Stonewall Notes Share Local Visits And School News
Stonewall community updates include Bruce Carter and Clarence Keener visiting from Clarita, Mrs. Marvin Fox visiting relatives in Ada, and many local residents traveling to Ada, Shawnee, and Tulsa. The issue records B Y P U reorganizing with Hazel Costner as president, junior B Y P U formation, school activities, a robbery at a local drug store, and upcoming church and youth events amid a busy fall schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonewall News
Bruce Carter
Clarence Keener
Clarita
Stonewall
Marvin Fox
St. Louis
Okla
S. H. Greene
Floy Miller
Jack Moore
Junction City
Kan
C. C. Scrivner
McAlester
State Penitentiary
Fred Upton
Shawnee
Louis Nesbitt
Inez Standridge
Earnie Burris
Ruth Garret
Ada
Odis O'Neal
Upton
Miss McKay
T. W. Stratton
Peak
First Methodist Church
Jack Stelle
Jacqueline
St. Louis Okla
S. M. Green
I. C. Pigg
Hazel Miller
Claudine Kelley
Pauline Gregory
W. A. Gregory
Hazel Beck
Helen Beck
James Kelley
Lydia Keethley
Mary Jeter
Mary Kelley
Do. A. Acker
Coalgate
McKinzie
Tulsa
Alva Bostie
W. W., Sharpless
Helen
Tishomingo
Tom Everton
Ruth
Oklahoma
Everton
Mattie Morris
Marguerite McKay
Novella Gibson
Tupelo
Elma
Aline Tives
B. J. Jennings
Fellowship
Fryer
Pauline Reaves
Tom Henson
Mr. Holloway
Local Notes From Vanoss And Ada Area
Weekend visitors and travels fill the Ada Vanoss corridor. Mr and Mrs Leeman Huitt and Miss Mary Patterson visit. R H Patterson and Andry McCarty travel to Ada for court. John Shaw and family host guests while Dan Shaw and Varda White join Bell Telephone work in Cordell. Community club plans and local moves mark a busy period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodie Templeman
Sherman Tilly
Oklahoma City
Masonic Home
Oklahoma
Casey Jones
Joe
Willie Shaw
Dan Shaw
Varda White
Cordell
Bell Telephone Company
Dorothy Watters
Ada
Delethia Tilly
Dorothy
Thrilling slide opens 1929 World Series
This column reflects on time and era shifts while noting ongoing local farming life and rainfall effects. It mentions rain affecting church and Sunday school, Cotton crop failure, and farmers like R. M. Bradley and J. T. Tilly adapting to new realities, including boll weevil lessons and baled Johnson grass hay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iar Zeppelin
Lindberghs
R. M. Bradley
J. T. Tilly
Johnson
McCall’s Chapel School Notes and Scout Report
The district notes good school attendance, a planned program, and soon ready basketball goals. Miss Sonna Nix returns from Getty Oklahoma, and various neighbors visit. Scout troops in Ada report activity with multiple leaders, competitions, and plans for hikes and emblems.
Rainy days pause cotton picking and rest urged
Rain interrupts cotton picking as residents rest and hope for clear weather. Mrs. Ocis Roberts recovers enough to be up again. Christian Endeavor meeting canceled by rain but will resume next Sunday. Lois Crow and Lorene Crow visit Mrs. Long. Mr. and Mrs. Balthrop announce a son born October 3, both mother and baby doing well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Floyd
At Wallace
Allen Phillips
Richard Wray
Dennis Williams
Ada
Prof. Hamilton
Herbert Antle
Billie Lane
Houston Duke
Tommy Wallace
Jack Wilson
Jack
Jessie Bagley
Hayes School
Casper Duffer
Dufter
Antle
Carl Marsh
Washington D. C
David Blanks
Francis
Allen
Rev. Cloud
Walter Olive
Herbert Beck
Stonewall
Rev
Cloud
Norman
Mr. Olivo
Tom D. McKeown
Ocis Roberts
Lois
Lorene Crow
Long
Hightower
McCutcheon
Ballthrop
Jake Balthrop
Lee Bolin
W. H. Hightower
Mr. Haynes
Rainy social notes and gas well hit in Ada lines
Local excerpts list visits and households in Ada with W. H. Bandy Emma Williamson Lindsey and Williamson families. A gas well on Jim Williamson’s place flowed ~eight million feet daily. The Berlin mayor tours America to study city government, probing what not to do.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Bandy
Evelyn
Emma Williamson
W. E. Lindsey
Lawrence
M. T. Williamson
Ada
I. C. Lindsey
A. C. Nix
Oakman
W. T. Little
Milburn Fox
Emma Williams
Jim Williamson
G. R. Lilley
Clarence
Luther Hodge
Scipio
Okla caHea
John Williamson
Berlin
America
Rainy delays slow farmers harvest and local visits
