Sunday School And B Y P U Held In Pontotoc County
Rural community notes record a busy weekend of visits at numerous homes. church activities include Sunday school attendance rising and a first B Y P U gathering with a large crowd. Volunteers invite all locals, especially High Hill and Pleasant Hill singers, to join weekly sessions and upcoming services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ollie Whisenhunt
Loretta Hamilton
Barney Tomlinson
Luella Teel
Nickles
Bill Ross
Bird Tomlinson
Barbara Teel
Mrs. Stockton
Centrahoma
Ollen Sweat
High Hill
Stella Mae Rowe
Tom Mosher
Irene McMeans
Arvil
Allen Sweat
Eorman Kerr
Lavern Tomlinson
Earnest Davis
Mrs. Bird Tomlin
Pleasant Weekend Visits and Local Gatherings
The community enjoyed sunny days with many visits among families. Errands included Miss Erdis Estes staying with relatives at Galey and Mrs. Ida Stone and daughter Nola with Mrs. Myrtle Aaron and daughter Sylvia. The funeral of Walter Corvin was attended in Egypt. Additional gatherings featured Mrs. Daisy Jackson with Mrs. Westeral Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams of Lindsay, and visits by Bertha Farr, Ola Montgomery, and Daisy Binion. The pie supper drew good attendance Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erdis Estes
Galey
Ida Stone
Nola
Myrtle Aaron
Sylvia
Walter Corvin
Egypt
Daisy Jackson
Westeral Burnett
Joe Jackson
Frank Williams
Lindsay
E. G
Ola Montgomery
Pearlie Hanrahan
Daisy Binion
Stella Myres
Sunday Visiting Totals Highlight Local Family Life
Mr and Mrs Roy Kerr with daughter Gloria Jean greeted Mr and Mrs David Grey Sunday morning. Several families including Jared Kerr Moshier and Rowe groups attended church and shared visits across Lula Pleasant Hill Owl Creek and Black Rock areas. Common theme shows extended kinfolk sharing Sundays with relatives and friends in the community.
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Harry Sweat
S. E. Sweat
Irene MceMeans
Curtis Thomas
Stella Mae Rowe
Tom Moshier
Everett Ashburn
Ahloso
J. R. Bryson
Red Oak
James Hopkins
Charlie Vineyard
Otto and
Orel Leslie
Pete Leslie
Roy Kerr
Gloria Jean
David Grey
Howard Jared
Jois Kerr
Conway
J. B. McMeans
Charlie Moshier
Lula
Stella Ma2 Rowe
Curtiss Thomas
Irene McMeans
Oran Kerr
Owl Creek
Will Kerr
Joanoma
Wanda Johnson
Pleasant Hill
Eva Jean McMeans
Claude Perkins
Myrtle Ginn
Celia Watson
Mannie Lee Ginn
Fittstown
Bertha Burleson
Lone Oak
Chuck Watson
Seaborn Kerr
Mary Nell Rowe
Ralph
Junior Jared
Black Rock
H. T. Johnson
Jewel McMeans
J. H. MceMeans
Local Social Notes Highlight Visits and Calls
Mrs. Eva Mae Noland visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham Friday. Mrs. McCause and daughter Jerrie stayed with daughter Mrs. Velma Lane of Seminole. Mrs. Florence Gann called on Mrs. W. J. Palmer Friday afternoon. Mrs. Cora Dodson and daughter Martha Lee and Mrs. Susie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Mae Noland
Cunningham
McCause
Jerrie
Velma Lane
Seminole
Florence Gann
W. J. Palmer
Cora Dodson
Martha Lee
Susie
Sunday Visits and Church-Going Round Ada Area
Rev A W Oliver preached to a good crowd Sunday. Sun Lorene Peterson and Minnie June Brady spent Sunday with relatives. John Sutton home hosted several families. multiple families spent Sunday with kin across Ada and nearby communities. Bonnie Lou and Aline Brown plus others were noted in social visits and local singing planned for Sunday.
