Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
Carnival Association Offers $40
in Prizes in Floral Parade.
MERCHANTS, CONTRIBUTE FREELY.
List of Merchants Who Offer Prizes in
Contests Ranging From Farm Prod
ducts and the Largest Pumpkin to
the Prettiest Girl.
From Saturdays Daily.


The biggest prize to be offered
during the street carnival is $40 for
the vehicles that are decorated the
handsomest. The next prize is s25
for the best glee club and the same
amount divided into two prizes for
the best bushel of corn. The least
prize is SIS, of which there are sew
eral.
Not only are the prizes large and
no fee in charged for entering any
contest, but the amusement end has
been well taken care of. There will
be five bands, big free stage shows,
the monster Hagenbeck wild animal
shows, Ararats famous all nations,
Lester & Kent's cyclorama, the beau
tiful Ameta, the golden fountain, the
Miller family, Guth's famous Midway
carnival, the Indiana boy, Mrs. Muir
ply, the monkey balloon ascenstonists,
the Busch girl, the two-headed wom-
on, Buffalo Bill on the first day, and
other attractions too numerous to
mention.
For one week beginning September
II, it will be a carnival time in OF.
tumwa. Every day will be feature
and it is expected that large ma
jority of the farmers of this and sur
rounding counties will compete for
all the prizes offered in their class,
and that the management will be
simply overrun with applications in
all other classes.
The Premiums.
have been generous, as will be seen
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which is official:
Louis Rothchild offers $25 for the
| best exhibit of corn and divides the
prize into Sis for the best and $40
| for the second best.
G.. George Hamilton offers SIS for
| the best exhibit of oats. divided into
| $40 for the best bushel of that cereal,
and SIS for the second.
The New System Dental Parlors
offer Sis for the best exhibit of wheat
and divides the premium into two
parts; $40 for the best bushel, and So
| for the second.
| ]. w. Garner offers SIS for the best
potatoe exhibit, giving $40 for the
best, and SIS for the second best.
The j. e. Scase company offers $40
for the best peck of assorted vegeta,
bles.
j. A. Phillips offers $40 for the iarg
est watermelon.
J. B. Sax offers $40 for the largest
pumpkin. -
The Fair offers, $40 for the best
peck of applesa ~
The j. K. Dysart clothing com
pany offers $40 for, the best peck Of
crab apples, peaches and plums. &
Stephen Barnes offers. $40 for the
best pound of country butter.
The Globe Tea Company offers SIC
for the best loaf of bread ~
J. w. Neasham offers $40 for The
best collection of preserves.
S. G. Cullen & Company offers ,sl(
for the best cake.
Mayor T. ]. Phillips offers $25 fol
the best glee club.
]. w. Garner offers $40 for the
best chicken display.
The Great Five and Ten Cent Store
offers $40 for the best duck, geese
and turkey display.
/ R. N. McElroy offers $40 for thu
i largest hog.
I Claude Myers offers $40 for the bes
COW and calf
4 w. R. Beck & Co. offers SIS fo
the prettiest baby under two years
of age.
/ Vossen's New York store offers S;
for the latest baby under three
years of age.
4 ]. A. Phillips offers SIS for the hand
soonest boy under six years of age.
The Manhattan shoe house Offer
IS for the handsomest girl under 81:
years of age. ~
! The st. Louis Store, offers $40 t,
the couple getting married on thu
grand stand.
j. w. Garner offers $40 for thu
best decorated store front.
1 The Carnival association offers 81
in the floral parade, and divides tn,
prizes into $25 for the .handsomes
vehicle, and SIS for the second.
| Police Judge Chas. Hall offers S
for the best needlework such as dol
lies, scarfs, ETC., done by girls unde
10 years of age, divided into twt
prizes; So for the best and 81 TO
the second hest