The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-26
Prizes Arranged by the Worlds
Fair Commission.
AFRUIT DISPLAY
State Horticultural Society Ar
ranging for an Exhibit.
Amusement Features to Be
Agreed Upon Soon.

The prospects for a successful fair to
be held at Topeka in September are par
ticularly bright. The management of
the Topeka fair is backed by the state
board of commissioners in charge of
the Kansas exhibit of the Worlds fair
at St Louis. and by the principal in
dusuia1 associa tions of the state
At a meeting held last night in the
Commercial club rooms the directors of
the State Fair association met with
representatives of the various state So
cieties and discussed plans for exhibits.
No official action was taken but the
various representatives pledged the as
sociations which they represented to
take hold and help make the state fair
as big an event as possible.
BY the aid of the various associations
which have been enrolled to assist there
will be big displays in the agricultural
horticultural. poultry. live stock, dairy
and meteorological departments.
The 1920 offered by the Worlds fair
commission has been divided in six diff
ferent prizes for the different county
exhibits as follows: First prize, $500;
second prize $3.50; third prize. $50;
fourth prize s125; fifth prize, 800; sixth
prize. SO Each exhibit should include
samples Of all the cultivated products
of the farm, orchard and garden cereal.
in grain and in sheaf, grasses, textile
and foliage plants and vegetables, wild
and tame grasses, nuts and all kinds OF
fruits and other products that may be
included.
The State Horticultural society had
q big representation at the meeting
The trustees of the society are here to
meet with the Worlds fair commission
and attended the meeting last night IN
a bodv They We're: William Cutter,
Junction City; +. Holsinger, Rosedaie' ;
Dr O. w ROhrer. Sterling. J. w ROD
inson. FL Dorado. Z. L. KenOyer, IN
dependence; and ]. J. Alexander, OF
Norton. President Fred Wellhouse and
Secretary w. II. Barnes were also at
the meeting.
tural society promised to make a hand
some horticultural display. Fred Wells
house said that owing to the poor apple
CROP this year, it might be that the dls-
play might not be the best ever given
lin Kansas.
I. l. Dyche and J. ". F. Hughes, of
the State Poultry association, were
present and gave assurance that the
best poultry exhibit that it was possible
to make at that time Of the year would
be made by the State Poultry assocla-
tion-
John Curran was present at the meet
Ing to represent lne STATE iJdIg d0Fo'
citation. He announced that his asso
citation would appropriate an equal
amount of money with the State Fan
association to be used for prizes in that
department.
1t is anticipated that the Improved
Live Stock Breeders association will
make an appropriation Of money to be
used as prizes for special exhibits. The
association is planning to make
greater display than that of any other
association.
Now that the mana cement of the To-
peka State Fair has the encOura genenJ
and the backing Of these associations,
the officers are in a far better position
to make the state fair this fall a first
class show. An immense amount of
work is necessary to be done during the
coming two months and half, and il
has already been started off.
The question of the amusement fea~
lures has not been taken up as yet. II
is planned however. to make the
amusement attractions outside the dis
plays and horse racing of such a nature
that they viii be worth going a long
! distance to see.