Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-31
Requests Already Made For More
Space Than New State Fair
Swine Pavilion Provides
OTHER BARNS MORE THAN FULL
State College to Determine if Iowa
Girls Can Cook and to Reward Those
Most Expert-Express Companies
May Have Something Coming from
State Officials.
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| Des Moines July 3l.-The stock eN-
| hibit at the state fair this year is to
be greater than for several years past
notwithstanding the fact that the new
swine pavilion will be completed and
that it gives much more capacity than
| the old sheds the entries now made
take all the pens in the pavilion and
there are requests for couple hundred
more. The management of the fair are
UP against it. They are uncertain as
| to whether or not they will have
ground on which to build temporary
sheds.
Furthermore the cattle and horse
! barns will be more than full. Some
of the biggest cattle breeders in the
state have contracted for space and
some of the biggest horse breeders
have contracted for space. The ex-
hibits in both horses and cattle Will
| close tomorrow. The management OF
| the fair is more than pleased with the
| outlook.
The things that primarily make the
state fair are the stock exhibits and
| the machinery exhibits The floor
space in the machinery hall has been
all contracted for for several days.
There is not foot to be had inside the
| buildings. The ground space outside is
| still available but there is very little
| left Of that. In all the stock exhibits
| the barns are full now and there Is
nothing left to insure the success of the
fair but the crowd and the crowd Is
sure to be there.
The races and attractions this year
| will be up to the usual standard and
all the agricultural exhibits and art
exhibits and those things will be up
| to the standard with the exception OF
the fact that the agricultural products
may not be SO good as in some years
| when there have been better weather
conditions.
Miss Mary F. Rausch, OF the domes-
tic science department of the state
college at Ames has planned to find
out how we'll the young girls of Iowa
can cook and the college will amply
reward those who demonstrate their
ability. This year for the first time
there is to be state contest thru
which girls can secure scholarships at
the college the same as the boys have
been doing for several years. Two
scholarships are to be given in any of
the regular courses at Ames, valued at
$100 and $50 respectively, and one
scholarship for a short course of two
weeks. valued at s25, will be awarded
to 1.-The girls who do the most eff
cient work in preparing certain food
products and giving the best reasons
for using their methods" The con-
test is for girls between 10 and 21.
This means that on a certain day,
namely. Monday, August 26, score or
more of Iowas brightest and most am
bilious girls will line UP before a
battery Of gasoline stoves in the main
building at the state fair, that they
will be furnished with all utensils and
materials they desire that they will
proceed to make bread and cakes and
other things as requested that they
will prepare for the table delicious
steaks and hot biscuits, and generally
demonstrate that they can do the
things which delight men at the break
fast table.
This is new and novel contest in
Iowa, and Miss Rausch is confident
that Iowa girls will demonstrate their
ability to prepare meals of first quail
ity and on short notice. The college
scholarships are we'll worth going af-
ter.
The express companies may come In
for theirs if the complaints that are
being made get to official ears and the
people get time from regulating the
railroads to give some attention to
them. It is claimed that they are guilty
of charging at both ends of the route
too frequently for 1t to be mistake,
that they are too independent of the
wishes of the public to make them
really good public servants" and that
they are too negligent about gettlI>1
things there on time The action OF one
of the express companies in holding
the examination questions for the last
teachers examination from Saturday.
when they were delivered to it, till the
next Tuesday evening before sending
them out, has given rise to the discus.
sion Of the complaints and now others
at the state house are telling their
troubles. All of this comes on the eve
of the action of the state railroad
commission in putting in rates on eX-
press companies and otherwise con-
trolling them.
The action of the railroad commits
sion in the case of the Boone brick
company against the Newton & North
western railroad is considered Of much
importance as fixing the matter that
steam roads cannot use interurbans as
switching tracks. The brick company
wanted the commission to order that
the charge for taking its carloads or
brick shipped 10 Ames over the Chl-
cago & Northwestern from A.mes OUT
to the college grounds should bs .