The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-09-04
Merry-Co-Round Being Set Up and
Other Arrangements Made tor
Years Biggest CeIebra-
tion Monday
PROGRAM BEGINS
1890 In MORNING
lime Will Be Spent in Music, Speak
ing and Contests; Everything
in City Closed for the
Occasion

The merry-go-round is here the cat
rack and the doll rack and all the rest
OF the racks" are being erected, com
mittess are busy selecting judges for
the different contests and everything
else is moving along in slightly salts.
factory style for the Labor Day cele-
bration to be held at Shanoan Springs
Monday.
Practically no businesa will be car.
ried on in the city during the day.
Stores, shops, banks and other houses
will be closed and men will attend the
big celebration at the park or little
picnics being organized for trips to the
river.
The program will be carried out ex-
actly as announced by the committee
a week ago, unless something goes
wrong between now and Monday morn
ing, those at the head of the work oe-
clare. I. v Long was at the park all
day today locating concession men and
attending to other details of the work
at Shanoan Springs.
The two chief addresses of the day
are to be given by President @ WI
Austin of the college and s. o. DAVIS
Of Oklahoma City. the latter of whom
will speak on Organized Labor" All
three of the political parties we're in
vited to have speakers on the grounds
to tell the laboring men "Why Labor
Should Vote for the Party | Repre-
sent" 1t is rot yet known whether or
not all will be represented, the com.
mittee states
The program for the day will begin
at 10: 80, when the Chickasha band will.
give its first concert President Aus
tin will talk at IL o'clock, then music
will again follow.
s. o. DAVIS. the Oklahoma City
speaker, will start off the afternoon
program with his address on the or.
ganization of laboring men. He viii
| be followed by the Chickasha boys and
| girls who have been entered in the
Grafton conest, in which $15 in prizes
is to be given to boys and girls under
l8 years of age for papers on Organ
lied Labor" But four names had
been formally entered with the com.
mittee up to this morning. They were
Miss Dorothy Belcher, Cecil Erwin
| Gulihur, Miss Clarice Tatman and Har-
din Osborne. Entries may be made
up to Monday morning.
Following the first speech by a po'
litical speaker. the old fiddlers of the
section will contest for honors and
prizes of SIS and SO. Entries in this
contest are to be received up to the
time the actual contest begins. the
committee stated this morning.
After other political speakers tel
the picnicers why thy should vots
their particular tickets, the real con
ltests of the celebration will begin witt
a swimming race for ladies, with NJ
limit on age Following will come al
the usual celebration contests, swim
ming race for boys under is years o
sge, a potato race for the kids, ia
mans race, a tug'o-war for which tn
!" prize will be box of union made c
gars. and three-legged race.
Postmaster Barefoot announces tha
the general delivery window and th
money order window win be ope
from 9 O'Clock to l0:so There will
y one delivery in the city but none
i the country. Mail will be received
o the postoffice, distributed and dl
patched as usual.