Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-31
STATE FAIR NEXI YEAR
st. Louis Exposition Will Not
Keep Iowans Away From
Home Exhibits
DEFINITE ANNOUNCEMENT MADE
Preparations for the Iowa State Fair
of 1904 Will Be Begun at Once-WiIl
Ask Legislature for Appropriation for
Agricultural and Dairy HaII-The
Iowa Fruit Exhibit.
s-Republican.

Des Moines, Aug. 31.--There will be
state fair next year in Iowa At the
time of the Chicago fair the state show
was omitted because of belief that the
people would not care to go to a state
fair when there was such a fine exhi-
An equally good exposition is to be Civ
en- next year in ST. Louis, but the ex-
perience of this year and last with the
state fairs is such as to convince the
management that no matter what other
attractions there may be- the people of
Iowa will attend their own state fairs
and be glad to make their exhibits
here. This matter received some con-
sideration by the officials of the fair
during the past week, and the opinion
was reached that under no circumstan-
ces should the Iowa state fair be omit
ed next year. High officials of the fairs
in Kansas and Nebraska, We're here
during the week and they stated their
belief that there would be no postpone
states. and 1t is understood that neither
| Illinois nor Minnesota will omit their
fairs next year. The fact is that only
very small proportion of the exhib-
itors who make the Iowa fairs success
ful will have exhibits at ST. Louis This
year the best cattle and horse breeders
OF not only Iowa, but OF Missouri, Illi-
nois, Indiana and Ohio. We're on hand
with their herds. There is hardly one
of these professional exhibitors but that
will have left on his farm, after he has
sent his best stock to st. Louis, a suffi-
cient number of animals to make fine
herd for the customary rounds of the
state fairs next year. Many of them
will thus divide their herds. But the
great majority of the exhibitors at the
Iowa fair are, after all. amateurs in
| lice stock 1eirying, grains. vegetables,
fruits. fancy work, art, etc. There is
every reason to believe these people
will be just as ready to exhibit next
year as any other year. AS for the peo-
pie who go to state fairs, while many
will desire to go to an international
exposition, the major portion of the
Iowa people would like to go to both.
1t is announced definitely that there will
be a fair next year. and preparations
for that event will be commenced right
away.
The fair management will have
some thing to ask of the legislature next
winter. The specific thing to be pushed
will be an appropriation for an agricul-
tural and dairy hall. The buildings
used for this purpose for the past
eighteen years were always inadequate.
and they are now thoroughly out of
date There is little incentive to q
display in agricultural hall because of
the impossibility of getting sufficient
room. In time all the old wooden build
ings must be replaced with modern
steel and brick structures, and it is be-
lieved the place to commence Is with
the hall for pumpkins and corn. Forty
or fifty thousand dollars would build a
hall that would be a crediA to the state.
In view 70 the fact that public senti-
ment in the state is now running
strongly in the direction of supporting
the state fairs, that everybody is say
ing a good word about the fair and
that the results of appropriations al
ready made are manifest, the fair man
ayers believe that there will be little
difficulty in securing the appropriation
next winter.
The president of the fair this year is
w. w, Morrow, of Alton. Mr.. Morrow
is farmer who owns and actually
works one OF the very best farms in
the state President, Morrow is man
of great ability, and good organizer,
and his personality entered largely into
the management of the fair this year.
There is some desire that Mr.. Morrow
should accept the presidency for an
other year, and add to his laurels of
this wear, but it is contrary to custom
to continue any man in the presidency.
charles +. Cameron, the vice president,
representing the Tenth district, will
undoubtedly succeed Morrow, and
Cameron is we'll fitted for the place.
The contest will come, as usual, over
the selection of the vice president, for
the vice presidents are always moved
nm. Those who are likely to be con-
sidered are Ex-Governor Packard. Mar
shalltown; c. w. Phillips, Maquoketa
NJ. ]. Wragg. Waukee; and Mike NC
Donald, Bayard. Secretary j. Z. Silnp-
son will be continued in office. Ii he
gets his deserts his salary Will be IN
creased. He has been untlring III ms
work for the fair and highly successful
in all his dealings with the exhibitors.
His assistant, Carl Relyea, of Storm
Lake, is soon to go to Forest City to
become editor of the Summit which he
bought some time ago.
The camp of the Fffty-fourth regi-
ment. 1. n. G., at Muscatlne next month
will be named Camp Dhugherty, after
Colonel Daugherty, long on the military
staff of the governors who died at
Muscatine the past year.
Attorney General Mullan is some
where in the far northwest and ii is
predicted that If one could find the last
remaining flock of wild chickens to-
,elorow he would find General Mullan
rot very far away. He has been at
bending a field meet of dogs and he took
|his gun along There IS no state off,
Icial in Iowa more devoted to hunting