The Ada Weekly News from Ada, Oklahoma • 3

THE ADA WEEKLY NEWS Page Three Thursday ebruary 11 1054 noise there have must also were Lee Read the NEWS Want Ads OR at East Central Jearl Blankenship spent the week AMOUS WATCHES ELGIN Wa Givi 5LH Graan Stamps CREDIT INSURANCE PROTECTS YOU AND YOUR CREDIT TOO YOU IND THE CAR (New or Used) WE HAVE THE INANCE PLAN GOOD PEOPLE DESERVE A GAS RANGE HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE AVAILABLE ON YOUR LOAN friendly Oklahoma State I of of Mr and Mrs Dee Burdine and daughter Oma drove to Muskogee (Saturday to visit friends and rela into a of the John Stevens who has a case of arthritis had braces very sorry had bumped and Mrs Clyde Killion visit the community Monday of the intersection have been hap regularity over have your own Highway and Oakman and The highway to the east of Mr and Mrs Lanier Purcell were Sunday guests Mr and Mrs rank Jared Mr and Mrs Robert Ross spent Sunday with her brother and fam ily the Johnnie Cantrell's of Ada Mr and Mrs Wendell Jones and son Glen Earl of Worth Texas The and Jim Barton fam ilies of Scullin were Sunday visit ors in the Kenneth Ozbirn home end in the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Blankenship There will be an assembly pro gram riday at Ahloso to observe Lincoln's birthday and Valentine's Mr and Mrs loyd Anglin spent part of last week in Wetumka The Rosedale grade girls won an invitation tournament at Union Springs thus adding a beautiful new trophy to our collection shirt I ought to bring HIM (Editor's note: Bitter about shirTt Or Better Half?) Mrs 0 Davis has returned home after spending several days with her parents Mr and Mrs Taylor of Emmett Her father has had the flu Mr and Mrs Vollie Deaton and girls of Ada were Sunday visitors in the Deaton home Mr and Mrs Al Donaghey of Scullin spent Saturday night with her parents Mr and Mrs Sidney Ozbirn Mr and Mrs John Barringer of Ada were Sunday visitors in the Ozbirn home Mr and Mrs David Rothell of Ada were Sunday visitors in the John Sanders home Heard: Birds singing about these warm days and the ladies talking about gardening time No Dennie the Last Last week we reported little Den nie Groves was ill with mumps and remarked that surely she would be the last No such luck for Mrs Jack McRonald who is quite ill this week with the pesky disease There were 22 in Sunday School and 17 in Training Union and ch urch Sunday night Mr and Mrs Robert Taylor of Ada spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ross Mr Ross is not feeling well at this writing Seen: Several happy faces from this community at the McLish Byng game Tuesday night Same faces a foot long (well nearly) when Byng lost to Ada High Sat urday night Week end visitors in the home of Mr and Mrs A Armstrong were Mr and Mrs Sires and Mr and Mrs Truitt Cranford and son all of Ada Mr and Mrs Ben Carter of Ran kin Texas have been visiting Mrs Annie Thompkins for the past sev eral days Treas was in the hospital two days this past week He is back at his job of teaching school and is feeling some better day Each room will have Its owa Valentine party Mrs Gladys Hatton of this com munity received word of the death of an uncle Deatherage of Mountain View He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home Monday uneral services will be at Mountain View with burial in Ada He was 73 years old tives Mrs Peggy Baker mother of Mrs Burdine who had been visit ing In Center since the Christmas holidays returned to her home there Miss Pauline Young shopped and visited in Sulphur Thursday On the sick list also are little Linda Taylor Pattie and Saundra Lee spent the week end with his par ents Mr and Mrs Glen Jones We might add that Glen Jones spent the week end at home He is working in Bartlesville building a beautiful 18 story building (I saw the picture of it) Mr and Mrs Joe Parks Wan da and Betty were in Durant Sat urday on business HENRY HOME ON LEAVE Henry son of Mr and Mrs Henry of this community is home on leave has spent the past several months in Korea and it is nice to see him home safe and sound Mr and Mrs Pyatte Morris and son have moved to Sulphur to be near work Eloise Sanders is in bed with the mumps kt this writing A swell e'aseof them too Mr and Mrs Harley Groves and children and Mrs Ray Magar at tended church services in Holden ville Saturday night Mr and Mrs Rober Bennett have bought a new 1954 Chebrolet pick up WEDDING BELLS ITY YEARS AGO Some times I think there is no thing in the world so much fun and at the same time so frustrating as genealogy I have been attempting to help Mrs Gertrude Miller of Vermont with our mutual Murchi son line