Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-24
|ONA SIA|E FAIR On
Growth In Greatness and Use
fulness of These Fairs Has
Been Great
REUNIONS OF OLD SOLDIERS
The Fair Will Afford an Excellent op-
portunity for Them-Two Distin-
auished Nebraskans, Formerly veter-
ans of Iowa. Are Expected to Attend.
General News of the Day.

Des Moines. Aug. 24.-This Is the
week of the Iowa state fair. 1t will b.,
a week when the city of Des Moines
VIII be trampled on and trampled under
foot. when the streets will be flied with
crowds of sight seers and second sight
seers and others of the kind.
when hotels and lodging houses
and private houses will be
| turned over to the out-of- town peo-
ple-and residents of cities outside of
Des Moines will be envious of poor oil
Des Moines even under these DISTRESS
ing conditions. But the fair itself ia
something in which the whole people of
the state of Iowa take just pride. These
state fairs have been growing in great
ness and In usefulness these MANY
years. Time was when the boards Of
managers found it necessary each year
| to sign notes for large amounts to carry
them over, and on more than one occa-
sion railroad companies advanced the
money with which to make prepara-
tions for the fairs. 1t is all changed now
and the fairs are running along smooth
| ly. And they are more than mere fairs
they are great Industrial and com
merc!ai expositions. They present
lsomething of interest in affairs of the
| state and in the progress of the world
| Here one may see the finest results OF
years of careful breeding of the best
| llivestock--a million dollars worth OF
farm animals. Here one may see what
has been accomplished by the inventive
and manufacturing genius of the Amer
lean people. Along with this is the bes.
| of the products of the farm and or
ohard. and art work and the things
which make for the pleasure of man
kind. The entries show that the fair
is larger than ever before, not in one
thing but in all things - sort of all
round big fair. with complete depart
nienis all over and the best of every
Jdag In all the departments. The
building OF the two great stock ju1g-
ing pavilions. and making of good
brick walks and rearrangement of the
buildings and tents and ground space,
all make for successful fairs. The race
men have come TO take some pride in
the race meetings, also. and the amuse-
ment features of the fair are excellent.
With weather such as has been exper-
fenced the past week the fair will be
record breaker in many ways.
Two distinguished Nebraskans are
expected in Des Moines this week to
attend the reunions of the old soldiers
on the state fair grounds. Ex-senator
William V. Allen and Governor John
H. Mickey are both veterans of Iowa
regiments and both have agreed to be
in Des Moines to attend reunions Of
their old regiments to be held tomor-
row and on other days at the fair
There is abundance of opportunity for
fine reunions at the state fair. Ar
rangements have been made for Il num-
ber of these reunions tomorrow. This
will be old soldiers day, when all SOL
diers will be admitted to the fair
grounds free on Identification at the
gates by n committee of soldiers. The
committee will issue tickets at the gates
for the old soldiers and they will go
right in. Usually there are many thou
sands of the soldiers who attend tn
fair in this way. A special program has
been arranged for soldiers day. The
meeting will be in the new pavilion,
which is comfortably seated and where
the crowd can hear nicely all that is
said. There will be music and speeches.
The principal address Will be by Hon.
John f., Lacey, of Oskaloosa, and n.
E. Kendall, of Abba, both orators of
we'll known ability. This service will
be at TO- 80 o'clock Tuesday morning.
The concert given by the girls or
on
afternoon proved delight to thousands !
who heard it, and during all the week
this orchestra will be center of at
traction for a large number of the |
state fair visitors. The orchestra will
give a concert in the main pavilion
each day and other concerts during the
day The work of the girls in this Or
chestra is something marvellous. Sup
erintendent Fitzgerald has the girls
drilled in music to perfection-or al
least it would seem SO.
There are indications OF an effort
being made to push the canGidacy OF
j. l.. Webs ter. of Omaha. Tor wee pres
ident in Iowa. Webster was here last |
week and in consultation with polltl-
clans in regard to the matter. lie ava |
not meet very many, put ms Hisa4oh
was distinctly political and 1t was the
FIRST time he had been in Iowa for a |
long time Webster is most agreea-
hle man, a sharp and successful law
Yer of Omaha. but having mad no eX-
pe rience in public affairs. He is not as
great an orator as ex-senator Ihurs-
ton, but is a better lawyer, and is more
pugnacious in his personal methods.
Since his departure 1t has developer I
that one plan OF action 10 secure Iowa
for Webster for vice PRESIDENT is to
take up the platform Which he wrote
and contrast 1t with the platform OF
the Iowa republicans to the dlsadVan-
tage of the latter and TO make 1t APP
pear that the Nebraska utterance is
to that of Iowa and comes
more nearly representing progressive
sentiment in the west. With this es-
tabished the logical sequence is sup
port of the Omaha lawyer for vica
president. for it is distinctly his plat
form. The feature which comments
itself to most persons who have COM