Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-09-25

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some of the money offered by the
Worlds Fair Commission for county
displays, but nothing was done in
preparing for such an exhibit until
the 9Th, when a few of the business
men of Great Bend took the matter
in hand, and in four days time had
collected an exhibit of Barton county
products that "astonished the natives,
and started thousands of people to
/: talking about the Banner Wheat
). County of the World.
Our exhibit was gathered up on
Friday and Saturday by few broad
minded men who took their buggies
and went out among the farmers and
secured the samples. Some donated
the samples freely; others had to be
paid for the samples. But we got
them, loaded them into a baggage car
and sent them down Saturday even
ing together with 5000 souvenir
sacks of wheat and $4,000 pieces of
literature advertising Barton county.
Our stuff was on the ground Sunday
morning, and by Monday noon the
Barton county exhibit was the most
attractive and most complete exhibit
in the big Agricultural tent. We had
a wall 25 feet long and Is feet high,
with shelf space in front 6x25 feet
: photographs of the display were
taken, which we hope to reproduce in
the DEMOCRAT next week.
The committee on the grounds dur
ing the week were L. c. Breeden, NJ i.
F. Sowards, B. E. Giles, ]. S. Ewalt
and w. E. Stoke, and it kept all busy
from Tuesday morning to Saturday
noon handing out literature, distribut-
ing our souvenirs and answering the
thousand and one questions about
Barton county.
The Topeka papers all conceded
our display the finest, and we had
the good will and good wishes of the
multitude for our county. Nine out
of every ten people conceded our dis
play the best, and you could not 60
any place on the grounds without
hearing favorable comment for Bar
ton county.
In the Worlds Fair competition
Barton county scored 18th, making
835 points, while Linn, the first
premium winner, scored but 1000.
Usage county was second, and Shaw
. nee third. In regard to Shawnee, it
> should not have been permitted to
score at all, for its exhibit was not
completed until Wednesday morning,
when the rules required exhibits to
be in place by Monday noon. Where
Barton county was amiss was in not
having the required quantities of diff
ferent articles to some ex-
tent by the inability of the committee
to secure, either by gift or purchase,
enough of the different varieties max
ing up the exhibit-and partly by
our not having time to prepare the
samples as required by the rules. For
instance, we had no rye either in the
sheaf or the half bushel, no alfalfa
seed or millet in the half bushel, not
enough corn, etc. Had these pro-
visions not been overlooked Barton
would have stood first.
In competition for the state premi-
ums on agricultural products all en-
tries were made in the name of Bar
ton county. The names the inai-
vidual producers were on the samples,
however, and all who DONATED
samples which drew premiums will be
paid the amounts they won-the pre-
MUM stuff which the committee had
to buy was the property of the col
leCtive exhibit, and the money won
will go to paying the expenses. The
winnings were as follows.
FIRST PREMIUMS
Hubbard SQUASH. c. J. Monieseff, .o(