The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-09-04
Workmen BuFFfu utting Shanoan
Springs in Order for Coming
of Many Farm Exhibits
Of County.
REGISTERED STOCK TO
BE ONE OF FEATURES
Schools to Have Big Booth; En-
tire Grady Educational Sys-
tenn to have Part in Form
ing Display.

f~a7ations for a Grady county
free fair are about to come to a
head and by the last Of the week
Shanoan Springs park will be set
for an annual farm exhibit which in
some respects will he the best ever
staged here, accA ling to an an
nouncement issued yesterday by j.
w Kaiser, secretary of the fair
board. Cleaning up the buildings fsr
the agricultural show and building
pens to accommodate registered
stock that is already being entered
began early this week and the final
touches will be added in the next
four days, Mr. Kaiser states
in spite of the fact that the major
ity Of farms in Grady county have
been hard hit by continued drouth
and hot winds, the fair secretary
points out the fact that what>SI7as
been lost to the display in this par
ticular viii be more than made up ii.
improvements over previous years
that have been made in other depart
ments.
More registered fine stock than
has been listed here at any previous
season will be on tap when the show
breaks next Monday. reservations al
ready made with the fair secretary
indicate Stock pens that were al.
ready built at the fair site will be
used and in addition to that other
quarters fog~cattle pens are being
constructed this week
Shorthorns and Holstein cattle
will head the lists in that depart.
ment this year, members Of the fair
board think. Directors of the stock
raisers association dealing in the
breeding Of both these yarities have
spoken for pens in advance and
breeders travelling with their displays
throughout all the southwestern part
Of the country have dated Chickasha
for an appearance. Thirty-fiye pens
have been put up in the park for the
special accommodation Of registered
hogs and full displays Of fine horses
and mules will be made up before
Monday.
If agricultural exhibits now being
collected by the county farm agent
may be used as an indication of what
will appear in the farm products de
partment, Grady county may lay
claims to first place at the state
fair this fall, Mr.. Owens believes
Though the showing in a few grains
OIL necessarily be short, a general
collection that will rank with the
products from any other dry county
in the ,state has been brought to
gether Rush Springs, where town
ship and district fairs have alread!
been held, viii furnish the create
| part of the corn, kaffir corn, fet
erita and cane, and late feed crop
will be labeled from the southern par
Of the county The northern part 0
the county will enter wheat AM
oats and other products that ra
short in other sections Parts of tn
buildings already on the ground
will be used for the farm sample
display
Schools and the educational syi
= ten of the county will be given bi
place on the fair program this fal
it was decided at the last meetin
, of the fair association. Every schor
district in the county besides IL
r city schools will contribute materia
to be used in arranging the educ
r. tional section, county superinte
S dent NJ. H. Sheppard announced {
S day. All of the bath houses at Sh
r moan Springs have been turned ov
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