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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1936
Page
8
News notes from Round Top and nearby communities detailing weekend and weekday visits. Families like Crumley James Richardson and Shulte gather at relatives’ homes in Cordell Vanoss Oklahoma City and Ada with multiple relatives mentioned by name. The column notes improving health of a young child, granddaughter of J R Newby.
Local residents and visitors are listed with weekend and weekday calls across Ada and nearby towns. Names include Willis Able family, Lillie Shook, John Ray, W C Patton, Dosson family, Evelyn and Leslie Meek, Virgil Hoover, Hart. Virginia Moor of Tulsa visiting Gentry family. many other short updates on visits, shopping, and garden work after rain.
The community expresses gratitude as KM provides rain. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore Oliver visited at his parents’ home. Mr. and Mrs. Fate Oliver of Stratford visited late last week. Mrs. Ezra Hunt and children stayed with BR Hunt’s family in Stratford over the weekend. Delra and Annie Mae Powell visited Marjorie Hunt. Velma Lou Powell stayed with cousin Miss Lucille Riley. Delbert and Curtus Riley visited Lloyd Powell on Sunday.
The report notes recent rain improved pasture prospects and turnip greens. Local families share visits, illnesses, and social events. Mr and Mrs Jack Mosley welcomed an 8 pound boy while Mrs Mosley recovers. Pie supper planned at Galey to fund piano payments.
Mr and Mrs Lewis Choate and daughter Margie Ann spent Tuesday night with her parents Mr and Mrs W J Jones. Mrs Calvert and children visited Mrs Inez Agee and children Franz Jones spent Saturday night with Odell Roddy. Troy Mize spent Friday night with Fred Jones. William Agee visited his grandparents Mr and Mrs Agee Sunday. Mrs Etta Garett spent a short while Tuesday with Grandma Roddy. Myrtle Pinley spent Wednesday and Wednesday night with her sister Mrs Pearl Bittles. Woodrow Collins spent Saturday night with Mr and Mrs George Collins. Johnie Wilfong spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Lewis Choate. Carl Tilley spent Sunday night with his grandparents Mr and Mrs R L Moss.
Barbara invites attendees from High Hill to join a brief meeting next Thursday and expresses gratitude. She reminds everyone of Sunday school at 10 o clock Sunday morning and asks for ongoing participation.
The article notes heavy rain and widespread talk of planting fall gardens. Social visits include Mildred Barnett with Bertha Carmichael, H J Tyree with Mae Barnett and Pauline, and others. Lonnie and Robert Buchanan vacationed in Tulsa. Pauline Barnett hosted Letha Ola Goodwin Tuesday night and a gathering at Jack Watts residence drew a good crowd.
Tuesday through Saturday social calls include Mr. and Mrs. Coley and friends with the Landers Coley, Misses Skaggs and Stone with Penrod and Mildred Finch, Sam Gann and Nola Stone hosting, and Thelma Coley visiting. Several individuals are noted visiting, calling, or staying with relatives, plus a sick list entry and a Fell hat and bag mention.
Cov and Elmo Hamilton visited the Roy Whisenhunt home as Mrs Bird Tomlinson and children returned Thursday night from Texas where they had been picking cotton. Barbara Teel and Lavern Tomlinson called on Thelma Reynolds Saturday morning. Gus Curlee Harmon Tomlinson and Joe Teel spent Monday hunting. Ollie Whisenhunt called on.
Carran Mitchell of the navy, stationed in New York, returns home Thursday for a month with his parents Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Mitchell. Numerous local visits and illnesses are noted, with family and friends calling on each other through the week. Burial for Homer Hill reported in nearby Rofs.
Grandmother Reed died Thursday after a spell of rain rich days. She leaves a son Robert Reed a daughter two grandsons Wesley Randall and Elza Reed and a number of other relatives across the community.
The East Texas Refining Co wins to move 55 000 barrels of oil from Louisiana to Longview. The Third Court of Civil Appeals upholds a trial ruling, ruling a federal judgment was not admissible defense against the Texas railroad commission over tenders. An appeal was pending.
Salt Lake City reports seven men suspected in an elk massacre will be ordered before a federal land jury. The case, kept secret for months, centers on feared guerrilla actions against the killers. Evidence will include motion and related records.
United States forest service officials say seven stockmen will be charged with deliberately stampeding elk off an 80 foot cliff in Emery county Utah last December. Elk that did not leap were shot atop the cliff and left to rot. The motive cited was to deprive stockmen of forage areas on public grazing land. Investigation files go to a grand jury. penalties include fines and loss of grazing privileges.
Oklahoma City Sept 30 The state crime bureau reports A. J. Eastep a Bryan County life term slayer and suspect in his wife s death escaped from a state prison road camp near Sallisaw He had been denied permission to visit his nine children Eastep was convicted in Johnston County and committed to McAlester on March 14 1939 He allegedly beat neighbor Willie Hughes and his wife was convicted of conspiracy The second murder charge for poisoning his wife remains on record Silas Parks a Tillman County one year forgery prisoner also fled the road camp.
Shreveport Louisiana September 30 authorities described a switch key found after a derailment near Winnfield as the strongest clue. Investigators sought to trace the key to identify the person responsible as agents of the Interstate Commerce Commission began their inquiry. Victims H. H. Vaught and J. T. Dempsey were shipped home for burial while engineer Shelton Beauchamp and fireman Walter Deleore survived with injuries.
Four people died when a plane carrying a Chicago moving picture crew crashed and burned near a field while attempting to photograph a speeding train. Only assistant photographer John Sedivy survived after being left behind for lack of room for gear.
Austin Sept 30 The Texas legislature moves into a round of investigations with the house preparing to inquire into the administration of old age assistance. The labor committee will continue hearings on participation in the federal unemployment insurance program. The senate state affairs committee plans to consider a liquor board inquiry tied to pension funding.
Dr. Barborka of Northwestern University medical school faculty debunked popular food fallacies at a Cook County joint meeting. He said exotic pairings like lobster and ice cream or milk and cherries are not harmful when eaten in moderation, though some diners should practice restraint.
Martial law is ordered in the Holy Land as Britain fights Arab attacks on Jewish immigration. Edward J. Neil reports from the region that 15 000 troops and heavy equipment try to enforce the mandate amid a rising, leaderless Arab revolt over immigration and land policy. Ten Jews and two Arabs died in an April Jaffa funeral incident, signaling a fight to the death with no peaceful solution.
Yesterday a federation of women’s clubs discussed folk health beliefs. The items claimed include onions curing a cold celery as a nerve tonic fish as brain food milk as fattening and oranges causing stomach acidity.
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