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The Ada Weekly News from Ada, Oklahoma • 12

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Ada, Oklahoma
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12
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Page Twelve THE ADA WEEKLY NEWS Thursday March 25 1954 ITTSTOWN MRS SNIDER rophies Await Winners in Big Meet NEW MATTRESSES OR OLD! I Let us remake that old hard mattress into a won derful new Innerspring mattress Just like new but at much lower cost SEE OUR NEW MACHINERY All Work Guaranteed Call Us for ree Estimates ONE DAY SERVICE HARVEY SHIPMAN MATTRESS RUG SHOP 312 9th 4 ADA Phone 2648 Mr and Mrs Andrew Large and arr el were hosts for the weekend to his brothetSi la and sister Mr and Mrs Roy Johnson of Tulsa Other guests of the Larges Sunday were Mr and Mrs Chuck Stringer Tulsa Mr and Mrs Gene Harris and Mr and Mrs Elmer Smith Mickey and Mary Beth of Ada and Mrs Nancy loyd Mr and Mrs John oreshee of Arp Texas were the guests of Mr and Mrs Henry Martin Monday Also stopping by for a short visit on their way to Ardmore Monday were Mrs Martin's brother in law Mr and Mrs Boyd Hansboro of Eufaula Harold Martin A andtM student at Okmulgee was home for the weekend also Mr and Mrs Jiggs Jackson Bertha and Roger of Seminole were Sunday visitors in the home of the former's parents Mr and Mrs Jackson Mr and Mrs Turner re turned Monday evening from Tah lequah where they spent the week end with their daughter Marian They were accompanied by their other daughter Mrs rank Peve house and Sammy The Turners took them on to their home at Rat liff City later that evening Mr and Mrs Homer Brown of Lawton were weekend guests in the home of his aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Calvin Brown BOB DAMS ILL Trophies for winning schools at the 38th Annual East Central Interscholastic meet are large again this year our East Central girls arc shown preparing to set up a display of the seven trophies offered The girls are (left to right) Sally Griffith Ada Joan McKinney Washington Okla Max ine Cosper Allen and Jo Ann Thompson Stonewall These girls have also done much of the behind the scenes work in preparing for the event here this weekend (News Staff Photo) A Davis received word this week that his brother Bob Davis whose home is in Indiana was ser iously ill and not expected to live Davis was unable to go to the bed side of his brother due to being in ill health himself Bob Davis is a former resident of Jesee and Stonewall and an older brother of Mr Davis Mr and Mrs Henry Clampitt were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs red Bradduck and children ri day evening The Bradducks spent Sunday with his parents Mr and Mrs Bradduck received word of the death of his nephew Wilbur Bland He was ournea to death in an oilfield ex plosion and fire Monday March 15 where he was employed near Oak orest Penn He was about 45 years of age and leaves a wife and three children Her condition has shown verv little improvement at this writing man Mitchusson and Mr and Mrs Snyder GIRLS AUXILIARY MEETS ments of ice cream bars were serv ed to Beatrice Tackett Helen Tack ett Earline Tisdell Sue Weaver Kay Wilson Sue Mitchusson Peggy Humes and Mary Lou Harrison Ryan Mrs Snyder the hon oree Joe Stanford and the hosts Mr and Mrs Velton Stanford and Mr and Mrs Dowell Stanford iJ REVIVAL APRIL 4 18 Announcement has been made by Rev Tom Parrish of the forthcom ing revival services which will be gin at the ittstown Baptist church on Sunday April 4 and last through Sunday April 18 Evangelist will be a former pastor Rev Johnny Walker of Oklahoma City Leading the singing each night will be Bro Julian Wilson of ort Worth Texas Mrs wary Blecker mother of Mrs Whitten who has been ill at the home of the latter for several weeks was removed to Val ley View Hospital riday evening The Girls Auxiliary of the irst Baptist Church met with Mrs Tom Parrish after school Thursday af ternoon In addition to their regu lar program they went to the home of Mrs Ellen Hudson and presented her with a fruit shower