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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1925
Page
6
Frank announces his engagement to Jean Lane as a gale racks the valley and Marjorie and Jack reveal they planned the timing. Friends exchange cautious congratulations while Jean questions the news and the weather rages outside the gully entrance.
More than 1,000 members register as the Oklahoma Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and the Rebecca Assembly open their joint 1926 meeting in Oklahoma City with an evening program. J W Rackley was elected grand master and John Cassady grand warden as joint sessions begin with officers, entertainment, and plans to boost membership.
The narrator describes a gaunt doubt pursuing him as he confronts Jean. When he challenges her sincerity she bursts into tears seeking proof of her commitment, only to strengthen the haunting uncertainty that follows.
Grands club of Oklahoma City will run the event with banquets for all past grand officers and past presidents in the evening. Six hundred seven Odd Fellows and eighty four Rebekah members registered at central headquarters in the old Security National Bank building at 109 North Broadway starting 6 o'clock Monday. Tell your wife she is the prettiest woman in the world. She will know you are a liar, but she likes to hear it just the same.
Muskogee Oklahoma October 20. M R Henson secretary of district 21 United Mine Workers was deposed by the district executive board after hearings on charges of insubordination and misuse of union funds. He refused to sign an expense check for six dollars daily hotel expense claimed by William Dalrymple president of district 21. Henson contends hotel costs totaled only one dollar fifty per day and offered to prove it. Neither man commented further.
A wind storm moving at 80 miles per hour struck 12 counties in south central Kentucky injuring at least 12 people and possibly more, destroying homes and farm buildings and severing telegraph and telephone service. Early estimates put injuries above 25 and property damage around 10 000 dollars with Bowling Green area hardest hit and Cammer reported wiped out though unconfirmed.
A slick salesman pitches an opportunity that sounds too good to be true and urges potential investors to discuss it with their banker first. The note emphasizes prudent financial caution and professional guidance before committing funds.
Superintendent J E Hickman and School Board President L T Walters authorized Ada students to pick cotton without harming schooling. W E Harvey oversees student pickup and transport to farms, with daily morning reports to principals and coordinated rides back home after work.
Washington October 17 definite agreement is reached among house administration leaders to push a tax reduction bill at the opening of the December session. Chairman Green of the Ways and Means committee says the measure could cut at least 200 million dollars from annual taxes and be ready for presentation on opening day. Senate leaders plan swift action to complete by March 1 before new year payments.
Chicago authorities thwarted a jail break attempt led by Jim Overstreet, an Oklahoma bank robber, as Deputy Sacrisi Dave Hoder and colleagues intervened late yesterday. The plot aimed to whisk inmates away and escape custody.
Publisher News Publishing and Printing company Ada Oklahoma. Editor and managing editor Byron Norrell Ada Oklahoma. Business manager W D Little Ada Oklahoma. Owners News Publishing and Printing company Ada Oklahoma W D Little Byron Norrell Tom D McKeown J F McKeel B H Eppperson Willie Faust Little. No security holders over 1 percent. Notarized October 7 1925 Loma Agnew Notary.
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