Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-28
State Fair of 1908 Sets Pace
That Will Be Hard to Main
tain in Future
GREATEST SHOW OF ITS KIND
Railroads Had More Traffic Than They
Could Handle Properly - Total At
tendance Will Reach Over 100000 -
Exhibition Comes to End - Some Of
the Stock Winners.
Special to Times Republican.

| Des Moines. Aug. 2S.-The Iowa
state fair will finish this evening with
| q record that will long be pacemaker
| for the great fairs Of the world. Il
feel that / am safe in saying" said
President Charles E. Cameron, that
the iowa fair of 1908 is unqualifiedly
| the greatest fair ever held in the
world from purely agricultural stand
| point And the best Of 1t is that the
attendance is right from the farms
Of the state. Every county Of the
Estate has been represented, and al
most every. township. The fair men
who have attended tere-men who
travel all otter the country and see all
the fairssay that this beats them all.
| I believe it is true" 1. +.
The railroads REPORT that they have
had more business than they could
attend to and it has been Immensely
profitable to them. The reduced rates
Icaught the public and made travel
very heavy. The Iowa fair manages
ment is largely responsible for the re-
| duced rates granted all fairs and they
are correspondence happy.
AT O'Clock Thursday the total at
tendance passed the record of the year
before. The total attendance of last
year was 172,000. At o'clock yester-
| day $500 more had paid. This would
Indicate that the total attendance will
run considerably over 100000 when the
final reckoning is made.
The stock men agree that never be-
| fore has there been such competition
for prizes. In every department the
show was the best ever. On one di-
vision of hogs 126 were shown, which
made the work of judging very diff
cult In horses and cattle 1t was the
same thing. The classes were filled and
! the show ring was crowded all the
time There were more than I5O more
horses shown than ever before.
The real feature of the fair was the
| greatness of the provision for atnuse-
ments and pleasure The concerts were
| the most popular ever heard in the
state. The plan of having the races
preceded by a Liberati concert each
day was a daring one, but 1t satisfied
| the people and pleased the musicians.
| The Fort Dodge and Sioux City bands
also gave great pleasure.
The big night show in the pavilion
| was such success that doubtless 1t
will become permanent feature OF the
| fair. This was great horse and cat
tie show with special features that
were the best ever seen.
| Fire Cattle Awards.
The Judging of the live stock devel-
| oped some extremely interesting
| things.
w. S. Van Malta & Son of Fowler,
Ind. walked away with the award for
|ehampion bull of the Herefords IN
Prime Lad TX, while Cargill & Nc
MILAN Of La Crosse, Wis, the award
for champion COW. The Van Nattas
also won the award for breeder
Young herd and calf herd
In the fat cattle competition Edison.
owned by Charles j. Ogs of Peoria. Ill,
own the champion steer award and
lsOgg also took off the prize for the
award for the champion group.
G. S Hetchner of Princeton, ILL.,, won
the award for the champion steer Of
the Galloway breed in the fat cattle
competition.
G. A. Saunders Of Manila took first
for champion steer Of the Shorthorn
breed fat cattle; and Cargil e Me-
MILAN the award for champion fat
steer of the Hereford breed.
The Van Nattas also took the first
premium for champion group Of fat
cattle.
The Shorthorn awards We're made
yesterday. The premium for an exhibit
tors herd went to Di'. r. Hanna OF
Rayenna. o., while F. w. Harding Of
Waukeslia, wis, took first for breed
er's young herd. and the calf herd.
Additional Horse Awards.
The state fair management yester-
day made a new class for the four
Suffolk Punch stations put on exhibit
ton by Alexander Galbraith These
Magnificent animals were given special
awards in the form OF cup of money
for their exhibition. They were alone in
the class Indeed 1t would be impossi-
BILE to export twenty of these stations
from Suffolk, England, to this country
so scarce is the breed and yet 1t is the
oldest pure bred horse known. They
are smaller of stature than the Shires.
mere WIS hleICt SoulpclIllOI lile
harness horse classes. 1t was in these
that the Pabst stables were entered.
Nevertheless, Des Moines exhibitors
made remarkable sllowings. The fol-
lowing awards, made yesterday, dis
close the remarkable winnings Of Iowa
horses:
Matched heavy carriage or coach
|team-Guardsman and Island Butter
cup, Pabst stock farm. first; T. G.
Evans, Paola, Kas., second; Elsie May
and Sir L., Shaw Bros, Mitchellvil1e,
Ia. third; Jessie and Jerry, C. e.
Monahan, Des Moines, fourth.
Single mare or gelding-Guardsm
Pabst stock farm, 1rst; Harry c..
Charles c. Judy, Tallula, ILL.,. second;
My o Me. Thomas Bass, third Ele-
gance, Pabst stock farm, fourth.
Tandem team-Gusrdsma and Lady
Lou, Pabst stock farm, first.
The special prize for high school
horses offered by the. American Saddle
Horse Breeders association, amounting
to 500, was taken by a Des Moines
horse. Rex Alexander. owned by C. e.
Monahan of this city.
The grand display prize for the best
five animals bred by any exhibitor in
the French and German coach class
was taken by tSingmaster Bros. of Ke-
ota, Ia
In Clydesdales, Heatherblossorn.
owned nv A Icy Calhraith fook tho ciIn