Maramec Weekly Monitor. (Maramec, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1912 Page: 4 of 4
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woimmijl NmoruH flights ti Miuotu sun nil mir ur ; pgyi TDy
SHOW ASSURED
! ChkMn Fancier* of Country Will
Exhibit at Oklahoma State Fair
and Exposition
Just before the signal "Let Go!" It needs niae strode men to hold this SO-bor sepower machine.
Thrilling monoplane flights will bej pie on the other hand, guarantee to
part of the daily program of the Okla- send monoplanes of the latest type
homa State Fair and exposition. Okla- and their noel daring bird man
homa City. September 24 to October 5. j Kantmr aad his machine* will be
Harold Kaatner. oae of the most dar- on the groands daring the entire
ing of all the great aviators, and the ' twelve days of the Stat* Pair and Ex
Moiaant monoplanes will make his- position and under the terms of the
tory twice each day while the big fair contract he must poattHely fly twice1 rier Audemar*. Johnstone and Hou-
is jn progress each dsy. There will probably be a pert have used these machines in pref-
the fair may allow Kaatner to carry
passengers with him on some trips.
That the SO horsepower Moisant
monoplane is quite equal to the best
machines in the world is shuwn indis-
putably by the fact that such crack
fliers as Kantner. Garoe. Simon. Bar-
This is the most expensive free act flight every morntng and another In
obtained for the Oklahoma State Pair the afternoon The program will con-
and Exposition since its organixation Hist of altitude flights, duration flights
aix years ago While the State Pair distance flights, croaa-city and cross-, _
had to put up a lor of money to get | country flights and al sorts of fancy dozen of the biggest concerns in the
ths uying machines, the Moieant peo-1 maneuvering in the air. Officers of world.
erence to all others Directors of the
Oklahoma Stale Pair and Imposition
selected the Moiaant only after careful
consideration of proposals from half a
performing bears at oklahoma state fair
!+ *£"
Preparation of poultry for show pur-
poses is now In prograee all over the
state of Oklahoma, according to John
W Nlceley superintendent of the big
poultry depatrment of the Oklahoma
Bute Pair and Exposition. Oklahoma
Clt7, September |4 to October S. In-
dications are that the building erected
especially for the exhibit of poultry
«tll be literally running over whea
the galas of the (air are thrown wide
open oa September >4.
"It la our desire that aach aad
every breeder shall exhibit, at laaat a
pen or a pair of fowls, and by that
means learn of our ways and methods
af oonductlag an up-to-date poultry
aahlblt, run for the benefit of the
sotual poultry breeder." says Mr Nice-
ley "Some new features will be added
this year that will be to tbe good at
both the visitor and the exhibitor."
— j Cash prizes amounting to $2,238.30
T. r . n. . ... offered in the poultry department
1 he Garden Web Worm pfrov1#lon '• m*d# ,D tte
premium list for practloally every
breed of bird Judge Charles V. Kee-
8HORT HISTORY ANO ier will again be the judge and a rib
HABITB OF THIS FARM PEST hon placed by him is a good adver-
, tlaement.
The Best Methods of Successfully —————.
Combating This Destructive
Animal—Preventive Meas-
ures Should Be Used
One of the most serious pests with
which the farmers must < ontend is
the garden web worm, which ia some-
times called the alfalfa w<-b worm.
Us principal damage is done to alfalfa
However, this insect is a general
feeder, as it attacks most vegetables
sugar cane, cereals, and several of the
forage crops, and occasionally young
cotton has been severely damaged.
This worm spins a loose web with
which it draws together the edges of
german day at
the state fair
Societies From Every Section of Ok-
lahoma Will Celebrate on Sep-
tember 26
Germans of Oklahoma will celebrate
at the Oklahoma State Fair and Kxpo
aition on Thursday. September -5. ac-'
cording to announcement just made by
Theo. Ingoia, secretary of the Ger-
—« Vi a uv--,y. J116VIA, ■rH.iri eli." ' i lur vici-
DeBalPBtri^r s ar-robatic b^ars provide the greatest of all wild animal a leaf; or it fastens together two oon- man-American Bund of Oklahoma and
«ts Europe has sent to America The act will be one of at least a dozen
big free feature acts at the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition. Oklahoma
City, September 24 to October 5. It consists of six Cinnamon Bears and
Morn*. Lk Bale*trier, their trainer. He is considered one of the b'-sf at)i-
trainers in the world today and his charges accomplish the most Intel-
ligent and strange tricks imaginable They are the oddest of musicians,
comedians and dancers. They do everything but talk. This is a novelty
every one should see for the bears create oceans of laughter and fun for
young and old.
