The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-04-07
CRICKAsHA WILL
ENTERTAIN NEXT
CORNER SESSION
mo Place but chlekasha Tor broom
Corn Men Next Year" sass
Tulsa Man: All Delight.
cd With Treatment
WILL BE ANNUAL EVENT
IS DECISION REACHED
cpor, stunts and Barbecue Mark
Closing Hours OF Convention;
indian Dancers stomp
for o. {. w.

"Wll the broom corn men OF The
southwest come baca TO Chlckasha
next year for their annual meetingg'
That was the question asked =. II
White. head Of largo broom manu-
featuring concern OF Tulsa, VITO took
an active part In the meeting of the
broom corners hero yesterday ana
Tuesday.
why certainly We ar coming
back here next year. There's only
one place to hold the annual meeting
and that place Is Chlekasha,' re-
piled Mr.. White. "Tve attended many
conventions OF various kinds. but
I'm here to state tliat Chckasha
knows how to entertain better than
any town I've seen yet So IT'S ne
for chickaala next year and that
goes for the rest OF the broom corn
men. Wen be with you next year.
Show Is Complete.
The answer to Mr.. Whites re
marks Is that there was so mach
doing In the way OF entertainment
yesterday that II kept Everyone hust
ling to see It all. The Ro;arians o
the city took hand early in the
morning and kept their oar in unit.
the last dog was hung" yesterday
evening. TIE Rotary member
launched the day with a ride for the
broom corn men over the city anf
when they wound up at the ware
house Of the Thos. Lyons company
the Rotarians stayed on the job and
assisted in the staging of The many
stunts throughout TIE day.
Chiokasha people who jouTned tc
the warehouse gasped as they topped
the sople at Hillcresa and looked
down upon what to all appearance
was a county fair in progress. Score
os cars were jammed in the space
around the warehouse, the road wa
blocked and hundreds of people wer
swarming over the grounds. Growers
from all points Of the Chickasha dis
trict were There, buyers Of broom
corn, broom manufacturers, farmers
merchants, bankers, professional
men and just pure d entertainment
fans, jammed and craned their necks
as one stunt after another was
staged.
Barbecue a Knockout.
There has been many balbecue
around Chckasha since the time Ge
ronimo used to lead his bands OF
braves over the prarie, but there
never was barbecue staged in
these parts that was better or more
appreciated, than was this one, made
possible through the cooperation OF
u..b lHiChdSud tldllNDel VI toih
mcrce and the broom corn men of
Chickasha. 1t was in charge Of w
A. Hopkins and John Springer. head
chefs. There was meat, cooked to
the right turn, in abundance and
with all the trimmings, made up a
delicious feast for the hundreds
who assembled there.
The big feed started about noon
and it was nearly o'clock before
the chefs called 1t a day and started
the cookies cleaning up. The
crowd formed two lines, being
dread and meat lines" for fair and
as they filed by the table, everyone
was served with generous portions of
the feast.
Real Indian Dance.
Many Chickasha people have lived
for years in this Indian country
and witnessed their first Indian war
dance yesterday. Let it be said that
they saw a real one for their first
when seven braves and three singers
put on what old timers classed as
among the cleverest dances they
have ever witnessed. There were
few in ase crowd, old timers or new
however, who realized that they
were watching some of the famous
Indian dancers of the southwest.
You have seen Indian war dances
on the movie screen and it is proba-
bic that you then looked at some OF
the boys who performed for the
Chickasha broom corn men and the
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