Mrs late husband Let's Do Something About This! Sunday School and church ser vices have fallen off more than 75 per cent since November because of the prolonged epidemic of flu and mumps The community went to a lot of expense and donated nearly 1500 man hours labor to make the church a beautiful and comfortable place in which to wor ship It is hoped we can all be back in our places soon Only twen ty three were at Sunday morning services TOURNAMENT BOUND Ahloso girls and boys will enter the County Basketball Tournament at Homer this month They will also enter a team composed of sixth graders and under CENTER NEWS By BESSIE HATCHETT SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY It is not often a community LOVELADY NEWS By MRS CECIL BRANNON What has me shaking in my boots is how near Tom and I came to being destitute for all our posses sions were locked in the house while we were at our home in Cen ter for the weekend It reminds one of the famous Chinese saying over the bridge of life but build no house there on" Wonder what old man Confucius would think of one who must worry over two hou ses? 22 Ada Stonewall Several of the mothers are help ing out in the kinch room at Hom er during the tournament this week I Mr and Mrs Graydon Cantrell are visiting their daughter and family Mr and Mrs Cleo Hoyler of Pampa Texas Visitors in the Carney Walton home over the week enc were Mr and Mrs Hubert Williams of Ok mulgee Oklahoma Mrs John Mosier spent the week end at home She is employed in Oklahoma City and John tells us he was especially glad to see her for this time she brought him a beautiful new red shirt I hope he mention the new shirt to my Bitter Half for he'll promptly decide if Rena can bring John a one the RELUCTANT CRITTER Mrs Joe Parks has decided she will have to practice on her calf roping and tying especially tying She tied up a little critter riday to toss him in the pickup The tie hold and he got away I think she had quite a time but she loaded him and he went to the sale barn and sold I am sure (Editor's note: She must have tied a If you don't know what that is ask an old salt!) Mr and Mrs Cordell Lee were Sunday visitors in the rancis Community David Smith is back in school after several days illness He still have those tonsils out Come on David let's get them out what do you say? LONGINES WITTNAUER HAMILTON BULOVA was vice president and general manager of a Kiddie Koop Comp any and her sori in law is Hall Cushman of a maple furniture firm All of which reminded me we never have printed all the early Pontotoc marriage records of fifty years ago The County Clerk seems to have worked right through January first for the following licenses were sold on New Day 1904: William Cummins 17 and Minnie Hoover 17 both of Allen Allen Williams 25 Jessie Glenn 16 Ada Blake Allen 22 of Beebe and May os sett 14 Corner Oklahoma Terri tory Harvey Reed 29 and Anna Williams 16 Oitra I On the second of the year a cou ple from Center Joe Davis 24 and Delpha Burrows 17 were married Gentry 20 McGee and Muse 20 McGee married the second Henry Anderson Maud McDonald 17 of January 5 1904 Willoughby 28 Maxwell May McManners 21 A Jones 21 ranks and Susan Alice Thompson 18 Ada on Jan uary 6 Bowerman 23 Vio let Oklahoma Territory and Nora Pierce 21 Ada January 7 orbass 25 Ada and Edna Traw ick 16 indley 42 Roff nad Isabel Rose 32 Hart and Matthews 40 Stonewall and Minnie Dunigan 26 Hart Sufford 38 Hart Sadie Boen 17 Roff were all bridal parties of the eighth of January fome In any time for friendly confidential service you'll readily appreciate PONTOTOC COUNTY HAS DEAD CURVE Dead curve claimed ano ther life that of Glen 0 Jones of Maysville early Sunday morning This bad curve has all the elements of tragedy and throws them at ev eryone who travels Highway 19 It is to begin with a blind curve so sharp it is' difficult to make it on the uppdr lane or months during the year the sun strikes exactly the level of the eyes in the late afternoon At night a car coming around the curve invariably blinds the ap proaching driver Being a sharp curve neither driver has a chance to ask the approaching driver to dim his lights You simply have to take it The steep grade and sharp curve are impossible to make if a car is exceeding one is not one comes right hand quickly to Not to be outdone the women or ganized a team and lost their first and according to one member of the team last game to the team The members of the women's team were Mrs Tom Murphy Mrs Robert Bennett Mrs Clinton Dame Mrs Leon Henry and Mrs Sanford Ayres The girls playing were Delores Murphy Kay Tilley Betty Bennett Kirkwood Edwina Dame Marie Wood and