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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1925
Page
3
In this month’s column Byron Norrell reflects on Pendergraft adding 400 chicks, advises optimal timing for honey supers, and cites Dr Scholl on brood chamber management. He covers potato frowers song status, fair exhibits, and warns Oklahoma onion growers about potential overproduction and the need to ship or cooperate with neighbors to reach any price.
The county fair featured school work and club displays including sewing cooking and other activities. The renovated furniture and model room impressed many, with repaired enameled pieces costing only elbow grease and pennies for paint. Rag rugs curtains and cozy touches from other clubs added to the scene.
A former Oklahoma resident recalls moving to Colorado near the Rio Grande. He says he built a life in Blaine county, then invested in irrigated land, shipped stock, and faced high freight rates and a weak market. He ends by urging locals to stay home and be content.
Oklahoma farmers prepare to plant hundreds of Bermuda onion acres next year as yields and prices have been solid. Texas growers, familiar with the crop, expect continued high prices and may boost production. A semiperishable surplus must be sold this year to avoid price drops below production costs.
In the sixth annual judging contest the Vanoss Latta and Center clubs show arrayed contestants Ima Norvell Fawn Bevers Jammie Waters Blair Wood Lois Williams Emma Coley Addie Soloman Lorena Anderson Kathryn Ishinger Rena Sullivan Lois Felton Cordia Sullivan Flora Luther Winnie Whipple Juanita Norvell Zora Hughes Irene Cantrell Violet Nilson and others. The Attractive Room showcased home beautification works including furniture by Pekan Grove North Ada and Pickett clubs with hand painted curtains by Ahloso and embroidered centerpieces. Mrs Morgan notes the exhibit aims to dispel the view club meetings are mere tea parties.
Farmers seek laborers at high cot ton picking rates and workers in good health can earn solid wages. The speaker recalls earning 35 to 50 cents per hundred and about $1.75 to $2.00 per day plus board in earlier seasons, noting personal steadiness and successful season outcomes in Texas.
Mrs Norrell and I thank Mrs J M Perry for excellent samples at the county fair. She is among the county’s best cooks and often wins honors. Of eight entries her cake and other specialties earned six blue ribbons and two red ones.
Mrs. Morgan reports poultry stock in Oklahoma suffers from feed shortages and malnutrition. She advises selling underweight pullets and cockerels to save feed and reduce disease risk, then cleaning premises and feeding remaining birds a mash per 4-H Poultry Club Manual. She also notes canning old chickens for winter use and provides a homemade toilet soap recipe.
Oklahoma City Sept 21 seven district meetings of the Oklahoma Educational Association will run October and November with five in October and two in November. Districts include East Central at Okmulgee October 29–31 with speakers from Iowa and Ohio. Northern at Enid. Southeast at Durant. Southwestern at Weatherford. Northwestern at Alva. Central at Edmond. Northeastern at Tulsa.
A home note describes making hard soap using 4 quarts of rain water, melted grease, and lye poured slowly over fat. It covers heating, straining, and moulding in a pan, with curing time of six weeks and a suggested cost of 45 cents for ingredients. Mrs. Morgan, H. D. A.
VENITA Oklahoma A M Millikan a Craig county farmer is the only planter to plow under 12 acres of soybeans to build soil according to A T burge county agent in a report to Oklahoma A and M college Stillwater. Burge says Millikan sacrificed a temporary loss of about 35 dollars but believes in long term gains from the practice conducted last spring by several volunteers.
Harmon county agent Tom M. Marks reports a unique poultry watering trough idea in Hollis Oklahoma. An old automobile casing was repurposed into three crescent shaped trough sections laid flat on the ground to hold water for poultry.
Bill McAdams Sanford McAdams and a woman were jailed on a receiving stolen property charge after arrest at Madill. They allegedly possessed articles taken in a Magnolia filling station raid here. The alleged burglar is held in Madill jail.
Dr. E. A. MacMillan lectures on soap and its ingredients. A student asks what soap is for, and the professor replies with a concise ruling that soap is what you use to wash with.
East Central campus held a student election during a 11 to 12 am meeting electing officers for senior junior sophomore and unclassified groups. Named are Edmon Low as senior president Denton Floyd as vice president Lois Gabel secretary Hazel Chadd Pelagi reporter A. A. Dean advisor Emma Keller sponsor and athletic committee members for the year.
Corporation Commissioners Capshaw and Hughes prepared a final order lowering cotton ginning fees from 5 cents to 3.24 cents per hundred. The reduction, approved on the vote, takes effect September 4 with ginners urged to drop rates immediately. Some localities complain that firms wait for the signed written order.
Oklahoma Adult Education Commission says progress since 1923 includes many formerly illiterate groups learning English and literacy. Efforts emphasize dignity for adult learners, with 56,864 illiterates in 1920 and targets for 1930. Night schools run six weeks from November to December. volunteers and paid instructors to be mobilized with stipends and college credit.
In Shawnee on September 19, Leroy Manwarin was sentenced to die in the electric chair on November 27 for the murder of Raymond Hebble during a May 20 attempted hijacking. He was the first white man sentenced to death in Pottawatomie County. his attorneys plan an appeal. Hebble’s fiancee Leona Sims drove the car. Manwarin known as the kid glove bandit.
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