The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-21
The Trades Procession the
Grandest Ever Offered
i'm the State.
A Full and Complete Detail OF
the Programme and
Entries.

Yesterday was a busy day at the
fair grounds and the hum of prepare
ton on every hand showed that the
efforts of the fair association to give
Sedalia an exposition worthy of her
fame and name had not been in vain.
On every hand artisans were busy
preparing the fences, sheds,
building, and other appeartenances,
while constnant stream of vehicles
were coming and going bringing their
loads of goods and machinery of every
conceivable sort for exhibition, and
the different officials and entry clerks,
had their hands full to keep up with
the procession. In the agricultural
implement and machinery department
every inch of available space has been
taken and much ont door room in ad.
dition is occupied. Mr.. Charles
Kelk will haveI the management of
this department.and he required several
assistants to help him out yesterday.
The manufacturers and merchandise
department, T. B. Anderson superin-
dent, is quiet as full and inclu-
desamoung it sentries some Sedalia
made goods that will reflect
great credit to the city and compare
well with the best from abroad if, in
deed, they do not surpass them.
In Textile Fabrics household goods
and the ladies departments the entries
are very large and of a very superior
class. Mrs. F. E. Hoffman and Mrs.
w. F. Henry are managers of these
departments.
Fine Arts-The displays in this de-
partment will be simply grand and
unexcelled, and under the careful and
critical management of Judge Jno. A.
Lacy, cannot but prove a grand sue
cess.
| Fruits and Flowers.-Considering
the season, this department will prove
of great interest. The entries are
very large and from the samples al
ready on the ground. it is safe to say
that the display will convince the
most obtuse that Missouri crops cam
not be hurt by even a ninety days
drouth. Frank Landmann superin-
tends this department.
4 Minerals, Woods and Shells. This
is new department on the lists, but
1t is one OF the finest, fullest and most
interesting, and is under the manage.
ment of Messrs. A. M. Hagar and F.
A. Sampson, two of the most able
experienced men, in this line, in the
state.
Farm and home products, kitchen
: aud pantry stores are also displayed
in greater profusion thatn at any pre-
. vious fair.
S For the Agricultural society prem
r iums there are a number of entries
I which will largely add to the Interest
and beauty of the displays as well a.
5 their volume.
{ M. o Green, of the swine de
d partmsnt reports the largest and fines
e entries ever made, and the same car
be said of the entire stock department
D as every inch of space in the vas
: buildings for their accommodation ha
Z been taken and mann new stalls vii
be required.
In the speed rings the entries ar
the largest ever made and promise t.
, be the most interesting.
: AMONG THE RACE ENTRIES.
As an example may be noted the fol
n lowing:
2:29 class, trotting, eleven entries
2:40 class, five entries.
2;25, class pacing, nine entries.
% 2:34 class trotting, ten entries.
d 800 class, six entries.
q DAB class, six entries.
,e Free for all, pacing seven entries
= Free fer all, trotting eight entries
These entries embrace some of th