The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-08-20
The StateFair.
The Great Show to Open on
Monday, August 81,
This Year.
twill Be the Best of A Won
derful Series CT Big
Fairs.
Increased Exhibition.-Half-
Fare Railroad Rates.


I'D
AS the 44th Annual Minnesota State
Fair will open in a short time 1t Il
quite in order to give some general
statement of the plans of the fair uT
to date. These plans have been made
on a generous scale and with the idea
of progress which has characterized
the conduct of the Fair for some years
past and which has built it up to be
the foremost state fair in the land.
The fair will be opened on Monday,
August 81. with an address by United
States Senator Charles W. Fairbanks,
of Indiana, an eloquent and forcetul
speaker of national reputation and
known as presidential possibility of
the future. Perhaps the most import
ant feature of the fair will be the Ma
tional Live Stock exhibitions and
sales held in connection with the
American Hereford Breeders Asso-
citation and the American Shorth orn
Breeders Association. These exhibit
lions have or own from tentative dis
play four years ago until they are
known among breeders all over the
country as the most successful shows
of their kind. The MINES ota fair is
the only state fair which can secure
these national exhibitiods. Auction
sales of prize animals will be held in
the great tent on the fair grounds dur
ing several days of the fair.
Premiums have been increased in all
departments and S45, 900 is now the
grand total offered by the Minnesota
Fair for, exhibits and in purses. =
There will be the largest display of
of farm implements and machinery
ever seen in the west. This depart
ment will centre about the new Farm
Machinery Building which has been
erected this summer at cost of 3d.
900.
In the main or exposition building
every foot of space was assigned be-
fore midsummer and booths will be
erected as in 1902 for the accommoda-
ton of the overflow exhibitors. The
dairy building will be crowded; the
poultry building has been equipped
with new show coops and will make
fine display OF the feathered tribe.
The woman's department has out
grown it's old quarters and has been
given the building used only a few
wears ago for the entire agricultural
and horticultural display. This shows
the enormous growth of the fair. This
old building $50 feet long held all the
AGRICULTURAL and horticultural exhi-
bitors three years ago; now the wo-
mans department which then occdpl-
ed a corner in the exposition building
will find it none to large, while the
new agricultural hall, occupied first in
the fair of 1901 and 26Ox240 feet in
size) is already over crowded with dis
plays.
Amusements at the fair will be bet
ter than ever before, both in charac-
ter and variety. The largest race en-
trv list ever made up for any state fair
was announced soon after July l.
More than 260 horses were entered
and for the great S.. 600 pacing race Al
entries we're made. This means ire
mendous racing at the state fair.
The race program will be supple
mented with specialties of a high Or
der. Schreyer the daredevil bicycle
shoot-the-chute fend will be at the
fair again after tour of successes
throughout the continent. Running
races, hippodrome events, balloon as
censions and other thrilling entertain
ments will be provided.
Many OF these things will be repent
ed at the evening per formances but
the great evening attraction will be
the gorgeous pyrotechnic spectacle
seThe Destruction of Rome" PAINS
latest and most marvellous produc-
tion. This great show travels like a
circus in special train and employs
some 400 actors and supernumeraries
It closes each evening with special
display of magnificent fireworks.
The State Federation of Women's
CLUBS will keep open house at the
fair again this year and all women
u;a;tors will be made welcome.
The fair will open Monday. August
81 and continue through the week
closing Saturday night, Sept. 9Th a..