The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-09-26
SHOWS LAST DAY
Excellent Exhibits at Blue
Earth County Fair.
Representative McCIearY Delivers An
Address Today--Prizes Awarded
Township Displays.
ESPECIAL TO THE:FREE PREss.l


Garden City, Sept 19.-It has been
some time since the crowd was as
large at the county fair as that of yes
terday. 1t was Lake Crysta. day and
the citizens of that place turned out
in large numbers. The Lake Crystal
band was on hand early and dispersed
music during the day. Mankato was
well represented yesterday and today
more came. @. N. Andrews of Man
kato and W. S. Hammond of Madelia,
both made excellent addresses
Today Congressman McCleary gave
an address.
Mr. McCleary congratulated the
Blue Earth county Agricultural society
and the people Of Blue Earth county on
the fine exhibit. He then took up as
his theme 1.-THE Value of Observation
With a View to Improvement He
took David Maydole, village black
smith in the middle of the state of
New York as an example. He showed
how Maydole gradually worked out
the best hammer in the world, ham
mer known to every hardware dealer
in the land as we'll as to every carpen-
ter. He took as another illustration
Rowland Hill, the man who invented
uniform and cheap postage rate. He
then told something of the story of the
great improvement at the Sault under
the master mind of Frank 81. Clergue,
a New England boy who mingled
thinking with his work. The purposes
of the address evidently was to show
the dignity of doing common things
well. 1t was eminently appropriate
for an address at fair.
This is Amboy day and the citizens
of that lively town were en- masse
A float drawn by four horses headed
the long procession that drove to the
fair from Amboy.
The township exhibits continue to
attract the fair visitors. Premiums
were yesterday awarded as follows:
First prize, Vernon Center; second
prize, Rapi6an; third prize, Garden
City; fourth prize, Pleasant Mound
fifth prize, Ceresco
Special So premium on best potatoes
was awarded to Mrs. A. j. Wingen of
Good Thunder. Best corn, Jesse Buck,
Garden City. Yellow corn, Rola
Childs, Garden City.
The Vernon Center exhibit which
won out first on the township ex-
hibits, seemed to merit the prize it
wen yesterday. The exhibit was in
charge of William Thompson. of Yer
non. The exhibit was so arranged that
one could easily see from the front
all the articles displayed. Among the
attractive features was a squash
measuring fifty-one inches in circum-
ference, pumpkin weighing eighty
pounds and measuring two yards from
stem to top and back again; corn
stalk thirteen feet ten inches in
height, well filled with ears of corn,
sugar cane thirteen feet high, mann
moth pumpkin, weight seventy pounds
and fifty-three inches in circumfer
ence; millet five feet, four inches
with heads nine and one-half inches
long; blue joint grass eighty-five
inches high; yellow dent ears of corn
thirteen inches long apples thirteen
inches in circumference and flint
corn fourteen inches
The Pleasant Mound exhibit in
charge Of j. w. Heritage. Here can
be found we'll arranged display. The
Liberty bell made entirely of apples
hangs in the center of the BOOTH and
the name Pleasant Mound made of
grains adorns the entrance. Fine
samples of Blue Earth joint grass.
cabbage, millet, potatoes, fax, soy
beans, white oats and apples, were
here shown.
John Woodall was in charge Of
Ceresco's exhibit and like the others
made splendid showing. The Garden
City exhibit won third prize and like
the others was great credit to that
township. The display was large and
we'll arranged.
Rapidan's exhibit was dandy, and
her display of vegetables and fruits
was hard to beat. In all about $50
persons contributed to the display in
this booth The potatoes here were
especially large, and thirty seven
varieties we're shown. Apples, corn,
grapes and many varieties of fruits
adorned the shelves. T. F. Just and
William I. McDuffee got together this
large display.
Photographs of the township exhibit
were taken by Burt 81 Mead which
can be purchased of them.
The fair closes today.