The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-15
MAKING THE PANELS
State Words Fair Commissioners Net
Helo to Start Work Of Decorating
Panels for Building.
Treasurer Turner'S Report Of ths Corn
Palace Shows tho Financial Sue
cess Of the Affair.
City Council Purchased Lo Near City
Building to Maintain Outward
Appearance.
WORLDS FAIR COM MISSION
WORLDS FAIR COMMISSION
Members Held Meeting Here to Start
Work of Decorating Panels
for Building.

W. Il. Saunders. of Milbank, l.. Il.
Boucher, Of Eureka, and Secretary
Farmer, of Madison, members of the
st. Louis Worlds Fair commission
for this state, were in session i'm this
city Flidav night and today to ar
range for some of the decorative
work for the interior of the building.
The board has secured the services Of
A. Robe, OF Lawrence. Kan, to dec
crate the panels and for the decorat-
i've work on the building at st.
Louis, and lie is here to begin work
at once. The commission made ar
engagements with the Ladies Aid So
ciety Of the Methodist church to do
the work of decorating under Mr..
Rohe's direction, and as the mem
bers have had considerable expert
ence in that class of work on the
corn palace structures in this city
they ought to be able to turn out
some clever work. Secretary Farmer
| states that there will be SO of these
panels to be placed i'm the state build
ing and that they are being bought
up by the cities and counties for
representation quite fast and any city
desiring a panel it would be we'll to
notify him at once The panels will
be placed in conspicuous places in
the building. The work on them
will be the of the finest texture as
nothing will be used but grains of
corn and wheat straws, etc. The
price of the panels are from 500 for
the large ones, down to s35 for some
OF the smaller ones, and the com
mission expects to realize about ST.
200 for them.
MI. Farmer said that the South
Dakota building vas nearly done and
that by Feb. is the structure will be
ready for decoration. At chat time
all Of the agricultural exhibits will
be shipped to st. Louis. About two
cars OF the products have been
gathered throughout the state and
these will be shipped 70 Mitchell as
soon as possible for packing and
shipment. There will be about 5000
samples of grain that will be placed
on exhibition in the agricultural
building. Mr.. Farmer says he has
seen many of the state buildings at
st. Louis and that none of them will
equal South Dakota's in uniqueness
and attractive decoration. The four
corner roums will be done in pressed
steel work which will be tinted in
the highest style of art, and if the
regular price was paid for the work
III would cost about 8 1000 for these
rooms alone, but they are completed
for $500 by a firm in Cincinnati, who
rely on the advertising for their
profit.
One OF the features in the state
building will be a dairy exhibit,
wifi Ia be connected with a re-
friscratuf plant. 1t will be made
very attractive with the decorations
which will surround it, and will be
in charge of a competent person.
Dairying in this state is something
that should be we'll brought out in
the exhibit at st Louis, for it is one
of the great industries that more
than anything else helped to put
South Dakota on heNfeet.
The memte rs Of the board returned
to their homes today and they en-
pressed themselves as being we'll
pleased with the way in which mat
tiers are moving in connection with
the building and the agricultural ex-
hibits.
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