. Easter
Bartlesville
Wade Loofbourrow
Tom Anglin
Holdenville
Justice Mason
Hunter Johnson
Tulsa
Pustice
Johnson
Desperate families clung to tree tops after flood hits Lamont area
No. 5 reports several families at Lamont and nearby hamlet clinging to tree tops late last night as rescue efforts continued. Widespread crop and property damage reported around Livingston Marston Long Cane Goodrich New Willard and Lamont. No trains into Livingston for about 36 hours as businesses and homes were washed away.
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Lamont
Clmst
Livingston
Marston
Long Cane
Goodrich
New Willard
Flood Crest Seen on Arkansas River Junction Area
Muskogee report notes Arkansas river floods cresting with 24 14 feet at Grand and Verdigris confluence, two inches below last night. Flood level remains a foot above, with several hundred acres in Fort Gibson potato bottoms inundated as river mouths begin to ease.
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Muskogee
Arkansas
Grand
Verdigris
Fort Gibson
Holloway to seek Senate confirmation for multiple state appointees
Oklahoma City May 13 News reports Gov W J Holloway will ask the state senate in a special session at noon Thursday to confirm several appointments including three state highway commissioners Lew Wentz C S Boswell and L C Hutson along with members of the state game and fish commission state banking board building and loan board and bank commissioner C Graves Shull Dr Clyde Beson Claremore Health Commissioner is not subject to senate confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoman
Holloway
Lew Wentz
State Highway Commission
Oklahoma
Schley
Santiago
Wentz
Oklahoma City
W. J. Holloway
State Senate
Ponca City
C. S. Boswell
Durant
L. C. Hutson
Chickasha
State Game and Fish Commission
Senate
Sam Harris
Joe Constant
State Banking Board
State Building and Loan Board
C. Graves Shull
Clyde Beson
Claremore
Oklahoma Man Proposes Constitutional Convention Vote
Oklahoma City May 11 A bill to submit the question of a constitutional convention for amending or revising the state constitution is drafted for a special session by Tulsa County representative Horace J Newberry He plans to discuss with Governor Holloway to broaden the message to permit the bill. The convention would meet November 1 1931 with 104 delegates and a August 1931 primary to choose them Delegates must have seven years in the state and three in the county district They previously submitted the issue in 1926 but it failed and four years must pass before another submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Horace J. Newberry
Tulsa County
Newberry
Holloway
House
Impeachment Trial Opens for Oklahoma Chief Justice Mason
The Oklahoma senate court of impeachment convened with 25 members present as Chief Justice Charles W. Mason faced ten demurrers to eleven articles of impeachment. Three Republican senators attended, including W. P. and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Senate
Charles W. Mason
State Supreme Court
Mason
W. P
Arkansas River flood feared near Fort Smith
May 14 Fort Smith Arkansas rising waters of the Arkansas river were expected tonight or tomorrow threatening serious flood damage based on prior floods. An area between 200 and 300 acres of rich potato lands near Fort Gibson was menaced with the crest forecast at 29 feet, recalling the 28 foot 1926 flood that inundated about 70,000 acres in eastern Oklahoma and along the Arkansas border. T. G. Shipmen of the U S weather bureau said the river had apparently reached its crest at Webbers Falls and Fort Gibson.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Arkansas
Fort Gibson
Oklahoma
T. G. Shipmen
United States Weather Bureau
Webbers Falls
Woman Chooses Second Husband in Divorce Suit
In McAlester Oklahoma on May 13, Mrs Enoch Arden announces she will keep her second husband James M Webb after a week of deliberation and has filed for divorce from her first spouse. The report notes the unusual arrangement of Mrs Arden living with two husbands.
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Mcalester
Okla
MecAlester
Enoch Arden
James M. Webb
Young Woman Seeks Deciding Vote On Husbands After Shock
A 16 year old woman accompanied by her second husband appeared before County Judge S F Brown eight days after learning she has three or more husbands. Her first husband Edgar Whiteside is missing. She had mourned him as dead after learning of his suicide in Oklahoma City. Vernon, their child, is in his grandmother's care as the family unravelled. The father G Lyn is imprisoned.
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Edgar V. Whiteside
S. F. Brown
Hollis
Okla
Whiteside
Shawnee
Oklahoma City
McAlester
Arizona Forest Fire Believed Under Control Near Nogales
The May blaze in the Patagonia mountains burned over 15 000 acres, forcing cattle herds down slopes as miners fled to Henshaw. Cowboys battled flames for six days with 100 workers, stopping the fire a few miles from Nogales as winds threatened renewed flare ups.
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Nogales
Ariz
Arizona
Patagonia
Henshaw
Here
Palomas Canyon
Nellie Kimes Freed Of Murder Charge In 1928 Slaying
Nellie Kimes sister of bank robbers Matthew and George Kimes was freed today of a murder charge in the death of Sasakwa farmer George Epperly from March 12, 1928. The dismissal came on a motion by county attorney Tom Fancher. Billie Roberts 18 and David Palmer 27 also were freed in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holdenville
Okla
Nellie Kimes
Matthew
George Kimes
Oklahoma
George Epperly
Tom Fancher
Billie Roberts
Nellie
David Palmer
Immigration official exonerated in plot to aid rebel escape
Russell B. Athens of El Paso assistant US director of immigration was exonerated by the labor department of any complicity in an alleged scheme to help Salvador Ateca, former Mexican rebel paymaster, escape to Spain.
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Washington
Russell B.athens
United States
el Paso
Tex
Labor Department
Salvador Ateca
Spain
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Byron Norrell
The
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Ada Weekly Democrat
Pontotoc
ADA Evening News
Ada’s
Hoover
Congress
Pandora
Amarillo
Highway Commission
David Lawrence
Tulsa World
Lawrence
Republicans Ways and Means Committee
Winder
Segeeyah
Independence
Kan
Topeka
Kansas
Federal Weather Bureau
Dallas Or
Fort Worth
Dallas
Tr. McNair
Frisco Ticket Agent
Ada, Okla
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