The Princeton union., 1900-09-20
The Ninth Annual Fair Succeeded Beyond the Expec.
@ tations of the Officers
"a Splendid Line of Attractions Was Furnished and
Everyone Was Fully Satisfied.
The Finances of the Society Will Come Out All
E..X Right "A Good Attendance.

n The ninth annual fair has passed into
history and those who attended it
agree that it made mighty good his
tory, too. Thursday was the first day
and1the forenoon was given to receiv-
ing Gand arranging the exhibits. In
the afternoon the first admissions were
charged at the gates, and while the
receipts were not large they served to
warn the officials that there we're
many people interested in the success
of the fair and the remaining days
would be full OF hard work for them:
The building was given up mostly to
the display of vegetables and farm pro-
ducts and those who are not familiar
With the soil Of this section were sur
prised when they visited this feature
OF the fair. OF course the big pumpkin
vas there, but it was not allowed
to absorb all Of the. :public's attention.
If there is a grain or vegetable that
canbe raised in this latitude which
was not on exhibition the UNION failed
to note its absence, and while the
variety was large the quality was
splendid, .-:.,,
In order:to accommodate those who
had promised exhibits Secretary John
son5found it necessary to secure large
tent and CHS was filed to overfowing
with exhibits of fruits. both of nursery
growth and from our home orchards.
And the latter proved veritable sur
prise to all visitors, even unto the
"oldest and most enthusiastic settler. "
Insthis fruit exhibit we're twenty-five
fyarfetrgs apples: shown, several of
Egrapes, pIums and ground cherries,
and mostof them red very favor
ably with those sent here by outside
nurserymen for exhibition. Robert
Clark ST., had charge of this exhibit
and from the opening until the close of
the fair he had an interested audience
about him to listen to his explanations.
Mile Lacs, Sherburne and Isanti coun-
ties were all represented among the
prize winners. After seeing these
fruits there were none who did not be-
lieve that before many years this Sec
tion will be as prominent for it's fruits
as it now is on account of its agricul-
tural products. There can be no ques-
tion as to the prof of fruit
culture here wherever one can have a
lake front or a proper slope.
In the tent also was displayed the
work of feminine hands and the female
portion of the crowd spent hours here
and went into raptures over this part
Of the exhibit.
Then, too, the live stock department
was we'll patronized, and by the way,
the exhibits showed that the stock ol
this section is rapidly: improving in
quality and breeding. The farmers
have discovered that it was more pro.
ftable to raise good animals than
scrubs and the stock exhibit showed
that they were turning their attention
to the improvement of their stock.
Then the special attractions which
the management had advertised were
all pulled off on schedule time and
were just as represented. There were
no tedious waits and from the time set
for the first attraction to the closing of
the gates at night the crowd was busy
enjoying itself. Great credit is due the
managers, and particularly to Secre-
tary johnson, for this pleasing feature
of the fair.
The Anoka band, which began its
engagement Friday, rendered excellent
music all day Friday and Saturday,
and its work was one of the most en-
joyable features of the program for
these days. The boys came up twenty
strong prepared to give the people of
Princeton full satisfaction and they
did it. There was no disposition to
shirk and whenever a little music
seemed to be appropriate they gave
it whether it was on the program or
not. And the people will long remem-
ber the excellent concerts given down
town at night. On. both these occa-
sions the boys worked at disadvant-
age but this only seemed to make
them the more determined to give
satisfaction and it is needless to say
they gave it. The fair management
and the people at large all acknowl-
edge themselves under deep obliga.
tions to the band. - b. r
There were three ball games during