Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-08-13

The Thirty-siXth Annual Ohio State
Fair will be held at the City of Celum+
bus on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday and Friday, August 3lst, and
September 1st, I'd, Sd and 4th. The State
Board of Agriculture is putting forth its
usual earnest efforts in calling together
at this exhibition the very choicest spe-
clmens and best displays from the vari
Gus productive industries of Ohio and
adjoining States. The success that has
crowned the efforts of the Board in the
past, and especially since the location OF
the Fair at the Capital of the State, is a
sufficient guarantee that the coming
Fair will he fully and handsomely rep
resented in each of the departments OF
live stock, machinery, implements, farm
products, fruits, household and orna>
mental work, flowers, fine arts, music,
etc., and that altogether a magnificent
and instructive exhibition will be pre-
sented one that cannot help but encOur-
age and promote the general industries,
and desesve the support and patronage
of the citizens of the State generally.
The premium list has been increased
and generally revised to meet the re-
qulrements of the present time. This
will make the competition the "a ore
| lively, and further warrant a deeper in
terest by both exhibitors and visitors,
and as every animal and article is re-
quired to be in place on the first day of
the fair, the interest will begin at the
very opening of the gates. and continue
| during each day of the fair. There will
be, under this rule, no single big Gay,
but every day will be big one, replete
with interest and attractions.
In the speed department a decidedly
new arrangement of premiums has been
adopted, one that will at once be pro-
nOunced just, and receive the endorse+
ment not only of horsemen, but all per-
sons interested in the track. We refer
to the equalization of premiums. In the
amounts offered no distinction will be
made between the different classes of
trotters and PAGERS. Five hundred
dollars is the amount fixed upon for each
class, making in the aggregate the larg-
est premiums ever offered by the Board
in this division of the fair. The classes
have been so arranged that exhibitions
will be given each day on the one-mile
rack. On Friday, the last day of the
fair, there will be grand parade on the
one-mile track of all the animals that
have been awarded premiums. This
will be feature well worth Witnessing
and one that will be especially enjoyed
by the lovers of fine stock.
The railways of the State, and espe.
cially those centeriDg at Columbus, are
alive to the Importance of Ohio's great
exhibition, and will, during its progress
at olumbus, provide numerous cheap
and popular excursions, and extend eX-
cursion rates on all trains, that the peO-
pie from every station, villgage, town and
city of the State may be afforded an op
portunity to attend. Upon arrival at
at Columbus, the facilities for reaching
the grounds are ample and cheap. Three
lines of street railway extend to the
very gates af the fair, and the fare from
any part of the city is but five cents
besides the street car lines, there will be
numerous other methods by which the
grounds may be reached at correspond
ingly cheap rates. Columbus is the city
of Public Institutions, and visit to the
fair will afford also an opportunity for
visiting the mOreimportant of the States
public buildings.