The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-14

regiment will hold its annual reunion
here during the fair and will fight its
moss noted Philippine battle over
again.
Then the Kansas state musical
festival will be given in Topeka state
fair week in the auditorium seating
!, 1000 people The $4,000 pipe organ,
Marshalrs regimental band, an
will be used to make this festival the
musical event of the year.
From every present indication"
said Secretary Kriepe today, Topeka
will entertain the largest crowds fair
week in her history, and the fair will
be worthy of the crowd in every way.
We are going to deliver the goods! We
havethree big feature attractions and
the exhibits and races now promise to
far exceed our most sanguine expecta-
tons a month ago. It's going to be
great, 1 tell you, Kansas first state
fair
horticultural exhibit is working hard
and has already a lot of fine fruit in
cold storage. He has met with great
announcement everywhere he has
been. He said today, speaking to Sec
rotary Kreipe: 81 will have fine ex-
hibit for you, far in excess or anything
we had ever hoped for"
The horticultural and agricultural
exhibits will be on display in an i'm
mense new tent 150x200 feet. Next
year these exhibits will be displayed
in the magnificent new county building
to be erected on the grounds next
summer.
The pure food exhibit of every pos
sible variety of canned and preserved
products of the farm and garden will
be an especial feature of this fair and
it is expected that a special and per-
manent frame building will be erect
ed in time for use for it for this year.
The Commercial club and fair direc-
tors will decide this point at a meeting
to be held tomorrow.
There are 81 double and nine single
stalls for cattle and they will be filled
with the bovine aristocracy of Mis-
souri, Nebraska and Kansas. These
stalls are in good shape. There are
10 pens for hogs and sheep and these
are butt of wire and we'll protected
The horses will have comfortable
quarters, there being now available
220 box stalls, nearly all of them al
ready spoken for.
The question now worrying the Sec
rotary and directors is to provide
in every day in an overwhelming tor
rent. Secretary Kreipr, however, de-
clares that all will be cared for in
good shape.
Inc MISSOURI and Iowa DreederS or
Shorthorn and Hereford cattle are
taking a deep interest in the fair and
will be here in force.
The fair directors are Offering $1,000
in special premiums and special IN
ducements for the farmers OF this
work team of horses and mules. the
best COW, bull. stallion, hog and sheep
on the grounds will all be awarded
special prizes of as high value as 800.
The races will also. form a great
feature of the fair. The Kansas der
by for running horses is worth $500
to the winner. and of course the pac-
ing and trotting races with $4,000 in
purses will prove star attractions ev-
cry day of the fair. Entries have been
closed in a majority of these races. An
idea of the class of these races may be
gained when it is stated that DIR. Hat
field, the we'll known Wichita horse
man has entered his horses at Topeka
when the Wichita fair is to be held
the same week. NJ
The machinery exhibit will be the
surprise of the fair - A Davenport,
Iowa, firm will ship a car load of stuff
to show a farmers gas, light and pow
cupy space In the machinery exhibit
of SOx20 feet. The John Deere Pillow
Co. will ship car load of machin-
cry and the International Harvester
Co. will have large exhibit OF
threshers and engines. The Indepen-
dent Harvester Co. of Plano, ILL.,. will
send a car load of machinery. Sever
al gate and fence factories have asked
for space and the concrete culvert and
concrete vault manufacturing insti-
tutions will have interesting exhibits
The Huber Manufacturing Co. will
have a large exhibit of threshers and
engines.
The management of the state fail