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I n ii UKL.A11UMA ra 1 W li K 1 he Oklahoma GOOD ROADS ARE NECESSARY St ate r r e e m EI CTOBER 4 to 9 I Li I A vacation and education combined. Recreation and information for the entire family lJ -- ... EI 1 he Uklahoma rree .State rair ts Your rairrlanncd tor you and every citizen or the State. We want you to come. The Greatest Fair Program Ever Presented ex This Year the Features That Will Interst You Include ra A Million Dollar Stock Show biggest and best ever shown in the Southwest. Biggest exhibitof farm Machinery ever shown at any Fair in Oklahoma. Fine Agriculural Displays. - Indian " Exhibits, Wonderful showing of Dairy Products and Machinery. Apiary Displays. Splendid Women's Department. Tremendous Fireworks Spectacle nightly Greatest Naval Engagement of War depicted - The Seigfi of the Drdanelle. Horses and Auto Races, Exciting Relay Races with Girl riders. Boys' and Girls' Club Displays. Lectures and Domonctrations on Home Deco ration and Women's Dress . something new and interesting. Wonderful Band Music-- The Mill ion Dollar Band-the Band that went to France with the Il6th Engineers. Best progiam of Amusment Acts and Vaudeville-Midway Attractions, and a thousands nov el features of interest occupying every minute of every hour of Fair Week. m E3 REDUCED RATES ON ALL RAILROADS The Gate Stands Open ALL THE FOLKS YOU KNOW WILL BE THERE At MUSKOGEE, OKLA. October 4 to 9 h'i -. y iy i ' -i PTTTSBUKG COUNTY FREE FAIR SEPT. 14 to 18. THE COUNTY FAIR. How Would You Like to Harvest Two Crops I of Corn a 1 car as They Do in the Philippines? No, reader, this corn was not grown by one of our local farmers ! It wasn't Brown In tlio United States, oven. It was grown In tlio faroff Philippine Is lands by Filipino schoolboys. Two line crops of corn u year are produced In tlio Islands. Tho Philippines nro doing some won derful tilings In the agricultural line. Tho Philippine government has tine ag ricultural schools throughout the Is lands, and the Phlllp'plno legislature, composed entirely of Filipinos, is each year milking larger and larger appro priations for this importnnt work. Ihu staple food of the Islands Is rice, but corn Is coming right along In popu lar favor. Its use wus given great im petus in tho last year because of u rlcu shortage Oilier Important Philippine crops are hemp, sugar cane, cocoanuts, coffee, tnplor-a and pineapples. Lum ber Is also an important Industry. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of land lying Idle In the Philip pines, which have a greater nren of fertile land than Japan this In splto of tho fact that the population of the Philippines is 11,000,000 while that of Japan is around 55,000,000. There is every reason to believe that some day tho Philippines will havo a population as largo as that of Japan today. Tho Filipinos are tho only Christian people In tho orient, and their young men are working night and day to prcpnro themselves for the responsibility of citizenship in tho Philippine Republic, which they believe to bo near at hand. Oh, let us sec the county fair (Forget the cost of living!) Fveiybody will be there To bee the show they're giving The beef-steers broad, the corn stalks tall, The windmills humming gaily ; The meck-cyed Jersey in the stall, The races pulled ofT daily. i We'll go and see the fruits and grain That farmers take a pride in, nd maybe find an aeroplane That we can take a ride in. v want to sec the bread and cakes And what the high school teaches; . IXamine all the plows and rakes, And note the blushing peaches. To see the fair in days of yore Was not an easy matter; We, had to rUe at three or four, And all was rush and clatter; We'd feed and water Ding and Dong nd hitch them to the surrey, But now "it rambles right along" And gets there in a hurry. "Venerable Bedc." The Venerable Bede or Beda was a Saxon churehmnn of deep piety and great classical learning. lie was born about tho year 072, at Jarrow in Dur ham, England, .near tho mouth of tho Tyne. I la died In Juno, 7315, Just ns lie had completed n translation Into Saxon of St. John's Gospel.. Ills chief original work is his "History of tho Anglo-Saxon Church," written In Latin. Aged Mukogee Preacher Dies Muskogee Roy. Thomas Coke "Weir 02 years old, died here recently at the home of his daughter. Tho body has been taken to Starksville, Miss , for burial. Weir had been a Metliodist minister for fllty years and rode on horseback more than 80,000 miles in tlio discharge of his duties. Seven elilldren are left. Chickasha Teacher to East Central Chickasha. Edward Davis, A. B University of Oklahoma, has resigned from tho Chickasha high school iacul ty to accept a position