Lois Wright CLOSE CALL Sunday afternoon when we arriv ed at our houe in Rosedale Tom and I found the tall grass had been burned off the yard and garden plot Since the fire had got out of hand it seems most of the men of the town spent two hours fighting fire They burned the motor out in the well and we are definitely out of water throughout the house Mrs severe put on her hands Thursday but they had to be removed next day They were too painful DO IT! Mrs Cordell Lee kept getting a busy signal on her party line Thursday morning and finally de Week end visitors in the Carl Watts home were Mr and Mrs Chester Lawson and children of rederick Mr and Mrs A Watts of Rosedale and Mr and Mrs Glen Caldwell of Norman 1 CIVVIES OR TREAS James Treas has received his discharge from the Navy after 22 months of active duty He was sta tioned in Kingsville Texas at the time of his discharge He has en rolled MANNS MOVE TO ALLEN The Mann family moved to Allen this past week We certainly did hate to see them go They will be greatly missed in the school too LASH! Boys and girls from Ahloso should be easily distinguished now The new shirts have arrived They have Ahloso Rockets printed on the front of them Mr cd in this week They are former resi dents and are living in Odessa Texas at the present time WMU MEETS The Missionary Union of the Ahloso irst Baptist Church met this week in the home of Mrs Maud Sliger Others present were: Mrs Dottie Reed Mrs Blankenship Mrs Loy Wilmoth Mrs Ruby Hardin and Mrs los sie McDaniels Mrs the receiv REMEMBER COW? Sunday afternoon Jim Brannon found his dog fastened in a tile that had partially filled with dirt So Jim wiggles in up to his heels and gets the dog by the hind feet and then Jim's daddy pulls boy and dog out without damage to either (Since then the dog has become the mother of eight cute little like to puppies Would anybody have a puppy or two?) Mr and Mrs Robert Ross have received a letter from their son Perry Don who has started his Basic Training (Navy) at San Die go He is happy so far hope he continues to be happy Southwest Natural Gas Co ADA OKLAHOMA moderate speed When familiar with the road upon what looks like a jump off and cuts too the left thus throwing the car out of control and deep ditch or into the path oncoming car something be done this dead man curve cemebery on Highway 19? Note: We would like to see the many danger spots on county and state roads publicized and signs placed along them well in advance warning motorists to slow down We would like to print a list of such places when we have made a collection of them One crossing on which we nearly met our fate recently was the inter section of the Allen the road north to rancis at Homer goes up a slight hill this crossing hiding any cars which come over it at great speed till they are right at Serious accidents pening here with the years If you or danger spot be glad to hear about it) cided some one's receiver was off the hook Mrs Lee said that she could hear a lot of talking yelling and quite a bit of just noise" So she set out to find the trouble It was only the ladies quilting party at the home of Mrs Sidney Ozbirn! There were several ladies pre sent Among them were: Mrs Si las Taylor Mrs Joe Parks Mrs Robert Ross Mrs Ross Mrs Glen Jones Mrs Deat on Mrs rank Jared Mrs Roy Boren Mrs Charlie Scott Mrs Kenneth Ozbirn Mrs Charley Dea ton Mrs Bill Barton Mrs Mittie Deaton Mrs Cecil Brannon Mrs Robert Taylor and the hostess Mrs Ozbirn And last but not all the children What a been! We are Some one er and it on the set straight The terrible thing about it was that Mrs Lee was trying to call the doctor Guess we will have to be more careful the next time we have a quilting party about near the AHLOSO By MRS RED BARBEE DILLARDS RETURN TO CENTER Mr and Mrs Dillard have moved from Augusta Georgia to Center to be near Mrs Dillard's mother Mrs Rose Walker who has been living alone since the death of her husband Walker last April Mrs Walker who is 77 is having trouble with cataracts of her eyes making it impossible for her to live alone Mr and Mrs Dillard have a son Sgt Jimmie Dillard now serving in the Pacific His wife Helen lives in Gadston Alabama and the elder Dilards spent a few days with her en route to Center The son Don a former lieutenant in the infantry is a stu dent in Georgia Tech majoring in the School of Business He was on the front for eightmonths during the hardest fighting in Korea Don and his wife Liz have visited their grandmother in Center and have many relatives and friends in our community who arc relieved that Don has swapped his lieutenant's bars for the simple title of Student Don