Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-12
Executive Committee Expresses
Itself on the Street Fair.
NO aBUM" SHOWS WILL GO HERE.
Contracts Have Been Awarded for Dec
oSations and Lighting Special
Attractions Arranged for
Each Day.
From Thursdays Daily.

e The grand carnival and street fair
which will be held in this city four
days commencing Sept. 26, is the chief
topic of conversation these days. The
exhibits, decorations and nature OF the
entertainments ut the Ottumwa fair |
will equal ii not exceed any that have
been seen in the state. The executive
committee met yesterday afternoon
and missed resolution TO the effect !
that it would not license or permit any
show of any indecent nature to open
in Ottumwa that week. No gambling
devices of any nature will. be permitted
on the streets, and the fair will be
conducted on a moral plan as far as
is possible. The committee decided to
prepare for publication a statement of
the exact nature of every show toI
which it grants peNmit to exhibit here
that week. This measure has been Ia
ken because of certain circumstances
which have been made against the fair
on the grounds that the entertain
ments furnished at such events are not
respectable. The people who come to
Ottumwa's street fair can rest assured
that they will not have that complaint
to make of the fair here. 1t will be
conducted on entirely different plans.
4 1t is being gotten up for the benefit of
the merchants and business men of the
city, and to entertain the people in
general. BY the people is meant those
persons who give Wapello county and
this part of Iowa the good name she
has today. One day Of the fair will
be given over exclusively to the farm
ers of Wapello and adjoining counties.
The committee on arrangements feel
! that those who are decrying immoral
entertainments should stop to invests
gate the matter before they make
their objections. j. w. Garner, who
is taking an active interest in the fair,
says that the management can and
will make the Ottumwa fair even a
greater success than the one at Moline,
which is generally conceded as stand
ard for this part OF the country. Mr..
Garner has beenlawarded the contract
to decorate the streets. He will use
bunting, flags, ETC., and will decorate
every telephone and electric light pole
in the district, and place numerous
streamers of bunting across the streets,
until that part of town will have been
converted into veritable fairyland.
The Ottumwa Electric and Steam
! company were yesterday awarded the
contract for lighting the streets. There
VIII }be fifteen additional arc lights in
the fair district, and at every street in.
tersection on Main street from Joffer.
soil, ID. Washington streets there will be
an arch. erected with many-colored
electric lights. At the intersection OF
Main and Market streets there will be
adouble arch. The entire district will
also be illuminated with gas light. The
Ottumwa Gas Light, Heat and Power
company will erect large illuminated
key bearing the motto, Its Yours
or similar motto, to let the visitors
know that the city is theirs if they
will only take it and preserve it. The
gas company will also erect large
emblem Of the B. P. o. E. in front Of
. the Elks' hall. This will probably be
4 in the form of an elks' head. The gas
company will also have display of it,
own.
In connection with the street fair,
Tuesday, Sept. 26, has been set apag
for farmers and old settlers day. a
street parade will be the feature of tht
day. Farmers from the surrounding
country will be invited to participate
the parade to be made on horseback
Three prizes will be given in this even,
the first $25 for the largest number
OF men in line from any one township
second, $40 for the best equipped ride:
and horse, and third, SIS for the oddes
or most unique appearing rider ant
horse.