Sunday School Attendance and Community Visits in Pontotoc
Rural Communities of Pontotoc County reports wide Sunday school attendance and a flurry of visits. Families from Ada, Oklahoma City, and nearby towns frequent the Tomlinson and Teel households. A birth is announced, and a revival continues as locals invite others to join services and the singing school.
Revival closes as Bible study continues weekly
Sunday night marked the revival conclusion while Friday Bible studies begin. Visitors at the Hightower home included Delbert and wife and family, Thelma Golden and daughter, Liz Burk and Virginia Lea, Martha Brittain, Hugh and Albert Brittain, Opal Duncan and Dorchie Booth of Oil Center. Virgie LaVoid born Sept 25 to Virgle and wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hightower
Delbert Duncan
Thelma Golden
Liz Burk
Virginia Lea
Martha Brittain
Hugh and
Albert Brittain
Opal Duncan
Dorchie Booth
Oil Center
Elva Jones
Charlie Palmer
Virgle Meek
Virgie LaVoid
J. A. Burk
Hugh Brittain
Arkansas
Missouri
Dude Hood
Juanita Palmer
Rachel Burch
Austelle Horton
Sylvia Evans
Roy
Ruth
Nora
Kenneth Brendle
Elbert
Ira Mae Keef
Law
John Gibson
Bob Collins
Stratford
Elbert Keef
Bobbie Hudson
Howard Galey
Vaness
Debs Thompson
CCC
Purcell
J. N. Thompson
Alex Summers
Willie Coleman
Sidney Isaacs
C. A. Pennington
Inetta London
Mozelle Cavener
Florence Isaacs
M. R. Wood
G. W. Lamb
Vic— Ballard
Winona Mae Law
L. T. Mitchell
Josie Galey
Jewel Reeves
Washington
Lela Stinnett
Avery Pennington
Herman Pennington
Jay Isaacs
E. C. Cavener
H. R. and
Mozelle
Bruce Little
Jackson
Arthur Jones
Jones
J. W. Isaacs
Community Notes Gather Here This Week
Church service Sunday night led by Bro Claude Sharp of Ada. Several residents visited relatives and spent nights with family members across town. Mrs Neal McDonald home after surgery and recovering well. Cotton picking season draws locals westward. pockets of money hoped for. Local youth event enjoyed by June Simpkins and guests. visitors return from Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall’s Hill
Barbara Teel
Ollie
Brown
Earl Phares
Buster Hardin
Tomlinson
Barbara
Joe
Luella Teel
Lee Reynolds
Bird
Joe Tomlinson
Ada
Lavern
Goldie Tomlinson
Alva Green
Arvil Reynolds
Eufania
Bradford Watkins
California
Lee Byrd
Ahloso
J. KR. Opiesby
Maggie Lee Zumbro
Elnora Davis
Levi Blevens
C. C. Bievens
Alonzo Mason
Elnora
Lottie Davis
Seals
Fittstown
J. R. Oglesby
Bud
Calvin Brown
Jesse
Fred Williams
John McDonald
Jack Billingsley
Debs
Claude Sharp
Rubye Mae Houtchens
Mary
Letha McDonald
June Clayton
Bynz
Herman Crawford
Norma Jean Carter
Lillie Williamson
Denny
John Chaney
J. H. Houtchens
Neal McDonald
Sugg Clinic
Virgil Wilson
Harve Bandy
Thelma Houtchens
Maggie Johnson
Ardmore
Laurie Williamson
Foxx
Mary McDonald
Warren Bryant
Texas
Retha Lee Simpkins
Lewis Nabors
Oklahoma City
Bill Pollock
Sybil Cross
Lawrence Hurley
Kifer
Marie Shahan
Fannie Sutton
Hewett
Lee
Roy
Josie Woods
George Myricks
Verna Eager
Harvie Creager
Travis Majors
Nola Hill
Roy Pollock
Faye Kirkes
Virginia Tallant
Kathleen Smith
Letha Tallant
Mrs. Martin
Jewel Kifer
Laxton
Rube Peterson
Charlie Peterson
Homer
Frankie Lee Davison
Roff
John Myricks
Virgil Sorrells
Frederick
Claude Hewett
Bill Cross
Joe Glasgow
Louise Foster
Ada High School
Marie Gooch
Marie Flanagan
Norville Crawford
A. P. Gray
Viola Parker
Louise
Bonnie Mae
Okmulgee
Malcolm Stegall
Will Stegall
Buster
Almerine
Lorene Hobbs
Roy James Foster
Ruby Gray
Thurman Sliger
Opal Creech
Inez Gray
Mary Lena Palk
Thurman Palk
J. Va Pee
Lonnie George
