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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1936
Page
3
Report from Parish Chapel and surrounding area with many names and visits. Residents share weekend activities including guests, church events, pie suppers, CCC enlistment, and trips to Ada Pauls Valley and Oklahoma City.
Rev Gregory presided at the Baptist church Sunday and ordained deacons Paul Hewitt and Leonard Etchieson. Visiting deacons included Rev Bradford with his board of deacons from Roff and Rev White with his board. Community members and families shared meals and visits afterward.
Sunday events drew many neighbors including Miss Barbera Teel and Miss Louise Kerr with several companions. Activities ranged from church Sunday school, Tomlinson home calls, a Bill Rose musical, and dinners with the Reynolds and Whisenhunt families, plus a well attended dance and upcoming pie supper.
Johnnie James Boren of Pecan Grove spent Saturday night with Jack and Lee Roy Comstock. Bud Gain and Happy Juline Jared visited Wade Allison, then Jared and Bill Godby traveled to Allen for a business trip. Herman Ford stopped by the Jared home on Monday.
Rev. D E Pendergraft filled services to a large crowd with strong Sunday school turnout. A wide circle of visitors from Ada Tupelo Sunshine and Arkansas City shared meals and stories at a C C Couch home reunion of friends and relatives from 25 years ago.
Mrs George Binyard and children Christene and Georgia Lee visited in Old Midland Sunday. The A C Thomas musical Thursday night drew a large crowd with performances by Farly Hicky Imp Anderson and Red Isaacs. Residents mingled at homes with the Welker family moving back to Old Midland and numerous visits across the week.
Community notices list weekly singing at the schoolhouse each Wednesday night and church service on Thursday night. Numerous locals visit relatives and stay with families across Oakman and nearby towns, including Coventon, Simpkins, Eppler, Meeks, Bryant, Houtchens, and others.
School started Monday October 12 with Herman Ford as principal and Miss Beatrice Hamilton as primary teacher. Pastor Reed from Lula preached first at Sunday service and again Sunday night. Residents visit relatives in Lula Allen Holdenville Happyland and Ada. Larry Neal born October 13 to Lonnie Toby and wife. Prayer meeting and singing events reported with local attendance.
Ada News classifieds highlight deals and investments promising strong yields on vested amounts. Read guidance on optimal returns and risk considerations for financial placements.
Mrs. Jessie Morgan will visit Durant for a yard improvement meeting as part of the Southeastern district outreach. A heating stove built from steel barrel draws attention with features like a bolted steel door and ash chute. A coffee boil improvement uses a pie tin adapter to speed boiling by about two thirds.
Vanoss farm women’s club welcomed four new members at a meeting led by president Mrs Leona Solomon. New members include Mrs G W Fugate wife of the school superintendent and Mrs Peters, Mrs Mary Shaw and Mrs Bonnie Hewett. Twelve attended plus one visitor. Members shared home improvement plans. The club prepared a quilt for sale to fund a clubhouse. They voted to buy two central lots and build a house, with local men offering to build at no cost. Officers elected: Solomon president, Fugate vice president, Farley secretary, Carl Solomon reporter. Mrs Williams acted as hostess.
The Vaness club enjoyed a recipe served by Mrs. Williams last week. The club plans a recipe book with one new recipe added at each meeting. Glorified Rice combines boiled rice pineapple apples marshmallows and whipped cream before serving.
Gaar Corner club women met in the clubhouse last week with four visitors from Vaness. Members answered roll call with reports on household improvements.
Miss Fred Andrews, Enid attorney, named to the executive committee of the National Pro Roosevelt Association of Women Lawyers. The nonpartisan group backs President Roosevelt and invites nationwide entries for an essay contest with a Havana cruise prize or a short speech on Why Roosevelt Must Be Re elected. Entries due October 25 to the National Association of Women Lawyers in New York or Bernice Berry in Enid.
Claude V. Thompson was chosen as chairman of the Ada chapter of the American Red Cross at a directors meeting, succeeding S S. M. Baublits who resigned due to private business needs. Thompson plans to appoint a new board and schedule membership roll calls between Armistice Day and Thanksgiving, bringing his record as a former county judge and civic leader to the post.
The Maxwell club convened in a recent business session to complete year reports. Members reorganized to pursue active work next year and discussed projects and fundraising to finance improvements.
