The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-08
SALTWATER TO PROVIDE
HOME CROWN DINNER
VISITING EDITORS TO BE GIVEN
VARIED ENTERTAINMENT IN
PAYNE COUNTY
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Special to Daily Leader.
saltwater Okla, May 7 7--Oklaho-
ma farm products are to have their
inning at a dinner to be served mem
bers of the Oklahoma Press IA
tion when they visit A. & NJ. College
May .. The editors are to come to
saltwater by special train following
the annual business session at Guth
i'ie, May 7 and s, and the chief fea-
ture Of entertainment at the college
town will be a GROWN IN OKLAiIO-
MA dinner.
From soup to cigars, every item on
the elaborate menu is TO be Oklaho-
ma product Even the table salt is
committee is now securing Payne
county for spring broilers OF proper
size and fitness and scientifically
bred and scientifically fed steer, n
baby calf from the college herds, Is
placidly awaiting the time when he IS
to be slaughtered for the glory of
oklahoma beef
From many sections OF the state
the articles for this menu are being
| IEdlHtINu4 sNlADltlt idD lfihHAA3'A
straw berries; DulIcan, famed as a
peanut center, is furnishing that pro-
duct, big milling company of FL
Reno is sending specially prepareo
| flour for hot rolls, and a local mill
Is grinding feterta meal for the OK
lahoma brown bread All available
space in the college greenhouse. not
taken up by experimental work, Is
being employed to force garden
truck. The abnormally late spring
this year makes it difficult to obtain
much Of the stuff ordinarily matur-
ed out doors by May 3
Even the Mattresses at this dinner
are to be Oklahoma product. Thirty
pretty girls from the Domestic Sci
ence classes of the college have vol
unteered to serve the dinner. The
college dining hall, where meals are
regularly served to students at ll2he
meal. is to he used for the dinner
This Is to be the first attempt ey-
or made IN Oklahoma to put on am
ner OF strictly Oklahoma grown pro-
duets. The idea has quickly gained
friends and from every part OF the
state has come endorsements OF the
movement. The A. a M. College
seeks to show by this dinner that u
is possible to eat grown in Oklaho-
ma foods just the same as 1t Is &c
use made in oklahoma goods. Tht
added prosperity to the state tha'
would follow the adoption Of thi'
movement by oklahoma hotels an'
restaurants is easy to see OKla'
| homa folks in many towns OF the
state will be eating Texas grown gar
4 den products cit the same time th'
editors are dining on Oklahoma pro-
ducts at saltwater.
Some Of the items on the menu VIII
be new to many OF the visitors as
food products, for instance there If
oklahoma brown bread made from
feterita meal and containing llber-
al quantity Of cottonseed meal FOR
wears chemists at Oklahoma a. VI
college have been proceeding on the
theory that the grain sorghums ann
cottonseed are valuable for the am
uer table as well as the feed lot ana
these facts are now becoming gen
orally recognized. Peanuts usually
eaten only as purchased IRON tne
the street corner roasters, VIII Dc
served at this dinner as regular
item Of food
The dairy products served at tnls
dinner win come from the W.
college creamery, College made hut,
fer has been shipped by parcel posi-
aD over the United States. and col
lore made checses are widely popular
IN oklahoma. Tho ice cream to pc
! eerved will be made by students VINO
are taught in the college creamery
to m AXE ice cream according 10 SCI
entific standard
OF course there win be something
to drink and this too. VIII be Ok
lahoma product Lest someone saouiu
ret excited and think the prohibition
laws are being violated we should
probably state that the drink to &c
served at this dinner bears the un-
qualified endorsement OF w }. Bryan
and Josephus Daniels.
There are several items on INC
menu that the dinner committee IS
finding difficulty in obtaining. Wnlle
Oklahcra grows good celery there
seems to be very little OF this pro-
duet now in the state. The same Is
true of sweet potatoes, practically All
of the l9li crop having been market
cd or used for seed Efforts have
been made to get a quantity OF sugar
made from Oklahoma beeis but 10
date the dinner comuittee has tcund
no manufactury in this state II any
reader knows where the committee
could find these items within the
state he will confer a favor by writ
ing the A. & VI. College at saltwater
Reasonable prices will be paid on an
those items