Arizona republican., 1919-10-26
ARIZONA COTTON CARNIVAL ENDS;
 |S B|C SUCCESS
Rain on Last Day Fails to Disrupt Pro gra m and Crowds Fill Streets; Auto Parade is Last-Day Fea- ture

each other good humOredly along the | walks of the business section. In the afternoon a brisk shower sent them scurrying for shelter, while W. R. Stewart with a megaphone directed the people to the Knights of Pythfas hall, where band concert kept them entertained until the sky cleared again.
 Shortly after II o'clock the auto pa rade took place, and vhile not so many cars were in line as had been prom ised, most of those engaging in the pa rade were most beautifully decorated, while others presented unique and or iginal cotton plantation scenes.
 The parade was led by the band, followed by the new s11,000 fire truck. After these came a display of Ford cars and trucks with trailers, then line of Dodge autos, some of them fes- tooned in the national colors. The decorated automobiles were next in line, one containing a lot of little girls and bearing the legend. ''Mesa's Best Products" Another auto, filled with the tiny kindergarten pupils of Mrs. Musette Brown and decorated in long staple lint cotton, was an inter esting feature.
 Features of Parade
 The O. $. Stapley company had an old d-fashioned stage coach, calling at tention to the Majestic ranges, and with Happy handling the reins, his ebony countenance showing forth his enjoyment of the situation. Other cars with stalks of cotton upright and | little colored folk standing in their midst attracted attention, one being 1 particularly unique in that a little girl was driving a pair of rabbits ingeni- ously attached in front of the car and | apparently loping along the ground while Elmer Coe, the driver of the ma
 chine, was hidden from public view. One auto, showing cotton scene with portly negro and his still more
 portly wife, came along. These two were seated on high platform in the rear and it was only when the ever present smile of Fred Bracket of the A. & B. Grocery company broke
 through the lamp black that the crowd recognized in him the colored nanny,
 his companion being Insurance Solici-
 tor Rice.
 Six Prizes Awarded
 Six prizes were awarded, falling to cars numbers 20, ,, 10, 13, Is and 2S.
 First prize fell to number 20, Miss
 Lucia Bowen and Miss Clark: the oth-
 CTS were as in the order given, Elmer T Coe, second; Mrs. c. c. Jarrett, third
 Mrs. Musette Brown. fifth. The other
 names are not available, as the owners
 disappeared after the parade and the
 judges had made their decisions solely
 by numbers. The judges were Mrs
 Thomas Campbell, Mrs. W. G. DeVore
 Mrs. c. F. Price, Dr. A. J. Chandler
 Rev. Francis Bloy and Principal E. B
 Cordell
 Shortly after the noon hour came
 the bicycle races. the crowd lining ur at 1:45 for the finish of the Phoenix Mesa race. The boys came over the
 tape in the following order: No. 6 Ivan, 52 minutes; No. 8, Freeman
 54l4; No. 1, Paisley. 56; No. g, Sterns
 571s; No. 3, Noack, 5S; No. :, Cronin 5SE; No. 4, Rezlyan, 59. The frs five of these won prizes. There were nine entrants at Phoenix. In the short races Norman Stoddard wor first in the 440-yard dash, and Theont , Pomeroy in the 660-yard event. Last Session of Cotton Congress
 The last session of the Arizona cot ton congress was held in the Knight. l of Pythias hall yesterday afternoon with President Cummard in the chair 1 E. F. Parker, who was to speak or "Co-operation" was unable to be pres l ent, and Dr. J. Bernard Nelson bein. called on, addressed the gathering il a most convincing manner as to th, g necessity of the closest co-operatiol
 in all things pertaining to the success
 ful growing and marketing of cotton [ M. P. Smith spoke on Cotton Con I signment' B. E. Marks discusse- :. Broadening the Market for Arizon. t Egyptian Cotton," and took occasio d in the course of his address to speal Q in appreciative terms of the wor1 done by Dwight B. Heard at the Ney S Orleans cotton congress recently held
 A feature of the second day was tn
 playing of the Indian school band iron ! Phoenix. With twenty-six pieces. un : der the direction of Band Leader J Il R. Green, it was the center of attrac tion during the morning and after = noon.
 t Thursday night several hundre
 couples enjoyed tripping the ligh D fantastic at the jitney dance at Vanc Il auditorium. Friday night the officia y cotton carnival ball was staged at tn n auditorium. Eichenbrener's orchestr o furnished the music and almost ever
 number was applauded until an encor was granted. Governor and Mir.
 Campbell led the grand march an I were followed by more than 30
 couples. The affair was a brilliar
 success. The occasion brought on
 many beautiful gowns which adorne the flower of the valleys womanhoot l Urges Crop Rotation
 | Among the speakers at the Mes I L- T II Overfeld of Casa Grande, representa- Il the farmers of Florence and the Gas II Grande district. Judge Overfeld Il beginning his address said that he de | sired to confine his remarks on tn H subject of cotton to his own experi H ence, which had been satisfactory an H representative of the experience of hi H neighbors. He said that he had sue
 ceeded the first year in raising half
 bale an acre on new land-in all. {!
 bales. It was his ambition, he sai
 as it was the ambition of all cotto growers, to produce bale an acr and that it can be done if it is gor III about in the right way. The rigf way, he said, involved crop rotatio and intelligent cultivation and care ( III the land.
 III He agreed, he said, with the pres III dent of the Mesa chamber of con merce, who preceded him, that il III whole country-as one whole valle III extending to the Superstition mour tains-should be filled with cotto farms. The people of Florence ar the Casa Grande valley would furnis | their share of the land if they wei given. water, and the dream of one b | valley would be realized with the il | stallation of the San Carlos dam. III Judge Overfeld took occasion to e, II press appreciation on the part of u | citizens of Florence and Casa Grant II of Mesa's part in the celebration