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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1935
Page
6
Leo Hennigan of Hennigan's Toggery returned Wednesday from Oklahoma City after a three day Lions Club convention. Miss Selma Cody, a student at East Central State Teachers College, left Thursday for Centralia to spend the summer with her parents.
Miss Josephine Payte and Miss Geraldne Payte, East Central students, left Thursday for Centrahoma to spend the summer with their parents Mr and Mrs A Payte.
Miss Hazel Lou Nordeen, an East Central student, is spending the rest of the week in Ross with relatives and friends. She plans to return to Ada on Monday to enroll for the summer term.
Mr and Mrs W H Ebey returned from southern Louisiana where they visited the Acadian homeland and saw Evangeline’s grave at St Martinsville. They report a most delightful outing.
Prof and Mrs J S Hinshaw will depart Friday for Sheridan South Dakota where they will spend the summer season.
Dr Claude E Sayre of St Luke s Episcopal church went to Wichita Kansas on Thursday to bring back his son Don Castle Sayre. Mrs Sayre and the two daughters Nancy and Alice returned with him to Ada Friday and will stay for several weeks visit.
W. A. Delaney of Tulsa is spending a few days in Ada with his son W. A. Delaney Jr and family.
Mrs. Sarah Cathey plans to move to Phoenix to live with her son James. C A Hardee from Seminole visited Ada friends. Miss Lucille Johnson returns to Ada for summer with her parents. W C Wylie of Fitzhugh visited Ada. Mr and Mrs DaVault of Bebee visited Ada. Miss Garnet Norman returns to Ada for summer. Mr and Mrs G P Barrett of Overton Texas and Mrs Hillhouse and daughter from Paris Texas visited Ada. Mrs S A Hillhouse and children sail May 24 from New Orleans to Maracaibo Venezuela where Mr Hillhouse works for Lado Petroleum.
Dr M M Webster departed Saturday for San Antonio Texas to visit his daughter for several days according to distant city news.
Longley Fentem of Wewoka visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Fentem and attended to business in Ada Friday.
Miss Joyce Van Eaton and Miss Elizabeth Van Eaton depart for Atoka for a brief visit with friends. Elizabeth will go to Colorado for the summer while Joyce travels to New Mexico to stay with relatives during the season.
Mr and Mrs J H Hunsucker announce the birth of a daughter on Saturday May 18 naming her Joyce Gwendolyn.
Mrs J D Morrin and her granddaughter Miss Gladys Morrin of 505 South Ash left Saturday for Hogomo Missouri to visit relatives and friends before continuing to California where Miss Gladys Morrin will enter a junior college.
Tom D. McKeown arrives in Ada from Chicago for a brief visit with plans to depart early next week. Mrs. McKeown, who traveled ahead, will return with him.
Captain W. B. Cantwell receives notice from State Commander Captain Harris appointing him as commander of the Second Brigade for the state. He designates Captain George, commander of the camp in Oklahoma City, as adjutant while Cantwell also leads the focal camp of United Confederate Veterans.
Miss Lucille Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs H E Smith is due in Ada today after nine months as a student in New Orleans at the Baptist Bible Institute She spent the past week in Memphis attending the Southern Baptist convention Friends greet her return to Oklahoma and Ada for the summer.
Miss Grace Hyder who for nine months has taught at St Louis Oklahoma has resigned her position. Details of her next move were not disclosed.
Ada wholesale grocer Jim Keltner describes a Mediterranean cruise with Mrs Keltner from New York City March 27 visiting Algiers Cairo and the Holy Land. He notes Lisbon as beautiful and Pompeii and the Coliseum in Rome, plus the blue Mediterranean and diverse currencies used during the trip. He calls the journey very interesting and worth while.
A resident visited Ada to spend the season with her parents Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Hyder at 201 West Twenty second.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hatcher of Oklahoma City are visiting relatives here. Mrs. Hatcher will return to her home Monday and Mr. Hatcher will remain in Ada for some time attending to business.
WW. O and Pratt of Norman visited town on Tuesday for business purposes, meeting local officials and networking with regional partners.
Mrs. P. W. Simpkins of Mar sing Idaho arrived in Ada Monday evening for an extended visit with relatives. Mrs. Simpkins formerly lived here.
Judge W A Leonard of Allen attended court and visited friends in Ada Monday. Miss Lillian Flatt a Centrahoma teacher for nine months has enrolled at the college here for the summer term.
Miss Billie Lee Crouch and Miss Frances Crouch of Antlers are staying in Ada during the summer with their father Joe Crouch.
Prem Monday's Daily notes Joe Gilmore of Allen visited friends in Ada on Sunday.
Miss Beatrice Keener and Miss Isobel Loving of Allen were guests of friends in Ada this weekend.
Mrs. Jake Yoakum has returned from Oklahoma City where she spent two weeks. She was called there by the death of her sister Mrs. Vernon White formerly Miss Dorothy Cunningham a Horace Mann student here.
Mrs Mildred Laughlin has returned to Ada after nine months teaching in Okmulgee and will attend the summer term at East Central State Teachers college.
