Show HER HEART TO MAN WHO OWNS THE BEST CHICKENS J Love me love my chickens chIcken Is the answer Miss Rosa Ray a beautiful West girl makes to all aU aspiring suitors for she has pled pledged d herself towed to towed towed wed pone none t but ut the man man who captures the most prizes at the yearly State poultry show I Beautiful of t face fe e and tI figure re with a a. wealth of golden hair hall and a s. voice that Is charming channing Miss Ray Is one of the most attractive girls In West Virginia She Is possessed not only of the accomplishments ordinarily taught taught to to the girls of ot today oday but she the is thoroughly well versed verged In the knowledge of the farm She Is particularly enthusiastic as a chicken fancier and devotes the most ost of her spare time to her flocks She has some of the finest poultry In the State Stat Many irany a suitor has asked for fur the lovely girl but she has has' given them all aU the sune answer anser But when several of the ren began to press her her- herfor for a different reply and Insisted that she should learn to care for them she announced that she would wed the p person winning the largest prizes at the poultry itrY show She thought she might ht b be able to be happy with a a. man who cared for fog chickens thickens and was vas as successful with them Th Then n there wa was a a. scramble among the the young men for space In the show and the finest birds In the State were entered While not more more than a dozen exhibIts exhibits exhibits its were expected on account of this belr being g g the first show ever given by the State Poultry association the announcement that Miss Ray had offered herself as a a. prize brought out out more than fifty exhibitors Competition was close and every exhibitor watched carefully t th the scoring of his birds by the judge So closely were his acts scrutinized that the scores were ware given with the greatest accuracy even points half-points being recorded a and d several of the birds tied f for r first place But the young men who were ere not really fanciers and who entered their chickens merely In the hope of winning the main prize were vere not successful The winner was the West Virginia Poultry farm owned by R. R S S. Nelson and A. A I I. I Spencer And that is the reason the prize w was s withdrawn this year but will be rex renewed wed at the next annu annual 1 meeting of the Poultry association When h n It was ascertained that the poultry farm was the victor consternation seized all the he wo be Would ld-be ld suitors Then hope lighted up their countenances for forshe forshe forshe she could not marry a farm and she might be Induced to marry the second prize winner But it was suggested that while she could not riot marry the farm it I. I was as owned by two exhibitors rs Both were brought up before re the Judges judges to claim the prize I When Miss Ray saw them she declared that she could not m marry rry either of them You cant can't marry me said Mr Spencer who Is pr president of th the association lon tion tion because I am already married S So am I said ISaid Mr Nels Nelson m. m Half a dozen claimants to the prize then stepped forward and asked that she sie accept the next to the first winner Out of the question said eald Miss Ray If I cart cannot not marry t the winner I will not marry anyone I will go back tal my own chickens and my happy country home and when the next State poultry show is held I will renew my proposition and will marry the man who wins then the largest number of ot prizes Mr r. r Spencer cerl t the e president t of the association who was also the largest prize prizewinner prizewinner winner r blushed to the roots root of his hair when he was pointed d out to te Miss Ray Rayas as the winner who was entitled to claim her hand In marriage and Is Js said to have remarked In private to a friend that he would have given ten years ears of his life If he he had been single again T Tw ity young men upon hearing that the same prize would be offered next year Immediately began to buy up all the prize winners and aM the price of tine line chickens went bounding skyward One pair sold for 50 One man paid for six chickens thickens and others paid prices about as high All the young men who wha entered d the contest say they will be on hand next year and anI the prospect Is that the exhibit will ivill be largest and will consist const of finer birds bird than have ever before been seen seen together in the State When asked by a reporter if she intended to to Si stand nd by by her her proposition to marry the gr greatest test prize winner Miss Ray said I did Indeed And If the winner inner had not been married and had agreed to the proposition I sh should uld have married narried him |