Wright
Lellowene Pendegrass
Sliger
Jeff Timmons
Ailey
Ada Jean Creech
Odus Carson
Ruby
John Crawford
Alvin Minor
Price McGallord
Willie
Lula
C. O. Townsend
Glen
Jess Glover
Blaine Glover
Louis Echols
Con Stan Gean
Bessie Byrd
Estella Lillard
John Felton
Annie Moore
John Ford
Naomi Woolley
Johnnie Farquhar
Will Moore
Brooks
Odra Mae Glover
Knox Lee Sweat
Sander Hagger
Oma Whisenhunt
Fred Byrd
Naomi Woolly
Illa Byrd
Bertha Farquhare
Nadine Byrd
Jewel Farquhar
Orvil Woolley
Joe Wooley
Goldie Hill
Johnnie Farquhare
Joe Rogers
Alford Glenn
Earnest Harbin
Ralph Trease
Mildred Townsend
Vella Byrd
Cela Davis
Reesue Montgomery
A. P. Lillard
Grant Williams
Lennie Cooper
Rocky Point
Church of Christ
Opal Smith
Frank Scott
Eubanks
Paul Harbin
Rowe Harbin
Floyd Byrd
Carl Hill
Tom Farquhar
Odra Glover
Illa
Allie Byrd
Carl Woolley
Joe Woolley
Oss Byrd
Mark Reed
Richard Haskin
Tom
B.Y.P.U
Kate Taylor
Lester Patton
Konawa
W. W. Minor
W. Henderhill
Ashley
Bob
Jeff Fussell
Roy Goodwin
Fitzhugh
Will Lovett
Sulphur
Ted Creager
Hampton Hays
Fillmore
E. Ford
W. W. Brents
Tom Hill
R. A. Fussell
Cleta Anderson
Lorene Jones
Pauline Creager
Bobbie Jeff Fussell
Doyle Lovett
Lola Riggs
Fred Searight
Vance Minor
T. J. Fussell
Garnett
Chloe Peters
Junior
Eugene
Jack Fussell
George Minor
Jim Ashley
Buck
Arlene Clayton
M. K. Underhill
Melva June
Carl Underhill
Marie Shipley
Mae Hewett
Leonard Ford
Harold
Earl Lovett
J. A. Ashley
Opal Fussell
Sunday School Elects New Officers At ONWARD
The ONWARD Sunday school elected Earl Morn as superintendent with Mrs Harrall remaining secretary and treasurer. Mrs Troy Sherrill becomes intermediate teacher and Mrs H Stuffle card class teacher. The community also notes a well attended singing school led by Mr Brown and many local visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Morn
Harrall
Troy Sherrill
H. Stuffle
Live stock and farm listings plus local social notes
Taken up a bay horse with three white feet and a star, near Blue Mound School by Harvey Creager. For sale or trade a 1950 Ford coupe for team. E J Knight, near city lake. 210 acres on South Plains Texas with cotton crop, Farmall and chattel. T B Stewart, Star Route Lorenzo Texas. Numerous local visits and church attendance across Ada Frisco Pauls Valley Stratford and Byars with family updates and funeral notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Mound School
Harvey Creager
E. J. Knight
Half Mile
City Lake
South Plains
Texas
T. B. Stewart
Lorenzo
Community Notes on Visits and Birthday Celebration
Cotton picking is the work of the day in this community. Uncle Joe Isaacs turned 76 and a birthday greeting was shared. Several families visited relatives in Ada, Summers Chapel, Happyland, Konawa, and New Mexico, including Evans, Watts, Isaacs, Brecheen, Barnett, Boucher, Sparks, and Holloway relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Evans
Silvia
Summers Chapel
Jack Watts
Ada
Marion Powell
Tal Isaacs
Lora
Dennie Brecheen
Mildred Barnett
Mae Barnett
Sadie Watts
Obera Norman
Cal Barnett
Clyde Wilson
Happyland
Ernest Hampton
Ruth Sutton
Vernon Covington
Joe Isaacs
Jim Isaacs
Donnie Brecheen
Celia Barnett
W. A. Berry
Dikes Boucher
Pauline Barnett
Monroe
Sunday School Attended Across Community and Visits
Sunday school drew strong attendance with encouragement to return and bring guests. The column records numerous visits and meals among Ada area families, with travels to Okmulgee, Nashville, Shelbyville, and Washington, D C. Several named residents and kin are listed visiting relatives and friends across the region.
