The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-09-24

The Fair Was Well Attended
Throughout the Season.
The Prize Winners.
The fifth annual fair Of the Mile
! Laos County Agricultural association
proved to be, as predicted, a success
The room allowed for vegetables was
filed to the brim and on the morning
of the second day Secretary Hartman
was obliged to turn away several be-
lated exhibits. While everything in
this department. was Of "A No. i fine
ness one portion Of the display is de-
serving of particular mention. That is
the collection OF vegetables placed on
exhibition by p. A. Briggs. He had a
display containing 1856 varieties Of
vegetables and the whole was very
nicely arranged. In this building,
too, were displayed different portions
of the exhibit of Mile Laos county at
the State fair, which also added
greatly to the interest manifested in
the sights of this room. One side was
devoted to plants and flowers and very
few counties will be able to equal the
display this department contained.
/ The exhibits of horses and cattle
were larger this year than last and the
stock shown was better than former
Fexhibits. One thing was quite evident
from the cattle show and that is the
rapid Improvement which is being made
in the breeding of the stock in this
section. Each years fair brings this
fact to view.
One department this year was not so
we'll patronized, however, as on pre-
vious occasions, but the quality of the
work had in no way deprecated. This
was the fine arts and fancy work de-
partment. There was enough there
though to make a good display and the
ladies spent much of their time looking
over the contents of this room.
One thing which marked this fair
4 was the absence of horse racing. The
sports this year were. trials of skill
/. and Drawn between the athletes OF the
three counties, including a ball game
for each day. Thursday saw the
Selects win a victory from the Green
Lake boys, after which the Green
Lakers conquered the H'Ox-Bows. .
Friday the High Schools were again
victorious, defeating Cambridge. The
features we're a catch of a terrific liner
tagged for two bases by Frank Could
ing, a neat assist from deep center to
third by Young and the back stop work
Of Cravens who caught nine innings
without a passed ball. fl
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F The winners in the Olympian games
were as follows:
+ 100 yard dash-A. J. Anderson, lst:
"A. Oleson, End.
Half mile run--Ernest Byers, 1st:
Bert Jesmer, End.
!: Hurdle race-Bert Nokes, 1st; H.
Mckinney, End.
Potato raced. Lundgren and Ben
Nokes, lst; J. Newton, End.
Three leg race-J. Newton and Fred
Ross, ,1st; D.. Sausser and Ed. Veal,
End.
Standing jump--A. J. Anderson, 1st:
~. Newton, End.
l., Hop, step and jump-Ben Nokes, 1st;
ID. O.. Hallin, End.
& Throwing hammer-A. Blair, LIST;
Chas. Harper, End.
Putting shot A. Blair, lst; Ed.
Lundgren, End.
Bicycle race Bert Jesmer, LIST; Ben
Mitchell, End.
. Throwing base ball. Mahoney,
list; Ed. Claggett, End.
sions although the weather was far
from favorable on both days. The
wind was so strong that the attempt
could not be made until late in the af-
ternoon and then he was forced to drop
before any great height was reached
in order that the spectators might see
that part of the exhibition. Charles
Tibbetts, who assisted him while here,
had a narrow escape at the first ascen-
Esion. HesWas watching the inside Of
the balloon to see that it did not catch