The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-25

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which will be awarded suitable premiums.
Fine Arts.
Among the many choice prizes offered in
this class, the following may be said to be
the best:
Best original figure painting in water
color, $50.
Best original landscape painting in oil
! utah scenery, S2O-Both offered by the
! Deseret National bank. Salt Lake.
Best original painting in watereolors
utah scenery, S20-Ofered by Cohn
Bros, Salt Lake.
Best portrait in oil. s20-Offered by the
Deseret National bank, Salt Lake.
Best crayon or India ink portrait from
life, not a photograph, S20-Ofered by the
Deseret National bank, Salt Lake.
Best painting (oil) landscape or portrait,
! by any young lady under tWenty-one years
and resident of Utah, S25 toilet seton
ditioned that the young lady who won this
premium last year shall be debarred from
the competition Offered by Godbe, Pitts
Drug Co., Salt Lake.
Most meritorious display of oil paintings,
the work of Utah artist, 25-Offered by
Aaron Keysor, Salt Lake City.
| Best collection OF Photographic speci-
mems, s20-Offered by Deseret National
bank, Salt Lake.
Best specimen of sculpture, by Utah
artist, S25-Offered by F. Auerbach g.
Bro, Salt Lake City.
| Best specimen of wood or stone carving,
gold medal or s15-Offered by Richard
Kletting, Salt Lake City.
Women's Work.
If any attempt were made to describe the
offers in this class, the line would simply
stretch out to the t'crack of doom" Suffice
1t to say the list was prepared by lady
thoroughly conversant with all the new
tangled and spangled gew gaws, all of
which are set down with nice little pre-
MUM for the best. There are ribbons and
laces and neckties and kerchiefs and net
ting and latting and bed spreads and crazy
quilts and mats and rugs and hoods and
bags and aprons and banners and skirts
and leggins and mits and slippers and
cushions and baskets and insertions and
rick rack and infinitum.
Educational.
A novel and interesting exhibition of the
intellectually of the youth Of Utah is here
provided for, and consists of the offer of a
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary to the
successful contestants in the following
named branches of learning:
To the successful contestant in spelling
match, class to be over Is years of age.
To the successful contestant in spelling
match, class to be under IS years of age.
For best recitation of Whittier's Bar
bara Fritchie," by boy or girl under IS
years of age.
To the person making the quickest and
most accurate replies in mental arithmetic
To the successful scholar in grammar
SCHOOL, for adults to be held on the
grounds.
The following special offers add vim and
interest to this important department
For the best specimen of penmanship, by
boy or girl under l6 years, Sis.
Second best, $3.50.
Third best, $3.50.
The specimens to consist of four pages of
legal cap paper-Offered by H. j. Grant &
Co.. Salt Lake city.
Best essay on 1.-THE Modes and Manner
of Barbering Among Different Nations"
A ticket emitting the holder to one years
hair cutting and shaving at Temple Barber
Shop, Salt Lake city-Offered by Goddard
& James, Salt Lake city.
Best original historical narrative, not
less than 10000 words, S50-Offered by
George Q. Cannon & Sons, Salt Lake city.
Special Features.
Under this heading the society announces
the following:
A grand band tournament viii be held at
the Exposition Building beginning October
2nd, for a premium of $50, offered by
Francis Armstrong, Salt Lake city, and
the society's gold medal
A type-writing contest will be held at
the Exposition building for amateur type
writer's the date and conditions to be an
nounced hereafter, for a premium of S25,
offered by George Arbogast, Salt Lake
city.
The Coop. Wagon & Machine Co., Salt
Lake city, will give a Mitchell farm wagon
for purpose designated in circular to be
issued by that firm about September l, 1889.
Spencer Clawsen offers S25 to the person
who will guess nearest to the correct num-
Der of beans in jar, TO occupy a con-
spicuous place at the fair grounds.
Grant Bros. Co., Salt Lake city, make
the following offer:
To the man who will put carriage har-
ness on a double team and buggy harness
on a single horse in the quickest time, COM
petitors to furnish their own horses and
harness, the harness to be the same as in
ordinary use at livery stables and to have
no prepared snaps, so.
Second quickest, IS.
Little, Ropndy & Co., Salt Lake city, will
contribute dinner set, value S25, to the
couple who will get married at the fair
grounds, time to be hereafter designated.
II more than one couple present them
selves, the lucky couple to be selected by
drawing.
George A Lowe, Salt Lake city, offers
Clark's Getaway harrow to the person
showing the best and greatest number of
Utah bred animals at the fair.
&. Twelves, Provo, offers S25 for the best
fenced and cultivated market vegetable
garden, to be within a radius of fifty miles
of Salt Lake city, each competitor to pay
into the society's treasury $40, to defray
the travelling expenses of the judges; the
gardens to be viewed u week before the
fair
Utah Stove & Hardware Co., Salt Lake
city, offer a Faultless Heater. for the best
and largest exhibit of farm products, raised
and exhibited by one person.
Frank W. Jennings, Salt Lake city, offers
$25 for the best homemade dress, out of
homemade material professional dress
makers excluded).
George @. Cannon 4 Sons viii give 50
for the best half dozen loaves of bred, made
by Utah girl under Is years of age.
The following named have kindly offered
to give special premiums but have not yet
designated what they shall be:
Consolidated Implement Co., Salt Lake
city.
S. p Teasdel, Salt Lake city.
Studebaker Bros, Salt Lake city.
L. =. Armstrong, Salt Lake city.
Utah Produce Exchange, Salt Lake city.
Arthur Brown, Salt Lake city.
Important to Exhibitors.
No entry fee is charged for exhibits, but
each person, before making an entry, must
purchase ticket of annual membership.
costing 81, which will entitle him to make
any number of entries and to be himself
d mittad to tho oroundc of anv tiue dur;pcy
the exhibition.
The price of admission to the fair % cents:
children under u years, 10 cents.
Space for refreshment booths and adyer- |