MEN WHO MAKE THE
OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR
It takes twelve months of hard, un-
oeasing work on the part of many men
and women to look after the detallB
•f the Oklahoma State Fair and Ex-
position, which opens at Oklahoma
""y September 24 and closes October
S. This year they have worked harder
than ever before to make the big 1912
ahow surpsss all thoae that have gone
before The crucial time is here and
i. ilaUau, Tra
John Fields, 9
from now until the closing day of the of Wheatland; Poultry. John W. Nlce-
fhlr tbe men behind the southweet's | ley; Farm Products. Fruits. Flowera,
greatest fair and exposition must i Apiary and Dairy. William Alson;
Plan and work day and night. With Geological. Prof. D. W Obern. .Nor
• view of letting exhibitors and tbe all; Educational. H. E Thompson,
S*oeral public know something of the .man. Okla.. Fine Arts. Stella Norv-
tinuous leaves, forming a shelter from
which it crawls forth to fend. it is
very active, aud feigns death when
disturbed, or spins a thread and drops
to the ground and htdes iu crevicee
or in the loo** earth. It is a vora-
cious feeder, and most of its work is
done at night, and during the day It
rests in Us web. When the larva
gets full grown it spins a delicate
brownish <ocoon within its silken re-
treat in the earth and change* to a
brown chrysalis with a pair of term-
inal prominences, each bearing three
short spines at the posterior tip of
the body.
The larvae are easily killed by an
arsenical poison. Paris green is us-
ually used in the form of a powder,
at the rate of one pound to an acre.
Stone. H. Overholser, ■ jg mort. economical to apply the
Weston Atwood. J. L Wilkin. J P. poison with an air-duster, which will
Warren. C. F. Colcord, I. S Mahan i dlatrlbute It evenly over the field,
and Orin Ashton , ""V!? °'d p°!Vnd m#th"
od The latter method consists in
Executive Committee H OrerhoW j * cheese-cloth ba« to each end
ser. Weston Atwood. J. L. Wilkin and °f * Whlch '• to pump
. against the pommel of a saddle as
8 . dtian horae moves. When this method
la used, one pound of Paris green
ahouJd be diluted with ten pounds of
alrslaked lime, to prevent too much
poison from issuing and burning the
plants Both cotton and alfalfa ean
be treated in this way The Paris
green will waah off within two or
three weeks.
▲ solution of Paris green 'one
pound to 100 gallons of water) or ar-
senate of lead (three pounds to fifty
gallons of water i will be just as effeo
ser; Secretary. I.
urer, J. L. Wilkin
Board of Directors:
L. Brock. G. B
Superintendents of Departments: I
Beef Cattle. Frank Kenyon; Dairy <
Cattle. M. P. Steddom; Horses. W. L. '
English; Sheep and Swine, R. Kleiner ;
secretary of the German-American
Verein "ilermanla" of Oklahoma City.
It is estimated that no less than fif-
teen hundred of the most prosperous
Oermans oI Oklahoma, together with
their families, will gather at the big
fair in annual convention, the first day
of which will be given over entirely
to sight-seeing The membership of
the entire state, comprising twenty-
nine societies .numbers something like
1,100 and the membership of the Okla-
homa City society numbers 450
Concerning tbe program for the big
German convention. Secretary 1. S.
Mahan of the State Fair and Exposi-
tion announces that everything pos-
sible will be done to make the day at
the State Fair and Exposition grounds
memorable In the history of the va-
rious societies. There will be a large
headquarters' tent on the ground and
every preparation will be made by a
special committee to be named by the
"Germanta" society of Oklahoma City.
This will be just one of twelve big
celebrations at the Oklahoma State
Fair and Exposition, it being tbe pur-
pose of the management to make eveajr
dsy a special event. Tha complete
program will be announced just as
soon as completed.
