Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-03
Ames Agricultural School to
Occupy Entire Building at
State Fair
loWAs EXPERIMENT
Innovation Of Extending the Length OF
the Fair, Attracting Attention
Tuesday, Aug. 25, Soldiers Day.
Secretary James Wilson to Speak
On Agricultural Day, Aug. &c.
Special to Times Republican.


Des Moines, Aug. 3.-One of the
chief attractions at the Iowa state falf
this year will be- the exhibit by the
State Agricultural college in the
building that up to this year has been
used for the secretary'.s building. The
erection of the new administration
building made it possible to turn this
building over to the state college.
This will be the first year that the
college has made complete and COM
prehensive exhibit. While the college
authorities have not disclosed their
plans IT is expected that they will
make an exhibit that will make 1T
possible for persons attending the state
fair to get clear idea Of the work
of the colleN. Farmers who attend
the State fair this year, by spending
a little time in the college exhibit Will
be able to gather a comprehensive idea
of what their boys are being taught at
the college.
State fair managers all over the I'm
tied States are watching with some in
terest the experiment to be tried in
Iowa this year of extending the time
of the state fair to more than one
week. Heretofore all state fairs have
opened in reality on Monday but were
not under full sway until Tuesday.
This year the Iowa state fair will open
on Thursday and the stock judging
and horse races and all other attrae-
tions viii open on Saturday The fair
will then continue all thru the next
week. For some years there has been
feeling that the fair closed just as 1t
was we'll started If the experiment OF
extending the time is a success it may
be that in time it will be extended to
a full two weeks.
There is nowhere in the world a
more complete and extensive agricul-
tural exhibit that at the Iowa state fair
The Iowa fair has more farm machin-
cry, farm live stock, farm produce and
everything else pertaining to the farm
than other state fairs. AT other fairs
the amusement feature frequently is
the main attraction in order to draw
attendance from city folks. When such
an aggregation of farm stuff is once
collected it seems "a shame each year
to allow it to be separated after so
short time. So this year the fair
opens the middle of one week and con-
tinues all the next. Many people each
year come to the fair and camp out
on the grounds for the entire two
weeks. BY opening early they are able
to get we'll settled by Friday and are
ready for the full program to begin on
Saturday.
Soldiers day will be Tuesday, Aug.
25. Agricultural day, which will be
one of the chief days this year, will be
on Wednesday, Aug. 26 and on that
day Secretary James Wilson of the de-
partment of agriculture will be pres
ent to make an address. On that day
also the various agricultural societies
will hold brief meetings on the fair
grounds.
The remnants of the old State
Grange will be gathered for that oc-
casion. Tho not many people know
it there is a State Grange in Iowa
at this time. The local organizations
are chiefly located down in the Harry
Nation country. There are some IN
Muscatine and Keokuk counties The
other day the press dispatches showed
that there was a new local organization
up in northeastern Iowa. An ex
governor of an eastern state is at the
head of the National Grange and the
;e oi Yhof ;p tI,a
course of time the order in Iowa is
to be revived to something like its old
time strength when it was political
factor in Iowa and other western
states.
The home coming of Van Buren
county natives to be held August u
and 13 is causing revival of the idea
that 'tblood will tell" When the work
Of hunting UP the survivors of the
early Van Buren county residents was
begun it was found that scores and
scores of them are in the foremost
ranks of life. Like their fathers and
mothers before them they are the
leaders in their communities.
Senator Clarke Of Montana is the
son of one of the early residents of
Van Buren county. Carroll Wright of
the Rock Island railroad is the son of
Judge Wright. A daughter of Angus
tus Hail. who married man named
Shepherd, afterward moved to Califor-
MIA where she developed a new kind of
rhubarb and became something of an
authority on gardening. George S.
Wright of Council Bluffs is the son OF
George F. Wright, an early settler in
Van Buren county.
Sol Ross, who became governor of
Texas, and took such prominent part
in the affairs of that state as the col
onel of regiment of Texas rangers
that the people built a monument to
his memory. was the son of Van
Buren county man. who kept tavern
at Bentonsport. e. e. Valentine after