It has been raining here and farmers fear crops may not be harvested. Little corn has been gathered currently. The Hays family and Crisp extended kin attended a circus in Ada on Wednesday. Myrtle Crisp visited Mrs. Hewett of Laxton and Joe Crisp traveled with cotton in Rofs. Various Crisp relatives gathered at Sunshine and Stonewall, with Mrs. Roberson visiting Mrs. Crisp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elma
Alice Rives
EB. J. Jennings
Ada
Pauline Austell
E. A. Austell
Lonnie Harrell
Ruth Garret
Barney Harrell
Edwin Garret
Ora Morris
Furman Gibson
Charley Truitt
Blanchard
Clifford Elliot
Gordon Carroll
Tupelo
Methodist Church
Roff and Wynnewood
Allyne Merritt
Chickasha
L. M. Merritt
D. L. Larsh
Norman
E. C. Larsh
Suddats
Dewey Hall
Margaret Crumley
R. K. Crumley
C. Larsh
Roff
KR. F. Crumiley
C.larsh
A. F. Bickel
Juliet McWhirt
The
Christian Church
Stanley Chastain
Tulsa
Rofs
Ed Tingle
Opal Andersen
Elizabeh Ann Pickens
Oscar Parker
Burgess Steed
Holdenville
J. W. Leeper
Eva Robinson
Cleo Clark
O. U
Seth Crain
Ada High School
Konawa
W. W. Price
Ed Bunyard
Effie Lynn
Delethia Tilly
Willard Owens
McSwain
Pence Shaw
St. Louis
Bill Beckham
J. J. Shaw
Carl Solomon
Vanoss
H. B. Williams
Norma
Kin Lamb
Maudie Lamb
Ruby
Dorothy Tharp
W. R. Head
Russ Head
R. R. Nix
Gerty
J. M. Ingram
Tharp
Bertis Head
G. H. Binkley
Carlos
Harold Laughlin
Henry Ingram
Western Oklahoma
Hobart Hays
Hallie
Ion
Pearl Bass
Trnce Crisp
Myrtle Crisp
Annie Hewett
Laxton
Joe Crisp
J. H. Crisp
Sunshine
Ian
Agnes
Rain Delays Norman Trip for Ada Boy Scout Event
Rain and slick roads kept about 75 to 90 Ada area scouts from traveling to Norman for the morning event. A hopeful Ada High junior suggested other transport, while others awaited a possible future invitation as reports praised the scouting effort despite the delay.
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Norman
Ada High
University City
County schools plan grounds beautification effort
The Pontotoc county school system will start a third phase of improvements by hiring a landscape architect to design playgrounds, trees, shrubs, flowers, sidewalks and fences. New Bethel leads the effort. Stonewall and others consider similar services as educators seek attractive, efficient surroundings for students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bethel
Stonewall
S. G. Heflin
Pontotoc County
Rainfall Totals 2.85 Inches This Week
Three days of heavy rain brought total weekly precipitation to 2.85 inches per Dr. A E MacMillan. A morning downpour and subsequent showers added 1.05 inches in the government gauge. The article notes the worst months for automobile fatalities are the last two months of the old year and the first ten of the new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. MacMillan
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Ira Mae Pigg
Evelyn Gregory
Mary Reynolds
Mable Carroll
Dorothy Fox
Dovie Davis
Nabors
Lila Mae
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Melva Gibson
Ima Williams
Geneva Chaddick
Thomas Holloway
Elvis Pigs
Raymond Brown
Ruby Timmons
Helen Sharpless
D. W. Garret
Grace Holecome
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M. M. Foreman
Juanita
Wanda June
Koran
Clyde Brown
Wewoka
Jess Young
Maud
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George Young
Jimmie MccCullough
Inez Austin
Skintook
Joe Fox
Wesley Chaddick
Geneva
Max
Joan
Coalvate
George McKay
Brown McKay
Jean Birge
Boots Jackson
Ludie Miller
Geneva Jeter
Thurman Jackson
Brown McKoy
Mr. McKooy
George McKoy
McKoy
Scrivner
Lidie Miller
Birds Mill
Hugh Morton
Wapanucka
Rufus Addie
Pigg
Franks
Jim King
Mary Frances
Josephine
T. J
Anna Bee
Leamon Jr
Clint Belcher
Neal Thompson
Lawrence Poulk
John Pettyjohn
Ruth Thompson
Mildred Brower
Hortense Reaves
Pauline Stratton
Duvard Miller
Becky Jane Vincent
Hickory
Wn . Roe
A. Gaither
Pomeroy
Marourite
Bernadine Givens
T. Givens
Pete Clark
Ralph Calrk
George E. Tyson
Bro
Tyson
Jimmy Foxx
Homer
Athletics
Bing Miller
Charlie Grimm
Chicago
Grimm
Bishop
Root
Dineen
McCall's Chapel
Mace Ptterson
Scott
Calvin
Happy Land
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Getty
Clifton Deaton
Clifton Tharp
Williams
George Robbins
Canadian
Ruth Tharp
Ruth Lamb
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Beber
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