Anything you want
to eat
Every thing you need ^
to wear
Prices Lowest in town
W. T. DICK,
riaramec, Okla.
Martin
Repeating Me
The gun to use for rab-
bits, squirrels, hawks,
crows and all small
_ game.
Mere's the rifle you have been
waiting lor .-an up-to-date .22 caliber repeater that
handles without change or adjustment .22 short, .22 long
and .22 long-rifle cartridges of all makes and styles, yet sells at
the surprisingly low price of 5S.5Q.
The solid-top and tide ejection are always a protection, keep shells, powder
and gases from your lace, allow instant repeal shots. Quick take-down coast ruction—
easJ;- cleaned—takes little space and brings greatest pleasure at small expense.
L*arn more air it Use full line. Send 3 '/Tip TTZar/zfl f<ffa/~/nS (s)
.luup* peatasetjr Um IM JVhr/syi calaws. 42 Willow Strait New Harcn. Coon.
:V' .imI nl^Uiillll^MfOi
i Ranger" bicycle furnished bj- us. OurUL-vntsevery where aru rn^kiu*
t,. i J REQUIRED until you receive and approve of roar
bicj dt . We ship to anyone any wh.-ro In tin- P. S u.a
>"'«*!•«"<l *1 'ow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL durina
which Ume you tnay rtde the bicycle and put It to any U*st you wish
' then not perfectly ^tlsfl.-d or do not wih to kS-p Zto
Mercl^p Hljrk jo us fct pur expend and swi
FACTORY PRICES 5^JiUirn.>h thV t'tf^eat craile bicycles it Is
. If^lf'le to make at one Kmall profit aliove
r Oil X.I v* fill #">- r^i. ill k i
ftCtllfkl fantrtrrr V ^ S.ift "2*® Bt °"® «mall pTOflt at)0 _
^ Y.™.1*Ye 110 ^^mlddlrmen'H profits by buy-
btorlo PO WOTRuV- \ n,1,nuf*ctn" r 11 guarantee U hlnd your
Dicycle. DO ROT BUT a bicycle or a pair of tlrei fr .m >■!•■• at «af
r tal(a'np« a n /\ «., „ ... u.— i _« -
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• a a of th# officers, directors. I Textile, Mra R E. Catt; Superintend- l^ad should not be ippltel to plants
executive committee and superintend-1 ent of Gates, Wsston Atwood; Super- whlch *re to be eaten.
The parent of this caterpillar or
"worm" is a small moth having a
wing expanse of about three-fourths
of an Inch and varying In color from
yellow to buff. The larvae vary In
color from a pals greenish yellow to
a dark yellow with black spots.
The garden web worm passes ths
winter in ths pupal stage under ths
soil. During the latter part of May
more room for
county exhibits
Secretary Mahan Says It Msy Be
Necessary to Erect New
Building.
•oO.tu.ljreuraupan.nMK^I.attba
. "u can aeU o«r bicycles under jourowu name piaUaidouble our price*
IA12 Nedtethora Pooetare-Proof * M1
I If Self-fceiliigTires £L
$10.00 Bee Bate M <■«■■ I...
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wjwktwrwifwmpmctmes
ents of departments |« printed below | lntendent of Tickets. J F. Warren;
Officers in Charge; President. John Superintendent of Public Safety, Orm
Fields; General Manager H. Overhoi- Ashton.
now w mis did mis
county send 10 the state fair?
Id order to accommodste the In-.
creased number of county exhibits this
year at the Oklahoma State Fair and
Exposition, September 2t to pctober
f>, it may be neceaaary to build a large
addition to the Agricultural building
And even with this room It has been
found necessary to do some very j
careful planning. While the exact I
number of county exhibits will not be |
know n until the final entry Is
OTBiaaa Mil nat lat tha air ai
A hundred thousand pain aold last year
DESCRIPTION: j^i/vAVand'V
ridinr. very duraMe and lined instde^wfth
a special quality of rulit >r. which never be- ■<
comes porous and which clonee up small ——
minctnres without allowing the air to escape
^tinVthatS?J^I° L"" ^ fr,(n sail,fled coatomers
m aHM^n}'^'Shaveoniy been pumped up onm
season. I hey weWh no more than
an ordinary tire, the puncture re^laUns nualities belli
• a^i r . tri ad The regular price of these tires
for advertising Purposes we are ■ M T RIDING.
