The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-09-15
Magnificent Display Made at Fair Grounds
by Schools Of City and Of
Grady County
TELLS THE TALE OF
BIG ACHIEVEMENT
Never Has Showing at Free FAIR Been
Excelled by Educational Display
Of Former Years


One of the most meritorious efforts
which have been directed toward max.
Ing the 1916 fair a success is that
which resulted in an educational dis
play far superior to that Of last year
and equal to any that has ever been
assembled in the county. Under the
immediate direction of Miss Zinn, as
sistant county superintendent, the best
of order and system was maintained
throughout the arrangement of the ex.
hibits and no time was lost nor him
drance offered to the public during the
placing of the contributions from the
various schools and districts.
Schools Come in Bodies.
School life contributed materially
to the gaiety of the occasion today
when the scholarship of several coun-
ty schools arrived enmasse, headed by
the teachers, to see the many curious
things which the big tents offered.
Practically all of the sixty-eight pu-
pills of the Gilbert school, headed by
the teachers, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Dun
nell, arrived about noon in body and
made things merry in the interesting
textile tent, joining with the entire at
tendance Of Union Hill in an inspec.
tions OF the grounds.
Tie verden delegation, headed BY
A. M. Mccullough, arrived in full force
today, while the scholarship Of Amber
and Minco will arrive tomorrow
The village schools represented are
Amber, Minco, Verden and Tuttle
Two-room Schools.
The two-room schools are Union
Hill, Lucille and Gilbert The Union
Hill exhibit is in charge of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. L. Killian, the Lucille display
in charge of Mrs. Effie Bateman ana
Miss Vivian Noyes, Amber is repre-
sented by A. e. Wickzer,. Minco by
j. w. Morgan, Verden by A. M. Nc
Cullough and Tuttle by A. c. Floyd.
OF the one-room schools represented
at the fair the splendid work in the
Freeman school, which won the loving
cup last year, was done last year un.
der the leadership Of Miss Anna Mae
Dempsey last year The Oak Grove
school booth was in charge Of Miss
Ruth Smith
The South Ward school display from
Chickasha is in charge of John H Dun
can and the West Ward of Mrs,
Charles Rogers "a
Meritorlous Displays.
While the entire display reflects
credit on the school systems Of Grady
county, individual contributions which
form component parts of the exhibits
attract attention. In the Minco booth
the yarn and paper weavings are espe-
cially good as is the graphite work.
A piece OF crochet work executed BY
little Lucille Rucker the five-year-old
daughter OF Undersheriff Rucker, at
traeted the attention of many. The
little miss had decided. after seeing
her mother crochet, to make piece
''for grandma The present never
reached grandma, however, for, at
tracing the attention Of the leaders
Of the town fair, it was placed on ex-
hibition there and was later brought
to the Minco booth here.
The drawings in geometry in the
Amber collection are unusually gooi
while the mudhouse constructed b.
the primary department of the South
Ward school and the raffia baskets
made by the third grade are intensely
al
A pointer for economical house
wives is furnished by the Union Hill
school which. at a cost of p cents let.
shows a serviceable fireless cooker
made of asbestos, excelsior and
wooden bucket.
Mothers and children were espe-
ciaIy pleased with the woven ham
mock and dolls and the paper cuttings =
at the West Ward building booth.
while the Gilbert canning and cooking /
exhibit was OF exceptional merit The |
Lucille display is not a large one but
The manual training work and the EN-. 1