Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-08-16
GETTING IT UNDER WAY.
Exhibitors for the State Fair
Writing About Premiums,
Space, Etc.
Hotel improvements - Lively
Linghtning-A Demand for
Campaign Funds.

The ASSOCIATION has sent out Fair ad.
mission complimentaries to the state
press. Mr.. Wells who has charge Of the
advertising, in note to the publishers,
thanks them for kindnesses rendered in
giving the state Fair generous notices,
and adds:
The poverty of the state and
the penur;ousness Of the railroads
have combined with other causes to
prevent the giving of State Fairs by the
State Agricultural Society and as re-
! suit both state and county fairs have be-
! come almost unknown in North Dakota.
Farmers have lost the inspiration at
forded by competitive exhibits, until slack
methods, poor seed and "single crop"
are becoming the rule. The result of
our first fair in 1892 was seen in the ef-
fort made by the farmers of this vicinity
to procure better seed, to work less land
and work it better, to diversity their
crops and to procure better grade of
stock.
The present aim of the association is
to broaden this bene6cent influence and
make it felt over the entire state. The
liberal premiums offered will induce
competition from the best and most sue
cessful farmers IN the state The associa-
tion requires that such exhibits shall be
accompanied by a history of the exact
methods by which the results we're ac-
coupllshed, and the management of this
Fair will in turn epitomize this valuable
information and place it before all the
farmers OF the state in order that they
may learn the methods by which the win
ming products of the field, the garden
and the pasture or stable were produced
and perfected. The public press is the
public educator, and we earnestly urge
the newspaper men of the state to come
and educate themselves by personal
observation, that they may be able to 20
| home and tell what North Dakota is
capable of doing and how it was done.
The plan OF the grounds has oeen pre-.
pared sy City Engineer T:lden and
donated to the board. 1t shows the
grounds complete and viii be further
platteG into exhibit spaces and used to
show exhibitors where space can be had
without visit to the grounds for The
purpose.
Hon. A. H. Lsughlin of Lisbon, can
didue on the republican ticket for Com
missioner of Agriculture and Labor,
writes the association that he expects to
exhibit herd at twenty Galloway cattle
to compete With any in the state. They
are Dakota raised stock and fine animals,
says Mr.. Lauehlln, and be hopes there
will be other competitors. He also has
herd of Devon cattle that may be ex.
hib;ted.
| The town Of Ender!in on the 500 has
q ZIP roaring base ball club, the peide of
the village and the terror Of all rivals.
; The boys are anxious to come to the Fair
and measure bats with the best talent in
the state-for the s10O prize.
Fargo Argus: A deal is under way to
have gun club shoot. between the five
crack clubs Ut the state, at the James
town Fair. Some suitable prizss and
purses are being arranged for The
Fargo shooters are oiling up their guns
and engaging car space to carry back all
the prizes ID sight.