The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-09-20


lneopa Falls on one side and the add
dress lines on the opposite side. These
are eagerly sought after and several
hundred were mailed to friends of fair
Visitors.
Not an accident occurred during the
day, so far as is known.
H. J. Wagon, travelling passenger
agent for the Northwestern road, is
on the ground distributing stick pins
advertising his road, and is also cir
cuating some good roads literature.
The Free Attractions.
The free attractions are among the
best ever witnessed in this city.
The Weydts in their trapeze and
tumbling act are very good and GER
tainly are well worth going to see.
The Ward trio in their Human
Bridge Act" fill the spectators with
horror. Their work was exceptionally
good and should certainly give entire
satisfaction to any audience.
Dubec with his famous trained ami
mails consisting of dogs, cats, mice and
monkeys proves very entertaining and
causes much merriment among the
Juvenile contingent.
Trick House and Trick Wheel acts
Iby the '.Le Belle Bros" is another
amusing feature and causes a great
deal of laughter during their fifteen
minute performance.
A visitor on the grounds today could
certainly find enough to attract his
attention aside from the exhibits there
were plenty of "fakirs" to entertain
the crowds.
There were four bands on the
grounds, including Mapleton and Kerns
bands, not to mention the music from
the organs of the "merry go rounds. ]"
Consequently the fair visitors did not
lack for music during the day.
| Maud Was There.
One interesting feature of the Man.
kato Fair not to be overlooked is
Maud the Mule" Maud like her name
sake of newspaper fame is an in
lveterate kicker. All one has to do in
order to see her kick is to hit her
in the side with baseball. The balls
may be purchased for the very NUM-
tficent sum of ten cents for three shots.
The Alma Company Display.
Travelling Representative Burch of
the Alma Manufacturing company,
makers of the McNicker Automatic
gasoline engines, has been in attend
ance at the fair during the past three
days. The headquarters of this COM
pany are in Minneapolis. Hodson &
Davey are the local agents. This
company believes in a liberal display
of its excellent goods. 1t had fine
exhibit on the grounds here, and at
the state fair their show was one of
the best on the grounds. There is
no better engine made than that
turned out by the Alma company.
All the exhibition stalls for cattle,
horses and swine have been treated to
a coat of brown lime. The work and
material was donated by Fowler &
Pay of this city. Messrs. Fowler and
Pay manufacture cement that has a
worldwide reputation, and the fair
buildings are an excellent example of
the material and appearance after ap-
piled.
A girls brown jacket, lost yesterday
on the fair grounds, awaits it's owner
at The Free Press office.
The Texas Exhibit.
The texas exhibit by R. S. Allen
company, represented by w. H. Gary
and Ward Sheldon in the Saulpaugh
block, have booth which attracts
a great deal of attention. Among the
many Texas products displayed is
Alfalfa of four and five cuttings each
year, corn picked a month ago that
is hard; hard wheat, OATS potatoes,
onions, peanuts, all kinds of fruit,
and cotton. w. H. Gary will run a
through car to the Texas lands, on
the first and third Tuesday of each
month from Oct lst on. The round
trip rate will be $3.50. Mr.. Gary has
the sale of lands when the exhibits
displayed are raised.
Steam Cooker on Display.
J. G. Hanna, general manager Min
neapolis branch of the Ohio steam
cooker company is attending the fair
land ! through their local representa-
tives, F. Kron, of the Leader store
and exhibiting the Ohio steam cooker,
one of the most useful household
articles in existence 1t is highly re-
commended and every lady in Mankato
should call and see it at Kron's store.
Farm Products Awards.
Of the farm products, the largest
displays were made by James Mullen,
superintendent of the poor farm, and
r. L. Hobart of Lake Crystal. Mr..
Mullen was awarded first prize on
beets, cabbages, onions, squash, to-
matoes, watermelons. Mr. Hobart was
given first money on caulifower, man.
gle wurtzel, parsnips, rutabagas, sum-
mer and winter squash.
The Judging of horses was in prog
ress late this afternoon
| Awards for Stations
| George Lang of the Meadow Brook
farm, Napoleon, won the sweepstakes
for the best stallion and his get of
lapu hraad