DillArd' of Georgia Tech Dillard is a retired Stf Sgt of the United States Army and has served his country for twenty two years He was flown home from Korea last year in order to undergo a delicate lung operation Borrowers at this bank whose loans are protected by Credit Life Insurance have none of these worries Why STEEL AND PIPE CATTLE GUARDS SWINGS CLOTHES LINE POSTS and STEEL LADDERS SEE US IRST ADA IRON AND METAL CO 501 Bdwy Phone 1165 But what if illness an accident or even death makes these good intentions impossible or to say the least dif ficult Every borrower who secures a loan has the best of inten tions to meet every payment promptly until the loan is retired not let us give you the full details of this protection protection for you and your credit too WELDING SUPPLIES New and Used Diamonds Jewelry Silverware NEVER TOO OLD! The team of Center played Lawrence Thusday night and took the game the score being 27 11 Those present decided something should be done to celebrate such a victory and to show their appre ciation of the new gym Quickly the men of the community organized a team consisting of Pug Garrett Kennith Stanridge Paul Murphy Robert Bennett and Leon Henry They challenged the Center teen agers Joe and Bobby Grey Gene and Charles Glover and Billy Rowe and split ajiair oLJastx itJlfit quite according to the Oklahoma Athletic games The scores were 9 7 and 4 5 You mdy spend quite a bit of time finding the car you want but you can find the finance plan to buy it in just a few minutes here When mother gets one of the new automatic GAS RANGES she gets tmokelett broiler ventilated oven fingertip control automatic timing ttreamlmed beauty! And what else she gets: More hours of leisure time more speed more flexibility more economy more cooking efficiency! If you know a mother who deserves the best get her one of the new automatic GAS ranges You can see them at your appliance shop or GAS Com pany showroom GENERAL ACCEPTANCE CO NOW LOCATED AT 300 MAIN PHONE 508 Quality On Convaniant Tirmi GEM CREDIT JEWELERS "THE YOUTH'S JEWELER" 11 7 A Wait Main Phom 2277 1 It is not often a community is fiible to honor a couple on their sixtieth wedding anniversary Such an honor Is given to Center this Aonth On ebruary 16 1894 in Mineral I Velis Texas Thomas William Iroves and Miss Susan Carpenter vere married At that time PaloPin to was the county seat and thelicense had to be bought there Mrs Groves was born Septem ber 29 1867 the daughter of John and lorida (Orrell) Carpenter She was born In Young County about sixty miles south of Wichita alls She made the run into the Cherokee Strip with her family andettled near Enid In the same run was Thomas lyiilliam Groves who was born Oct ober 9 1872 in Harpers erry West Virginia He was a son of Lewis Henry and Mary Hawk Groves As a goung man he had moved to and staked a claim in Kansas and it was from Jetmore county seat of Hodgeman County some forty miles north of Dodge Cuty that hestarted on the run for a new home in the Cherokee Strip Mr and Mrs Groves re member vivdly the great crowd of people milling about waiting for the signal to start Mrs Grovesaid many were hurt and a fewMilled during the ensuing scramble Tor land Groves staked a Tclaim Tiear Enid on the land adjoining Ahe Carpenters and thus thelbro In 1903 the Groves family moved I to the Albert Perry place whichwas then two miles from Ada but is a part of th city now The children received their educa tion from the Pleasant Hill and Ah I loso schools In 1941 they bought the Ed Dolahan place in Center and have made their home here since that time There were eleven children born to Mr and Mrs Groves four of whom live in the Center communi ty They are Harley Groves Mrs Bill Reed Mrs Pyatte Morris and Leroy Groves Edgar the eldest lives in Palos California and near him are his two sisters Mrs Leona Batey and Mrs Mae McCracken rank and Jess live in Napa City California Two sons Henry nad Clyde are dead Among the vivid memories of Mr and Mrs Groves are the tents that housed a city built in a day A land office post office several stores headquarters for the army personnel and hundreds of homes were all put up before dark in the town that is now known as Enid The people did not want for food fir entertainment Mrs Groves re members that Groves would play the fiddle while the young folk would sing until midnight They With still take part in services in Center Community Church and 3 both still sing In addition to the nine living children there are 38 grandchild ren 29 greatgrandchildren many of them members of our community A SERVICE connv I4 MMNDABU COSTS LUS WA ft i oyw 111 SSI Wilk JtXT i vi I Wk.