Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-10
IT WAS TRULY A GREAT FAIR
South Dakota's Exhibition a Grand
Success.
What Was Exhibited and Who Were
There to See It--Severai Import
ant Meetings Resume OF
state Matters.

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| crops that the state has this year
! grown. The number OF exhibits was
! nearly twice as large as they ever were
before and as to quality in about the
same proportion. II any evidence was
| needed TO show that South Dakota is
/ growing there is nothing more con-
vincing than this could probably be
! found
The only drawback to the complete
! success of the fair was the exceptiona-
bly, dry and hot weather that has been
lowering over the northwest for the
! past three weeks. The thermometer
went higher than it did at any time
| during the summer and the discomfort
was greater on account of the unsea-
| sonablcness of the weather. 1t was
reported that at st. Paul, Mimi, the
most famous summer resort in the
country, the public schools had
to be suspended on account
of the exceeding heat At Pierre the
signal station reported the tempera-
ture as high as 1O3 degrees. 1t was a
|
precedented in the history of the
| country.
Sioux Falls saw many distinguished
visitors at the state fair last week
| Sioux City furnished n special train
with nearly 300 of her enterprising
inhabitants headed by Mayor Palmer.
Among the crowd were lots of plug
hats"-if that is any indication as to
the class of people that took advantage
of the excursion, Among the state
officials were Senat ors Pettigrew and
| Kyle, Congressman Pickler and Clifford
and probably thousan nds of would-be
! congressman, vice Hon. j. Il. Gamble,
| lately deceased, Supreme Justice Ben
nett, chief clerks of the senate and
| house Burdick and Cone, and SO on
almost to the end of the chapter, And
it was strange how many federal
officials of the state could arrange to
have their duties bring them here on
the occasion. They were almost as
thick as they were at Pierre
| last winter when their services
| were supposed TO be necessary to the
election of United States senator.
| There were Bank Examiner Jno f..
Diamond, Register James V. Mellow
| ell and so on through the well-known
! list. OF course it can't be that these
well-known republicans were present
for any political purpose. The far
mers' (?J alliance people did not seem
to be SO well represented, although
there were several farmers present
| from various parts of the state De-
mocracy's ranks were most visibly rep
| resented by Major c. Boyd Barrett,
who has just returned from his old
| Virginia home, and on the list of next
month will take up the publication of
his Aberdeen Daily Republican just
where he dropped it a year ago He
says that he comes back entirely re-
/ juvenated for the arduous duties of
the newspaper editor and publisher,
that he went away wreck,
threatened with apopleXy and several
other diseases, but that he came back,
and is now ready for the fray His
| paper will be democratic just as it was
| before, and that may need some eX-
| PLANTATION. AS the ma jor explains it,
! the party organization in Aberdeen
! and his county is in the hands of the
old church crowd, and as nobody takes
the pains To fight them, is likely to re-
main so. The Church faction has a pa
per of its own, the state Demo
crat, and its editor is a member of
the state committee. So Barrett runs
what he calls democratic paper,
with no string to it,. 1T makes little
difference to the ma jor whether he is a
delegate or not, he always attends the
conventions and takes toall appearances
as prominent part as though he was.
| Most emphatically there is no string to
the major lie is the ever ubiquitous.
| But he has original ideas at all times.
| Coming from Virginia dire ct TO South
| Dakota, he says: There is no posi-
BILE chance for Cleveland. Hill has
| New York, and that he is not favora-
| BILE to Cleveland is beyond doubt. But
| even if he had New York he never could
| get the south. They are not gold bugs
| down there, so can never stand his siI-
yer views. Why, it was only by a
scratch that Cleveland carried Virginia
last time-by l,400 votes. Next year
the democratic candidate for governor
had $4,000. Cleveland would never
have had the 400 but for split be-
tween Malone and the other faction
! down in the colored districts" Further,
the major says that if Hill or
German is not nominated that
Boies, of Iowa, will be the
democratic nominee for president and
that in any event he will be on the
ticket for vice-president If not at the
head
| Every state official except Governor
| Mellette attended the state fair. Where
| he was has not been accounted for up
| to date. II would have been a very
| graceful thing for him to have been
| present Land Commissioner Ruth was
the only official who had an exhibit at
the fair, and his 2-year-old trotting
stallion took the blue ribbon as the
| finest that was shown.
There were various meetings of state
bodies held during the fair. The rail-
road commissioners, Madison Chautau-
qua association, state board of health
| and state board of regents all held
sessions. But the meeting most fraught
with interest to the state was that OF the
worlds fair commissioners. President
Evans and most of the members were
present and their proceedings most eff
fectually gave the lie TO those who
pcth thc SboTN
South Dakota's effort for representa-
tion at the Columbian exposition WAS
dead. Further, it will be one unite d
exhibit and not one by the Black Hills
and others by other sections, as has
been circulated to considerable extent.
All recognize now that q mistake was
made in attempting to secure an extra
session of the legislature for the pur-
pose of having the state make the APP
preparation which was neglected at
the proper time. The money neces-
sary now will be raised through the
different societies and organizations
of the state. Farmers alliances, COM
mercial clubs and similar organiza-
tions will be asked to arrange for con.
tributions. The school children of the
state will give exhibitions, the profits
of which to go to the fund. Oliver
Gibbs, jr., of McCools county, has been
appointed general manager and will
set about preparing the exhibit at once.
Mr. Gibbs ia a competent man and xvas