Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-08-21
WILL BEA GREAT Event
Wllltnar Will Arrange For A
Street Fair and Harvest
Home Festival.

Home Festival.
T0<BE HELD ON SEPT. rs, FL, %.
Movement Organized and Preliminary
Committees Appointed Willmar In
vites tho Entire County to Come for
Three Days Wslt-And to Bring
the Best from Farm, Ranch. Dairy,
Pouitry.Yard, Orchard, Garden, Api-
sry, Creamery. Household and School
for Grand Exhibition Of tho Re-
sources Of ksndiyohi county-ln.
struetive Lectures and Interesting
Entertainments will 30 the Promt-
mont Features-Music, Psrsdes and
Sports Will Abound.
Willmar will celebrate the first year
OF the new century by a genuine effort
to entertain, instruct and amuse the
people of Kandiyohi County, or as
many of them as will come, in a three
days street fair and harvest home
festival. Willmar has experienced a
remarkable growth during the last
few years and is about to assume the
dignity of a city. This she has the
richness of the surrounding territory
to thank for to large extent, and her
citizens now propose to show their
appreciation for the staunch support
she has received by inviting one and
all to partake of her hospitality for
three days, and to still further pro-
mote the welfare of the county by an
exhibition of it's resources and COM
petitive contest in all the various
branches of industry which constitute
the sources of wealth to the citizens
OF the county. Her citizens realize
that in order to be able to carry out
the proposed idea they must secure
the hearty cooperation and cordial
support OF the public-spirited citizens
of the county, and this they ask for.
Let every wide-awake farmer save the
best OF his crop, every stock-raiser
the best of his herd, the creamerist
and dairyman the best of his product,
the poultry-raiser the best ofhis birds,
the apiarist the choicest of his honey,
the fruit-grower the cream from his
orchard, the gardener the finest speci-
mems grown in his garden, the house,
wife the best products of her skill and
ingenuity-to make an exhibit when
combined that will in some degree
worthily represent the resources of
the county. Make ready to come in
with the best your farm affords, to
stay with us for three days, and the
philosophical citizens of Willmar
will strain every nerve to make it
worth your while and effort.
At the meeting held last Thursday
evening at the Odd Fellows building
the preliminary committee reported
fair success in the matter of raising
funds for q harvest festival and the
meeting decided that the festival
should be held September 26, q and
%. A general organization was per-
fected by the election of the following
officers: President, A. F. Nordin;
vice-president, E. G. Wellin; secre-
tary, VIM. T. Markhus; treasurer,
Russell Spicer. A committee on in
vitation was appointed as follows:
V. E. Lawson, J. B. Boyd, A. II.
Sperry, o. Berkness, I. T. Cramer,
Lewis Moline, E. c. Wellin, Chas. 81.
Johnson, Albert G. Johnson, O. A.
Jacobson, P. K. sletten, J. J. Ekand-
er, j. D. Wolpert, J. G. Jones, M.
Jorgenson, L. o. Thorpe, Albert E.
Rice, J. T. Otos, Emanuel Christen-
son and Swan Anderson.
Various suggestions were made and
discussed, but it was decided to leave
all matters with the officers selected.
The preliminary committee reported
a subscription amounting to over
$4,000 and volunteered the suggestion
that more might be secured. They
were detailed to secure as much as
possible. The Fourth of July COM
mittee reported that it had balance
of S83 in the treasury, which they pro-
posed to turn into the hands of the
harvest festival committee, and it is
needless to say that the offer was
thankfully accepted.
The officers had a meeting Saturday
afternoon, and decided among other
things that the official name of the
fair shall be the "Willmar Street
Fair and Harvest Home Festival.
President Nordin was delegated to
visit Redwing, where successful
street fair was held last year, in quest
of ideas. The president appointed
committee of progressive farmers, one
from each township in the county,
with A. H. Sperry as chairman, to
secure experts in the different lines of
agriculture and stockraising to be
present to lecture and demonstrate i'm
proved methods during the three days
of the fair, also to promote interest in
the fair in their respective townships,
AZ follows:
Arctander, A. II. Gordhamer.
Burbank, John s. Andrews.
& Colfax, N. G. Highstrom.
Dovre, Magnus Olson.
Edwards, Thos. H. Olson. :
4 E. Lake Lillian, Chris. johnson.