The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-05
GRADY FAIRS TO
GET READY FOR
ANNUAL EXHIBIT
Community showlnps Of Prize Pro-
ducts and Stock Preliminary to
County Free Fair Here
Sept. 1921.
PROSPECTS FINE DESPITE
EXCESSIVE DRY WEATHER
Commissioners offer Prizes for Com.
munIty showlngs; Harndcn Pre-.
dlets Much Interest For
County Event.

Nine community fairs are scheduled
to be held In Grady county this
week.
Because OF lack OF interest and CO.
operation, the Rush Springs commun.
Ity fair will not be held this year, J.
w. Johnson, president. and w. A..
Pence. secretary. have announced.
The Meridian fair was to be held
Wednesday. Thursday Is the date for
the Stover, Arcadia and Prairie Dale
fairs. Spring Creek. Friend. Acme
and Pioneer fairs are booked for Fri
day. The Middleburg fair will be
held Saturday.
"Much interest is being taken in
some OF these fairs. reports NJ. G..
Harnden. county farm agent. There
will be some fine agricultural dis.
plays at all OF them. Most Of the
prize winning articles and displays
at the community fairs will be shown
at the county fair to be held here
September 1S.19.20.21." he says.
IdNC CobNtJ fNppt oPt tasfchSs
The county commissioners have ap-
propriated $50 for each OF the 10
community fairs. To this amount, a
number of the committees have add.
ed addNional sums to the premium
lists.
Theodore Stover Is president and
r. A. Moore. secretary of the Stover
community fair. Buck Martin, presi-
dent, and Mrs. w. l.. Dawson, secre'
tary, are the officers OF the Pioneer
fair. Other community fairs officers
are:
Il. A. Biggs, president and Ray
Goetting. secretary, Meridian; Joe
Maleure. president. and O. c. Miller,
secretary. Acme: Fl. Nichlson, presi-
dent, and Miss Media Bartell, secre-
tary, Arcadia.
Guy Buser, president, and Il. L.
Reed. secretary, Friend; J. d. Britt,
president, and Beldon Bush, secre-
tary, Friend J. d. Britt, president,
and Beldon Bush. secretary, Prairie
Dale; George Petty, president, and
Mr.. Smith, secretary, Middleburg; j.
w. Fitch president and Narney
Phelps. secretary, Spring Greek; j.
w. Johnson, president, and w. A.
Pence, secretary, Rush Springs.
viii Stimulate Interest.
That the community fairs to be
held this week will stimulate interest
in the county fair to be held soon is
the belief of the county farm agent.
Discussing the fair, Mr.. Harnden
says:
"A county fair should be perma-
nent thing. A fair should be a stim-
ulus to the breeding of good stock
and grain. Spasmodic efforts in
breeding never get results. 1t is only
by continued effort that improve
ment is made.
For these reasons we must all
put our shoulders to the wheel and
push in order that the county fair
will continue to grow and be truly
bigger and better. This would seem
to be a trying year for the fair in
some respects yet something points
to larger exhibit in every depart
ment. Already practically every pen
in the hog pavilion has been spoken
for. Thirty-three big club members
stated during the club camp that they
expected to exhibit.
Arrangements are being made to
have good housing space for all live
stock this year. Horses and mules
will be placed in the hog pavilion in
the space occupied by the beef cat
tie last year. Cool, yet well construct