Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-17
THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD
The Sioux City Corn Palace-Third An.
nual Festival
Sioux CITY. Iowa, June 10, 1889.

nual Festival.
Sioux CITY. Iowa, June 10, 1889.
The People Of tStour City to the People of
the World, Greeting: The undersigned
take pleasure IN announcing that the
Corn Palace (thlrd annual festivaD will
be formally opened on the 23d day of
September, 1889. 1t is our hope and de-
sign to make the forthcoming Corn Pei
ace much larger: grander and more artis.
tic than its predecessors, commensurate
with the growth of the vast corn country
surrounding us; to make it national in.
stitution Of which all Americans may be
justly proud, and the coming achieve
ment of our city's marvellous material i'm
provements. Corn is king and Sioux
City is the capital OF his klngdom-the
only corn palace city of the world.
The fruits and wines of California can
be duplicated in Italy and Spain. King
Cotton's territory in our sister states 1i
the south has rival kingdom in the vast
territory of India. Grain may be grown
IN the frozen regions of the north or un-
der the torrid heat of the equator, but
there is only a limited area Of the world
where corn can be successfully cultivat-
ed, and Sioux City is the heart, the cap
ital, the center of this corn belt, and
hence this proud distinction as the Corn
Palace City of the World. In the autumn
of 1887 Sioux City gave to the world the
first corn palace. 1t was the grandest ar
tistic conception of the century. It was
revelation in art, as great masterpiece
as ever came from earth's might1est
painter. Its reception was worthy of its
unique grandeur. From every section of
tbs country men came, saw and won
dered; and the universal verdict of the
multitudes who gazed upon its wondrous
beauty and originality was: Nothing to
compare with this has ever been since
the world began"
In the two brief years since Sioux City
city has doubled in population and treb-
led in wealth. Its railroads have been
multiplied and it's hotel facilities i'm
proved and enlarged in harmony with it's
ambition and requirements. Its thor
oughfares hayc been paved and beauti
fled, and its local transportation faclli-
ties, supplemented by motor lines and ca
bic cars, and with tireless energy, the
ceaseless activity and united zeal of its
people, it IS rapidly advancing to its des-
tined place in the front rank of the wes-
tern cities. The corn palace of 1889 will
be built and conducted on a scale and
style proportloned to the increased
growth and Importance of the city. 1t
will be held during the loveliest season
of the year-mld the tempered sunshine
and the tints and shades of Indian sum-
mer; at the time when our northwest
plains are laughing in the fullness of a
plenteous harvest. No expense or en-
ergy will be spared to make the forth
coming festival we'll worth a journey
from the remotest confines Of the cont.
nent.
Reduced rates will be secured upon all
the principal railways of the United
States and Canada and South America;
and Il specially earnest invitation is ex-
tended to the people of the south and
east, and to our neighbors of Canada and
sister republics.
A. W. Erwin, President, James E.
Booge,. Vice President; z. R. Rrown,
Treasurer; James v Mahoney, Secretary