The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-09-13
Big Agricultural Exposition.

IN" ~NNo "a 6AoNnN ~
heart OF Kansas Cily's most beautiful
PARK district, the Parade and Paseo
has been secured as the site for the
fall entertainment.
The plans for Kansas City's fall
festivities will give her the most am
bilious entertainment the southwest
has ever known. The live stock ex-
hibit will include horse, cattle, sheep,
hog and poultry shows, The cash
prizes offered will amount to 50, 900.
Merchandise prizes will also amount to
$4,000. Competent judges will make
the awards. There Will also be com
petitive exhibits IN display of hor-
ticultural and agricultural products.
This feature alone Is I be one of the
most important aud interesting of the
whole fall festivities. II gives to the
people of the southwest an interest
which is proprietary since it Is to
them the success of the fair is due.
No one is barred from taking part.
The housewife who preserves, pickles
and ~jellles have ia neighborhood repu-
tation will 10 this Kansas City fair
have an opportunity to gain a wider
field of appreciation and a valuable
prize as we'll. In the horticultural and
agricultural fields the same oppor-
tunity is open; prize fruits, pumpkins,
potatoes, wheat, corn, alfalfa and
many other things that grow will have
a place to be seen, admired and secure
a share Of the prizes offered.
In the live stock exhibits II is hoped
that the farmer who has a fancy horse,
COW, steer, hog, poultry or sheep will
enter it as we'll as the breeder who
makes a specially of raising pure and
thoroughbreds.
Another interesting and educa-
tional feature of the fall entertain
ment will be the manufacturing exposi-
ton. In very many things this de-
partment of the big show simply repre-
sents a graduated phase of the country
fair. The hide of the cattle will be
shown IN shoes, saddles, harness,
trunks and bags, the meat and fat of
cattle, hogs and poultry in the various
forms of canned and preserved food
products made IN the big packing
houses OF Kansas City. The products
OF the fields in -four, meat, rolled oats,
syrups, preserves and countless other
food products. Then will come the
wonder worker-machiner and its
kindred metal products, gas engines,
hay presses, rakes, plows, cultivators,
farm machinery In general household
and mechanics tools, novelties, brass,
copper and tin products.
The manufacturers pavilion is 800
feet long and this area will be filled
with miniature factories in active ope.
ration and displays of goods made in
Kansas City. 10 the retail merchants
pavilion will be model stoves, artistic
displays of all kinds Of goods, dear al
once to all the epIcure and TO the
arlistically inclined. Kansas City
manufacturers are taking hold of the
plan and there will be a splendid show.
ing of Kansas Clty's representative
factories.
Through the efforts of the Retail
Merchants Association the thirty rail
roads cenlering at Kansas City from
all points around Kansas City hav,
made low excursion rates covering tn
period Of the big fail exposition. Thl
dates, September 20 to October Il
come at time, when with the har
vesting laid blythe people Of the south
west can take a well earned holida,
aud Kansas City this year offers NOR
in the way of instructive amusemeD
and a royal good time than any othe
place IN the west this fall.