The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-28
Three Hundred Members Of Farm
Clubs Will Be Guests Of
Commercial Bureau in
Chickasha Aug. 4
STATE LEADERS TO
ADDRESS THEM
Program Made Out Includes Free
Bathing, Ball Games and Shows
for Grady County Boys
and Girls

Three hundred boys and girls Of
Grady county with their fathers and
mothers will be the guests of the
Grady County Commercial and Farm
bureau on August 4. according to plans
already completed by J. C. Good, pres
ident of the bureau. and o. C. Cooper.
county farm agent in charge of the
federal agricultural work among boys
and girls in Grady county.
The boys and girls viii be the men,
bers of the corn, cotton, kafir, hog.
poultry, canning and better bread
clubs, who will be the guests OF tha
county for a day. with every possible
entertainment furnished free and with
the leaders of the state in county club
work here to talk to them on how to
continue in their work OF bringing
Grady county to the front.
The county clubs in this county
now have total membership of $685."
Mr.. Cooper said this morning. @and we
want to get them all together in order
to add spirit to the work, to give them
helpful hints and words OF encourage.
ment from the leaders in federal work
for the state. and to show them that
the county and the state are watching
them and depending upon them to
show the results. of scientific agricul-
turai methods"
Miss Emma Chandler in charge OF
all the work in Oklahoma among the
girls, will be here. probably to give
an exhibition in canning for the girls
and their mothers and to talk to them
on the making of better bread and the
raising of better poultry. John e.
Swain. assistant state farm agent.
will also be here and he will talk to
the boys and their fathers on just how
to apply scientific methods to the
raising of corn. kafir and cotton. and
to the feeding of hogs.
w. D. Bentley of saltwater. who is
the head man for the state OF Oklaho-
ma, in all the state and federal county
club work. may even be here to SPEAK
to Grady county boys and to look over
the methods being employed in this
section to Introduce better agricultural
methods into the farming districts.
Then just to show the boys and
girls of Grady county that the scien-
tific agriculture man thinks OF play
and pleasure for the boys aud girls as
well as careful and systematic wosk
the farm bureau has arranged for an
afternoon of amusement which will in
clude an hours bathing at Shanoau
Springs, where the boys will find
spring board as good as they ever dive
from into the pasture creek Then
will come visit to the picture thea
ters of the city, the managers OF
which will make special attempt to
bring pictures that will both amuse
and instruct. and after that a ball
game between two teams OF boys TO
| be chosen by some method to be de-
vised later
| But before the regular program be-
gins. all the SOS boys and girls that
can get here with their friends and
their parents will eat dinner out un-
der the shade of Shanoan Springs
trees, lunches to be spread from bas-
kets brought by the boys and girls
and spread and served by the ladies'
of Chickasha, who will make what
ever additions to the menu they de-
eide are necessary to give the club
members a feed they will remember
until time for another rally day GENES.
These baskets OF lunch constitute all
that the boys and girls viii be asked
to furnish toward the day OF enter
tainment, amusement and instruction,
everything else being given to them
free as guests of Grady county's mer-
chants, farmers and business men.