Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-18
BLOOMINGTON NEWS
Gathered by Our Hustling West
Grant Correspondent.
BLAKEs PAR1RIE FAIR.

admission brought a nice profit INTO
the treasury, which will be used to
the best advantage. The weather
was ideal, which fact made for the
success of the show
Thursdays program was consider
ed the best. City Atty. McGovern
of Milwaukee spoke IN the morning
in the amphitheatre, and his speech
was well received by all. The ex-
hibits were inspected and judged.
The usual crowd assembled for the
afternoon entertainment
The feature of the fair was the
township tug of war on the track In
the afternoon, The Bloomington
team made a great pull, defeating
patch Grove and Glen Haven after
two tough contests. Beetown had
good streth IN downing Mt. Hope,
Int found Millviue easy. The great
oct excitement reigned when Bloom
inoton and Beetown met. Bloom
inoton pulled Beetown almost to the
scratch. but on the verge OF defeat
the neichbors made 8 stand, aud
after a hard tussle several OF the
bloomington boys played out ana
6ronned the rope. This gave the
victory to Beetown. Bloomington
and Patch Grove tried to get up q
match with Beetown the next day,
but the boys from the south pralrle
we're too wary to be led irto 1t, and
will rest on their laurels until next
year. when they viii try to hold the
s7annant. Patch Grove offers to
pull any team IN any town in West
Grant.
The races resulted as follows:
24O Trot; Earl Reaper, Earl Bates,
independence, Iowa, first; Ellen Gill
bert. b. E. Wallace, National, Iowa,
second: Lumpwood Jr., Q. A. Perrin,
Beetown, Wis, third; Dewey NJ, NJ.
G. Miller. OsterdOck, Iowa, fourth;
Gwen Owen, o. T. Richards, Darl-
ington, Wis, fifth.
Time, 2:S6 "a; 2:34 Ia; 2:S5 8 4.
First Run: Lady Waddell, Lam
bert 90 O'Neill, Chicago. frsi; Wing
nault, A. Ayers, Glenwood. Wis.
second; Cheatum; j. nj. Bowles,
third; Lady Bird, A. J. Richards,
Dodgeville, fourth; Thaler, j. H.
Kehler, Elkader, Iowa, fifth.
Time go, :53 2.
Second Run: Uranium, A. Ayers,
Arss; Galen H, Robert Narrower,
Lancaster, second. Elkader Bell, E.
Iimbeclz, Elkader. Iowa, third:
Lucy Woods, r. Ralph, Linden,
Wis, fourth.
Time, 81 4, so ID.
Mule Race: Wienerwurst, VIM.
Make, Bloomington, first; Niger,
Alb. Graham, Fennimore, second;
Hamburg, VIM. 8Iacke, third; Buck,
skin Jimmie, Joe Edge, Fenmmore,
fourth; Grey Fannie. W. Burt, Fen
nimore, fifth.
On Friday morning Congressman
Murphy Of Platteville made n pop
uIar speech, Little Grant defeated
Glen Haven ct bass bali by a score
OF 13 to 6, and the grounds filed up
with people and vehicles. IN the
afternoon the races were pulled off
with the following results:
2:8O Pace: May Tell, Willis
Proctor, Darlington, Wis first;
Little Alice, A. T. Richards, Darl-
jngson, Wis, second; King Donald,
". B. Dyer, Lancaster, Wis, third.
Time, 2:2O: 2:23 IA; 2:24 81.
First Run: Lady Waddel, first;
Uranium, second; Lucy Woods,
third; Wingnault, fourth.
Time, 81 81, 80.
Second Run: Galen A., first;
-ady Bird, second; Cheatum, third.
Time, 50 1, 80 II.
Green Trot: Early May, Earl
Bates, first; Danger Wilkes, George
Homer Independence, Iowa second;
Bess, Fred Foster, Patch Grove,
third; Lester King, Ed. Perrin, Bee
own, fourth.
Time, 8:27, 3:26, 3:27 II.
Mule Race: Same mules and same
finish as Thursday.
Prof. Dana's Third Regiment
band furnished beautiful music all
through the fair and on the streets
three evenings. They captured the
crowd with amount an1 quality of
their music.
The society will realize profit of
about $500 which will be applied on
debt, to improve grounds and to
backing up bang-up program next
year. The society may be said to
be well on its feet now, and with
good weather a few years will see it
very prosperous. The best manage
ment on earth gets kicked when it
rains and sDOils the fair.