The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-08-20
The State Fair.
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.

AS the 44th Annual Minnesota State
Fair will open in a short time 1t Is
quite in order to give some general
statement of the plans OF the fair up
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 ana
KIN own 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 Shorthorn
Breeders Association. These exhlol-
lions have grown 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 Minnesota fair is
the only state fair which can secure
these national exhibitions. 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 $4,000 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 &c.
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-
tion of the overflow exhibitors. The
dairy building will be crowded; the
poultry building has been equipped
with new show coops and will make a
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 II
the fair of 1901 land 26Ox240 feet il
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 tal
was announced soon after July l
More than 26O horses were entered
and for the great $1,000 pacing race 4
entries were made. This means tire
mendous racing at the state fair.
The race program will be supple
mented with specialties of high or
der. Schreyer the daredevil bicycle
shoot-the-chute fiend will be at tn
fair again after tour OF successe
tbrouohout the continent. Runnin!
races. hippodrome events, balloon as
censions and other thrilling entertain
ments will be provided.
MANY of these things will be repeat
cd at the evening performances bu
the great evening attraction will b
the gorgeous pyrotechnic spectacle
tsTbe Destruction of Rome" Pain
latest and most marvellous produt
tion. This great show travels like
circus in special train and employ
some 400 actors and supernumerarie
tt closes each evening with a speci'
display of magnificent fireworks.
The State Federation of Women
sr,uos will keep open house at tt
far again this year and all wome
v;a;tors will be made welcome.
The fair will open Monday. Augu
a and continue through the wee
,tosing Saturday night, Sept. 9Th