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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1934
Page
8
Mrs. Albert Horn of Centrahoma attended the Music club luncheon at the First Methodist church with other out of town guests. Mrs. Willie Bowen of Tupelo had a tonsilectomy at the Sage clinic earlier in the week.
Miss Clara Murphy of Horace Mann high school's graduating class underwent an appendicitis operation at the Sugg clinic on Monday.
Miss Inez Hayes of McKinney Texas is visiting Ada as a guest of Miss Kathleen Andrews at 525 East Tenth. Miss Andrews is a student of Miss Hayes.
Judge D D Brunson, William Brunson and L E Gilbreath returned from Magnolia Arkansas where they pursue development of an oil and gas territory and report encouraging prospects.
T E Graham of Wellington Texas arrived in Ada on Thursday to attend to business interests and conduct local engagements during his visit.
Mike Hall son of Mr and Mrs Cleveland Hall of 09 E Twelfth was injured in a motor vehicle crash Tuesday evening and is reported to be doing as well as could be expected.
Miss Mabel Caperton of Francis visited Ada today as a guest of Miss Mamie Elizabeth Grigsby a Francis teacher spending the summer with her parents Mr and Mrs Miles C Grigsby 210 E Twelfth Miss Cleo Sumter who has taught at Earlsboro the past nine months arrived home to spend the summer.
Mrs. B. J. James of Stonewall visited friends and attended no business in Ada this morning. The small son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Collins, 730 W. Twelfth, was painfully burned Thursday by scalding water.
Miss Ruth Bryan arrives home to spend the summer with her parents Mr and Mrs Joe Bryan at 923 E Sixteenth after teaching at Earlsboro. Prof Dad Fentem delivered Wayne commencement address Thursday evening.
Dwight L Morelock comes back to Ada after a year teaching speech and music at Coalgate high school. He will be connected with Morelock & Sons Grocery during the summer months. Mr and Mrs R W Simpson depart by car to Atlanta Georgia to fetch their niece Mrs James Benjamin for a visit.
D E Pendergraft traveled to Norman on Saturday. His daughter Gertrude Pendergraft, a University of Oklahoma attendee, returns to Ada to begin teaching duties at the college this summer. Mr and Mrs Andy Bonenberger and children of Oklahoma City arrive in Ada to attend the Martin Clark and Lenora Agee wedding.
Mrs. Joe Strauss and her daughter Marjorie left today for Memphis Tennessee to spend several weeks with Mrs Strauss mother.
Miss Ima Lora Allen, who has taught in Vinita for nine months, has gone back to Ada to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. Alfred Ben Allen, at 225 West Fourteenth.
One of Mrs E H Mackendree's White Leghorn hens laid an egg seven inches in circumference one way and nine inches the other. The shell was smooth with an average size yolk and a well formed interior, and the shell remained in perfect condition.
Mr and Mrs B B Lane and their son Charles left Friday for Breese Illinois after a two week vacation visiting relatives and friends in Ada and Seminole Mrs C R Ebrite also left Ada with them for a visit before returning to Chicago
Miss Celesta Boyd, who has taught at Calvin for nine months, arrived in Ada Monday to enroll in East Central University for the summer term.
Dr J J Deaner, living in Ada for six months to oversee oil interests, left Sunday for Okmul to join Mrs Deaner and travel to the lake country in Minnesota.
Dr and Mrs M M Webster arrived today from Richmond Virginia and other points in Virginia and Washington DC where they spent the past three weeks.
M F Bayless of Bayless drug store departed Saturday for Missouri for business and relatives. Prof and Mrs Ed Low celebrate the birth of their first son born this morning. Low is librarian at the college. home is 904 E Sixteenth.
Mrs. J. C. Wooley of Remtiin is visiting in the home of her daughter Mrs. Clifford Byrne and family at 519 East Tenth.
Mr and Mrs C D Taylor of Allen announce the birth of a daughter named Virginia Lee at Ada hospital on Sunday May 20.
