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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1925
Page
6
County 4-H outlines sixth year food preparation projects for raisin bread and sewing, with prizes by year, judging contests for livestock poultry crops baking canning sewing and environmental displays, and rules for exhibit mounting, dates, and scoring. It lists department expectations, entry deadlines, and score cards for grain cotton wheat and farm products.
The document lists detailed scoring criteria for corn judging including uniformity of heads, length, structure, seed stem arrangement, color, size and shape, shattering resistance, ear tip, base, seed condition, and kernel quality. It also provides a separate score card for judging corn exhibit uniformity, ear shape, tip, butt, kernel shape, color, seed condition, trueness to type, and total shelling percentage with cut-point allocations.
Athletic Director C Raymond Cox tightens rules as 22 aspirants vie for 1925 Fast Central squad. Strict training, late hours curbed, and conduct on and off field emphasized. Practice underway with 22 suits issued. first game set at Sherman September 25 against Austin College Kangaroos.
Local property owners on Belmont avenue between Twentieth and Twenty first streets petition Mayor Somer Jones for paving. Bids will be advertised soon. South Broadway paving progresses with crews and machinery ready for surfacing. Rennie avenue paving interest has waned with no petition to the mayor.
Big truck transport led by Couch kicks off a weeklong Ada scout camp at Corbin's ranch Blue, with camping, merit badges, and a lively track meet. Jack Dixson and Horner Wadlington win top honors. many earn badges and the court of honor awards. The event closes with thanks to leaders and a college quartet for a Mage Rite ice cream surprise for local schoolchildren.
Eight Ada Kiwanis delegates traveled in two cars to the district convention in Austin after leaving Saturday noon. The group scheduled a Fort Worth banquet en route before reaching the capital for the two day session on Monday and Tuesday.
Greet Roy Clyde Alletag newborn son of Mr and Mrs Clyde Alletag. Troop 7 welcomes him as a member elected in. Phillip Wimbish distinguished himself at Friday celebration for State Commander Kerr. Eagles may follow soon. Back to school Monday. Scouts urged to excel and uphold scholarship and conduct.
Shippers of the southwest announced through S H Cowan of Fort Worth that they will act as a unit in the hearing on the western railroads five per cent rate increase. Judge Cowan told Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Clyde B Aitchison that the shippers may cross examine witnesses themselves. Cowan said the Southwestern group was represented here by 30 members.
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