The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30
THE WENATCHEE FAIR
Attracted Large Crowds In which
LeayefiwOrth Was Well
Represented

A great many more Leavenworth
people attended the Chelan County Fair
this year than in any past year. A
great many went with the double pur-
pose of seeing the fair and the Wenat-
chez valley and also noting the many
improvements that our county seat is
making and marking its growth.
So far as we have been able to learn
all have returned well satisfied with
their entertainment. The fruit and
vegetable exhibit, while it was admit
! tedly fine, was perhaps not as large as
in former years. but this was satisfac-
torily accounted for when we were told
that the fruit and vegetable growers
had almost exhausted themselves in fur
nishing their very best and choicest
specimens every week since the season
opened for shipment to the st. Louis
Exposition. The good this will do in
attracting attention and emigration TO
this section of the state is confidently
believed will justify the trouble and ex-
pense and will be accepted by the yisi-
tors TO the fair as a satisfactory reason
why this feature was not quite up to
the past.
The live stock ant poultry exhibit
was larger and better tran in former
years. Indeed, it will Continue to be
better and larger every year as the
country fills up and develops.
The racing was much better than last
year. There was more of 1t and there
we're also better horses.
There were not so many side show
attractions and thimble-riggers as last
year. This was not regretted Ey dry
one in particulr.
The attendance on Wednesday, the
opening day was not particularly large,
and on Thursday it rained quite bit,
so that the attendance was not very
large on this day, and the track was
heavy and the racing consequently
; slow, but on Friday the sun came out
bright and warm, the roads dried up,
the dust was gone and the track was in
perfect condition. 4 ldrge crowd turn
ed out, most of the stores closed up, and
every body who could get away went to
the fair. The racing w&s very good
and gave general satisfaction.
Much credit is due to Messrs. d. A..
Beal and Ira d. Edwards, the president
and secretary respectively of the fair
association. They We're untiring in
i | Il. 4 fai,
The best of order was maintained at
the fair grounds and down in the city.
Many of the large business houses Of
Wenatchce had large and creditable
special exhibits on the fair ground.
The Wenatchee business men are
putting on city airs sure enough. The
show windows in the department store,
: Wenatchee Hardware Cos. store, Wells
g. Morris and the Ellis-Forde Cos. big
< store attracted considerable attention
= and elected favorable comment. The
0 fruit display in the window of the Ellis
D Forde Cos. store was very fine. 1t was
up in the size and quality of the fruit
to that exhibited at the fair grounds.
. The Wenatchee Electric Company
: had the most noticeable night attrac-
q ton in the window of Arthur Gum 9
real estate office. The bright, snowy
: electrical fixtures, many-colOred elec-
trio lights and the electric fan blowing
n "a current of air against Knot of rib
!, bons caught everybody's attention.
= If you don't think those Wenatchee
: business houses know how to advertise
effectively you make a mistake. We.
: nalchee business men have made it the
: b, EST town between Seattle and Spokane,
5 In five years it win have eight or ten
t thousand inhabitants Mark the pre-.
= diclion. Put the same class of business
men in the poorest town in the state
: and they will in few years build up a
; Town tu;,t will attract attention.
5 The Wenatchee band was by 10
: means the least attraction at the fair.
Their concerts at the grounds AMI
0 down town always brought out "a round
of applause.
The reunion OF old soldiers was feat.
ure of Thursdays attractions at the
=. fair grounds that was enjoyed by them
aud heir friends. 0. Nj. Congdon, OF
i the firm OF Grass & Congdon, delivered
: the address to the veterans, and while
: we did not hear it, we heard it highly
q praised by those who were present AS
one of the most eloquent that had been
: delivered on the grounds. We have
not The space to give the names of all
the grand army men who attended, but
b let il suffice when we say that all from
). Chelan and surrounding counties were.
5 present and spent many happy hours
v going over their war experience with
t each other and talking of their youthful
days,