In Memory Of Grandpa Reynolds
A memorial note honors Grandpa Reynolds who died September 19 1935 with a sunrise of faith and family verses. Evelyn Coffey writes of loss and hope in the afterlife while a community news section reports local visits births and hospital updates amid a long midwestern rural record.
Roosevelt Warns Nation of Possibility of Another War
President Roosevelt urged adherence to the United States good neighbor policy as he reviewed the Pacific fleet in San Diego. He warned of the danger of foreign war while stressing unentangled peace and the continuation of religious liberty at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Roosevelt
America
Houston
United States
Pacific
United States of America
Americas
Farquhare and Mortle Bales Head to Calumet for Cotton
Farquhare and Mortle Bales left for Calumet on Monday to pick cotton. Mrs. Cecil Glover is undergoing chiropractic treatments at Dur ant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farquhare
Mortle Bales
Calumet
Cecil Glover
Durant
Oil Well Near Governor Marlands Office In Oklahoma City
A drill near the Oklahoma City executive mansion yields a Wilcox sand oil find. Operators report 2,000 feet of high gravity oil from a bore entering at 6,328 feet and drilled to 6,365 feet with plans to drill deeper under pressure. The well is British American Oil No 1 Mary Green, southwest quarter of section 23, township 12 south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
E. W. Marland
Executive Mansion
Wilcox
Mary Green
Navy recruiting to slow here prompts public appeal
Navy recruiting efforts in Ada face lack of interest as J. H. Showers notes only one pass for exam among trips. The recruiting office opened at the federal building to recruit locally with visits scheduled Friday and October 18. If interest remains low, officers may cease visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Navy
Ada
Navy
J. H. Showers
James W. Lewis
Federal Building
Appointments Made in Gasoline Department
Oklahoma City October 2 4 Walter Hutchins is named chief of the gasoline tax collection division the unit reorganized yesterday All new appointees previously served with the state tax commission Tax Commission Chairman H L McCracken announced Dean Bell and L L Lieninger auditors H H Rice delinquent accounts auditor Wheeler Laird auditor Cecil Hardwick statistical records and distributors' accounts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Walter Hutchins
State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
H. L. McCracken
Dean Bell
L. L. Lieninger
H. H. Rice
Wheeler Laird
Cecil Hardwick
Seven Reasons Motive for Kansas City Minister’s Marriage
Rev. Lester Hartford, an itinerant minister based in Kansas City Kansas, married Edna White just five days after the death of his first wife. He gave his seven children as the reason for the new union while funeral services for his wife were underway. During the day Hartford learned his son Alfred, aged 15, had died after an operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
Lester Hartford
Edna White
Hartford
