Ada HGH Plant Ready For Work
Ada plans a new high school building occupied by four upper grades with capacity near 500 pupils. The three story, fireproof structure features steel athletic lockers cafeteria gym auditorium study hall rest rooms and an emergency ward. Old high school becomes junior high for seventh and eighth grades boosting enrollment and easing ward-school crowding. Horace Mann school serves many students.
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Ada
Supt
Hinshaw
Horace Mann School
Northwest Pontotoc County News Notes From Summers Chapel
Summers Chapel meeting closed due to bad weather. Ada fair attendance. nine school exhibits from local area. Maxwell Vanoss games score Maxwell nine Vanoss five. Various local residents visit kin in Ada Stratford and Maud. Rice of births and marriages highlighted including Ruth Wortman wedding to Reuben Wilson. Cotton picking underway. weather and crops reported with rainfall and fodder yields.
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Edna R. Pannell
Summers Chapel
Ada
Northwest
Pontotoc
Maxwell
Galey
Somers Chapel
Worstell and Center
Vanoss
Ruth Wortman
Gaiey
Reuben Wilson
Stratford
Miss Wortman
Claud Hooper
Oma McGalliard
James Parnell
Dennie Brecheen
J. L. Isaacs
C. L. Hooper
J. L. Brecheen
Harvey Mullinax
Fawn Bevers
John Fleming
Alva Pennington
Asa Harrell
Pontotoc County
Sudan
Gip Hendrix
B. F. Hendrix
Flossie Summers
Stratford School
Isael Stark
Layton Wood
L. D. Rutledge
Orbra Moore
W. A. Harrell
E. A. Easley
Henry Dunn
Elmer Moore
Lindsay
California
Lloyd Wood
Willie Bolen
Babe
Oscar Krieger
Wichita Falls
Texas
G. B. Northcut
Washington
Spur
Bill O’dell
O'Dell
Turner Falls
Hellen Brecheen
J. S. Isaacs
Homer Steele
Worstell
Alex Ellis
Ellis
Wate Rutherford
Maud
Frank Levis
Everett Annell
J. W. Roberts
Rebee
J. J. Layne
Joe Robertson
Paoli
New Bethel School Sees Strong Attendance In Progress
The New Bethel School reports good progress with large student turnout. Local residents travel between Ada, Sulphur, and neighboring communities for visits and family gatherings as several families relocate and baseball finishes the season strong in county play.
Smith Campaign Charts Westward Tour This Month
Governor Smith will launch a westward campaign week of September 16 with three speeches in Omaha Nebraska Oklahoma City Oklahoma and Denver Colorado on September 18 20 and 22 all at night. He will be away from New York state the week of September 23 and not reveal southern or pacific plans. After Rochester Democratic state convention begins October 1 he will return. He anticipated farm relief as a likely topic in Omaha with extemporaneous remarks.
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New York
Albany
Oklahoma
Omaha
Harold Oliver
Associated Press
N. Y
Smith
West
Nebraska
Colorado
Oklahoma City
Denver
New York State
Pacific Coast
South
Rochester
Building Near Bromide Holds History Marks
Near Bromide a vacant building with rich history once served as Wap anucka Female Institute for Indian girls and Civil War headquarters. Built 1851–52 by W Sparrow, run by Presbyterians then Chickasaw nation, later leased after the war. Marauders and band activity were noted, with one shooting incident recorded by W H Jackson, now Bromide Hotel operator. Viola, named after Jackson’s daughter in 1882, hosted the area’s large overshot mill and contributed to local limestone naming by geologist Joseph A Taft.
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Bromide
Southern Army
Wapanucka Female Institute
W. Sparrow
Missionary Board
The
Presbyterian Church
W. H. Jackson
Bromide Hotel
Jackson
Douglas H. Cooper
Dyer
Bill Cook
Jim Harrott
Mr. Jackson
Viola
Boully Wins In Hitting Honors At Byng
Grady Boully of Byng tops the league in hitting as the season closes at a brisk pace. His season total outstrips rivals though Red Phillips of Byng posted a .409 clip in eight games though ineligible for the award.
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Boully
Brewer
Ray Thompson
Robinson
the Tailors
Phillips
Byng
Josh Lee
Grady Boully
Red Phillips
Dope Dealer Given 15-Year TS-Year Sentence
Tulsa telegram reports Harry Sherill, 37, a longtime Tulsa underworld figure, pled guilty to five indictments including 15 counts of morphine sale possession and purchase from 1925. He was sentenced to 15 years in Leavenworth by Federal Judge Kennamer, the heaviest in local federal court history. He pleaded not guilty to two conspiracy indictments awaiting hearing.
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Tulsa
Harry Sherill
Leavenworth Federal
Kennamer
Sherill
Tulsa figure linked to escape and bond scheme
A man jailed in Tulsa was moved from West Palm Beach after a federal probe into a bond scheme involving worthless bonds and several prominent attorneys and real estate dealers. The escape triggered prison sentences for others and a death by suicide. Sherill also appeared in a prior case where his wife killed a young girl.
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Tuls
West Palm Beach
Fla
Sherill
Hughes Elected World Court Judge in Geneva
Charles Evans Hughes of the United States was elected a judge of the world court of international justice at The Hague by the League of Nations Assembly. The vote tally was 41 of 48, and the council’s submission was unanimous following the resignation of John Bassett Moore.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Charles Evans Hughes
United States
World Court of International Justice
the Hague
Assembly of the League of Nations
John Bassett Moore
Hughes
Council of the League
Kilpatrick Home on West Main Burns in Night Fire
Fire destroyed most of B Kilpatrick’s residence on West Main near the city park at about 1 a m Wednesday. Kilpatrick escaped after being awakened by smoke as flames were contained before spreading to neighboring houses.
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B. Kilpatrick
West Main
West Main Street
Mr. Kilpatrick
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