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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
6
Pontotoc County farmers abandon old methods and plant barley for higher yields on marginal land, with 30 to 60 bushels per acre versus corn. Sweet clover areas total about 2 000 acres, showcased by J B Hill and Clint Palmer demonstrations. Hay production and cattle pasturing follow soon after planting.
The Ada High School classes met and elected their officers and sponsors for the year. Seniors chose Arnold Mallory as president and Julian Allen as vice president with Meaders Jones as secretary and treasurer and Mrs Bullock as sponsor. Juniors elected Don Evans president and Clarine Roach as vice president with Thelma Roberts secretary treasurer and Mrs Cutlar sponsor. Sophomores chose Charles Danning president Roberta Allen vice president Geraldine Hale secretary Catherine Griffeth treasurer Louise Meaders sponsor Miss Geneva Ann Gordon. Freshmen elected Churchill Thomas president Donnie Hughes vice president Mary D Emery secretary Jack Price treasurer Miss Rubie Gay sponsor.
Forty two American Legion posts formed across Oklahoma from Tulsa to Ada aiming for about twenty five thousand members within thirty days. The sixteenth annual Oklahoma State Federation of Labor opened in Sapulpa with delegates from most unions. President Edgar Fenton reported three hundred two affiliated unions and urged organized labor to press for broader organization, industrial insurance reforms, and continued opposition to weak worker protections.
The article argues for nationwide job mobilization under federal direction to prevent postwar hardship. It notes ex servicemen seek meaningful, skilled work, preferring trades over cramped white collar roles, with 70 to 80 percent offered old jobs but many choosing new paths. Youth groups like the YMCA back such readjustment efforts.
In Allen Oklahoma on September 22 the local drill work remains active though delays occur as producers await pipe and casing deliveries. The Homackla in Section 13 on Krebs farm near the river shows a small producer capable of about 40 barrels after the well was drilled eight feet into sand and shot yesterday. The Marjorie Oil Company has plugged its well in Section 29 at 780 feet.
In a Lawton Constitution blurb readers are urged to consider household health with a tonic claimed to destroy worms. The piece riffs on accusations of profiteering, noting everyone shouts the label at others while some evade scrutiny.
The Texas firm moves a Star drilling rig to the Roddy farm lease to drill for gas. At Lucy Harjo farm Section 27 a deep test reached 1,150 feet with 8 inch casing in the sand and drilling planned to 3,600 feet. Harry Morris of Ada relocates a rig to Section 17 on the McElroy farm after a 1,050 foot hole was abandoned. he will clean the hole and drill to 3,600 feet.
Gladys Bell Oil unloads a rig on the Rock Island near Calvin and plans to move it opposite the Gilmore farm across the river. John E. Lee returns Tuesday from a Texas oil field business trip related to the K. C. Oil company.
Swellings of the flesh caused by inflammation cold fractures of the bone toothache neuralgia or rheumatism can be relieved by applying Ballard's Snow Liniment. It should be well rubbed in over the part affected. Its great healing and penetrating power eases the pain reduces swelling and restores natural conditions. Price 25c 50c Sold by Bart Smith Drug Store.
The Eufaula Indian Journal prints a wry remark on the ongoing actors strike, weighing it as tragedy comedy or vaudeville while noting the unusual mix of reactions and the mood in the newsroom.
Sheriff Bob Duncan and Constable Walter Gayne seized a still near Laxton as they tracked an operating ell distillery in the Laxton district. They found a cane patch mash and 225 gallons of mash, plus the kettle and furnace, while the worm eluded capture. William W. Carroll was arrested, given bond, and released.
A sequence of property ads shows dozens of farm tracts from 60 to 252 acres near Ada Center Roff Stratford Frisco and Vanoss. Prices range 35 to 75 per acre with cash terms up to 5000. Properties include houses barns orchards water wells and varying cultivated acreage for wheat oats alfalfa and pasture.
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