Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-18
PROGRAM FOR IOWA FAIR
Length of Exhibition Has Been
Extended Three Days.
MANY NEW FEATURES ARE ADDED
Band Concerts and Vaudeville VIII
Vie with Races and Pumpkin
Exhibits in Drawing

rFrom a staff Correspondent.l

nouncement OF the full program for the
Iowa State fair, which opens Thursday,
was made today by Score airy John c. Slmp-
son of the State Board of Agriculture. The
program of the days is as follows:
Thursday and Friday, August 20 and 21-
Preparation days.
Saturday, August 22-Children's day.
Sunday. August 2S-Music day.
Monday. August 24-Des Moines day.
Tuesday, August 25-Soldiers' day.
Wednesday, August 2s-Agricultural day.
Thursday, August 27-Everybody's day.
Friday, August 2s-Old Settlers day.
Although the duration of the state fair
has been heightened by the addition OF
three days this year more is crowded into
the program for each day than in years
past. Band concerts, horse races, judging
awards and everything else starts on Satur-
day. There will be four bands employed
throughout the entire week this year.
Liberatti and the Fifty-sixth Regiment
band of Fort Dodge will divide time at
the amphitheater this year. LIberatti, with
a band OF sixty-five people, with eighteen
grand opera singers and fourteen male
voices, will give two concerts daily, one
beginning at l y. m. and the other at Z
p. m. each day, in front of the amphi-
theater at the race track.
The Fffty-sixth Regiment band will give
three a day, one from 9 to Ii: a. m. at
various places about the grounds and the
other two in front of the amphitheater at
the race track from 3 to $50 and Q to
1890 p. m.
Reeds Fourth Regiment band OF Sioux
city will give two concerts daily in the
stock pavilion from 9 a. m. to II noon and
from Z to 1880 p. M.
Graham's orchestra will give two daily,
one from 8 to 1870 a. M. in Agricultural
hall and one from lis to 5 p. m. in the
stock pavilion.
The races will begin every afternoon ex-
cept Sunday at 1 p. m.
The boys judging contests will begin
Saturday at Q a. m. in the stock pavilion
and the girls judging contests at the same
hour in the Rest cottage.
Horse judging will begin every morning
at 8 o'clock and continue to noon and the
cattle Judging will be held every afternoon
In the stock pavilion. Swine Judging will
be held every day, both forenoon and after
noon, in the swine pavilion and sheep
judging every day, forenoon and afternoon,
in a fent near the sheep sheds. Every
evening at the stock pavilion there Will be
a parade OF the prize winning stock of
the day and on Friday, the closing day of
the fair, there will be a par~de of all the
prize Winners around the race track.
Evening Attractions
There will be two evening attractions
One will be at the race track amphitheater
where Liberaati's band will play from I to
D. to be followed by Pains spectacula
"sheridan's Ride of Battle Of Cedar Creek. >
This will be given four evenings, beginnins
Monday evening.
Tn other will be held at the stocl
pavilion five evenings, beginning Monday
and Will consist of a live stock hlppodrome
and vaudeville.
Race Track Vaudeville.
Each afternoon Of the races, beginning a
. O'Clock, there will be vaudeville and aero.
battle stunt in front of the amphitbeater
This year these consist of the following:
Vorlop octet; Partisan dancers, Ramzc
ana AFRO, comedy act; Oscar ". Babcock
presenting his combination feat of looping
Ihe death-trap loop and flying the flume OF
Three Voscarys, European acrobatic act
Eour Bards, worlds greatest gymnasts
Sstts E~Tunathos' champion woman aero
oand during the vaudeville.
Special Days.
Special programs nave been arranged 70,
10y ~ "a ApAAhh . nAlEl Will ut
Des Moines day, all the business houses VIII,
close at noon and the entire city is ex.
pected to turn out for the fair that day.
On Tuesday, which is Old Soldiers day
there will be a special program at the sol,
diers' tent at ? o'clock, with addresses b,
numerous prominent army men and musi.
clans from the Second United States cavalrS
at the post will blow the army Signals.
Wednesday will be one OF the bIgges
days of the fair, for { is Agricultural daS
and Secretary Wilson will deliver an ad.
dress on the grounds in the afternoon. Ir
the forenoon there will be conferences ana
meetings Of the various agricultural socie,
ties of the state.
No special program has been arranged 70,
Thursday. which is Everybody's day and /.
expected to rival Wednesday in the matte,
of attendance.
Friday, which is Old Settlers day, will be
the occasion for old settlers associations tc
gather.
Race Program.
The Des Moines Driving Cup race II
wagon will be the feature of the first day
races on Saturday. There will also be tn,
2'S trot for 3-year-olds and the 2:22 pace.
Monday there will be the free-for-aII 70
the 1880 purse, the 2-year-old stake, tn
2:lS trot and the eight-furlong dash.
Tuesday the 2:S trot for the Commercial
club stake of 1900. the 2:25 pace for 3-year
olds and under without hopples. the 2:l
pace and the six-furlong dash.
Wednesday the 2-year-old pace, the 81
pace for the Capital Hill stake of $1,000, tn
2l5 trot and the four-furlong dash.
Thursday the 2:3O pace for the Merchants
stake Of $1,000. the 2:25 trot, the 2:l1 trot
best two out of three, for $1,000 and tn
five-furlong dash.
Friday, the last day, there will be the q.
trot for the Boosters stake of. 81, 900, the 81
pace and the five-furlong dash for non
money winners.
Factions Elsewhere.
The republican party is not the onl.
organization In the state where there {
a division through fractional strife. Nc
to speak of the knights of Pythias. thef
Is the Women's Christian Temperance
union, which is facing a doubtful mo
ment because of the resignation of Mrs