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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1932
Page
7
Notices detail multiple Sheriff sale actions in Pontotoc County Oklahoma, including foreclosures on Ada properties and auction dates. Entities include L. B. Franklin Sheriff, defendants named across cases, and auction venues at the Ada County Court House with set sale dates in August 1932.
Police report a burglary at the M. and DP grocery store at 130 South Townsend. Burglars broke a window, stole several cartons of cigarets and over $40 in cash, leaving multiple fingerprints on the glass. Officers suspect amateurs aimed to lure firemen away by a staged alarm near Nine teenth and Johnston on Friday night.
Sheriff advertises sale of 229 acres in Pontotoc County Oklahoma to satisfy a foreclosure judgment in favor of The Federal Land Bank of Wichita against Henry Krieger et al. Sale set for August 15 1932 at 2 pm at the Ada county courthouse. Includes mineral rights and oil leases with conditions, taxes, and costs. The notice ends with unrelated commentary about the Prince of Wales.
Two Ada units of the Oklahoma National Guard reached Fort Sill by 10:30 am. Battery F with 64 men and 4 officers, plus the band, set up tents as a light southwest wind challenged their arrangements. Private Harold Graham shows rookie promise in the vand section.
Judge Orel Busby made permanent an order closing the Stockton hotel and allowed manager Mrs Eva Russe five days to remove belongings. The sheriff and county attorney sought removal as the premises were found to be a public nuisance after a hearing. The prior temporary order had suspended July 13 permitting continued operation until the final ruling.
Oklahoma National Guard units start a two week summer camp at Fort Sill. Mothers and sweethearts will miss the soldiers as mail becomes the main link home. The 160th Field Artillery band led by Maj. Fred J. Schreiber and Capt. Elbert Reed’s unit departed for camp after a concert in Glenwood park.
Miss Loretta Arnett of Ada and Mr Leo A Wise of Konawa were quietly married Friday afternoon Aug 5 at 5 o clock in the home of Dr and Mrs C C Morris 131 E Fifteenth Ada Baptist pastor Dr Morris read the vows The bride daughter of Frank Arnett wore white crepe with brown accessories and the couple will travel to Texas Colorado and New Mexico after the ceremony
Senator Gore predicts losses of 50 to 100 million dollars to farmers from farm board cotton sale policies. He cites the plan to sell 650000 bales this year and 500000 to the Red Cross as flooding the market and depressing prices. He urges slower sales and a bill to cap monthly disposals unless prices rise above 12 cents a pound.
McKinney Texas August report shows H W Nave, once Ada resident, denying he sold a car under false pretenses amid conflicting accounts. A separate Atoka Oklahoma case ties a dance hall shooting to an arrest and transfer back to Oklahoma.
An Ada ad offers a modern five room home for trade for farm equity with a $2,100 loan and a P O Box 393 Ada Oklahoma address. A second notice seeks a Supreme gas company rep in Oklahoma City for $1 trial can offer. A third item reports a possible kidnapping and robbery case involving Charles Pretty Boy Floyd with a hearing in Oklahoma City on a car sale dispute and Nave’s involvement.
Tulsa police believe clothing found in an ash can near the city limits may belong to H. W. Nave who said he was kidnapped by Charles Floyd and left nude on the highway. Nave surrendered in Oklahoma City after being accused of selling mortgaged property, posted $1,000 bond, and said he was forced to drink whisky by his alleged abductor.
Ross Dyer, arrested at Atoka, is held in the Oklahoma state prison in McAlester as a suspect in the killing of Undersheriff Eugene Moore and the wounding of Sheriff C G Maxwell at a Stringtown country dance last week. Two other suspects are held in Denison Texas and McKinney Texas.
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