The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-08-18
ATTRACTIONS FOR ALL
County Fair Will Be a Good Substitute
For State Fair and Detroit
Exposition.
Bicycle, Horse and Dog Races with
Full Glasses Of Fast
Ones.


Base Ball and Company Drill, Manufac-
tured Articles and the Best
Stock in the State.
The S4th annual fair of the Shiawassee
county agricultural association will be held
in Owosso September 26, 81, % and 20.
The fair given by this association has for
several years been recognized as one of the
best held in the state not only in the variety
OF the different kinds of all articles exhibited
for premiums, but for the universal superb
orlty OF the articles themselves. The county
is peculiarly located and the best stock of
many different strains have representatives
on some of the well-known farms of the
county.
Attractions of all kinds have made this
city center for the last few years and the
number this fall will be greater than ever.
The association has reputation for intro
ducing new features which have been taken
up by other societies and several will be
added next month.
The officers are making great endeavOrs
this year and in order to have complete
show in every department are having the
buildings put in the best of shape for the
exhibition and protection of all articles
shown. New classes in many departments
will also attract new articles and make
lively competition where heretofore articles
were but scarcely shown. Many manufact-
ured articles will be on exhibition in different
stages OF their completion and the uses of
the different tools may thus be learned.
The amusements for younger people and
children will be varied and interesting.
The trained English setter trottng dogs
Bird and Ned, recently purchased by DR..
Taylor, of Bancroft for his son, will be here
and quite likely be matched against a pair
of Detroit dogs in two or more half mile
races. The dogs trot singly or doubly and
will be matched against pony or boy on
bicycle. The record of the team is two
minutes and eleven seconds for half mile.
They are driven by Warde Taylor and will
be an attraction at a number of the large
ldlIS ILLS ldll.
The bicycle races which were so well
contested last fall will be feature this
year, the prizes, however will be much more
valuable and with an additional class and a
much larger list of entries will be exceed
ingly good events.
The horse races will this year, as last, he
the best in the section of the state. Th.
purses are the largest ever offered by It,,
society and the entries are larger now than
in any preceding year at this time. The
free-for-all trOt or pace which will be held
on Friday, the purse for which is $500 and
which will probably be increased to $500.
will have winners from all parts of the state
in many summer and fall meetings as stal +
ers. f'''
The 80, 40 and minute classes will in
clude quite a number of horses owned N
Owosso which are expected to show unusual
speed. The running classes will also be
well filed and plenty of this class of spor,
will be furnished for the lovers of the I'll -
ming race. An added feature this year ALI,
one which should be enjoyed by large
number of people will be the base ball
games. One will be held Thursday and
one Friday afternoon and both will be good
ones to make up for the lack of such during
the summer. Company G Third Regiment
Michigan Nation Guards which made so ex-
cellent record in camp both this year and
last, will give an hours exhibition of the
hardest movements in the new tactics under
command of Major p. M. Roth.
The admission to the fair is but % cents
and the attractions will be greater than at
any county or district fair in the state.
There being no state fair or Detroit EXPOSE
ton this year the fair at Owosso will be the
only one many will have a chance to see
and it will be made a good substitute for
either and the cost will be but trifle. The
fair is home institution and should be
patronized by the entire population of the
county. A prosperous agricultural society
and good exhibition is as important part
in the enhancing of the value of farm prop
erty as the manufacturing industries of q
city are of city property. 1t displays the
enterprise of the farmers who are the bone
and sinew of the country, and the variety OF
our manufactured articles to large num-
Der of outside visitors and to a class who
are willing to admit the good showing of a
county and free to advertise it wherever
they go.
The merchants are taking an interest
this year in many ways and beside these
displays will contribute prizes for contests
of different kinds.
The premium books are being bound and
will be ready for distribution next week.
They will be carefully distributed in all
parts of the county and everyone should at
tempt to find some way in which to aid the
association by bringing in an article for ex-
hibition. The firms represented by adver-
tisements are the best in Owosso and during
the fair will offer bargains in their different
lines.
The evening attractions will be at the