Refresh RECUPERATING Miss Marie Buttrill is recovering nicely from an emergency appen dectomy performed at Valley View Hospital Wednesday of last week She came home Sunday is schedul ed for a check up by her doctor Thursday and hopes to be able to be back in school by Monday Marie is a member of the sophomore class at McLish She is the daughter of Mrs Edna Buttrill Mr and Mrs (Blackie) Lee had as their guests Saturday and Sunday Emmett Lee Eddie and Ola Mae of San Antonio Texas They were accompanied by MrsOla Lancaster of ort Worth Em mett Lee is an uncle of Mr whom he had not seen for more than 36 years and it was the first time Mrs Lee had ever met him Mrs Lancaster is Mr sister Needless to say uncle and nephew thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing about events of nearly a half cen tury ago Mr and Mrs George Seaton Debby and Gail Ann of Elmore City were visitors of Mr and Mrs A Skeith Sunday Mr Seaton is superintendent of schools at El more and Mr Skeith lived in their home during the two years he was engaged in the grocery business there Mr and Mrs Troy Sherrell spent Sunday and Monday in Edmond as guests of their son Leon and fam ily Mrs Ellen Hudson who has Been under the treatment of a doctor for several weeks for a head infection has now ben dismissed from his care Guests of Mr and Mrs Jim Dun can Sunday were their two nep hews Billy and Jay Woods andtheir families of Tulsa OX OUT HOSPITAL red ox returned to work at the Kerr McGee Gasoline plant this week after two absence Hewasdismissed from the hospital Wednesday of last week following surgery Mr and Mrs Steve McNeil and Joyce visited Mrs broth er in law rank Madron and child ren of Bowlegs Saturday They were also accompanied by her mo ther Mrs Jackson NEPHEW DIES Mr and Mrs Claude Bland have our Cash Jets Qrain CARLOA PRICES Town at 30g North "Broadway Trader Mills Mr and Mrs Travis Maj ws and Take Home a Carton DRINK Mrs Alice Cash of El Reno is vi siting in the home of her daughter Mrs Jake Phillips and family series out of Mr and Mrs Sam Winters visit ed their daughter Mrs Kenneth Burnett and family of Lindsay ri day and spent the night with them Jackson spent Saturday in Oklahoma City with his daughter Mrs Marie Madron who'ls under going treatment at University Hos pital EC and the representatives other schools were also hon at a special luncheon on the campus Mr and Mrs Harold Cranford and son Dennis of Maud spent Tuesday here with Mrs parents Mr and Mrs Sam Win ters Mr and Mrs Luther Wilson were in Healdton Sunday where they were guests of their son and daugh ter in law Mr and Mrs Sheldon Wilson It was their first visit with the young people since they had established a home there follow ing their recent marriage sandwich in a little visiting from time to time according to Mrs Dearman (Editor's note: Yep wo men's work is never done! Lucky thing they can visit while they wash dishes! BIBLE SCHOOL CLINIC Those from ittstown attending the two day Vacation Bible School Clinic at the irst Baptist Church of Ada last week were Rev and Mrs Tom Parrish Mrs Henry Clampitt Mrs Dowell Stanford Mrs Ruby lynn Mrs Albert Wil son and Mrs Ben Weaver Tues day Rev Parrish brought a mes sage Cares for Little Child ren" Mrs Holt Sodeman of Stone wall was leader of the clinic and a color film of the Stonewall Bible School of 1953 was shown Confer ences for each department of the school were held Mrs Wilson was the" leader in' the Primary work and Mrs Weaver served as secre tary Mrs Kenneth Dearman compli mented her daughter Carol with a party at their home southwest of ittstown'oh Tuesday' March 16 The event marking Carol's sixth birthday was at 2 or en lertaintncat they played games and worked puTSWfct After the guests sang Birthday" to Carol and she open ed her gifts refreshments of orange birthday cake ice cream' and fruit punch were served to Kathryn Hun ter Linda Large Jean Ann Sim mons and Johnny Simmons of Ada Joe Nowlin ayettesville Ark and Ruth Ann Omohundro of Texhoma Also present were Carol's grand mother Mrs I Pollock and her aunt Mrs Jesse Collins both of Roff