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A. W. Oliver
Ada
Lorene Peterson
Juanita Shahan
Minnie June Brady
Lucile Younts
John Sutton
Jake Brady
J. R. Majors
Verna Younts
Mill Creek
Junior Hewett
Roy Peterson
Lonnie Jetton
Lightning Ridge
Mae Hewett
Edna Orum
Prewitt
Near Toff
West Prewitt
W. B. Rucker
Sallie
Fay
Fitzhugh
Doris Lee Benton
Doris Jane Majors
Lonnie Brow
Bill Jetton
School opens with praise for teachers and good attendance
School started Monday September 28 with teachers T. T. Akers Miss Tina Lee Creech and Mrs Thaddus Simpkins reporting good attendance and excellent work by the children The note thanks the school board members H. N. Fuller Virgil Glover and T. H. McGalliard for the im
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. T. Akers
Tina Lee Creech
Thaddus Simpkins
H. N. Fuller
Virgil Glover
T. H. McGalliard
Sunday School Attendance and Local Visits Report
Sunday school attendance stood at 43 with Alice Williamson and Yulla Churchwell already present for the past quarter. Several Ada residents visited relatives in Oklahoma City and Tupelo, and weddings gifts were given to Mr. and Mrs. Barney Bushers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Williamson
Yulla Churchwell
George McKoy
Georgs Ann McKoy
Oklahoma City
Flora Burpo
Ada
Jim Odom
Red Springs
Reed
Steve Sullivan
W. L
Near Pleasant Hill
Couch
Wildeman
Birdie Baily
Williamson
Tupelo
Hokett
Lula
Lydaryce Mapels
Lon Cecil
Ll. V. Cecil
Spain's Lenin Risks Neck To Rally Reds' Lost Cause
Milton Bronner profiles Largo Caballero, longtime Spanish socialist leader and current head of a Madrid government faction. The article notes his rise from plasterer to minister of labor, his revolutionary zeal, past imprisonment, and willingness to fight to the death for his cause if rebels prevail.
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Spain
Lenin
Milton Bronner
London
Foch
Clemenceau
Largo Caballero
Franco
Mola
Don Largo
Lloyd George
Caballero
Don Larzo
Son Largo
Plasterers’ Union
Madrid
Marx
Socialist Party
Alfonzo XIII
Alcala Zamora
Yamora
Alfonso
Primo de Rivera
Republic
Cortes
Asturias
Spanish Foreign Legion
Popular Front
Pontotoc Oil Fields Show Stronger Drilling Results
Renewed drilling in Pontotoc County oil fields reports Hunton lime leading completions as wells in Fitts field show significant outputs. In Coal county Sawyer wildcat tests drill toward Hunton lime and Bromide sands, while several Fitts field wells post high hourly production and ongoing tests with Bromide and Hunton targets.
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Fitts
Hunton
Coal County
Delaney Et al No
Sawyer
Schauers
Not Lucky Night for Rev Pritchett as Robbers Strike Ada
Rev B F Pritchett robbed on a Seminole county road after his car failed. Curtains from his gospel tent found at a carnival. William Wildman arrested for petit larceny. Suspects in the armed hold up remain at large. Also reports Hunton and Wilcox oil tests in Carter and surrounding areas with several wells described and depths reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Pritchett
Seminole County
Glenwood Park
Ada
William Wildman
Oklahoma A and M to mark 50th anniversary in December
The state Board of Agriculture authorized Dr. H. G. Bennett to appoint committees from faculty and alumni to plan a December 1941 celebration commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the college's first classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
State Board of Agriculture
H. G. Bennett
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Potentials Take Oil in Fitts Field Wilcox and Sylvan Prospects
Two prospects were taken in the Fitts oil field on Monday. Carter No. 8 Harden deepened into Wilcox sand and produced substantial flows during test hours while remaining the farthest west Wilcox well in the Fitts Wilcox pool. Magnolia No. 5 M Norris and Delaney et al No 1 Sawyer were also reported as ongoing tests with Sylvan shale milestones and Hunton lime depths noted.
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Fitts
Harden
Wilcox
Fitts- Wilcox Pool
Norris
Delaney Et al
Sawyer
Coal County
Shumard
Jesse Townsite
Magnolia and Fittsfield wells produce heavy oil in Coal County
Tubing is being pulled at Magnolia No. 3 Statler as Magnolia No. 5 and Upper Simpson wells report daily output around 2500 to 2900 barrels in the Fitts Wilcox fields. Magnolia No. 3 Statler lies in Oil Creek sands while Coal County drillers push Sylvan shale at 4007 feet amid Continental right of way filings for a 90 mile line toward Oklahoma City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harden
Wilcox
Fitts
Fitts-Wilcox
Magnolia
Delaney Et al
Sawyer
Coal County
Continental
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma City
Jesse
Vanoss
Miss Dora McClure Weds Marcus Rogers In City Ceremony
Dora Frances McClure daughter of Mr and Mrs S E McClure married Marcus Rogers son of ER Rogers of Oklahoma City. The ceremony occurred Friday afternoon September 2 at 4 o clock in the bride’s parents home on East Eighteenth. Rev O B Lee of the First Presbyterian church officiated. The bride wore an old rose dress. They will reside in Oklahoma City.