A new year project focuses on home accounts with a class for selected women in each club. A specialist will supply books teach a class and later visit homes to ensure proper use of accounts. Participants include Mrs Leona Solomon Mrs G M Pitt Mrs Annabelle Farley and Miss Violet Nelson from the Vanessa club.
Royal Lady, a Polkland China sow owned by Lillards stock farm in Arlington, produced thirteen piglets and earned three first prizes plus cash. Between 12 and 2 pm she bore eleven piglets then won senior yearling blue ribbon and $20, returned for another birth at 2:45, won senior championship and $10, and later delivered piggy No 13 before winning grand championship and $19.
In Toronto the race to have borne and registered the most children since October 1, 1936 tightens as Mrs. Matthew Kenny claims a dozen. If records fail, contenders include Mrs. Arthur Timlock and Mrs. Pauline Clarke with high counts, while Mrs. Bagnato nears her 24th birth and could lead if twins occur.
An Associated Press report details a weekend auto crash near Tishomingo that killed E. H. Neff of Oklahoma City and Mrs. Alva Melton of Oklahoma City and injured 14 others. The injured include J. L. Smith Pauline Bray and several members of the Tiller and Bray families.
Joe Deaton of Allen was appointed to the state board of affairs maintenance staff, replacing Lon Conaway of Oklahoma City. The appointment places Deaton, father of Pontotoc county state representative Austin R. Deaton, in the Marland administration lineup.
The Democratic campaign rolls into its third week with 18 meetings planned this week across Pontotoc county and additional events Friday through Saturday. Speakers include Otto Strickland John Boyce McKee Truman Harrison Fritz Hatcher Sam Viney Mack Brair Hoyt Driskill J. W. Dean and others in multiple towns.
Federal Judge Ed gar S. Vaught deferred Tucker's sentencing until Nov 2 after Tucker, former publisher of the Oklahoma City Journal, was convicted yesterday of mail fraud and securities violation. Co defendant F B Imboden was acquitted. Tucker's attorney S P Freiling was absent due to illness. Japan does not decorate its soldiers for bravery in action.
Cattle totals around 1 800 head with calves 600 as buyers showed steady demand. Prices for yearlings and steers ranged 6 25 to 7 25 while butcher cows sold 3 75 to 4 50 and bulls 3 50 to 4 50. Hog prices around 9 40 packer top with chickens at 9 59 and sheep lifting for natives up to 8 50. Corn and oats futures mixed with slight gains for corn and minor changes in oats. provisions fluctuated small.
Kansas City reports for cattle hogs and sheep show varied results with hogs steady to 10 lower, top hogs at 9.65 and lighter weights around 9.50 to 9.65. Cattle and calves mix of steady to strong demand, stockers firm, vealers at 9.00, large lots of steers up to 9.35, cows 4.25 to 5.25. Sheep market opens with lambs around 8.90 and ewes at 4.0, overall movement limited with purchases smaller.
Chicago reports unsettled dairy and poultry pricing with butter at 7 783 unsettled and eggs steady at 1 976. Live poultry prices vary by grade and type with hens, leghorn, Plymouth and white rock classes showing mixed advances and declines. turkeys and ducks listed with several up or down movements.
In Chicago trading, wheat finished mostly mixed after a cent a bushel advance was erased by late selling. Importing countries bought little, with new export sales in Canadian wheat around 6 0. 00 bushels. December near 1.14 1-2 to 5-8. May near 1.13 1-8 to 1-4.
Chicago market report shows potatoes at 104 on track 257 total U S shipments 7-18 barely steady with a slightly weaker undertone. Idaho russet Buranks U S No 1 2 40 2 55 fair 2 30 35 U S and S No 2 2 10 Washington russet Buranks U 8S No 1 large 2 75 combination grade 2 25 Colorado red Mc Clures U S No 1 2 30 33.
Chicago prices list cash wheat and corn with multiple grades and quotes. Wheat values range from No. 2 red 1.19 1 4 to No. 4 mixed 1.15, corn mostly around 1.07 1 2 to 1.08 1 2, oats priced from No. 1 white 43 1 4 to 45.
New York on October 21 saw irregular cotton trade with early gains followed by increased hedge selling and liquidation. January declined from 11.99 to 11.83 and July from 11.99 to 11.93, a net fall of 3 to 5 points, finishing near the day’s lows.
Thousands use Black Draught for relief, calling it economical and effective. Hardware dealer J Lester Roberson of Martinsville Virginia says he recommends Black-Draught for constipation and dull feelings and finds it satisfactory.
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