Mrs Large Mrs Clyde Simmons and Mrs Paul Wil son MrLISH SENIOR PLAY The McLish' Senior Class will pre sent their annual three act play "Pleased Ta Meetcha" on Thurs day evening April 1 at 8:00 in the high school auditorium The play a comedy mystery by Bcr Mr and Mrs Omohundro Steve Ruth Ann and Bruce were guests of her sister Mrs James Hunter and family most of last week They arrived Sunday re mained until Wednesday and went on to Hugo to visit her father Mr John Grove They stopped over again for a couple of days before leaving for their home at Texhoma Saturday Cottage prayer meeting services worn hold TitPcdqv rtichf nf thic week in the homes of Mr and Mrs 0 Crass and Mr and Mrs Lu ther Wilson in preparation for the revival which will begin at the irst i Baptist Church April 4 Next Tucs day prayer meetings will be held in the homes of Mr and Mrs Her the team throughout highschool The group irom from ored OBU Joe Stanford celebrated his six teenth birthday Monday March 22 To assist in making it a memorable ocasion his parents Mr and Mrs Joe Stanford and grandparents Mr and Mrs Dowell Stanford enter tained jointly with a party in his honor The event which was a com plete surprise to Joe was held at 7:30 in the den of the spac ious and lovely ranch home of his grandparents south and west of ittstown A number of games were played under the direction of Mrs Velton Stanford and Miss La Juana Kiser after which the hon oree opened his gifts The scene then shifted to the dining room Color pictures were made and the guests seranaded the honoree with the as he made his wish and blew out the sixteen candles on the huge handsomely decorated cake Other pictures of the activities were made throughout the evening Refreshments ice cream sundaes and cokes were served to Misses Coye Uhlich Donna Ste venson Janelie Lackey Darlene Boydstun Gail Harden Nola Bar rick Judy Vincent La Juana Kis er Preston Timmons Raymond Harrison" Larry Howard Lackey Lee Roy Wigley Donny Skeith 'Jerry Brents Eldon linn Don Mitchusson rank Patton John Snyder Jim Boydstun Duane Guests in the home of Mr andl Mr and Mrs Travis Maj ws and Mrs Wigley overnight riday) Mike and Mr and Mrs Jesse Col were their daughter Barbara East 1 lins of Muskogee were Saturday Central student and two of her visitors in the home of Mr and classmates Miss Jackie Lou Ash Mrs Kenneth Dearman and Carol ley Stratford and Miss Delores i The men dehorned cattle while the Durbin Henryetta women folk mostly cooked and Saturday Mrs Wigley took a i washed dishes but did manage to exi'zoiiw of i cm inmi uie VUUfge HI eluding her daughter and guests to Shawnee The group of 11 girls from EC representing the Women's Recreation Association participat ed in a basketball tournament at Oklahoma Baptist University Each team playing a three game The EC group took two three of theiii games Miss Wiglej was a' star McLish girl's basketball nard Chichester is under the dir ection of Mrs Jamar Included in the cast are: Kathy Stevenson Dale Wyche Nell Bili ingsly Duane Ryan Dorothy Mar tin Joe Howell John Durant Leo nard Jumper Richard Osborn Ed na Snell Ruth Logan and Jim Boyd stun Prompter is Claudine Ross and Buddy McElroy will be stage man ager Leia Mae Wyche is chairman of the ticket sales and publicity is handled by Vestel Cole Ushers are: rankie Johnson Leia Mae Wyche and Carole Blan kenship Jerry Harlin will provide the interlude music A special mat inee will be presented for the stu dent body on Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 Mrs Wigley and Barbara joined Mr Wigley and Butch at Murray Lodge Sunday afternoon where they attended the banquet for the members of the Southern Oklahoma Angus Breeders Associa tion Also attending the banquet were Carlton Corbin and son Bill Mrs Corbin and daughter Virginia Stillwater student were in Ardmore Monday where they joined Mr Corbin and Bill and attended the Angus Breeders' show and sale Virginia showed her own steer at the event which attracts hundreds of Angus breed ers annually from all over this half of the state After the show she caught a ride back to