B A Lasalle of San Diego arrived in Ada to spend a few days visiting friends and attending to oil interests. He was a former Ada resident and a pioneer in developing the Rebee oil field in this county.
Mrs George Young of Stonewall spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Ada with her daughter Mrs Agnes Austell.
Mrs. John Grigsby of Clarita spent Tuesday in Ada visiting friends and handling errands.
Mrs G D Ledbetter and her young daughter Corinthia Anne of St Louis Missouri arrived in Ada on Tuesday for a month long visit with Mrs Ledbetters parents Mr and Mrs C E Qualls at 525 East Twelfth and sister Mrs Donald Huffman.
Miss Selma Cody, East Central student, has been visiting her parents in Centrahoma and left Tuesday to spend the summer with relatives in New Mexico.
S C Boswell and J C Collier returned Tuesday afternoon from a trip to the western Texas plains. They report abundant rainfall in the region and favorable prospects for crops. Their excursion covered areas from Amarillo in the north to Sweetwater in the south.
In Burley Idaho brothers Lloyd Willis and Edison Hanks while hunting jackrabbit bits encountered a large rattlesnake nest. The serpents allegedly numbered in the hundreds and charged the brothers who fired rifles until shells ran dry. They resorted to rocks and eventually fifty snakes were killed before the snakes retreated.
Classified ad highlights solid value and smart buying in investments and savings. Offers phrasing aimed at prudent shoppers seeking strong returns from money spent on services, products, or opportunities advertised.
Records show School District 19 including Ada remains in good financial condition as of 1934 35. Auditors praise conservative administration while surpluses from 1931 32 to 1933 34 may be transferred to 1934 35 funds. Back taxes beverage tax and sales tax aid current warrants and sinking fund investments.
Ada chapter of the American Petroleum Institute held a Friday night meeting despite muddy roads. Charles Hagerling chaired with absent officers, extending charter membership acceptance by two weeks. Hubert Bale discussed Franks craban and Fitts field geology, drilling experiences, and the Wilcox sands, with questions from attendees.
About 500 to 700 people fled Red River bottoms south of Durant as a third rise flooded 70 square miles. The river reached 25 feet at the Denison bridge, fuel and medical supplies were moved to the homeless in schools and barns, drinking water was boiled as a precaution, and a fourth rise was feared after a dam break near Wichita Falls.
Pontotoc county filed 980 corn hog production contracts with the Oklahoma City state board of review. The board will approve or return them within 10 days for county offices to finalize and forward to producers and landlords for signatures before sending to Washington.
Governor E. W. Marland denounces Speaker Leon C. Phillips as a recent Republican while urging his new deal for Oklahoma. He faults the House for blocking his measures, outlines plans for subsistence homesteads, rural revival, new industries, and old age pensions, and asks voters to decide if he should continue as governor. The speech was delivered to about 400 at a Comanche County Democratic banquet.
Bill Shed a 21 year old Sasakwa resident and Fitts oil field worker was pinned under a heavy timber at a rig southeast of Ada on a Stanolind lease. He received emergency care at Fittstown and was moved to Ada for observation with X rays planned.
Muskogee May 18 William Lowery 64 a blind Cherokee Indian interpreter who founded the first school for the blind in Oklahoma Territory at Fort Gibson in 1897 died after a short illness. He and Laura A Rowland also blind founded the Fort Gibson school and operated it until 1908 when the state moved it to Muskogee.
TEMPLE Texas May 29 Farmers in the Little River lowlands report flooding and say they need a half to one inch of rain within a day or two. Euel Evans, whose farm was flooded by recent rains, warns the muck will dry, buds will be harmed, cotton will scorch, and the land will crust unless rain comes to prevent heavy crop losses.
Oklahoma House Speaker Leon C. Phillips says he will not block the governor Marland recovery program if a voter referendum is held. He notes public support against Marland measures and criticizes the governor's fundraising and the good government fund, asserting his loyalty remains with the people and not politics.
A Georgia woman Miss Moina Micheal serving at the YMCA overseas HQ in New York reads In Flanders Field and designs a poppy tribute. She distributes poppies to staff starting a memorial custom observed on the Saturday before Memorial Day. The poppy becomes the American Legion memorial flower and later the Legion Auxiliary takes over the program.
Two men in Byrd's Mill area were jailed on disturbance of the peace and liquor charges. Under a strict rule they were ordered to work or face bread and water only. The next day both agreed to take city street labor.
Justus L. Johnson outlines a candidateless June 10 and 11 gathering in Springfield for Illinois aligned Republicans from nine prairie states to exclude eastern influence and outsiders from speakers and Washington officials. The aim is to forge Midwest viewpoints to guide the 1936 GOP program and rejuvenate the party from the grass roots up against the Roosevelt administration.
A severe windstorm struck a residential area in Little Rock injuring at least three people. Mrs. Jeanette Andrews and Mrs. Etta Hubbard suffered minor injuries as their homes were damaged and another woman also sustained minor harm amid heavy property losses.
The malarial parasite is so small it can inhabit the interior of a human red blood corpuscle, with about 5,000,600 red cells normally found in roughly one sixth of an average blood drop.
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