Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-06
Tho Coming State Fair.

The Trustees have been attending to mat
tiers preliminary to getting ready for the
great annual State gathering. the Maine
State Fair, at their park in Lewiston, which.
this year. will be held Sept. ILL, and il is
unnecessary to say will be ia success, as
usual, weather permitting. The preparatory
arrangements are all made, the park and
track are in excellent condition. and the peo-
pie will be all on hand when the event comes
round.
The premium list for the exhibition has
Just been issued and comprises the usual ex-
cellent and varied list of premiums offered
in every department of Maine agriculture.
The sum total figures away up among the
thousands of dollars, and no class or de-
partment is overlooked. 1t will be State
Fair in the truest sense of the term.
The Trustees have purchased and now
control the grand stand, and the receipts
therefrom will hereafter go towards lessen
ing the debt of the Society. Among the i'm
provements this year has been the planting
out of hundreds of fine shade trees on the
Park, which were donated by generous citi-
gems from all parts of the State, and which
in few years will add greatly to the beauty
and value of the Park.
The newly taken charge of State colt
stakes races have proved wonderful sue
cess, so fan. OF the sixty odd entries in the
four classes, forty four have paid second
money which insures a large field and
starters in every class. These stakes are
proving very popular. especially with the
smaller Maine breeders, and will he a valua-
BILE and interesting feature of the great ex-
hibition.
The system of special prizes inaugurated
last year by the officers of the Society has
proved to be popular hit and has been very
much enlarged by citizens, the whole num-
Der of special prizes offered being 80 this
year, including large variety of objects.
E. b. Mallet continues his offers of 500 TO
| the boys and girls of the State; a gold
medal is offered for best ) Id. lot of jersey
butter; $50 cup for the best trotting foals
of 81; $50 in gold for best four-year-old
stallion; and for sheep, crops, stock, &C.,
&C., particulars of which will be given here
after. department making almost a State
| Fair of itself.
Among the novelties will be children's
day on Tuesday, during which all children
under eight years of age will be admitted
free, and aged persons so years of age
and upward will be admitted free and given
| front seats on the grand STAND TO witness
the exhibition of the grand cavalcade in the
| forenoon.
Arrangements have also been made fol-
evening meeti gs and discussions at the Park
and one of the lower wings of the main build.
ing will be finished off and arranged for the
purpose. On Tuesday evening the meeting
will be arranged by and in charge of the
Board of Agriculture; on Wednesday even
ing by the State Pathological Society; and OIL
Thursday evening by the State Grange.
Several other specialties are being talked
up including Grand Army reunioa day, &
State bicycle meet and tournament, &C. and the
only trouble will be how to have time to see il
all, and carry out the full programme in the
three days of the Fair. We shall give::furthel
particulars from time to time so that all oul
readers may be fully posted in regard to the
greatest annual event our State ever knows