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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1906
Page
6
An old advertisement touts the Nickel Store's low cash price and small profits. It claims customers save money by shopping here with rapid turnover and evident economy. The copy urges comparing stock and prices to current costs elsewhere.
Honest value lamp assortment complete with burner chimney and wick. First size 25c second size 35c largest size 50c. No 1 flint lamp chimney three for 10c No 2 chimney five for 5c. No 1 engraved lamp chimney nine cents No 2 ten cents. No 1 brass burners with wick five cents No 2 burners ten cents. Kitchen bracket lamp complete with No 2 burner and chimney 25c.
The Nickel Store lists household goods from knives and forks to tinware and stoneware crocks with prices from 6 cents to 1 dollar. It promotes a new line of men's gloves from 10 cents cloth to 1 45 dollar gauntlets and a October sale on a 35v muleskin glove at 23 cents.
A lively note advertises school books available at the shop with the promise of the lowest cash prices for all buyers including boys and girls and men and women.
Monday Ada items list residents visiting the city and traveling to nearby towns. Several named people from Francis, Walling, Denison, Kenowa, Roff, Guthrie, Sulphur, Malvern, Baxter County, Muskogee, and other places are noted with movements, visits, and business. A row of crimes includes eight negroes jailed on liquor, weapons, and gaming charges. An infant burial and other social updates conclude the brief.
Miss Willie Woodard and Mrs Henry Richards are reported ill and sick respectively. Numerous residents and visitors travel through Stonewall and nearby towns for business, court, or to visit family. Attending events include weddings in Denton, Texas, and residents from Pauls Valley to Ardmore via various locales.
Oklahoma cement firm rents local office for plant setup as visitors including M Jacobs and wife from Walkerton Indiana and Mrs Hannah Brown with son Daniel return to Sasakwa and Center bound relatives. Mrs T T Fullerton and daughter depart for Asher Oklahoma after two weeks visiting in Joliet and Texas.
Miss Martha Yarbrough of consumption at the home of her brother J. T. Yarbrough three and one half miles east of Ada at 10 oclock this morning. Funeral services will occur at the residence Thursday Oct 11 at 4 oclock p m.
Ada residents claim M Levin as the top chess player in Indian territory after series of matches with Attorney Robinson of Sulphur Springs. Robinson lost two games, then Levin won six of seven, then Robinson drew four straight games. Levin has played Pillsbury in the past and is regarded as a highly skilled player.
In the last twenty four hours the U S court handled a few pleas of guilty and minor civil actions. Walter Wells and Jim Hamblen pleaded guilty to gaming and were fined ten dollars each. Ernest Lawson pleaded guilty to a disturbance and was fined fifty dollars. Alis Stephen son faced a disturbance of religious worship and was fined ten dollars. S. E. Brownen was fined twenty five dollars and received thirty days in jail for introducing liquor.
A California man sent a telegram to a money minded friend claiming to be well and asked to collect. A week later the joker received a heavy package containing a stone and a note saying the stone represents the words the telegram lifted from my heart.
The advertisement offers a free circus ticket to all customers who spend at least five dollars at Gus Agee's store on West Main Street White Front. Special prices prevail this week with one price to all and plain figure markings. The offer starts today.
At the republican district convention the Twenty-Four Strong delegation unanimously backed J. J. Burton as the party standard bearer in the 87th district. The meeting featured a harmonious mood and adopted a platform praising the party while endorsing Roosevelt and the referendum.
Western Oklahoma farmers report a surge in horse theft with as many as a dozen prized horses stolen near Geary in Blaine county. Rewards from Blain and Canadian counties remain unclaimed as authorities and farmers fear organized thieves may have shipped the animals out of state. A renewed push for harsh measures follows the decline of the old anti horse thief group.
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