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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1925
Page
5
The Owl Creek school started Monday morning with light turnout. The column lists many Sunday dinners and visits among residents such as Ruby Couch with Loney May Killian and Alta Odom with Lilian Davis. Local families, church notes, upcoming services, greetings, and a birthday party for Caroline Shaw are included.
Sunday church activities continue with prayer meetings and dinners across Stonewall households. Names include Odoms, Thomases, Parkers, and Bells as families share meals and attend services. A pie supper raised 63.20 for church repairs. Sunday school urged for more seniors.
A Tuesday and Friday dance event is scheduled at Lea's Pavilion in Byrds Mill on November 19 2011 with music and social dancing throughout the evening.
Frisco continues steady cotton picking with hopes of over thirteen hundred bales this season. Ada visitors include Barney Seek and Dr. G H Truax. Local relocations and new constructions appear as families move, build, or buy property around Frisco and Ada.
Sunday services featured Rev I W Yandell and large Cedar Grove crowds. Local moves include Will Baker relocating from near Macomb with family returning to the area. Numerous visits, visits to Ada and Francis, a big funeral for J R Chandler, and a pie supper planned for Friday night November 20.
Community updates report strong attendance at Sunday school and evening singing at Jones Chapel. Neighbor visits include Bulah McKinley of Vanoss with Marie Akin and Ruby Akin with Rosa Ballard visiting Dorchie and Louise Galden. Ruby Dew had surgery in Ada. Box supper drew good turnout though few boxes were sold. Farmers busy with harvest as week closes.
A reader note links yellow butter to Choctaw Mixed Feed, mentioning the brand in a mnemonic style. The item reflects a local reference and familiar advertising phrasing from the period.
The Improvement club plans papering the school house. Wilma Scott visited Ina Reed of Owl Creek Saturday night. Mrs Cleve Fish and her sons Eugene and Park visited her mother Sunday. Harve Sparks family moved into Ahloso. Goodbye wished to them in this community. Mrs Joe Scott and three daughters with Adell Murphy visited Joan Murphy Sunday. Mick Scott called on Bill Gaddy Sunday afternoon. School starts Monday as cotton picking dwindles.
The Choctaw Gin at Ada advertises the latest improvements for ginning snap cotton. Bellies are invited to visit the facility to see updated equipment and processes. Signed by S J Armstrong dated November 12, 1904.
W M Steuart reports Pon totoc county ginned 14 581 bales of cotton before November 1, this year, down from 19 936 last year. Receipts stay brisk with over 100 bales added today and good weather aiding rapid gathering. Prices edge up to about 20 cents per pound, with one bale selling as high as 20 10.
Mr and Mrs McWilliams of Van Alstyne Texas have left after three weeks in the home of their son Rev E R McWilliams They were guests during the visit The report notes Mrs A E Kile and Mrs B B Brazelton shopped in Ada last Monday Raymond Hamer taught in Mannsville and was away since last Saeeen night returning Wednesday The Moral Heroes course by Harry W Miller closed Friday night with exercises 126 pupils received certificates
Pupil and patron progress lauded after lectures this week at the school. Several local residents and visitors are noted, including Miss Dorothy Crumley, Mrs. Bob Johns of Ada, and Frank Givens at the Ada ballgame. A football loss 26 to 7 at Tishomingo is reported, plus multiple social visits, church news, and a November 8 marriage of Lillie Sealey to Elmer Marshall in Stonewall.
In Oklahoma City on November 17 a stipulation for dismissal was filed in the state supreme court in the Mills case. Geo W Mills of Denver sought to continue operating $3,000 worth of mint vending machines in the state. Mills agreed to pay costs and a supersedeas bond would be released, lifting the restraining order against the attorney general and county officials.
A man in a tuxedo and a flapper in rich furs robbed a taxi driver in Oklahoma City last night, escaping with the driver's $3.00.
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