The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1907-09-04
4 GREAT EXHIBITION
The Kentucky State Fair Offers
SIS, 900 In Prizes.
livery CLASSIFICATION COMPLETE
Fifteen Departments Will Give to the
Visitors the Most Attrac-
tive Displays

There is disposition upon the part
Of the general public to display tired
feeling when the announcement is
made of plans for a new exposition. In
America, as in the old country. they
have been coming rather fast of late,
and the experience of the managers
of the jamestown Exposition lends full
weight to the argument which favors
having them few and far between.
This is not the case, however, with
State Fairs. Like Emerson's brook,
they go on and on forever, the interest
increasing as each succeeding exhibit
ton approaches. Certainly this is true
of the Kentucky State Fair. From
every section of the commonwealth,
and, indeed, from many sections of
other commonwealths, there is shown
a striking desire to make the 1907
Kentucky State Fair more than twice
as big as that of 1906.
X State institution, created by the
General Assembly, operated by the
State Board of Agriculture and sup
ported in a large measure in a pre-
MUM appropriation, this spirit OF
friendliness is to be commended. The
managers of the State Fair are build
| ing II along most liberal lines so far
as all exhibit departments are con-
cerned. Twenty-Five thousand dollars
in cash is offered in prizes at the COM
| ing exhibition to be held in Louisville
Sept. 16 to Fl.
There are Is exhibit departments.
All Of these departments are in charge
OF members of the State Board of
| Agriculture. The Hon. Hubert Vree-
land, Chairman of the Board, who is
now Commissioner of Agriculture, has
for his departments, poultry, pigeons,
collie dogs, tobacco, plants, flowers,
horticulture, farm implements and ma
chinery. The other departments are
headed as follows: Dairy cattle, sheep
and goats, Professor NJ. A. Scovell, Di-
rector of the Experiment Station at
Lexington; swine and woman's work,
G. N. McGrew, Bayou. Livingston
county; beef cattle, W. r. Norman
Jr., Glendeane, Breckenridge county;
horses, mules and jacks, Guthrie NJ.
Wilson, Bardstown, Nelson county;
field seed grain, vegetables and mel
ons, William Adams. Cynthiana, Har
rison county. Other members of the
Board, who are not assigned to exhibit
departments but who are active in
other directions in making the fair a
success, are Lawrence Jones, Louis
Vile, Desha Breckenridge, Lexington
and John G. c. Mayo. Paintsville, Ky
In many departments the members
in charge have appointed superintend
ents and assistant superintendent
These are as follows: Mules, viii
liam Simmons, Shepherdsville, su
perintendent; jack stock. w. S
Gibbs, Springfield, superintendent
SWINE, II. l.. Igleheart. Union
town, superintendent; poultry an(
pigeons. John H. Good, Louisville
superintendent; Robert H. Young
Louisville, assistant superintendent;
vegetables and melons, s. H. Sale
Louisville, superintendent; field seed
and grain, II. c. Lovelace, Boston, su
perintendent: Geo. d. Karsner, Lexlng
ton, assistant superintendent; tObac
co. NJ. H. Froman, Client, superintend
emit; S. B. Robertson, Calhoun, assist
ant superintendent; plants and flow
ers, Henry Nanz, Louisville, superin
tendent; woman's department, Miss
Evelyn Porter, Louisville, superintend
ent, Miss Julia Dupre, Louisville, anC
Miss Eva N. McGrew, Bayou, assist
ant superintendents; horticulture, M
F. Johnson. Buechel, superintendent
J. H. Bates, Buechel. assistant super
tendent; collie dog show c. H. Thorn
as. Louisville, superintendent; farm
implements and machinery, ]. B. Wal
ker. Hopkinsville, superintendent.
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