Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-09-24
Interstate Fair 8 Billings
County is a Big Success
A Large Attendance and Good Program
Successfully Carried Out; Races
and Exhibits Exceptionally Good

The first annual exhibition of
the Interstate Fair association of
Billings county passed into history
with the setting of the sun today,
promoters. exhibitors and pa
irons being we'll pleased with the
first effort.
Necessarily everything pertaining
to this first fair was somewhat
crude, owing to the haste with
which the grounds and buildings
were licked into shape, but, for
all that. older institutions of the
same kind have put up less credit
able fairs. and we predict that
next year Beach will be enabled
to invite the public to fair which
will be second to none.
The Golden Valley has the re-
sources. the ability and the dis
position to make the Interstate one
of the really great agricultural
shows Of this great northwest. and
this the greatest part of the same.
The writer, a fresh (very tresh)
importation from eastern Iowa,
went out to the fair ground Fri
day, to use his eyes for the Chronicle,
and to say that he was surprised
at the showing there is expressing
it mildly. Grain he expected to
see, and did see, but he found an
almost endless display of the finest
fruits and vegetables: as we'll.
And such fruits and vegetables!
If any person has an idea that
the Golden Valley is not adapted
to the raising of such products
he would do we'll to revise the
same and make it conform to the
facts in the case.
The tables and shelves were
heaped high with cauliaower as
big as a mans hat, beets. carrots,
radishes and potatoes of any size
except small, luscious watermel-
ons and canteloupes. peas and
beans both sheIled and in the pod.
tomatoes, cherries, apples, rasp-
berries. gooseberries, strawberries.
currants, as fine as can be pro-
duced in any land, and better
than most can show.
The live stock exhibits were not
50 many as they were good. but
another year viii! doubtless remedy
this defect also. At that there
were two pens Of cattle, three Of
sheep, five Of hogs. several stalls
of draft horses and at least fifteen
coops Of poultry all Of them ex-
celient.
In the exhibit building Overstad
& Hoverson, the hardware and
furniture dealers showed some Of
their line of good things.
The Stone Piano Co.. of Fargo,
which has just opened up car
load Of fine instruments here, had
booth with four of the most ex-
cellent makes on the market.
This company has placed about
twenty pianos in Beach and has
only just opened up the field.
The Golden Valley Clothing
Store has a splendidly arranged
layout of clothing. shoes and
furnish ;ngs. and w. W. Larsen has
booth full Of exquisite cut glass
and hand painted china. The
Singer Sewing Machine Co., of
Bismarck also has booth.
The art and fancy work corner
is replete with those dainty and
fetching things so dear to the
feminine heart. but which, to a
man, are as so much Greek. He
can say the are pretty. but be-
yond that he doesn't care to go,
for the average male biped doesn't t
know a dolly from a napkin.
The speed contests brought out
good field of horses and very lib
eral purses were hung up. Ow'
ing to lack of time we are unable