Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-10-22
HARMONIOUS DEMOCRACY WILL CARRY ELECTION AGAINST DISRUPTED REPUBLICANS
MANAGEMENT
BREAKS EVEN
Exhibits Among the Best in All Idaho.
---PraISe For the Exhibitors In
All Departments.

The management of the Third An
'nual Elmore County Fair desires to
express thanks to the citizens of
Mountain Home and Elmore county,
also to the people in Owyhee county,
especially John Turner, William Tur-
ner, Tom Hewitt, William Toy and
wife and Mr.. Garritty of Grand View
and numerous other loyal citizens of
Owyhee county who took such great
interest in preparing and sending us
exhibits for this fair.
1t would seem that this particular
section of the country, Mountain
Home in particular, has indeed been
i'll used and frowned upon by provi
dence during this entire year. 1t is
not necessary to recount the numerous
vicisstiudes and troubles our people
have had to undergo, ranging all the
way from a severe drought to sc wool
and 81 lambs, but, notwithstanding,
such is the truth. To cap the climax
in these matters, our annual fair was
rained out and compelled to suspend at
the end of the second day. The
weather the first and second days was
undesirable indeed and kept the ma
jority of the people away from the
grounds; this is particularly trne of
Wednesday. The total gate and
grand stand receipts from all sources
was only aholt $500, while the dis
bursements, as near as we can tell at
this time is in excess of $2500 Early
last year through the Commercial
Club subscription of $3500 was guar
anteed and about thirty of the leading
citizens of Mountain Home signed the
guarantee. The object of this was to
guarantee the payment of all indebted
ness incurred in connection with this
the third annual fair The subscrip
tion list was circulated and about $4,000
subscribed OF this about $500 had
been paid up to the date of the open
ing of the fair. The county subscrip-
ton brought it up to $1,000 and the
gate receipts made it a grand total of
about S2500 In next weeks Maver
ick, or the week following at the
latest, complete detailed statement
showing the receipts and disburse-
ments will be published, but at this
time it is thought that the receipts
will equal the disbursements and the
fair will break even Notwithstanding
the serious weather conditions that
prevailed.
1t is too bad indeed that commun-
ity should be favored with such i'll
luck. Those who examined the ex-
hibits both from an agricultural and
horticultural point of view will be
compelled to admit that while the ex-
hibit was not as large as at previous
fairs, the collection was superb, in
fact, a better collection of apples,
peaches, pears, ounces, prunes, plums
and vegetables of nearly all kinds was
never brought together in all South
ern Idaho. The poultry exhibit was
simply splendid and it will be long
time before the people of Southern
Idaho will see its equal. For this ex-
hibit we have to particularly thank
Karl H. S. Hougen. No great inter
est was taken in the horse and cattle
exhibit except that the principle ex-
hibits were made by Messrs. j. H.
Garrett, Adm M. Hall, Commodore
Jackson, w. H. Gorrill, Gus Kimber-
ly and j. H. Bridgewood. The hog
exhibit was not as good as last years,
due largely to the fact that hogs are
scarcely ever brought in before the
second day and as the weather was
so threatening on Wednesday people
who had intended bringing in exhib-
its of hogs refrained from doing so.
This was also the case with cattle
exhibits in large degree.
SUPERB ART EXHIBIT
The finest and most extensive ex-
hibit by all means was to be found il
the Art Building. 1t is hard fol
anyone to realize that so much ele
giant art could be collected anC
brought together in Mountain Home
1t was simply magnificent and was