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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1937
Page
7
The Fittstown W M U met Monday with 18 members present and a visitor who joined. Reports covered program youth treasury missions study circles with two members appointed to address rent. two officers resigned and Mrs Hicks planned to visit an orphan home for a six week vacation beginning June 4.
Considerable progress is reported on the two major WPA projects sponsored by the city of Ada. If weather is favorable the paving on the 100 block of West Tenth between Broadway and Townsend avenues will be finished in about 10 days. Actual construction of the second swimming pool in Glenwood Park will get underway Monday. The new pool will be 40 by 100 feet and located just west of the pool now in use.
Ada newspaper notes H P Sugg, a local businessman, and his wife celebrate three children graduating this season. Marjorie Sugg, 21, earns a degree from East Central. James Sugg, 18, leaves Ada High and eyes technical study. Laura Kathleen Sugg, 13, moves from Ada Junior High to Ada High next year.
Locals report visits by Dora Bussell, Martha Bussell, Judge and Mrs. Harvey Sands, and Victor Barnes from Lenoir City and Knoxville to relatives in Tennessee. A party heads to Nashville Arkansas for the week. Farmall tractor for sale via Rollow Hardware. Mrs. Joe Frank Bledsoe and Beverly of Dallas visit Mary Parker. Mrs. Swann returns from Henryetta. Wyatt Freeman heads to Chicago for summer study. Woodrow Merry from Oklahoma City visits for business and friends.
Mrs Grace Stowe and her daughter Stevene along with Mrs C J Keylor Sr have returned from Drumright after visiting relatives. They are joined by Mrs Younts and Miss Betty Lou Powell who will stay in town for several days. Mr and Mrs L W Vickery of Ponca City visit Mrs Hammond at 531 East Eighth Street with Mrs Vickery remaining for a business trip to Baltimore Maryland.
Jim Hatcher of Chickasha visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. J B Hatcher in Stonewall and other relatives and friends in Ada over the past weekend.
Mrs. Maurine Haddock and her young daughter Rosemary stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Tubb in Oklahoma City on Sunday as guests.
Mr and Mrs C C Tidwell and children Howard Wayne and Betty Jo of Coalgate transacted business and shopped in the city Monday.
Mr and Mrs J B Winn received over the past weekend Mr and Mrs Raymond Nelson of Okmulgee Dick Winn of Seminole and Mrs A H Shi of Stratford as their guests.
L. O. Bradford left Sunday for Memphis Tennessee to undergo treatment at Baptist hospital for the next fifteen days. Nearby visits include Fay Crook family and Wilson Sadler guests of Mrs. Joe Choate, and Jack Warren visiting from Norman with his parents on the weekend. Courtright English family and daughters Mary Curtis and Caroline visited Muskogee and were accompanied home by Mrs. English's mother Mrs. Harry English who will stay a few days.
J. C. Barnett of Harden City underwent a tonsilectomy in Ada Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. James Roland Ferguson of Oklahoma City were the weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferguson here.
Mr and Mrs Clifford Dorsey have returned to their home in Bartlesville after visiting relatives in this city over the past period.
Mrs. Tula Misenhimer of Allen visited friends and shopped in this city Saturday. Joe Cathey of 817 E. Fourteenth Street underwent a tonsillectomy.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Chrisman and Mrs. Chrisman's mother Mrs. Ed Denson visited friends in Shawnee Sunday. Mrs. Kenneth Stoneman left for Emporia Kansas after two weeks visiting her parents Claude Logsdon and other relatives and friends here.
John Davis, ill with typhoid fever for two weeks, was discharged from a local hospital and moved to his home south of the city on Saturday.
Luther Edge of East Central college travels to Missouri to visit his parents before heading to Boulder Colorado to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado during the summer term.
Bobbie Meaders left Monday to visit his aunt Mrs. Phil Lambke in Oklahoma City for a family visit.
Mr and Mrs David C Butts visited Mrs A R Novotny in Antlers over the weekend. David Jr returned home with them. Mr and Mrs W H Rankin and
Mr and Mrs Ray Lowery and Frances of Oklahoma City visit relatives here this week. Ada residents Rebecca Crain and Charles W Zorn plan to attend the Roff homecoming sponsored by the civic club Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Walter Ferguson returns home to spend the summer after teaching in Henryetta schools.
D. P. Brunson local attorney and John Burgess with other Seminole Indians departed Friday for Washington D C to discuss tribal affairs and expect to be away about a fortnight.