Judge and Mrs J F McKee Mr and Mrs W R Blatk and Mrs Annabelle Sweeney traveled to Henryetta to attend the funeral of the father of Charles L Wilson chief engineer of the Oklahoma highway department.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Byrne and Mrs. H. B. Roach, sister of Mrs. Byrne, came back Monday from a fishing trip in the Kiamichi Mountains. Mrs. Roach, while visiting Ada, then returned to her home in Wewoka.
John W. Wheeler and Ben Wheeler of Merkle Texas are visiting in the home of their brother R. O. Wheeler and Mrs Wheeler on West Fourteenth Street.
N B Stall, a local photographer, has been notified of his appointment as assistant regional board member for District 20, comprising Arkansas and Oklahoma, for enforcement of the national photography code.
Miss Zula Scott who taught at Stratford for nine months has enrolled for the summer term at East Central State Teachers College.
Mrs. Ernest Graham and her daughter Miss Maria Lois Graham accompanied by Mrs. P. L. Chapman travel to Eureka Kansas for the wedding of Miss Graham to Ivan J. Bryant on Thursday. Bryant is the son of Mrs. Chapman.
Mrs. K Webb of Allen visited in Ada Tuesday as a guest of friends. Mrs. Bill Cummings of Allen visited friends and shopped in Ada Tuesday. Leon Simpson of Fitzhugh was a business visitor in Ada Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. E S. Goodpasture announce the birth of a daughter Sunday May 20.
Mrs B E Hennigan and her daughter Billie Jean arrived home today from Amarillo Texas where they had been visiting Mrs Hennigan's daughter Mrs Wade Barringer.
Mr and Mrs T B Weatherford return from a two week visit in Texas and New Mexico. They toured Carlsbad Caverns on Mother's Day. Mrs Weatherford is the former Mildred Maness. Mr Weatherford is affiliated with Home Security Life Association.
Mrs G D Koonce and her children Miss Georgia and Paul were set to leave Sunday for a vacation with Mr Koonce in Biggar Saskatchewan Canada. A message today said Mr Koonce a train conductor tripped and fell and the train passed over his left arm severing it near the elbow, otherwise his condition is favorable.
Mr and Mrs Enry Atkins and their children of Ivanhoe Texas were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs R E Ramage and Dr and Mrs W H Lane.
No 6 of oil is estimated good for 2000 barrels a day. Deaner Moore No 3 Gray in 25-5-4 penetrated the Hunton lime at 2251 feet and shows oil as it drills 10 feet into the Hunton and sets tanks.
Two wells in SE Pontotoc county near the Fitts area advance in test drilling. The H L Blackstock No 1 suffered a 1927 blowout but was fished and gas kicked in, oil flow expected shortly. The Bristow No 1 Craig Crane shows tools blown off bottom with gas, suggesting approaching oil depth. Other wells record depths and activity, including Mexicoma No 1 Stafford at 630 feet.
Reports from the H. L. Black stock No. 1 Lewis well in 1927 at Fittsfield today were not encouraging following earlier success.
Mr and Mrs Eli Vertrees of Ada marked their golden anniversary on May 14 with their five children and many friends in attendance. Health permitting they attend the Christian church, where Mr Vertrees serves as elder. They were wed in Winfield Missouri by Rev T A Abbott.
Washington reports US grain exports last week totaled 857000 bushels up from 465000 the prior week and 306000 a year ago. Wheat led at 532000 bushels, barley 188900, corn 135000, oats 2000, rye none. Canadian grain from US ports fell to 153000 bushels while North American wheat flour rose to 45000 barrels.
Friday May 25 marks commencement for five Ada area graduates from the old cow college. Ernest Hammons earns a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with leadership roles in the Engineering Society and Sigma Tau. Coleman Van Duren, also in engineering, has worked in the furniture show and on the Daily O Collegian, plans a Master’s degree next year. Geraldine Houser earns a Master of Arts in foreign languages with a thesis on Duque de Rivas. The piece notes other graduates, including James Turner, Hay Chamberlain, Ike Gilmore, and M D Timberlake, and closes with farewell wishes and plans for summer.
