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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1913
Page
8
Latta reports a week of rain with small church attendance while Bro. McGee delivered a sermon on human imperfections. Farmers seek cotton pickers as rains slow harvest. Singing School resumes. several locals visit kin and discuss marriage prospects. Public works progress with bank doors opening and new building additions underway.
Mrs. Scott Lanham and daughter Mrs. Davis have returned after weeks visiting relatives in Arkansas. J. E. Sloan and W. N. Walpole were in Ada Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins of Tennessee are visiting her parents, Uncle Bob Garrett. Since Mrs. Jenkins' visit she has
Mr. E. I. Denham sold his home to Grandpa Wheeler and plans to move to Alabama around Christmas. Several residents, including E. E. Edmanston of Oklahoma City, discuss a singing normal and community efforts to start in December. The column shares weather, farming updates, visitors, postmaster Virgil Qualls, parish news, deaths, and local social notes from Steedman and nearby areas.
The Guardian of Lula Frazier a minor will sell at private sale to the highest bidder subject to Court confirmation on or after October 28 1913 at 1 pm in Coalgate Oklahoma. The real estate spans portions of Love Garvin Grady and Pontotoc Counties with quarter sections described. the minor holds an undivided one half interest. Cash in hand upon court confirmation. bids must be in writing and delivered to the guardian or to C M Threadgill in Coalgate.
The community reports warm weather and persistent cotton picking as the gin stays busy. Mr. Bibb’s mother arrived Sunday to visit, Bud Morris and family with Mrs. Arthur Evans traveled to Roff, and the stork visited Dr. Overton’s home delivering a baby girl. Wess Hattox and John Hudson went to Ada, Dan Pemberton and wife visited his mother, and Mrs Belle Carroll was visiting nearby on Sunday.
Be it resolved by Co. G 71st Regiment U R W O W Steedman Camp 886 that Captain S K Alexander’s mother Mrs. Alexander Aunt Jane aged 63 died September 23. The organization offers condolences and requests publication of resolutions in Ada News and Star-Democrat and copies to Captain Alexander and records. Also Sledge Lumber Co announces special October lumber prices.
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