, 1924-08-14
WHO IS MOST
BEAUTIFUL GIRL
in THIS COUNTY

The Casper Tribune has been ask
ed by Mayor. II. r. Newblock of
Tulsa to select the Wyoming Princess
for the Pageant of Petroleum."
which will be a feature If the In
ternational Petroleum Exposition in
Tulsa October 2 to II.
Each of the II old states of the
Union will send its fairest daughter
to Tulsa, where the most beautiful
of them all will be crowned Queen
Petrolia" for 1924.
For each of the state beauties
there will be provided an immense
float typifying the commonwealth
which she represents. These floats,
each of which will cost approximate
ly $1,000, are being designed and
decorated by Herbert Barnard, fam
GUS ~pageantry artist, who each year
in addition to having charge of the
Pageant of Petroleum stages the
great Fiesta San Jacinto" and Bat
tie OF Flowers at San Antonio, Tex.
A section of the parade route will
be set aside for Wyoming, and will
be decorated with the state emblems.
Visitors to the exposition from Wy
oming along with former citizens
now resident in the cosmopolitan
city of Tulsa, will gather at this
point to acclaim the Wyoming
Beauty.
But best Of all, the trip will be
free both to the beauties themselves
and one chaperone for each of them.
Round-trip railroad and Pullman
tickets will be provided, and they
will be guests of the city of Tulsa
while there. Likewise they will be
honor guests at a series of social
events that will form a brilliant part
of the ten-day exposition program.
Here is the way in which the most
beautiful girl in Wyoming will be
selected:
The mayor of each county seal
town in the state will act as the
chairman Of a board of judges tC
which he will appoint six others
1t will be their job to find the mos
beautiful girl in the entire county
On August 26 they will name her
What then?
The Casper Tribune will pay the
expenses Of each of the 23 girl
SO hat they may come to Casper
September 9 ut no cost to them
selves. Their railroad and pullman
fares, meals and hotel bills for /,
two-day stay In Wyoming's larges
city and the oil center OF the west
will all be paid.
On the night of Tuesday. Septem
Der 9th, At the most gorgeous bal
ever given in the state-The Wyom'
ing Princess Petrolia ball-the
Princess will be selected.
The one desire Is to locate Wy.
oming's most beautiful girl. Every.
thing possible will be done to find
her. and there will be none Of the
voting. popularity or favoritism as
poets Of the ordinary beauty contest
attached to this affair.
This Is the first time that such
q clean-cut, downright beauty con.
test has ever been attempted in this
country. Some idea Of the basis
upon which 1t Is to be conducted
may be gained from the rules which
the judges are to follow:
The rules are:
Beauty Is more than FACET In
face, figure, g~racefulness, poise. per-
sonality and good. clean character.
Contestants are to- be unmarried.
Because the choosing of the Wy
oming beauty is In a way connected
with the Petroleum industry 1t
would be nice, OF course, II county
representatives were in some way
interested in oil. For instance-if
the girls father or brother is en-
ployed in the oil business, or she
herself works for an oil company.
But remember that connection with
the oil industry is not an essential
beauty Is.