Norman Howard post of the American Legion plans a community Memorial Day service in Ada at Rose dale cemetery next Sunday. Post commander Val Crawford invites Ada citizens to gather at Convention Hall at 2 pm and proceed to the cemetery by 3 pm for a memorial program and grave decorations. Comrades Townsend and Gilbert Frazier visited the meeting. Sick reports list several veterans in Oklahoma City and Muskogee hospitals.
Ada observes Poppy Day on the Saturday before Memorial Day with poppies sold by the American Legion Auxiliary to aid disabled veterans and their families. A volunteer corps spearheaded by Mrs. Robert Ferguson is distributing flowers from the Muskogee veterans hospital, with poppies printed and sold to fund relief.
Albert Chamberlin, newly installed in Ada as city clerk and finance commissioner, authorizes a major bond payment totaling 27 226 01 to the New York fiscal agency. Of the sum 11 186 01 covers interest coupons 16 000 pays bonds and 40 covers the fiscal agent. Bonds include Funding A final 4500 Funding B final 4000 sewage disposal 2000 serial and electric light 1000 serial.
May 19 special report shows Senator Tom Anglin of Holdenville pledging for next legislature to appropriate funds to aid the needy if economic conditions do not improve. He cites his record as chair and speaker in pushing food, seed, clothing, and fuel aid totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars for Oklahoma destitute citizens.
Ada area anglers describe Don Martin Lake as a vast bass fishing site with motorboats drifting while trolling. The party including Mr and Mrs Boswell and Dr and Mrs Lynch reports abundant bass channel catfish and large catches amid elevated lake scenery 1500 feet above sea level on a route from Laredo to Monterey.
Shawnee Production Association secretary treasurer Joe Newman reports Governor Myers of the Farm Credit Administration says new loans from production credit associations will carry 5 percent interest immediately. Loans already advanced keep their prior rate. The association lends in Pontotoc McClain Seminole Pottawatomie Cleveland and Okfuskee counties with funds from the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Wichita.
Gas outbursts and fishing work interrupt operations at No. 1 Craig-Crane near Bristow. Multiple wells in the graben report drilling at various depths from 2,690 to 4,900 feet. Mason and others No. 1 Layne in Bebee field flows again after Hunton lime penetration and acidizing. Deaner-Moore No. 3 Gray was shot today.
No. 1 ed from Washington praised the Oklahoma delegation in congress and the courtesies of Ing ressman Tom D D McKeon of Ada. Dr Alderman called the resolutions the most thorough Magna Charta of women's rights. Dr Blatehy of Oklahoma City was expected to speak. Women from Oklahoma City Enid Hollis Sapulpa Seminole Ada and rural areas attended.
A classified ad notes greater returns for money invested, suggesting higher yields or improved value. The snippet hints at financial or savings emphasis in an advertising brief.
Fort Worth Texas May 19 The Southern Baptist convention today nearly completed principal business and prepared to move on to a major decision. Delegates discussed plans and potential actions affecting the denomination during the forthcoming Memphis gathering in 1935.
The Senate defeated the Norris constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and permit direct presidential and vice presidential election with 42 ayes and 24 noes. Norris who sponsored the measure shifted from aye to no before the tally, seeking reconsideration. Thomas and three other Democrats opposed it. Gore did not vote. Also Ickes announced plans to send Horatio Hackett to Chicago to explore low cost housing on stockyards fire site.
City and county officers arrested 30 people Saturday and Sunday for offenses including drunkenness petit larceny and gambling. The county jail held seven inmates Saturday night and 24 Sunday night as hearings and trials followed.
Chester Delisle was found guilty in Sherman Texas of participating in the Whitesboro National Bank robbery worth 13 220 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Defence witnesses backed an alibi on March 9 from an Oklahoma farm while bank employees testified to his guilt. Jurors deliberated after testimony from four bank staff and others. Trial for Calvin H. Smith, indicted in the same robbery, is set for next Tuesday with a $250 venue.
U S treasury gold stock hits a fresh high of 7,756,969,650 on May 18 after a dip to 7,746,578,848 on May 10. Imported gold near 25 million remains unaccounted for on treasury books amid stabilization fund operations and possible silver purchases.
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