The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-09

week Of the fair President Moore
requested ME 20 keep, the building
open sundays i possible. and though
some we're closed on that day. was
only too glad 20 comply with his re-
quest. The entire state Of Oklahoma
was most loyal DO sending newspapers
and periodicals Of interest and these
were much enjoyed by all. Many
callers were happily surprised 10
learn Of the wonderful advancement
We have made within the past few
years, and especially in the oil dis
tricts.
We had several thousand feet of
picture film, a most effective medium
Of advertising that were shown in Tie
hall Of congress, a palace on the
grounds and later at Filmland on the
Zone. These are the most attractive
moving picture theatres at the expo
sition. The films were of our state
schools. the ground breaking for The
state capitol building, our wonderful
mineral and agricultural resources
and all our state and civic institu-
tions and industries. and as there
were 100000 paid admissions 10
the exposition, it will be readily seen
that advantages to the state of Okla
homa were very great
l succeeded in having our state given
splendid feature stories in three his
tories of the exposition. These books
will be sent all over the world and
will be Of great importance 70 Us.
One item of great interest was The
bale OF cotton sent me by D. =. Welch
Of Chattanooga, Oklahoma. This was
by far the best and most attractive
bale of cotton on the grounds and
il attracted the attention Of .hous-
ands. | was indeed glad to give any
information I could regarding Il 10 the
callers, as many had never seen cot.
ton in its natural state before.
We had the only large displ'y Of
hand-painted wild flowers at the eX-
position and work as was all of our
arU was said by many foreign art
critics to be splendidly executed. And
many visitors would say after exam
ining our pictures and needlework,
81 have a different opinion of Okla
homa since visiting this building.
| always responded to the calls of
the exposition officials to do for Okla
homa what other states and countries
were doing, except to entertain So
cially. This | was Obliged to decline,
as | was using my own funds TO pro-
mote the states welfare and had TO
curtail as much as | possibly could.
only in pure advertising manner
and tried to make up for such curtail-
ment by showing all callers hospi-
tality and kindness. kept the word
Oklahoma" in the daily newspapers,
and all the official programmes from
my arrival in San Francisco on April
to December I, the closing day.
was made chairman of the execu-
tive committee in the organization
known as the association of hostesses
of the Panama-Pacifc international
Exposition of 1915. was most cor
daily treated at all times by the
commissioners of the fair and by the
woman's board, who invited me to be
their honor guest at their last re-
ception At all times and on all oc
casions | received the most courte-
Gus treatment by the foreign and state
commissioners and the hostesses.
1t was with regret that | left these
good people, who compose the citizen
ship of one of the grandest cities in
the world, that today has lost much
of its beauty by the closing of the
great exposition.
| was the only woman commissioner
who had the honor OF an invitation to
occupy a seat on the rostrum with
President Moore during the closing
exercises.
From many letters of commenda-
tion sent me by officials Of the expo
sition and of the city Of San Fran
cisco, ! have selected two, copies of
which you will find next attached.
In closing | will say that | have
done my best to place our state
where it righ.fully belongs in the
eyes Of the world, and hope that |