Stillwater with friends Mrs Corbin who helped clerk the sale and Bill came home Tuesday morning in time for him to make his 9 o'clock class Corbin and Wigley returned later the day SEEN AND HEARD Mrs Corbin and Mary stormed off in Shawnee en route to Stillwater for the weekend and attended the basketball games at Saturday Tonv's team from won all three of their games Only one other team from Phillips Uii versity eoualled this Tony was a star player at McLish during hfcr four years of high school The A Davises are looking eagerly for April to arrive Their son Richard who is with the Navy based at Guam will be home on leave Linda Large pre sented a tap dance number at the Red Cross benefit show at Latta recently It seems that everyone except the Snyders not only has new cars but also new TV's I came to that conclusion while driving around the other evening The Carter camp barring one or two possible exceptions is a solid network of TV aerials Blackie and Mrs Lee observed their 36th wedding anniversary aitd Chit By MARTHA MOTE HDA Arts and Crafts Workshop Monday March 29 home demon stration club leaders will meetjor a training meeting on Arts and Crafts The training meeting will begin at 1:30 Three separate demonstration will be given Group I leaders will study cos tume decorating The group will meet in the county commissioner's room second floor of the county courthouse Group II meets at the City Hall Women in this group will study textile painting Group HI also meets at the City Hall This demonstration will be on embroidery Swedish embroid ery and other stitches will be shown Leaders who meet in this group should bring a piece of huck towel ing number 5 pearl cotton thread and a large needle that will carry the thread for the Swedish' em broidery Some of the local stores have these large needles in stock or the other embroidery stitches bring a pmee of material to work on embroidery thread needle and hoops Each home demonstration club should be represented by three women to study these demonstra tions Leaders will give the demonstra tions at April home demonstration club meetings 4 II Club Health Contest Arrangements have been made with Doctor Ray Northrip acting city county health doctor to give physical examinations to 4 club members entering the health con test The examinations will be given on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:00 4 clubs who should have their health entrants in for their exami nations Tuesday March 30 are: Jesse Latta Homer Happyland and Kallihoma Health entrants who failed to get their physical examinations on Tuesday March 23 or Thursday March 25 should make arrange ments to come in on one of the other specified dates 4 Share The un estival: The 4 Share the un estival will be held riday March 26 at the Byng highschool auditorium The program will begin at 7:30 Everyone is invited Home Demonstration Club Schedule MIDLAND By MRS CHRIS PEDERSEN Visitors in the' Chris Pedersen home Sunday were Mr and Mrs Webb lorence Ana Connie Shirley and Judy of Ada Mr and Mrs Griffiths of Ada loyd Burke of Summers Chapel Mrs Bill Griffiths Belinda and Barbara of Gaar Corner Mr and Mrs Wil lis Pollock lorence Ann Carolyn Sue and Craigie of Ada Mr and Mrs Paul Teel and Judy of Ada were recent visitors in the McConnell home Ronald Kelly a sixth grade stu dent at Vanoss got a tooth knocked loose and a cut lip while watching a baseball game at school last week Mrs Chris Pedersen Sherry Sheila and Sonja spent the weekend with her mother Mrs Joe Ben nett of Bebee SEEN: Mr and Mrs George Sprague as busy as beavers plant ing flowers and shrubs Saturday Your correspondent had news that her three year old nephew Dennis Raymond Stone was suf fering from rheumatic fever Summers Chapel By MRS IL LIGHT Mr and Mrs George Wright vis ited his site Mrs Robert Corouth ern Poteau Monday she has un dergone surgery Devereaux Rutledge Shawnee visited his aunt Mrs Josie Lynch riday and also his sister Mrs armer and Mr armer Johnie Tucker Sill spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Rance Tucker Johnie is in the armed services Miss