The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-25

small one but nevertheless Mr.. Schroe-
der has succeeded in making it one Of
the better ones in the hall. 1t will
serve with its pretty hangings and
numerous banners to advertise the
line of. stoves handled by this con.
Germ. t
The Free Press Booth.
The Free Press will greet its friends
at the fair in the next booth. A
small office room has been arranged
and furnished with desks and other
fixtures handled by The Free Press
and Northwestern telephone No. 324-M
has been installed. Subscriptions to
the Daily and Weekly Free Press will
be received by the person in charge.
A display of office supplies, fine sta
tionery, and handsome line of i'm
ported calendars and advertising novel
ties may: interest callers at the booth
Souvenir post cards are given with
compliments of The Free Press.
Fine Display of Musical Things.
The Overman Music company has
a large double booth deliberately trim
med with pink and green to make a
big showing of fine pianos and organs
besides good line of stringed instru-
ments and sheet music A piano play
err is playing the latest popular songs
and operate composition and there
is always a crowd in front of the
booth which is perhaps the best evil
dence of its success. All prospective
piano buyers who call at this booth
are acquainted with the big sale being
conducted now by the Overman COM
pany.
Minneapolis Firms Represented.
Two Minneapolis concerns have taken
the next two spaces which are given
to new and very interesting displays.
The Works Biscuit company uses one
booth to show its fine brands of bis
cults, .crakers and cookies. Samples
of the products of this factory are
pdoocu OuO W Tic FlSltOIS.
The Foster Rabe Tanning company
of Minneapolis occupies the other booth
with tanning demonstration. Raw hides
are tanned in the booth to acquaint
the people with the manner in which
this concern prepares skins and lea
Their. The display includes a showing
of tanned hides of several kinds.
Post Cards to Send Home.
If when at the fair you wish to
send brief message to friends away,
you have only to stop at the booth
occupied by w. T. Warwick's display of
postal cards. Mr.. Warwick has secured
large number of new colored souve-
mir postal cards bearing views on the
fair grounds, and others of places
of interest in Mankato and vicinity.
These can be purchased at usual prices
and can be mailed at the booth. A
large number of small drinking cups
are being sold at this booth, that the
visitors may use individual cups when
drinking the pure artesian water sup
phCu az many oCotiOho ol ChC Sluuuuo.
Now Pack Your Clothes.
The last display in the hall, and that
located just to the right of the main
entrance is the showing of the o. w.
Schmidt Saddlery company and the
Northwestern Trunk and Bag house.
A large trunk, the largest ever built
and of dimensions almost as large
as a small house is the most conspic-
uous thing in the exhibit. 'You can
pack your clothes in that alright" Mr..
Schmidt says, and no one has contra,
dicted, his statement as yet. There
is showing of the trunks and bags
carried by this concern and a fine
showing of attractive harness and other
equine furnishing and clothing.
Displays of Machinery.
Every farmer who visits the fair
will want to make it the first order
of business to visit his displays of ma
chinery and implements located in the
large tents just west of the main
building. Here the farmer may in a
short time see all the most modern
and improved implements of every
kind.
Scherer & Dackins have big tent
just to the right of the drive where
they are exhibiting some of the i'm
proved machines from which they are
exclusive agents. The showing includes
the Mortified litter carrier, the famous
Moline and Gale plows, spreaders,
shreaders separators OF the Inter
national Harvester company's manu-
facture besides many other standard
machines and good showing of
wagons and buggies. u
Hodson & Davy have a tent to the
left to make a display of Interna-
tional gasoline engines, DeLaval Sep
.arators, Great Western spreaders, Egan
potato diggers and other machines.
This firm has on exhibit few good
wagons and several fine buggies and
carriages.
|; The Fairbanks-Morse company occu-
pies the third tent to demonstrate it's
several products. The showing is an
interesting one, and like others in the
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