ta^reexamln^and fonnd them striVtly .,0^Tnt'ii ^ not Iia>'
N^lae the tMek rubbertreerf
' picture strips'V
Si* "D" slse rim strip "N"
. «p prevent rim cutting. This
1 aar&wfuswa
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rvt<irn#<1 at OURi-t^,^ ir fr,r«ny r*mi^n Ury mr n. tiat 'a. Z.rl" or±"r {"9
end moDrj Brnt to n. I***.afea- ilmbmS! if , Z lTr o7t2i?l?2l"! "r,\llV^rB *****
kT r ,n#I*Vrr wr*p l*tt«r. l'>nf*>rend look finer tlia?Mr li^TTol hZvI*w V ?,! ibmt tht,J wl11 rtd#
We know tbet too wuIImbo wall ni « ni n at ■ i .. 1. . 7. y ' h,T,,T«u«nl «.r at any Drlra.
1' l*lrJ*LqgW etonca hence ti. ib n markai<tr t i^^irSr0 ,IVe U* youroWl#r- waal
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It only cjBtBa r-^ui to l^arn e erfthmr. Write It MqA. wonderfulotote we art- n akin«.
J.L.MEADCYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL.
Is your county on the llsl below? ir
It Is not, won't you resolve now to con-
tribute to the suet eva of the 1912 Ok-
lahoma State Fair and Kxposition. Ok-
lahoma City, September 24 to October
I. 1912? It is your fair and you owe
to yourself, your county and to tbs
•tate to send the beat you have to the
place where Oklahoma receives her
Visitors every year. If It Is on the
Hat. you will most assuredly be there
again in 1912.
Practically every county waa rep-
resented at the 1 U State Fair wUb
anywhere from one exhibit to several
hundred The following Is a llat of
countlss sending exhibit* laat year, to-
gether with the approximate numb«r
of displays Adair 2. Alfalfa ^ Heck
ham 4. lilalus 8. llryan ti. Canadian In
ffcrter , Choctaw l. Cleveland ( o. Cos!
I, Comanche I. Craig 4, Creek 2. Cus
Ur L. Kills 2, Garfield ID. Garvin 7.
Orady 11, Grsni 34. Greer 10, Harper 1,
Haskell 1, Jefferson 1. Johnston 21,
Kay 26, Kingfisher 7. Kiowa f., Latl
Bier 2, IjeFlore 2, Lincoln 23, Logan
II, Love 1. McClain 4, McCurtain I,
McIntosh 6, Major 4. Marshall 1. Mur-
ray 10, Muskogee, 6, Noble II. Nowata
I, Okfuskee ], Okmulgee 8. Oklahoma
Ml. Ottawa I, Pawnee. |, Payns 7.
• j *i• ** ti %bsavsi i ii* as uai vsju j in re
or the first of June the adult moths reived, correspondence between Secre-
tary I 8 Mahan of the State Fair and
Exposition and representative men
in all sections of Oklahoma would in-
dicate do less than fifty collective ex-
hibits this year
"Oklahoma has 'come back,'" says
Secretary Mahan. "and with a bumper
crop this year ws have the best op-
portunity In six years to show all na-
tions what we can do. Every county
make rair appearance and begin to
deposit eggs on the leaves of the
host plan' Within a week these egg*
hatch into larvae, which have been
Pittsburg 11, Pontotoc 4. Pottawatomie described, and they begin feeding on
15 Koger Mills 21, Rogers 2, Seminole 'he foliage There are at least three
1. Sequoyah 4. Stephens >, Tillman ti, generations a year, and it Is the last
Tulsa ti. Wagoner 2, Washington 1. two which do the greatest amount of
Washita 3, Woeds 1. Woodward llL damage
In the suoimary «lven. a connty ex- In the fal1 ot J*" rubbish _ ^
hlbit was counted as a single en'ry e^°uld be i Ii ared away and the lan<! aeems to realize this and I expect the
when, as a matter of fact, fifty per. plowed de.-w so a« to destroy ss many most remarkable showing ever before
sons may have contributed to 'he PuPae as possible Many will be made in Oklahoma or any other Mute
display Thsre was absolute!) no at- H'led. "he others will be exposed
tempt made to mske the number of ^Irds and Inclement weather; and
exhibits appear larger than the 'n fumb« r of moths
actual figures in the eitry books and *rapnilng the following y«ar will b -
the figures show better then snythir^ materially less- T E. McElrov,
else that might be produced hat -ti* • I^panm r;t of Entomology, Oklahoma
Oklahoma SUte Fair and Exposition A * M Stillwater.
