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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
8
Local items report Ada area happenings including a singing at Jess Conderns, cattle driving plans to the Choctaw Nation, and questions about a preacher performing his own son's marriage. Mentions include Jean Williams Benn Ball and Brack Jacksr as local names in brief notices.
A fragmented Ada notice urges residents to unite for the Fourth of July picnic aiming to entertain the largest crowd yet and leave a positive impression on the town. The message calls for every citizen’s active participation to ensure a pleasant event.
Contemplated presidential stop in Texas stirs more talk than the war declaration against Spain. Readers hope East Texas will not be disappointed and note the world would keep turning even if the president never visits Texas.
In Wiialonty a brief period remains before voters in the Clickasaws decide who should govern. They face a choice between a pure administration at Pishominco led by Bardat or a leadership under Mosely and a group described as Territory crafters at South McAlester.
Citizens recall the days of anxious waiting as the statehood bill faced delays and setbacks while efforts to secure representation in Congress continued. The passage of the Moon bill remains the hoped outcome despite discouragement and faithless hopes.
The health of the neighborhood is good and crops look fine with cotton blooms and corn in silk tassels. John Hawkins recovers from pneumonia and fever after a near miss, and Fred Emerson's four month old baby nearly drowned but was saved. A Dentists Sunday School was organized at the Martin schoolhouse with O A J Ball elected superintendent and Charlie Frederegill as secretary. Bro W W Soward preached two sermons.
Farmers report crops are clean but in need of rain. Town visitors include Henley of Boston Ore arranging donations to rebuild a burned schoolhouse. Several residents travel from Ada to nearby towns while local baseball games are postponed. A party at Mr Layton's and a notable leg injury are noted amid Dawes Commission activity.
Regulary scheduled rail service will begin on the Hartshorne Ardmore line Sunday June 2 with a first class condition reported. A new joint Choctaw and Santa Fe depot nears completion. On July 6 the Crescent Hotel at Eureka Springs opens as an all year resort under Frisco System management following extensive renovations.
Ada Saddlery Co has let a contract to build a large warehouse at the rear of their lot measuring 35 by 50 feet. Plans indicate the new space will store a wide range of goods as part of expanding business.
A brief entry notes a location in Ada Indian Territory with reference to a room in the L Rollow Building. The fragment suggests a property or room designation within a local building in Ada. No further context or dates are provided in the readable text.
The Frisco will sell round trip tickets to all stations within two hundred miles at one fare for the 4th of July excursion. No excursion rate under 50 cents. Tickets on sale July 3 and 4 with final return July 7 1902. Agent J. McNair Ada. 1 T. FOR REN': Revidence near college. Supe r Draakausidge
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