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Dora Frances McClure
S. E. McClure
Marcus Rogers
ER. R. Rogers
Oklahoma City
East Eighteenth
O. B. Lee
First Presbyterian Church
Mrs Al Smith Jr Testifies of Threats in Separation Case
Mrs. Al Smith Jr wife of the son of former Gov Alfred E Smith testified before Supreme Court Justice James T Cross that Young Al Jr threatened to kill her on two occasions while living in New York City in 1931 and 1932 She described a loaded revolver during a 1932 incident and a knife chase in 1923 The hearing also heard she was struck on two occasions for objecting to his drinking Justice Cross could issue a ruling in a few days and did not have both sides present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N. Y
al Smith Jr
Alfred E. Smith
Supreme Court
James T. Cross
Young al Jr
Smith
Inventions For Lazy Folks From Des Moines Students
University of Iowa students Jim Littlefield and Dick Beckman pursue inventions for lazy mornings. Their successful mouse trap style device delivers the newspaper and pulls it to their bedroom along a ceiling carrier track. They describe a window closers and steam turner owner as part of their evolving ideas.
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Des Moines
Iowa
University of Iowa
Jim Littlefield
Dick Beckman
Littlefield
Beckman
Miss Card
Hidden clockwork window closer in radiator setup
A hinged board supports an alarm clock above a radiator handle. A key wound by the clock locks into a dolly groove. When the alarm rings the key turns, unwinding the spring. The turning releases a weight cord, closing the window as the radiator handle is rotated by the unwinding.
Electric power strike threat looms over Monterey factories
Telegraph Brevities reports an escalating electric power strike in Monterey Mexico, likened to a nine day blackout in Mexico City last July, with risk of paralyzing local factories and halting industrial activity.
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Monterey
Mexico
Mexico City
Oklahoma Officials to Attend Building and Loan League Meet
Oklahoma representatives John L. Harrison state building loan supervisor and H. W. Trippett of Bartlesville will travel to New York City for the United States building and loan league convention from October 14 to 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
John L. Harrison
State
H. W. Trippett
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
United States Building and Loan League
New York City
Pace Found Guilty as Accomplice in Poison Coffee Slaying
In Meridian Texas on October 7 a jury convicted George Pace as an accomplice in the April 24 poisoning of Menloe Jermstad. Pace was sentenced to 75 years in prison while Mrs Jermstad received 45 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meridian
Tex
George Pace
Menloe Jermstad
Jermstad
Explosion kills Doyle Day at Oklahoma boiler shop
An explosion from a fuel tank at a Oklahoma City boiler shop killed Doyle Day, age 14, an employee, delivering instant death. Authorities reported the accident occurred yesterday and Young Day was the victim.
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Oklahoma City
Doyle Day
Bar seeks 30 day suspension for Battenfield in Oklahoma
The state bar asked the state supreme court to suspend A. Lee Battenfield of Pryor from practicing law in Oklahoma for thirty days. Battenfield, a former Mayes county legislator, was charged with accepting an attorney fee while serving as Mayes county judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
State
State Supreme Court
A. Lee Battenfield, Pryor
Oklahoma
Battenfield
Mayes County
Paris horseman J Hal Woodford dies at 76
J Hal Woodford a longtime owner of thoroughbreds whose Pink Star won the 1907 Kentucky Derby died at his home in Paris Kentucky aged 76. The obituary notes his prominence as a horseman and ties to early American racing.
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Paris
J. Hal Woodford
New Rochelle
N. Y
Philip von Blon
Pelham
American Legion Monthly
Pioneer Oklahoma Physician Dead
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Alonzo L. Share 72 a pioneer Oklahoma physician who died yesterday at his home after a brief illness He practiced medicine at Kingfisher 23 years before moving here in 1925 Survivors include his widow a brother William Share Chicago a son Lewis L Share Guthrie a daughter Beatrice E Share of the home and a grandson Lewis L Share Guthrie.
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Oklahoma City
Ulm
Alonzo L. Share
Oklahoma
Dr. Share
Kingfisher
William Share
Chicago
Lewis L. Share
Guthrie
Beatrice E. Share
Singing Sunday at Pleasant Hill School House
Pleasant Hill school house between Ada and Fitts town hosts Sunday afternoon singing. Public invited to attend and take part.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Hill
Ada
Highway 48
Pleasant Hill School House
Fittstown
Tae
Polar waters yield fresh water for explorers on ice
Polar explorers gain fresh water by melting ice formed from salty sea water aiding those stranded on floes. The practice has saved many lives. The text notes about 100 990 people reportedly join in a $30 000 000 annual coal bootlegging operation.
Finland and Balkan States Rely on U S for Oil Imports
The report notes that Finland and the Balkan states depend largely on the United States for petroleum supplies and refined products, highlighting a regional energy reliance pattern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finland
Balkan States
United States
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