Evelyn Lance Oklahoma Ciyt has purchased a new car and she drove it down Saturday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs A Lance returning Sunday afternoon Miss Reba Little a friend from Oklahoma City accompanied her Mr and Mrs Leo Nelson and daughters Mrs LaVonne Cosper Janie Lou and Shirley went Sun day to meet husband Cosper who is stationed at Camp Chaffee They all gathered at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Cosper Allen Aubra Moore Edmond visited his parents Mr and Mrs Otto Moore over the weekend Mrs Ray Northam and son Han dell Joe Wichita Kan visited parents Mr and Mrs Northam oveb the weekend Ray is playing baseball with the Boeing team' and had to play a game Hope they had luck" BETTER Mr and Mrs Lee Hill and son Roland Dallas spent Saturday night with his aunt Mrs Josie Lynch Mrs Lynch is doing nicely She was quite ill for several days but everyone is glad she is now Improving The mumps are on a rampage In this community lately Mrs Aubra Rutherfogd has been ill with the mumps for the past two weeks but she is recuperating nicely Regardless of yourbuild ing requirements we can be of help We carry a complete line of quality materials are familiar with building regula tions and financing pro cedures Discuss your plans with us IRST I Wilhjgiig H8NRENME Tuesday 23rd Elza Boydstun is an instructor at Camp Chaffee Jo Dene Stanford did NOT' have the mumps Sharon Mc Craw 8th grade student is suffer ing from a slight nervous condi tion but is able to attend classes Bill Corbin's steer placed 10th in the Junior Steer Show in the Livestick Show in Oklahoma City recently It topped the market next market next day at 28 cents per pound He also rated a write up in the Livestock News for the clever manner of showing his ani mal (Editor's note: We're curious Mrs Corbin and Mary were guests of her parents Mr riday April 2 Colbert club will meet with Mrs Balthrop at 6:30 riday April 2 rancis club meets 4 Club Schedule Thursday April 1 Latta 10:00 a Homer 1:00 riday April 2 rancis 9:00 a Cedar Grove 10:45 a Greater returns for amount in vested Ada NEWS Want Ads and Mrs Walton of Stillwater for the weekend and attended the Pi Beta Phi initiation and banquet at Sunday afternoon Vir ginia Corbin was initiated at the ceremonies If I Hi I Garage Doors Paints Sidings Screens Awnings Insulation All Types Roll and Shingle Roofing Walk and Driveway Repairs OUTDOOR DOINGS for Summer Comfort Beauty 9 yourhome7 air weather is the ideal time for many fix up jobs that bring year around com fort and fresh attractive appearance Save labor and money by doing them tiou! New roof new siding both are timely improvements for enduring beauty property protection comfort Insulate now! to keep your house cool all summer (and warmer all win ter with less fuel) Lining for your garage and an over head door This is the best time of year for ex terior painting protective beauty Ask for estimates on the work vou have in mind ences SUDDEN SERVICE SINCE 1898 HOME OWNED HOME OPERATED HA TITLE I HOME REPAIR LOANS NOTHING DOWN 36 MONTHS TO PAY ARM AUCTION SALE PRICE PLACE THURSDAY APRIL 1 10 A Mile south Pleasant Hill School 2 miles east mile 4 miles west and i miles north Sotnewall CATTLE 1 Registered Angus Bull 1 6 Black Angus Cows some with calves 14 Black Angus Steers and Heifers Milk Cows 1 Registered Hereford Bull 8 Whiteface Cows ALL CATTLE UNDER 5 YEARS AGE' Wagons cultivating tools cattle sprayer electric brooder harness other tools 2 Room House to be moved Bedroom Suite Refrigerator Good tractor with equipment including hay baler to be sold separately WHITEY WILBURN AUCTIONEER Lunch Served by risco Club Women SATISACTION In financing the purchase of a new car comes from getting a finance plan which suits your particular needs That's the kind we provide for our customers HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE AVAILABLE ON YOUR LOAN Come in any time for friendly confidential service you'll readily rprv appreciate GENERAL ACCEPTANCE CO NOW LOCATED AT 300 MAIN PHONE 508.

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