The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1905-08-25
OPENS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
IN THIS CITY.
SEASON pRoPITIOUs ONE
Secretary George Says Farmers Will
Distance Former Displays
Many Fine Horses.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
G. M. Bair, president of the Fair
association, has returned from his
sheep camps after summer of hard
work, and he and w. b. George, sec
retary of the association, will now
begin active work for the fall meet.
ing which opens ON Tuesday, Septem.
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The catalogues for the association S
fall meeting are now being printed
and many increases will he made in
the smaller premiums offered, it is
stated. "T1he farmers have had a
good season." said Secretary George,
''and they will have larger and better
displays than ever before brought to
fair here, Notwithstanding that i'm
the past the displays have been un-
equalled in this or any other state, al-
most.
among the attractions we will
have this year will he the Indians
There is no other fair in the state
that can get the Indians and for that
are a great sight to people from other
towns. Even the people of Billings,
who are accustomed to the sight of
Indians every day of their lives, have
never lost interest i'm the Indian and
var dances. I suppose you haven't
forgotten about the size of the crowd
that turned out to- see the war dance
here last fall. There were hundreds
of visitors in that crowd, but there
were thousands of Billings people.
Then we will have the relay races
again-they have become to be an
attraction THAT it is impossible to
eliminate. There will be ladies' re
lay race and an Indian race, and the
two of them will make an afternoons
programme of themselves, almost. But
there will be other attractions. At
the present time there is the finest
lot of horses ever seen in the state,
gathered ON the grounds AIT Bozeman
We will get all of these and perhaps
some more additions from east of
here. The horses are on the circuit
which opens ait Bozeman. Following
Bozeman comes the fair at Livingston,
then Big Timber and afterward Bill
lings.
"The track here now has the repu-
tation of being the best in the state.
Horsemen like w. A. Clark Jr., who
were here last year, pronounced it one
of the best half-mile tracks in the
United States, and said there was
nothing in Montana that would touch
it. This year the track will be even
in better condition than it was last
season, the heavy spring rains having
settled it completely 1t will require
very little working over now to rem
der it almost perfect.
There will be an unusual number
of novelty features introduced and
there will be something doing every
minute of every afternoon. There is /
no doubt in my mind but what we
will have, if the weather is propit-
ious, the greatest fair and the great
est crowds, in THE history of fall ex-
positions in this county Billings and
the entire county has never enjoyed
a more prosperous season, even if we
did have big black eye during Janu
AIRY and February. The way the city
and country revived from that is the
best Indication of it's active, virile
life, and now that every. one has done
we'll and is happy there is mo- reason
that my prediction should not prove
true, and we will make of the fair
celebration in honor of the banner
year of Yellowstone county"