U, indeed sUfe-wMe la «c0pe
The enormous list of exhibitors last
rear is a sufficient guarantee 'ha' tiie
people of all Oklahoma now recognise
the potent fact that the Oklahoma
State Fair and Exposition has t^^
best facii'tiea in the southwest for
displaying the agricultural, industrial
and live stock reaounes of Oklahoma.
Steady growth of ths Fair in the imnf,
together with the fact that hundreds
The Food Chopper
Who will not tell of '.be vlrtuea of
the popular food chopper, or grinder
It has many uses and has practically
suppalnted the old chopping knlfs
and liowl In grinding meat vegetables
fruits, dried bread, and such And
there Is nothing better to use for
grinding up dried corn bresd for baby
of Inquiries are reaching the offlce of chicks We always bake corn bread
Secretary I S Mahan. Oklahoma City, ( for the little chickens, but used to
every day, are some of the reasons
advanced for the assertion that the
1912 Oklahoma State Fair and Expo-
sition. September 24 to October f.
will be a record-breaker
find considerable waste Id tbe cruats
aad dried pieces we could not break,
up line enough wttb our flag eve
when the gates swing back on Septem-
ber 24."
Secretary Mahan says the county !
collective exhibits will be taken care
of even though It should he neceMarr ;
to erect anther building as largr as ,
the big Agricultural building which 1
now grat es the State Fair Grounds. I
He says esch county will be given |
every opportunity to advertise )t« re- ,
sources and to win the liberal prizes
offered by the Fair Association
ADEQUATE FACILITIES
Oklahoma City Is fortunate in hav |
Ing adequate railroad facilities, hotel
and other advantages required by any
city having a big show. Exhibitors
at the sl'th annual Oklahoma State
Fair and Exposition need experience
no trouble in getting theli exhlhlSa
to the ground promptly and in due
time The grounds are reached by
street car operated over double
tracks.
WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH - - That's
S50.00 a Week, almost S10.00 e Day
Ri lling Victor Rates and flr. proof boxes
to me re bantu, doetors, lawyers, iLntiats and
well ini .do farmers, ail of whom realise I he need
ol osafe lull Ilo not Know howrasyItlStoown
on* b«le mi n nccUre uur i>rou< Nlilori one of
the beet, clean rut ni« n**y-in ikin* < jii ortiitii
lien rv«j re*-i'iv« J Without pr* \ toue ex| n
VOII f.n rtnr'ntr. ;.cc - ■ of O* I r
n if hatnliMMiirJy |11 ij<ilrate<l 9U4. |,*yv cetahig
\*ill vuHbtf > #u to |iree«'iit the euhjeet torua-
i . in ne interring a ninnii.n.e though
ron wr-re piloiltiff 'hem ihrough our fee tory Men ipik.uh. ,1
BeieaiiM-ii n-4-eivr e«lvn*e ami iiiBtru< tloii« for aelhiitf aafe>«. iriMiikr -
5SlV,"vi*r' ,M,1 • for a l r .-j e.....Uo cuatomer to denr Wh?
w t'", 11,-1 tu.Wy lroni v irlfiltv lie/or*, eouieona elee^etM the torrltorvf I
Vti can faror oul/ one •aieeumn out of mcIi locaflty. lw Ine
Theafilh annlverssryofoi
eo nibs li y wiii eeletimted ty
erecting the most m<Mlera safr
factory In Hie world. Wlde-
awaks men who rei'rlTeil our
S|ieelal selling Induivment.
remli ml It necessary to double
oiirouipiu. VNe are snenUtng
many thousands of dollars en-
larging our aa!>'s orgsnlratlon.
tint to li.urn sll particulars. It
wilt cost you oo'y the prlue of
a postal card
M lor CalalefuB IB T.
THE VICTOR
SAFE & LOCK CO.
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