Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
MARATHON COUNTY FAIR
AND THE FARMER BOY.

InlS BOY OF winch we write TINS week
was farmer boy who had very nice
horse. This horse was entered, that is
the horse was one of those, and he had
blue ribbons in his name and tail and
he was led around the track in the pro-
cession for the benefit of other farmer
boys and also for the promoter and
nickel in the slot man, and he was very
nice to look at, but when the professor,
with his hair parted in the center of his
forehead, come to judge him, he said !;
He is too small for his class" and as
there were only two horses in this class
and the farmer boy wanted to know
from the professor with the hair parted
in the center, if he would get no prize
on his horse and he told him mo" that
his horse would have to be as big as
the side of barn, as the horses where
they were bred, in some part of France,
Il think it is Normandy are very large,
but you should have seen this farmer
boy when the professor told him he
would get no prize; he felt as if hit with
a sledge hammer, and we picked him
up and wet his brow with some nice
cold water which is in abundance on
the Marathon county fair grounds, and
we brought him over and showed him
the fat Indian, and the Coucha- Coucha,
and the woman eating rattle snakes,
but this did not satisfy the farmer boy.
When he regained consciousness from
this terrible shock, he said; "Well, /
am going to go into the farmer race, l
have horse that can go in three min
utes," but we told to him, "you poor
foolish boy, there is no more farmer
races in Marathon county," you must
have a horse that will go the mile in
one tifty-six to get anything, and if you
live in Marathon county you wont get
anything but wind. Anyhow, if there
is any money left after paying expenses,
this must go to the promoter, that is,
the man that made Marathon county
fair famous throughout this grand do
main.
We also know of two more farmer
boys that had two steers; that is, steers
that were raised in Marathon county
they were not imported as was the
Judge that passed on those steers, and
you do not know how glad those farmer
boys were when they went to the fair
and saw that the millionaire and the
three card monte man did not have an
imported steer to come in competition
with them, One of those boys said to
the other: "Some one of us will get
first prize, as there are but two steers
on the grounds, but 10, and behold,
when this fellow with the hair parted
in the center of his forehead, and the
false teeth, come to judge these steers
and found them not as fat as some out
at Ames, Iowa, fatted by the state of
Iowa, and by the taxpayers of said
state He did not know that steers
were fatted on corn stalks that were
raised in Marathon county and which
were killed with frost the twelfth of
July. These were also fed some
corn which was imported from the
same state this judge came from, but
you should have seen those two boys
when this dandy fellow told them
''You can have second. premium and
you can have third" and they looked
around to see where the fellow was that
received first premium, but he was
not in evidence, and know that those
farmer boys will not have any more
TO do with that part of the show, but the
president of the agricultural society
said that they would make it all right
with those boys. But we know what
they did with them; but they are not
going to the fair any more, not to bring
any stock 4; if they go it will be to see
the beast with seven heads and ten
horns and the merry -go-round and the
mortar mixer they will not look for
premiums.
We also know of another farmer boy
that used to be quite contributor to
the Marathon county fair but we missed
him last fall. We heard that he came
as far as the gate with big herd of
dairy cows but ne did not have that
long piece of paper with the gold seal
on both ends of It, but we were in
formed by this farmer boy the reason
he was prevented he would not con
tribute to a certain institution doing
business in the city of Wausau of which
we will have something to say later on.
JOHN KENNEDY.
The Goth annual closing of the Wis.