Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
A GRAND FAIR.
RROWNWOOD READY TO ENTER
TAIN HER GUESTS.
The Great Pecan Valley Country Will
Show the World What 1t Can Pro-
duce-Some of the Attractions,
Special to the Gazette.

Speclal 10 the Gazette
BRowNwooD, Brown COUNTY, TEX,
Sept, 27.-The Pecan Valley fair to be held
at Brownwood, Tex, September % to Octo-
Der 3, inclusive, will be one of the grandest
entertainments ever given in the state.
Read a few of the attractions:
The breeders three-year-old trotting
stake has fifteen entries.
The breeders two-year-old trotting
stake has fourteen entries.
The 800 class, trotting, has thirteen en-
tries.
The 200 class, pace, has thirteen entries
The 2:;5 class, trot, has ten entries.
The breeders futurity stake has nine en-
tries.
The breeders four-year trotting stake has
eight entries.
The 2 % pace has seven entries.
The breeders three-year-old pace, six en-
tries.
The breeders futurity pace has six en-
tries.
The breeders stallion stake has seven en-
tries.
The running races and breeders single
and double roadSterS' races are full.
Twenty carloads of running horses ar
rived this morning.
The following changes have been made
and additional amounts added to the run
ming races:
The one-half mile dash purse increased to
500, $50, $50 and $40
The one-fourth mile dash purse increased
to 500, $50, $50 and So
The one-half mile heats purse increased
to $3.50, 800, S35 and SIS
The three-quarter mile dash purse in
creased to $3.50, 500, S35 and SIS
The Pecan Valley Derby has been stricken
out and three-eighth mile substituted
Purse 500, $50. $50 and So
nurse of S75 for horses fourteen hands
and under has been added. $50 SIS and $40.
One of the grandest livestock parades
ever seen in the West will be given Monday
the 2Sth.
The fine blooded colt show will be i'm
menSe.
a grand choir contest on Monday.
The horse, mule and jack show will be on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Balloon ascension and grand parachute
leap on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday
and the rope walking featS on Thursday and
Friday.
Professional and amateur bicycle races on
Thursday. Wheelmen from all over the
state will enter the contest.
The grandest trades display ever seen in
Texas and the firemen's racing contest will
take place on Thursday.
Seven of the finest blooded trotting
stations in Texas will make grand trot-
ting contest in the breeders stakes on Sat
urday over the best mile track in the
South.
Tuesday will be Coleman county day;
Wednesday, Mills county day; Thursday,
McCulloch county day; Friday, Menard
county daytime exhibits from each of said
counties.
The great sweepstakes colt show for a
5000 buggy. will take place ON Friday. Also
the grand parade of all premium livestock
The Texas and Colorado oil and gas COM
pany will convey the gas from their well TO
the top of their derrick, ninety-five feet
high, where the only natural gas IN Texas
can be seen burning day and night.
Eleven three-years scholar ships in the Dan
iel Baker college, and eleven one-year schol-
arships in the Howard Payne college, two of
the foremost colleges in the South-both
located here-will be contested for at the
fair grounds during the fair.
The young people of the city have made
extensive preparations to give the firemen's
ball. wheelmen's reception, and one grand
round of entertainments to visitors every
night during the fair.
A special passenger train will leave
every morning during the fair
and arrive at the fair grounds at 10 O'Clock
a. m, returning every evening at o'clock
Reduced rates on all roads. Passengers
can get OF and on the trains at the fair
ground, platform will be prepared by the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande railroad (Which
never does things by halves for that pur-
pose. No exorbitant prices will be charged
visitors either by transfers or hotels. Ar
have been made to accommo-
late all visitors.