The Ocala banner., 1922-12-29
The WORLDS BIGGEST DINNER

The Inauguration of Oklahoma g
new governor promises to break all
dinner records either of ancient or
modern times.
| A special from Oklahoma City says
that call for enough proyender to
serve 100000 persons two days has
gone out over Oklahoma.
Governor-e,ect j. G. Walton, Dem
ocrat. has invited the world at large
to his inaugural party, January 10
and IL, at the state fair grounds here.
He said he expects his guests to
come by OK, trains, airplanes, motor
cars. special railroad trains, riding
the rods and the cushions, afoot,
horseback, and by all available other
methods of travel
He will serve them barbecue. and
give a square dance-on the COM
pletely foored-in circle of a half-mile
race track.
Here is tentative list of supplies
for the barbecue, prepared by Lack
ey. Five hundred beef cattle, two
hundred hogs; two hundred sheep;
five thousand chickens; one thousand
turkeys: three thousand rabbits; one
thousand squirrels; two hundred
opossums; five hundred ducks and
geese; ten buffalo: ten bears; ten
deer; ten antelope; five tons of cof-
! fee; five tons of salt; five tons of
sugar; one thousand pounds OF pep
per;two hundred and fifty bushels of
onions; one hundred thousand loaves
of bread: one hundred thousand buns,
fifteen carloads Of fire wood and three
carloads of pine-knots for kindling.
Here might be included also, as
listed by Lackey, three thousand per-
sons to serve the multitude, and five
hundred expert butchers, slicers and
barbecuers.
The new governor is to take his
Office on stand erected in the race
track paddock. The two houses of
the state legislature will convene in
joint session on the stand, and swear
into Office the chief justice of the
supreme court who will then admin
lister the oath to the chief executive.
This is to take pace on. January g.
The two-day celebration will follow
He will ride a $4,000 saddle horse
seated on a $4,000 saddle, in pa
rade which will start the festivities
The horse has been promised, ac
cording to Lackey, by Col. Zach Mul
hail. Of Mulhall, Okla, and the dia-
mond and ruby studded gold-mounted
saddle by Col. George Miller of the
101 Ranch. Both are members of the
central barbecue committee, as is al
sc Pawnee Bill, Snowman and ranch
er.
Word has gone to democratic head
! quarters in every county of the state
to enlist all the old.fashioned fiddlers
who know how to play Turkey in
the Straw" Other old-timers who spe
cialized in calling the figures fol-
dances are being sought.
j Adjutant General c.. F. Barrett has
promised that units of the Oklahoma
national guard will police the gather
ing. From national guard and regu
lar army sources in the state, accord
ing to Lackey, it is expected that
enough tents can be gathered to shell
ter the visitors.
Among the specially invited guests
of the new governor at his inaugural
party will be about 1000 Indians, rep
resenting all the tribes living in Okla
homa. Several tribes have promised
to stage dances.
Governor-elect Walton was the no
minee of the Democratic party In
his statewide campaign he promised
that if he were chosen for the Office
of chief executive his inaugural ball
would be no pink tea party" for the
''four hundred but would be a real
o,d-fashioned outdoor celebration for
anyone who cared to be present. The
barbecue will carry out his campaign
promise.
Walton's barbecue, however, will
not be the first inaugural celebration
of its kind in Oklahoma. G. H. Has,
who in 1907, took the oath of office
three hours after the president had
signed the statehood bill. gave such
a celebration at Guthrie, the former
state capital