on the faculty of the East Central state 'normal school. Davis left for Ada, home of the E. C. S. N. Former Governor Speaks at Reunion Watauga. T. n. Ferguson, former governor, and Ben Hennessey, candi date for congress from the Sixth dis trict, both ot Watonga, spoke at the reunion of the Blue and Gray at Bridgeport. Problems Involved In Railway Opera tion Again Bring Improved High ways to Front. While it is admitted that tho rail ways must necessarily form tho na tion's long-distance transportation' lines, tho auxiliary power of the pub lic road, through tho development' of tho gasoline engine and the motor ve hicle, Is receiving thoughtful nttentlon In ofllcial circles. Public discussion of high-cost prob lems nnd the railway situation ran Into the country road nt two points recently. The first point touched wns that tho public highway is n potential short-hnul freight and express line, nnd that with n national system of Improved roads Intersecting ench state north, south, east nnd west there will thus bo constructed tho basis of n com prehensive nation-wide system of traf fic arteries with which state nnd coun ty systems may connect. With such a system provided the development of freight nnd express transportation Is anticipated far beyond comprehension, snvs Chicago Tribune. Its advocates assert that tho motortruck as It ap pears on the public highways todny is but on Infant to what it will bo onco tho public roads are built to permit Its enlarged use. Those who doubt the possibilities of the highway freight and express as factors In the reduction and stabiliz ing of food costs are told to look back over the development of the railway and note that the beginning was upon MUST USE PNEUMATIC TIRES Norway Proposes Legislation to Pre- vent Damage to Improved Roads by Heavy Trucks. Norway Is the first country In the world to propose mitloini lyglslatlon that will specify that motortrucks up to two tons capacity, must be equipped with pneumatic tires so us i.. prevent dnmago to roads and to cut down the oxcesslvo cost of highway repairs diu to tho uso of solid tires. Steam Never Visible. Actual steam is not visible Tlio visible white vapor which Is frequent ly referred to as steam Is In reality n collection of. tine moisture particles which are formed by the condensation of true steam. Good Roads Fix Prices. Ponds In a lnrgo meiiNure determine the character Of agricultural activity tho ninrkets its products may reach which In turn fixes the prices' of such products. Plant Deserves Trial. IMcnnlnl sweet clover is n pasture plant that deserves a trial in a small way on every farm. Silage for Sheep. Silnge Is rapidly coini. to pl.u- Important part In the feeding f fheep Change of Tone Tells Much, susceptible norsons nm ..., !. ed by n change of tone than by unex pected words. George Eliot. Motortruck Is Big Factor in Reduc I ing and Stabilizing Costs. a basis far less promising as a prac tical proposition than the basis upon which the gasoline driven vehicle stands today. I Dropping back to the point of short haul delivery, attention is being called to the fact that the radius of highway shipping is being gradually extended as modern roads are being built. Ad vocates of a national highway system, tlio crentlon of which is provided for in the Townsend bill now pending In congress, have encountered the argu ment that approximately CO miles Is f the maximum of motor delivery. Their answer is Hint while this may be true, it is true only at tlio present time be cause of tho Illogical connections and the general condition of tho roads. The same economic conditions which forced rnilway development are forcing a national development of tho public highway, and the advocates of a na tional highway system assert that each day's discussion of the present eco nomic situation produces nddiiional rensbns why tho federal government must got down to highway building on n nationwide scale and in dead earnest. In a sense the legislative mind nt Wnshlngton seems to bo approaching tho present phase of economic prob lems somowhnt In n spirit of weari ness. "Will we ever get anything really finished?" Is n question which seems to express their feelings, since so many problems, like the proverbial cat, keep coming bnck. But onojnet seems to bo mnklng itself very clear, nnd that Is that sinco tho public highway is the first hip be tween (lie produnor nnd consumer, tho logical place to begin cutting down liv ing costs Is by eliminating permanently tho time-consuming and fuel-wasting roads. To accomplish this purpose the construction of a national hlgh way system ns a noccssnry nnd logical connection with stnte nnd county sys tems Is being looked upon with In creased favor.