Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-09-07
ATTRACTIONS FOR COUNTY FAIRS.
Weddings, Pigs in Clover, u GO-as-yOu-
please Race. ana Pretty Girl soldiers.

Weddings, Pigs in Clover, u Go-as-yOu-
please Race. and Pretty Girl soldiers.
Middletown IN. W Dispatch TO sun.
The season of agricultural fairs has
opened, and nowadays every ambitious
town or small aggregation of adjacent
towns feels bound TO hold an annual
show of its productions, accompanied by
outside attractions for the purpose ofdraw
ing trade, showing OIL local enterprise,
and enhancing its Importance among
its sister communities. There are
50 many of these local fairs held, and
there exists 40 much rivalry In
the matter of giving tho best show and
drawing the biggest crowd, that the re-
spective managers are often put to their
wits end for interesting features that shall
max their own show conspicuously attrac-
tive and successful. Formerly horse races,
base ball matches and balloon ascensions
were relied upon as standing attractions
but these too common features seem to
have palled upon the public taste, and now
some strikingly novel and bizarre perform
aDce must he announced upon the pro-
gramme 10 draw the crowd.
Last season some inventive genius in
troduced n sensational and enticing fea-
turc in tho form Of wedding celebrated
on the grand stand befores the eyes of all
the people assembled on the fair grounds
with a real bushing bride and bashful
gvman performing the nuptial rights the
premiums awarded To the happy pair for
making the exhibit being n housck eepin z
outfit. The idea proved grand success
and filled the Golfers of the fair managers
who adopted 1t. This season the managers
of the orphanage fair at oxford promise a
similar attraction, and are hunting high
aud low for n pair of willing lovers To fill
the bill.
The Delaware valley fair at Walton ad-
vertises an entirely novel feature. II Is
proposedlto exemplify the "Pigs in Glover"
puzzle on the fair grounds with pen built
aiier the prescribed pattern and with pigs
as much alive as pigs can be, and the fell
low who succeeds in penning the porkers
in the shortest time will get a 81 gold piece.
The programme of the Riverside fair at
Greene announces q novel o-as- YOU please
race for premiums, over half-mile course,
In which may be entered any animal that
goes on -four legs except horse or mule
anything that may be ridden or driven in
harness by boy or man. There ought to
be fun In a trial of speed between goats,
sheep, bullocks, and other outlandish con
testants.
The oneonia fair offers the great
and crowning attraction of public
drill and exhibition on the fair
grounds by the "Home Guard" COM
pany of pretty girl soldiers representing
the hest society of the town. Tho girls
wear blue uniform jackets, trimmed with
white and gold, jaunty regulation caps
and kits reaching to the boot tops, and
they carry light guns with bayonets.
They have been under drill for six months
by an experienced drill master
and they go through great variety
of military evolutions aud movements
with the precision of veteran soldiers. The
girls have appeared several times in pub
lie for charitable objects, and have been re
ceived with immense admiration and en-.
thusiasm.