Mrs. Frank Harkrider of 607 East Twelfth street hosted over the weekend Mrs. H V Woodson and Miss Agnes Blackman of Oklahoma City as guests.
Emory Swinford and Philip Norris of Honey Grove Texas visited friends and relatives here Tuesday.
Frank Verner and Mrs Q E Varner of Fittstown visited here yesterday. Miss Gladys Allred of Houston attended the funeral of her aunt Mrs Rena Young held here Tuesday.
J. B. Hill spends the week in Tishomingo attending a judging school for 4-H club members hosted by Murray Agricultural College.
Mrs. Don Herring of Wetumka visited her sister Mrs. W. B. Masterson at 230 West Eighteenth street Tuesday. Jack Conn of Ardmore called on friends and conducted business here Wednesday. P. T. Drummond, critically ill for some time, was taken to Oklahoma City Wednesday for treatment.
Mrs Walter Buchanan and her small son have returned to Chickasha after visiting her grandmother Mrs Nettie Sparks and other relatives and friends here.
J. F. McKeel paid a business visit to Oklahoma City on Tuesday.
John Belton Parker aged 73 died at his Ada home on Friday evening. Funeral services were held Saturday at First Baptist Church with burial in Rosedale Cemetery. Survived by wife Mrs Parker and six children. Born in Alabama he moved from Arkansas to Pontotoc County and Ada in 1929. A Bible student and singer, he led the Pontotoc County Singing Convention and loved scripture and hymns. He left a final faith filled farewell to his family.
London reports that well known artists and Royal Academy members created Christmas cards from 1878 to 1888. A single collection sold for 10000 dollars in 1884. The Bible is being recorded on gramophone discs for blind readers with fine voices. St John and St Mark recordings completed read by Stuart Hibberd, BBC chief announcer.
The Madill Record editorial advocates ex Governor William H. Murray for Oklahoma governor, praising his tenure during the financial crisis and urging voters to elect him again, noting his honesty, firm leadership, and potential to aid the state during unstable prosperity.
A French Air Pyrenees transport plane was downed by machine gun fire from seven insurgent planes near Bilbao Spain. Pilot Jean Gally and a Spanish passenger were wounded but expected to recover after a pancake landing at Sopelana. All other passengers were Spaniards.
The Oklahoma state board of education declared a July 1 vacancy at Southeastern State Teachers College Durant and named Dr. W. B. Morrison history professor to succeed Mrs. Kate Galt Zaneis as acting president. Zaneis takes a June 1 one month leave amid the board’s review of $12.8 million in aid rules for the next fiscal year.
Health unit clinics held in Homer and Ada offer free typhoid vaccines with 34 first doses in Homer and 27 in Ada. Additional sessions are planned for Lovelady next Monday at 2 and 3 30 p.m. Second shots at Homer follow later. Dr. Glen McDonald notes county typhoid rate is among the state’s highest. The program complements anti syphilis efforts now promoted via educational films.
Sixteen wedding guests were named for the June 3 marriage of the duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield. The roster includes Hugh Lloyd Thomas first secretary of the British embassy in Paris Sir Walter T Monckton attorney general of the duchy of Cornwall and Lady Walford Selby wife of the British minister at Vienna Major E B Metcalfe and Lady Alexandra Metcalfe the duke of Windsors best man. Thirty invitations were sent though Rogers did not comment further.
President Roosevelt defends his judiciary reorganization bill despite a Supreme Court ruling on social security. Democratic leaders see pressure to withdraw, while fundamental questions linger in wage and hour legislation and national planning measures to be sent to Congress.
Gloria Jean Kerr visits grandparents Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kerr in Conway. Various local families share time together including Leslie, Ruby, Lillie Vineyard, Jewel Mc Means, and the Kerrs. Rain Friday night brings relief to farmers in the area.
Anderson Simpson Giles Ames and Sam Lewis all Coal county residents were taken to the federal jail in Muskogee Tuesday by deputy US marshal Allen Stanfield. They are charged with violation of the federal internal revenue act.
Pontotoc county 4-H club boys and girls plus county agent J. B. Hill and home demonstration agent Mrs. Jessie Morgan traveled Tuesday to Murray Agricultural College in Tishomingo for a four day judging school. The group will judge cattle, livestock and poultry with named participants including Don Flippin and Laurence Harris among others.
Oklahoma City May 26 Pi L M Nichols state board of affairs chairman said he proposed a Jim Farley pay cut for state employees to Governor Marland as a partial remedy for the state budget problem He suggested a four day no pay leave system in the post office department Nichols would take the cut if others in the capitol would and the governor offered only a shrug of the shoulders
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