The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-19
The Fair Booming.
WEnNEspAY. Sept. Il

The Fair Booming.
"WEDNESDAY. Sept. Il.
The first two days of the fair are pre-
paratory days. During that time exhi
bitors are busily engaged in geiliH;
their goods, wares or merchandise al
ranged in the hall IN as tasteful anS
SNOWY II manner as possible, and thu
fair properly commences when the vIsi
tors come to see what is on exhibition
Such, at least, has been the case with
our fair-and now that everything i:
arranged in the best possible shape, con
sidering the smallness of the
halls and the amount ON exhibition
tomorrow the "boom" will commence
We made an earnest effort to procure the
programme for tomorrow, but the secre-
tary and his assistants have been so
busily engaged that il was impossible
for them to furnish it. The Apollo cor
net band, OF Americas, Will furnish the
music for tomorrow. The races tO-mOr-
row are for the following purses:
No. 3. TRoTTING-Purss 500; for
second, $25; third, SO
No. 4. TRoTTING-Purse $175; 2 40
class.--First horse, TlO5; second, $3.50 !;
third, $3.50.
No. 5. RUNNING-Purse 500; half.
mile heats, best in 3.-First horse, 500 :;
second, $25, third, $40
There is a splendid field of horses
here, Sedalia, Mo-, furnishing no less
than eight head, while Salina, Kansas
City, Iowa, &c, are represented. Mug
gins and Joe Rhodes, both runners, came
i'm last night In one word we can as
sure the patrons of the fair that there
will be good racing on both tomorrow
and Friday.
Cattle are well represented, there being
several herds of fine Short horns and one
of Herefords on exhibition, Bayne of
Kentucky having u herd Of % head
D. Condiff, of Mo, and others represent
the short horns and T. II. Cavanaugh
the HereforCls.
+. Dumbauld, of the eastern part of this
county, has splendid lot of American
Merlno sheep on exhibition and sale.
Mr.. d. has on his farm lot of go ewes
that raised lambs and sheare1 1 Il lbs
wool this season, which speaks well for
the sheep business in Kansas, and Lyon
Mr.. Snediker, of this county,
and La Srence and 10y, of Michigan,
have sheep in the pens. The pens des-
ignated for hogs were filled at an early
hour this morning.
In the halls the exhibition is good in
almost every department. Geo. Newman
and Wibley& Henson each make splen-
did display in their lines of dry goods,
&c.
The fruit display is rather meager, this
being an off year in-Kansas fruit. The
exhibit of corn would indicate something
Dr. somebody had got on his ear, while
the potatoes, judging from the size of
them, must have had each other "lie over
in their little beds. There are squashes
there called CHILEAN Mammoth that would
we'll bear to have the name reversed, but
the space allotted us will not allow even
q mention of all that is there.
ilc premiums OilCIcu ny INC ~ EHb |
occupy a CONSPICUOUS place and are
gazed on with a wistful eye by many |
who by the rules are ruled out, for
want of II baby. Squire Miller, of
has sole charge of this show,
which insures the calico baby al equal |
chance with the bon ton. This show
comes off on Friday at II O'Clock a. M,
sharp, and all interested must be there at
hat time or get left.
The usual concomitants of fair are |
lere-the street talker, the menagerie
composed Dwell, you can find out for
L quarter. The wheel of fortune and |
'arious other thieving games are run
openly.
A team hitched to trotting wagon
ran away on the grounds this morning
md took in assistant marshal Charles
on horseback. Charlie and |
his horse were knocked down, but not |
hurt. The buggy, however,
was smashed.