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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1924
Page
5
Reports describe revival meetings at Lanham and regular Sunday school attendance. Residents share visits, marriages, pipe line work, oil activity, and active commerce as cotton and corn harvests unfold. Local roads, schools, and churches remain busy amid pipeline construction and carloads of workers.
Pickettt picking cotton is noted as the day’s work with a request for rain. Bro Grimes led a Sunday meeting and Sunday school drew good attendance. Families gathered to scrub church interiors and move seating, while many neighbors and relatives visited at various homes.
Ada observed Defense Day with a Main Street parade led by a band and Guard officers. Captain Kerr explained the 1915 Defense Act and stressed patriotism and readiness while East Central State Teachers College president Linsecheid spoke on Americanism and loyalty.
Okmulgee women will answer constitutional questions at the A A U W school of politics opening at the University Women's clubhouse. The hour prompts discussion on rights, government forms, amendments, citizenship, treaties, judicial review, elections, and presidential qualifications.
The text describes a pleasant two week period lifting mood and people engaging in various tasks. It mentions O M S E Patton Mill community leader’s presence and Monday business in Byrds, Mrs Cathar of Francis, and daughter Mrs Sam Cie. family matters.
Thursday morning at 9 30 Miss Martha Inez Morris daughter of Mr and Mrs W F Morris married Horace B Fort of Dallas Texas at the bride’s parents home 111 West Fifteenth street Rev J W Fort father of the groom officiated using the ring ceremony They began their romance at Southern Methodist University Dallas where both were students She is a Kappa Delta member Pi Kappa Sigma East Central College She is Phi Delta Theta member Fort earned his AB degree from SMU this summer They will reside at 2515 Park Street Greenville Texas after a short trip to Oklahoma City.
Mirrors have been set up at an Aldershot barracks to allow Tom My Atkins to inspect himself before going on parade.
An English knight owns a quarter repeater watch and sells it to Marie Ann in the Temple Prison in 1.
LAXTON H. O. Prewett and family visit relatives in Ada. Mamie Mitchell of Roff attends Sunday school. Ruth Allen dined with Hattie Prewett. Lloyd and Francis Majors visit Arlen and Otis Agler. Carrah Hagler hosts Ruby Hackworth. Ruby visits Carrah. Warren Aycock away all week. Ephram Hall in Roff. Logan Hackworth from Mercedes moves to the community. Rube Freeney dies at Milburn buried at Rofs. Lois and Gertrude Osborne from Hickory attend Sunday school. Ruby Nordean ill this week. Sid Pollock visits G. H. Glaseco. Ethel Rose from Blue Mound visits. Cotton picking rush near end. crop yields shorter than expected. Iva and Dovie Rose visit Willie at Blue Mound. P. C. Majors improving after wounds. J. W. Hagler and family visit R. L. Hagler. Maude Hewett and Jewell Hackworth dine with Millie Prewett. Opal Hackworth dines with Malenda Hagler. Mrs. Mary Dobson visits J. W. Prewett. Rev. Russell of Ada will preach Saturday night and Sunday morning and night. Everyone urged to attend.
Sunday school and church were well attended with Bro. W. H. Hart delivering the sermon. The community is busy picking cotton at the moment.
Paul M. O'Day 36, a Dallas attorney, was shot and killed entering the American Exchange National bank building. William Lester Crawford, son of Col. W. L. Crawford, was taken into custody after firing from a shotgun, reportedly saying the act was in response to an insult to his mother.
Hog buyers and sellers battled over the $10 basis in Oklahoma City as prices stayed steady with a top of 9.75 and bulk sales from 9.40 to 9.70. About 1,500 head traded including many drive-ins. Stockers and feeders brought around 7 while sows and spayed hogs sold 6.50 to 8.
A sand-glass continues to mark time in the English House of Lords as a traditional device for keeping track of speaking length and daily procedures within the chamber.
More than 400 delegates from Oklahoma crafts and trades gather for the annual federation convention in Muskogee through Wednesday. Ira M. Finley of the Maintenance of Way Railway Brotherhood presides as sessions convene at the Knights of Columbus hall. A battle over a miners union backed resolution for J C Watson’s Senate bid is expected in the resolutions committee.
Ada pastors coordinate a five Sunday Go To Church Attendance Campaign beginning this Sunday. The effort targets all ages to boost Sunday school and church turnout with a final rally as the climax.
J H Jarman former Democratic nominee for state supreme court justice in the first district says he will file recount petitions in Rogers and Wagoner counties to challenge Charles Mason's nomination. The state supreme court initially declined original jurisdiction but later reversed, with Jarman arguing that correct returns in either county could remove Mason’s lead and grant the nomination.
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