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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1924
Page
2
A column from Ada Weekly News includes a green tomato pickle recipe with onions spices and vinegar plus several practical household tips. The piece notes school activity reports and PTA news are welcome from local communities.
A vintage relish recipe lists ingredients such as diced white onion cabbage and peppers with salt mustard seed celery seed sugar and cider vinegar. Pepper rests in brine for 24 hours, then all components are chopped measured and mixed, soaked overnight, and packed into sterilized jars.
A high school domestic training class of about twenty five visited Mrs. John L. Boring’s home south of Ada for a live meat canning lesson. A calf was slaughtered the night before and the kitchen prepared with pressure cookers. Sixty cans filled with swiss steak roast beef chili soup stock hash and more were produced and stored for winter use.
A Mothercraft Club for rural district women will organize in Ada in the office of Mrs. Filva Duvall next Saturday week November 8 with Miss Myrtle Grisham directing. The plan aims to spread maternal care knowhow countywide through club members teaching others in infancy to mature years.
With cooler weather homemakers turn to making homes prettier and cozier. Simple touches like new waste baskets can transform room atmosphere, harmonizing with color schemes and purpose, moving beyond mere utility to stylish decor.
Frugal wartime style recipes including pan fried round steak with onions and a long simmer gravy, a rich light plum cake with brandy and spices, tomato cabbage fruit relish and a dense plum pudding with suet and nuts. The text lists ingredients and steps for each dish.
Elias Ridge a 15 year old Negro who twice faced the electric chair for the 1922 murder of Mrs. Willie Adair in Mayes county Oklahoma was spared death and given life imprisonment by the state criminal court of appeals which ordered a new trial. The ruling stressed Ridge was deprived of rights and noted he was 14 at the time of the crime. Ridge confessed detailing the usage of an iron bar and knife to kill the woman who clutched her baby as she tried to escape.
The Pontotoc county treasurer J W Westbrook announced that state aid funds for weak school districts have arrived and are being held by him The total for Pontotoc county is 16669 dollars Teachers with warrants against this account may present warrants to Westbrook to receive the funds
Mrs F E Gray died Monday night at 9 30 at the family home on South Townsend after a lingering cancer. She and husband F E Gray lived in Aca for years where she worked in city schools before resigning last term. They formerly lived at Francis where he served as superintendent. He now works as a traveling salesman. She is survived by two children.
County-wide reports show 32,500 bales of 1924 cotton ginned by noon Wednesday, with gins handling seed cotton and awaiting more loads. Growth prospects point to a county production potentially beating 40,000 bales, possibly over 43,000, as Saturday totals reach 29,900 and Wednesday adds 3,600. Gins operate day and night, cotton fields remain white and unpicked.
About sixteen to eighteen members of the I O O F fraternity at Ada visited the Center lodge Monday night and helped present degrees. Attendees say they were royally entertained by Center brethren. The article notes that of 42,000 medical practitioners in England only 2,000 are women.
For Corporation Commissioner Dick Quinn judicial officers for Judge Criminal Court of Appeals Southern District A A Keleey for Justice of Supreme Court Bruce L Keenan T H Du Bois Edward D Oldfield M C Spradlin Paul F Cooper Joseph H Cline.
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