Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
In Response TO "A Voter"

The many readers OF the Ho,card
County Times had an opportunity to
read a good moral resolution under
The heading of County Fair Petition. -
The resolution itself is good, and
should ever be before the people
whether in connection with county
fairs or 'church picnics,, but the
article following the resolution, signed
by "a Voter" is misleading.
He censured the officers of the
Howard County Fair Association of
last year, in the disgusting, democrat
izing and criminal methods they took
OF raising money to pay premiums
attractions and running expenses, by
licensing saloons and gambling during
the fair etc.
/ was Secretary and member of the
Board of Directors of the Howard
County Agricultural Society last year,
and am in position to know quite as
many facts in connection with the
fair as does Mr.. ga Noter.n
In the first place l want to take the
criminal sponsibility off of the othc.
officers of the Society, inasmuch as 1
let all privileges, and am here to stand
by those acts. However, l did not
license any beer selling, games of
chance Except straight percentage),
pick-pockets, highway robbery nor
murder, and if any of these disgrace
full deeds were committed on the
grounds, | will assist and do all in my
power to prosecute the perpetrators.
did license the selling of "Malt
Mead" which resembles beer very
much, but it is a Notwithstanding
beverage and is sold all over the States
as such.
Mr.. ga Voter" assures us that "The
people of Howard County run the fair, y
etc. AS regards thatstatement 1 will
call your attention to some of the
rules of the Society, viz: "All exhibit
ors must procure membership ticket
before making entries Except in chill
dren and ladies Department." Also,
annual membership tickets signed
and recorded entities the holder to
full membership in the Society until
the next annual fair, but are not
transferable at any time.'' "Member-
ship tickets admitting man, his wife,
family under fifteen years of age. with
team $780,"
Consequently man may live in
Mexico and have more authority in
the management of this Society if he
4 is a member) than Mr.. ga Voter" has
vested in him by the complimentary
Ticket" which 1 issued to him last
fair time. | wish to say that l believe
that the fair ought to be run by the
people of Howard County and vicinity
and the society officials would be more
than pleased to have them all procure
membership tickets mot complimen-
taries) and take hold and run it.
Buffalo Bills Show kept at least
$1,000 from the treasury of the
Society last season; however, nearly
all the old debts were paid off and
was out of pocket $3.50 and about
three months of hard work.
There is a whole lot of hard work
connected with a successful fair, and
volunteers will be assigned places that
they may show their interest in the
Society in reality as well as by word
OF mouth or on paper. There are more
than score of people in Cresco offer
ing their services to the fair associ.
alton officers for the few dollars salary
only and care nothing further for the
Society, while the people that put in
weeks and months of hard work do
not even get thanked for it.
| Since have been connected with
the Society l have noticed that the
faultfinders are persons that attend
the fair on complimentaries or not at
all. The class of people that pay their
money have little fault to find, and if
these faulttinders would attend some
other county fair within radius of
two hundred miles, they would forever
hold their peace.
Ii the editor of the Times would
have given me the correct name of
this man ga Voter" | would not have
thought it worth while to answer, as
think / could have persuaded him
to answer it himself. Nevertheless
the man showed very little manhood,
little morality and much less truth,
for no man, woman or child with good
intentions would hesitate to sign
their true name to a statement such
as referred to, had it been the truth.
G. A. L. LOOMS.
The PLAIN DEALER will also state
that "the men who run the Fairn at
the annual meeting of the society
unanimously wished Mr.. Loomis te
accept the office for this year, but he
declined. They evidently endorsed
his methods and managementa and car
not consider the Fair as corrupt anG
demoralizing as "a Noter.'
CREsCO MARKETS
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