Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-09-30
FAIR A GREAI SUCCESS
Despite the Rainy Weather,
the Multitudes We're II.
Satisfied -.,=..3

pleasant weather most Of the time,
was great success. The display OF
products of farm and fold was good
and the attendance large. .44 49,
The amusement features were we'll
received. Sailor Nelson's slide for life
and the work of Hanson the strong
man, pleased the people. The balloon
ascension on the first day did not take
place till O'Clock, the aeronaut not
arriving till the afternoon. Owing to
the darkness the parachute leap was
not attempted. The balloonist came
down near the M. M. Williams place
in Pike Creek, On Tuesday afternoon
the ascent was made under favorable
conditions and witnessed by q tre-
mendous crowd. The balloon went
up very straight and when the bal
loonist cut loose with the parachute
he descended into the river, striking
log. but escaped with slight sprain
of the knee. The sight was thrill
ing one. Wednesday the wind was too
high to make an ascent.
Although the circumtance were to
unfavorable, the farmers in town
practically all expressed themselves
atis6ed, and hoped that another fair
would be held next year, with ample
notice as to premiums. There was no
disorder of any kind and the regular
and special police handled the crowd
without trouble. No arrests were
made. The crowd was good natured
and orderly.
The stock display was not large,
but was good. A. R. Davidson showed
some fine Shorthorns, including the
REGISTERED hull, pride of the West, :"
zoos lbs. Theo. Bredfeld had some fine
Red Po]led on exhibition, and other
notable exhibits were made by VIM.
Pedley, Joe Huff, Joe Gaboury, Jas.
Green and Joe Drellock. Chrie.
Kuesel, Albert Peters and Guy Cad
well showed some fine Shropshire
sheep, and Cotswold were shown by
Frank Mason, Dan Campbell and c.
A. Lindbergh.
Wheat and buckwheat were shown
in the Gold en- Rule booth and barley
q nd rye in-pa ntkza and 1nhn,a ------.--
Citron,sp psrsnalps and red, Write
and yellow onions were shown in F.
E. Swain's booth, n good display.
The exhibit Of beets IN front of the
Victor Clothing Co. included several
varieties Of sugar beets and some enor-
NOUS red beets.
The G. q. Brown booth had a splen-
did show of caulifower, speltz, win
ter radish and lettuce, timothy, fax,
peas and celery. Mrs. j. F. McNally
exhibited celery which attracted at
tention from everybody.
There was large exhibit of car
rots in the H. ". Venners booth.
Cucumbers and tomatoes galore, in
cluding some fine varieties shown by
J. U. lighthouse, were on exhibition
at the NJ. j. Bracke booth.
Pumpkins, some of giant size,
squash and butter occupied the booth
of the st. Paul store.
In the Barney Burton booth J. G..
lighthouse showed % varieties OF
vegetables, splendid collection. j.
Dreliock and Il. Waninger also made
a good showing.
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j W. Berg booth, Vim. Mashke max.
ing a good showing.
Rutabagas and turnips showed up
we'll at the Courtney & MoMasters
booth, and squash at that of Simonet
Bros.
One of the surprise exhibits to many
was the native fruit exhibit at Sylves-
ter & Nichols booth. Thirty three
samples Of apples were shown, besides
grapes and plums, and the fruit
would have been a credit to frui,
center. Musk melons were shown at
the NJ. V. Wetzel booth.
Basswood, white clover, golden rod
and dandelion honey made sweet
affair of the Decker Bros. booth. VIM.
Cosne had q fine display and also Pad]
Krottos ,hinsky.
A great variety Of potatoes were
shown at the booth in front of Ray
mond & Ebert Bros. store. and at
tracted much attention.
The booth at Andrew Johnson I
D store sho we'd threshed oats and cats
i. In sheaf, while at the Diamond Sign
.Jewelry store there was an appetiz.
: ing display OF 73 jars of preserves
and these were certainly splendid.
The display of potted plants and
shruhbery at the Little Falls Candy
factory was tine.
Hubbard equashee, large and fine,
were shown at Jacob Burton's, and
the corn booth at Ryan's was one OF
the sights Of the fair. The booth was
heantifnllv decorated and lighted. ard