The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-03-03

vention city. The visitors wore
gold colored buttons and gold and
black bands around their arms. In
scribed on the button was anna
rillo-1915.'
Amarillo Busy.
After making preliminary greet
ings the delegation, accompanied by
the Amarillo band, made the flag
decorated streets musical. Business
houses, theaters, newspaper offices
and public offices were given spec
ial notice in the form OF 'sere-
| nades' The Amarillo boosters COM
menced early to argue for the mer-
its OF their city for the next con-
vention. A large canvas, showing
map Of the Panhandle country,
was exhibited in the Lee-Huckins.
The map showed Amarillo as the
exact center of the territory en-
braced by the Stockmen's conven-
ton. 1t was contended that more
good could he accomplished by hav-
ing the gathering in central city
than in a city to one side,
The Panhandle Crowd.
Besides delegates actually engag-
ed in the stock raising industry,
many public officials of the city
and merchants accompanied the
Amarillo crowd. J. n. Beasley,
mayor under the new commission
form OF government, which went in
| to operation in January, this year
marched with the band through the
streets Monday morning. Lee Biv-
ems, one of the city commissioners
and treasurer of the Panhandle
southwestern Cattle Rsisers' asso-
ciation, also was in the parade
but here is the real leader OF
the delegation" said Mayor Beas-
ley, introducing Sam Issacs, mer-
chant of Amarillo. And the rest OF
the delegation voted aye"
Others from Amarillo We're Dr. A.
f. Lumpkin, ]. w. Cheney, of the
Daily Panhandle, w. F. Naber, man
ager of the Texas Hide and Wool
company, J. s. Avery, cattle dealer
and r. G. Thompson.
eI Paso Doings.
The FL Paso delegation was no
less emphatic than Amarillo in COM
mencing early to wage the fight for
the next convention. The I'll Paso
delegates wore miniature Mexican
hats as badges. Attached to the
hats We're two stringers of gold rib
bon thread-"Prod for FL Paso."
While the FL Paso and Amarillo
delegates comprised by far the ma
jority of delegates who had arriv-
ed Monday, other cities were also
represented The members of the
| association, as soon as they had
registered, were given a card TO pin
on the coat which read Il am
(name). Who in the (picture OF a
deviD are you?' AS the visitors
registered they We're also given a
coupon book which entities the
holder to- admission to all the en-
tertainments to be given.
A feature of the entertainments
Monday was the appearance of the
25- piece Mexican band from FL
Paso. Just before noon The band
gave a concert in the Lee Huclins
hotel. The Mexicans attracted much
attention and their music was
loudly cheered
The street decorations Monday
showed the climax Of the efforts of
the decoration committee to make
Oklahoma City the Flag City"
Twenty-Five blocks of streets in
the downtown districts were deco
rated with 500 large Tags. The
flags were hung on wires across
the street.
plI llp hNNOl dilpil0 ulu NV sup
at the streets. Every business
house and nearly every residence
in the city waved an American rag
The spirit penetrated the jails and
court rooms of the city. Al the
court house flag waved above the
head of every judge. The city and
county jails were also decorated.
The decoration scheme at the stock
yards was just as elaborate, if not
more so, than downtown. Both
packing plants, the stock yards ex
change, the mule market, and the
business houses in Packingtown
were almost a solii mass or red
white and blue.
Streets are Jammed.
At noon Monday the streets I'M
front of the headquarters at the
ep- HuckinS and the lobby had