The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-09-20
THE EXPOSITION.

On Tuesday morning the second
annual fair of the present efficient as
ISOLATION will open for five days al
Sicher's park. Everything which
money, ability. sharp appreciation
Of those things which will give the
people the most pleasure and which
will conduce most to the success OF
the exhibition and to the increase Of
the credit and reputation of Pettis
county and Genital Missouri, together
With IN untiring energy and industr!
on the part Of each and every indi-
vidual connected with the enterprise
has been done to insure full
and complete arrangements for thu
greatest fair Of the year outside Of ST.
Louis. Not only is every depart
nent expected to be full and com
pete, but every Other feature of thu
exhibition will surpass the effort o,
any previous year. Added to thu
usual attractions of the speed-ring.
the greatest race ever run in Missouri
will come off the first day. This j.
the twenty mile race between our
Missouri girl, Miss Nellie Archer,
and the graceful Miss Cricket Still,
of Kansas. The two states will
be 50 largely represented on the
GROUND that not less than
twenty-five thousand people are ex-
pected to be present. There will be
ample accommodations even for Thu
large crowd. The grand stand will
seat some Eve or six thousand people
and the grounds are so arranged tina,
each and every person may see the
great race without difficulty. There
will also be, on Tuesday, a trottine
race for horses that have never beaten
2:21, for a purse of four hundred dol
lars. trottiDg race for $50 horses
tor . purse of two hundred and fifty
dollars. and . running race.
The fast race, for 2:21 horses will
be . particularly fine one. A num-
Der of the fastest horses in the coun-
try have been entered for this
trot. The other races will also be
very interesting. On the second day
there will be 2:27 trot, a free-for-all
pace and a running race. On the
third day the great 2:ls trot will
come Of. together with 2:40 trot, .
running race and . mule race. The
fourth day will offer PA trot, 4
2.32 trot, and . running race. On
tho 9Th day the fair will close with q
three minute trot, two running races
and consolation purse for running
horses. There will be on exhibition
Ill kinds Of agricultural and other
implements and vehicles, manufactures
and mechanism. textile fabrics and
household goods, fine arts. fruits,
flowers and plants, farm and home
products, pantry and kitchen stores,
swine. Poland China or Magic stock,
woods, poultry, blsoded Thoroughbred
cattle, short horns and Attorneys,
breeding stock, horses and mules.
saddle horses and ponies, all purpose
horses, draft horses, thorough bred
horses, roadste.s, and hundreds of
other attractions to numerous to men,
ZION.
All the railroads running into
Sedalia will carry passengers to and
from the exposition at greatly reduced
rates and Will forward STOCK, machln-
ery and other articles intended for ex-
hibition at rates which will be salts
factory to exhibitors. Excursion
trains will run on al the railroads
during the exposition.
The officers of the association in
tend to u,ake this, their second effort.
. most thorough exponent of the in
oustrial and agricultural interests Of
Missouri, and to promote the develop
nent of the fine and useful arts in
the west. The success of the last ex-
position was such as to justify the as.