Alfred
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Emery Welker
Thomas Smith
Marvin Welker
Olahoma City
Marvin Guinn
Wester Stonecipher
Ethel James
Lennie McDonald
Tech
New Mexico
Leona Jones
James
Bud Raggland
Orb Smith
Ezra Hunt
Floyd Barton
Seminole
Homer Grisso
Winnie Belle Looney
Roxie Carson
Estes
Beber
Oakman
Union Valley
Mollie Henderson
Lovelady
LaVerne Weaver
M. E. Moore
Virgil Hoover
W. C. Ellison
Virl Loman
C. H. Brannon
Arthur
Grandpa
Grandma Brown
Elmore City
Imogene Hoggatt
Ida Jean Scott
Clifford
Ruby Delle Miller
Inez Moore
Prentiss
Mayfield
Terry Frank Weaver
Ellison Home
Homer Townsend
Owl Creek
Isabel Miller
Zelma Tallant
Prada
Annie Brandon
John Sanders
Dave Loman
Myrtle Ross
Tim Taylor
Leatha Robison
Jamema
Floyd Thorgmartin
J. T. Caperton
Herman Brannon
R. A. Sliger
Oge
Tennessee
Mort Cline
Norman
Tommie Wiles
Gladys’ Ellison
Ruby Brannon
Brannon
Mr. Ellison
Melva Jorgce
Opal
Offie Brannon
Odus
Commodore Wiles
J. B. Robison
Floyd Thogmartin
Truman Ramner
Robert Ross
W. M. Ross
Jamema Robison
W. Thogmartin
Offie
Olin Brannon
Commodore
Reba Wiles
Melton Evans
Ewing Lusk
Johnnie Low
Brendle
Dan Burk
Rae Tyson
Berch
Elvin
Impson Anderson
Aubrey Rutherford
Dick McClure
Mable
Fae
Pauline Tyson
Cleta Burk
Worstell
Mrs. Dall Burk
Leo McNinch
Russell McNinch
John Chambers
Price McGilliard
Lavon
C. V. Palk
Nashville
Tenn
Grandpa Cole
Joe Sutton
Sheep Creek
Harden City
Fitts
Minnie Collins
H. B. Creech
Bud Creech
Rocky Chapel
John Webber Jaar
Opal Jet
Eddison Craddock
Marie McCarty
Mrs. Seigell Sorrell
Bromide
Hurley
Ton
Whipple
Frisco
Cecil
Callie Hatton
Eva Fish and
Claude Loman
Chas. Sliger
Scott
W. W. Murphy
Clive Fish
Mary Scott
Fannie Scott
C. C. Wilson
J. N. Owens
S. L. Burns
Burns
W. L. McKinley
T. L. Cook
Earl Willes
Ponder Home
Earl Hodges
Pauls Valley
S. D. Chambers
Marion
Helen Cape
Lee Thomas
Lou Cook
Laurene Black
Emma Goodall
Dave Fox
Near Byars
Charlie Turner
Bill Richards
Barney Hall
Guy Welker
D. Chambers
Bob Reeves
Newt Baker
Jess Walker
Annie Jones
Frances
Betty Jones
Ellen Marie Cape
Bud Ragland
Ragland
Round Top
Mallie Cape
Ila Ponder
Mattie McNair
Jade Hodges
Pig Ragland
Bad Ragland
Luther McKinley
Mr. McKinley
Mitchell McKinley
Sonny and
Lena Grace
Gordon Black
Nettia Dees
and Meedy &. Reeves
Ella Hodges
Edna Turner
Lawrence Black
L. R. Cook
Rosie Mynerd
Near Gaar Corner
Esther Ragland
Lucy Welker
Pleasant Hill
OWL
Marietta Scott
Henry Odom
Azala
Bill Hall
Joy Barnes
Odell Maynard
Callie Horton
Worley Hokett
Coalgate
Luther Hat
Grandpa Reynolds
Jesus
Evelyn Coffey
Union Hill
C. Blood
Edmond Sevenny
Ola Montgomery
Bernie Cantrell
Dewey
Egypt
Edward Cantrell
Retha
Gid Graham
Pickett
Raymond D
Arvy Clay McCause
Johnnie Stone
Earnest Payne
Barney Estes
Esties
Galey
Poindexter
Stone
Grover Keeling
Shonie
Mitchel
Eugene McGee
Lexington
Andrew Tee
Austell Cassady
Farr
Mildred
Jeff Aaron
Sylvia
Alma Williams
Edna Golden
Ida Stone
Pearlee Hanrahan
Haley Williams
Alden Sutton
Ralph Stone
Freeman Gann
Clyde Nolan
Everett Coley
Imogene Gann
Allene Estes
Mamie Cantrell
Evelyn Williams
NRA
Hugh Johnson
Marland