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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1929
Page
3
Editor Byron Norrell notes the Ada tower show display by Mrs. Morgan and helpers was instructive and pretty. He highlights green tomato recipes to save unripe fruit before Jack Frost, lists dairy show results for Oklahoma, and provides cattle and sheep market data from Stillwater.
The Oklahoma 4-H club boys led by James Childers Hillsdale Howard Nelson Duncan and Halley Kennedy Ardmore won the national judging contest at the National Dairy Exposition in St Louis securing a berth to the international daily judging contest in England next summer Childers was the high man and has a long 4-H record including $6580 profit from club work Kennedy tied for second and Nelson from Duncan also starred in the contest Stillwater reports state a soil conservation short course will run November 18 to December 14 at Oklahoma A and M to train men in terracing and erosion control with eligibility open to those 16 and older and with eighth grade education.
After a week of sharp losses the market turned up with many stocks rising 3 to 16 points. U S Steel held above 216 as Johns Manville Westinghouse and Otis Elevator showed gains. Simmon s improved from early weakness as volume reached about 3 800 000 shares.
Cattle numbers 800 with 700 calves. Cattle active and steady, quality scarce. Yearlings to 13.00, grass steers 6.50 to 8.00, good grass cows to 7.50, canners and cutters 4.50 to 5.50, calves steady, fancy calves to 9.00, best heavies 10.00, stocker calves up to 11.25. Hogs 1,509 with slow movement and possible 5 to 10 cent declines. tops 9.25 on carrots and 9.05 on truckers. sows and stocker pigs $6.50 to 6.59.
Kansas City dispatch notes a bleak market for hogs with about 9 000 head traded and prices largely weak to lower amid an uneven demand, as buyers show caution and sellers hold firm on asking values.
Chicago grain market sees sharply reduced 1929 Argentina wheat estimates easing supply fears. Yield down to about 234,006,000 bushels from 307,000,000, while world stocks rise to 460,000,000 bushels. Wheat finishes up. corn, oats move higher. provisions mix.
Spots Chicago reports on Oct 22 wheat futures with No 3 hard at 1.21 and No 2 mixed at 1.22 percent, corn at No 1 mixed 94 cents and No 3 yellow 93 cents, oats at No 2 white 47 to 46 cents and No 4 white 45 to 46 cents.
Oklahoma Governor Holloway announces two unofficial pardon and parole boards to investigate clemency petitions at McAlester penitentiary and Granite reform school. Boards will function without compensation, meet November 1, and advise the governor on cases while allowing time for proper inquiry and rule formation.
In New Orleans on October 22 spot cotton closed steady with gains of 48 points. Sales reached 8,667 with low middling at 16.79, middling at 18.29 and good middling at 13.69. receipts 17,367 and stock 349,722. New York also reported steady spot cotton at middling 18.50 on October 22.
A federal grand jury indicted 42 men tied to two large liquor syndicates based in New York Detroit and Chicago. Fifteen defendants have been arraigned, with most residents of Detroit. Indictments cite agents who helped move liquor from Canada into the United States and hauled shipments to Detroit Chicago and Toledo.
Oklahoma City October 17. Governor Holloway commuted the life sentence of W Z Graham a 70 year old Bluejacket blacksmith convicted in March 1922 for killing A W Love. The sentence was cut to 15 years and time off for good behavior released him immediately. The killing arose over a cow. Nine jurors and Judge James Davenport recommended clemency. Davenport said the killing was in self defense. The governor also granted a 64 day extension to Henry Riley a Negro trusty at the state penitentiary.
Wilburton News-Democrat reports Pete Hanraty fifty-year veteran miner, who lost both legs in Panama four years ago, faced renewed setback at the Johnson mine near Poteau when a sudden squeeze collapsed parts of the workings. He had revived the site to 59 tons daily with 30 to 40 men, after earlier success in reopening the mine and pushing new coal seams. He previously served as Oklahoma state mine inspector and pushed oil operators to seal dry holes to protect water supplies. His bid to raise funds in Oklahoma City failed, leaving the mine idle without new backers.
Two former Seminole county deputy sheriffs J J Johnson and W R B Hickman were convicted in federal court on charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law. The jury found them guilty on the second indictment. additional sentences for related defendants were postponed to October 31.
Fred Davis twenty five was captured in Bristow after a running gun fight with deputies near Stroud. He and a companion fled after bank holdups at Kendrick and Prague and were wounded in the chase. Davis is jailed amid fears of a break in. Bud Arnold is held on harboring charges.
Attorney General Mitchell said a test of whether the purchaser of bootleg liquor can be held liable requires an arrest and conviction for actual purchase and then a trip to the supreme court. He doubted any pending case provides a proper test and noted a Philadelphia ruling on conspiracy to violate the law does not cover a full test. He did not express an opinion and referred the inquiry to the Prohibition Division for investigation.
In New York on October 18 a federal court denied Charles D. Waggoner of Telluride Colorado a motion to change his guilty plea to not guilty on mail fraud charges. Waggoner, sentenced to 15 years in Atlanta, had earlier pleaded guilty during a scheme that defrauded New York banks of about 500000.
Oklahoma City October 17 Republican highway chairman Pi Lew Wentz declared that 18 tag agents named by the two Democratic commissioners were submitted on a politically prepared slate. He urged the commission to operate on business lines, not politics, and criticized salaried agents for Tulsa and other counties. He projected Tulsa county could yield 30 000 in six months and 25 000 surplus annually, if operated to fund road work rather than politics.
Fred Marriott a 19 year old of Chandler was killed in Oklahoma City when his car traveling at high speed struck a taut wire across a road placed by Mid Kansas Company workers to cordon off a dril ling site on the Fortson lease. Marriott foster son of Mr and Mrs Joe Marriott of Chandler. He had worked as a yeoman for an excavation contractor.
Official reports state the entire indebtedness of the American Legion Home school in Ponca City has been paid in full with state Legion funds, about 24000 dollars. Future costs will be operating expenses for the school. Also announced is a new law partnership, Thompson and Rice, with offices over the First National Bank. Thompson has a master’s in law and Ada connections. Rice holds an LL B from Oklahoma University and Ada ties.
Oklahoma City report by Dr. Clyde W. Beson shows rises in diphtheria scarlet fever and typhoid for week ended October 5 eight counties delinquent. Diphtheria cases 65 up from 50 scarlet fever 51 up from 39 typhoid 47 up from 28 smallpox 2 down from 6.
We extend sincere thanks to Rev. Peak and many friends for kindness and sympathy in the death of our husband and father. May God’s blessings rest on everyone. Mrs. T. T. Lowman, TY. T. Lowman Jr., and wife. L. J. Lowman and wife. Mrs. F. H. McKeel and husband.
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