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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1954
Page
6
Dick Truitt won first second and third in steer roping and Dixie Truitt took two fourths in barrel racing after returning home from the Varina rodeo on Sunday evening.
Each year Jesse School seniors choose a watch or a jacket as a graduation gift. This year Don Weller and Jane Webb received watches while Delbert Weller Rodney Harlin and Codlene Underhill got jackets. School cooks Deborn Weller and Mae Webb cleaned the cafeteria and served hamburgers salad and pie for the children. About forty children enrolled with more expected before Christmas.
Mr and Mrs O E Simmons and family of Harbor City California visited Mrs Simmons parents Mr and Mrs Fred Rogers.
Dr. and Mrs. Willard Rhynes with children visited Vinita for a weekend hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Owen Denny. They also toured Grand Lake. Rhynes forgot his fishing rod and did not fish at the noted spot. Rhynes and Denny were Oklahoma A and M College classmates.
Lee Pharr and Bob Webb took a business trip to Atoka Saturday while employed in the Valley View Hospital supply room.
Mrs. Chester Nix persuaded her husband to drive to Lea's Park on Tuesday. He forgot his birthday until they arrived to find Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Harlin and children of McLish, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Broughton of Connerville, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Nix and children, Mr. and Mrs. Arvell Phillips, and Mrs. J. R. Broughton with a picnic supper waiting. He was surely surprised.
Dick and Fat Truitt drove to Mc Alester Monday to deliver horses for the prison rodeo. They returned Wednesday to stay through the event with Fat acting as bookkeeper.
Mrs. Lee Miller and Mrs. Ray Miller with their children returned Sunday from Silverton Texas where they spent two weeks with their mother-in-law Mrs. Feron Haverty.
Dr and Mrs J Gerald Markley and daughters Marilyn and Carol Ann return to Champaign Illinois after visiting Sol Devereaux in Edmond and S J Markley in Jesse.
Wayne Truitt and Billy Joe James will oversee the county fair quarter-horse division. Truitt plans to enter his palomino Yellowjacket in the department.
In Pleasant Hill the church uses the school for non-denominational services twice each Sunday and on fifth Sundays, no services are held. Bro Logan Cornelious sent a sermon to twenty families, notes $2500 in the building fund, and plans work week starting September 4 with all day meetings on September 4 and 11 to dig, burn brush, pour the foundation with aid from Ada firms. Visitors and invited nonmembers attend, basket lunch provided. Local notices mention visits by Dave and Betty Reynolds and the Jones and Lynch families traveling through Pauls Valley and Mangum to Chickasha.
Neighbors recall Janey Underhill declaring a surprising remark during the rodeo. She asked the clown’s wife if the baby was the father’s child, revealing the child’s outsize fascination with the performer.
Bobbie Miller hosted a Friday evening games gathering at her home inviting Colene Underhill Dessa Weller Betty Ann Lynch Jane Webb Vergie Webb Joan Nix Carol Simmons Pat Wel ler Jackie Sue Barbara Antrikin Patricia Poole Tommy Thompson Jennie Walls Eugene Horton Edwin Horton Eldon Lynch Jimmy Underhill Maurice Poole Jimmy Poole Don Mann Woodrow Hall Sonny Barnes Joe Weller Hardie Webb Homer Roberts Arlie Hulsey with chaperones Mrs Miller Mrs Van Harlin Mrs Cole Underhill and Mrs Bill Stevens. Community notes include visits from relatives and moves plus a Tupperware party and local water well improvements.
Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Jones of Ardmore spent Tuesday to Friday with Mrs. J. R. Broughton. On Friday they and Mrs. Broughton and Mrs. Van Harlin visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam Duty in Pontotoc. Kenneth Ross, eager to settle back in civilian life, left for Oklahoma City after a few idle days with his mother Mrs. Will Hoggard following his discharge from service.
A quirky column by REV. CHARLEY GRANT surveys sayings on aging, fashion, romance, and society. It playfully notes that destiny shapes ends while middle age shapes the middle, with jokes about blondes, speeches, wasp waists, and coats of arms.
Mrs. Holland reports their son Ralph has been discharged at Camp Ord California and is driving home. She says he is the fourth and last of their sons to come home from service, along with a son-in-law, and she expresses relief that this phase is over.
Mr and Mrs Dale Drew and children Dale Jr and Carol Ann of Wellington Kansas spent a week visiting relatives in and near Jesse. They left Monday to visit a sister Mrs Allie Ryal in Oklahoma City before returning home. Sunday they were honor guests at a dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Scedell Phillips where Arvell Phillips and Alvis Jean Phillips of Wag were present.
The fragment mentions guests and notes Arvell and Scedell Phillips as Mrs. Drews brothers, lacking full context or dates.
The store owners J. T. Allen and his wife closed their shop on Sunday due to heat. They drove to visit old neighbors in Madill Kingston and Willets, then returned home in the cooler evening.
Louis McDonald and Jack Edwards fished near Durant last Monday night and returned with a nice catch. The two men reported healthy bass and perch gathered along the riverfront during the evening hours.
Mr and Mrs Earl McFarland of Garber plan a Labor Day weekend trip to fish with Mr and Mrs C P Wade. McFarland hopes to repeat an enjoyable lakeside experience he previously shared with Wade at the same spot.
A family camping at Catfish Bay faced a sudden rain storm that toppled their tent. In the scramble, a stray $10 bill not belonging to them was grabbed from the air. Louis Welsh visited relatives in Ada then hurried home for school. A B M U meeting with Mrs. Gene Winton moved to the Baptist Church next Tuesday. Word has been received here.
Mr and Mrs Carl Beare and their children from Oakland California have moved to Fairbanks Alaska to reside for one year. Beare will work for a construction firm. Mrs Beare is known here as June Humphers daughter of Stella Humphers who lived in Jesse with her children for many years.
The Methodist Youth Fellowship ice cream social on Friday night earned a clear profit of 62.73 dollars. Miss Eileen Ray of Bridgeport, Texas, visited Miss Nancy Elliott this week.
Dean Peavey Earl Stewart Jr James Elliott and Jim Hart have returned from picking peaches in a local farm region. The group managed harvest tasks and posed for photos signaling a successful season.
Colorado residents Frank Patton and Jerry Brents from Fittstown visited Ann Sweatt Judy Driver and Alice Crisp Friday night. Mrs Tillery Royal and Imo Gene returned from California Tuesday after a summer spent visiting.
School opens with a new building as first grade enrollees include Jim Klepper Marsha Bloodworth Carol Wyche Terry Young Billy O'Brien and Bill Sutherland in the reader list.
James Sutton Albert Crisp and Earl Dean Scroggins visit. Mr and Mrs Pete Gibson and Scotty of Ada spend Friday night with Mr and Mrs Lee Elliott and family. Mrs Helen Walden from French Morocco visits Mr and Mrs Cap Moss and Bettye.
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