The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-16
The Fair at the Fair.

The Fair at the FAIR.
The Catholic Fair has again taken possess
ion of the rink. This is It's second season at
the big hall, and the scenes of last year are
about TO be repeated. Year by year the fair
'has grown in magnitude and attendance,
each year extending its scope, and each year
re&ping the reward of larger attendance
1t opened Wednesday evening to rather
slim attendance, but as the details had not
yet been been arranged, the managers CON
sidered it good first night Thursday even
ing was much better, and last evening was
another decided improvement, while to night
the crowd is expected to fill the hall com,
pletely. Although the crowd was large last
evening, there seemed to be q sufficency OF
young ladies who sold chances to go around
The exhibits are divided as usual, and
three booths are fitted up this year All are
beautifully decorated and supplied with
things useful and ornamental. The booth
on the west is the city booth, and is presided
over by several of the charming young ladies'
Of the church, one or two Of whom are mar
ried ladies' 1t il surrounded by beautiful
silk quilt and profusely hung with tides and
nic-nacs. The booth on the south is called
the country table, and some OF the most
charming of the young girls from the broad
acres Of the north, look after its interests
1t is well supplied with fancy work, bric-a
bac and toys. The youug ladies booth is
located on the east, and is covered with
ready made snow, T. e. cotton batting sprink-
led with diamond dust Among host of
novelties and pretty things, it exhibits
very neat travelling pillow and several ex.
quiste samples of decorative needle.work.
Just south of the last mentioned booth is
the gypsy teIt. A kettle on tripod with
ladle protruding above its rim, suggests
boiled lizards, toads, snakes, teeth etc., Ia
Macbeth. Several young ladies sell keys, as
others sell chances, and the purchaser enters
the tent and with his key "unlocks the gate
of mystery or some other gate, and gazes
upon his future prospects One young man
wsdes through the hall with the startling
prospect of an early demise via Judge Lynch,
after a prosperous career as q professional
horse thief Another you.h, connected with
daily paper, has the exquisite mirage of a
cannibal feast, with his quivering remains as
the feast because his personal features will
excite the appetites of the South Sea Island.
ers. Dan Burke is to become prosecuting
attorney and then die in solitary confiuemen,
as penace for stealing speech from Bob
Ingersoll. Arthur Redmond will become a
balloon artist and just as his balloon floats
over the center of the boiling lake of lava in
the Hawaii Islands, it will slowly collapse
and gently deposit him where the boil is the
reddest. Tom Quinn is to write love letters
forever and receive no response, but at
length his love will fall through fourteen.
foot ceiling and plant Ustane kiss upon his
amber mustache. Ed. Snyder will enter
race with the champion sprinter. Charlie
Mitchell with the alternative of catching
Mitchell or being cooked in boiling oil, ac-
cording to Gilbert and Sullivan rules John
Kelly will have the pleasure of loaning his
spare change to local sports to bet on the
races and then stand by and seeing them
place it on losing horses Joe FenneI has
the most joyous future of all he will deliver
packages to the wrong stores for q month and
the expense of recovering lost goods will eat
up his salary and leave him twice the amount
in debt each month. This is to continue for
five years, at the end of which time Joe will
be arrested for embezzlement and banished
to Streator. The ladies who preside over
this most delicate place are Misses - and
Next to the tent is the fish pond. There is !
no water in this pond, and one need not go
the expense Of buying steel hooks-silver
will do.
Near by is the Office of that influential
journal the FAIR RECORD. 1t is a far flower
and will take its chances in the editorial fsh
pOndswith the gayest galoot on the Sidney
lake of journalism.
A good supper will be served every even
ing at six, and during the evening oysters,
etc, will be dished up in the most approved
style.
If you would go with the crowd, go to the
fair.
Supper every night during the fair for 20
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