Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-09-02
GREATEST STATE
FAIR IS READY
THE 1909 EXHIBITION PROMISES
TO EXCEL ALL PREVIOUS =
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ATTENDANCE PROBABLY 100000
Tremendous Efforts Have Been Sue
eesssuIly Put Forward for the
- Fiftieth Annual Minnesota
Exposition.

A hah million people win visit the
nftteth Annual Minnesota State Fair.
September to IL, unless all signs
TAIL and the Board of Managers Of
this greatest Of all annual expeditions
has been making tremendous prepare
lions with this probability In view
Not for twenty years have crop con
ditions In the northwest been 50 prom
ising as they are this year, and not
In twenty years have the money and
labor markets been In 70 healthy con
dition- Never before in the history
of the fair has the institution had
such an elaborate and thoroughly
equipped plant for the education and
entertainment Of its thousands OF an
nual visitors, and never before has its
Board Of Managers invested 80 much
In the program calculated to please
all classes of it's patrons
The new $250,000 grandstand and
exposition building, of which SO much
has been said, is structure the mag
nitude OF which none can appreciate
until they see it, although it is ad-
mitted to be the only structure of it's
kind in the world, and the biggest and
most modern grandstand anywhere in
the middle west. It is 37S feet long,
Ill feet deep and los feet high, seats
$4,000 and has 100000 square feet OF
exhibition space. The old grandstaud
had no exhibition space at all, and
was but ESQ feet long, IS feet deep
and Is feet high. In mere descrip-
ton, no adequate idea of the impos-
ing lines along which this greatest Of
State Fair buildings has been erected
can be given, and visitors to the State
Fair this year will be amazed at it's
completeness, comfort and absolute
safety against fire and panic It il
built entirely of steel and concrete,
has twenty exits and entrances, and
such Is the scientific skill with which
1t has been constructed that every
seat holder will have a perfect view
of the worlds record mile track IN
der any conditions.
Splendid Automobile Show.
The automobile show, alone, will
occupy the entire lower floor OF this
mammoth structure, and will be by
far the most impressive assemblage
of absolutely up-to-date motor cars
the northwest has ever seen. The
second or main floor of the structure
will be devoted to exhibits of such
value and quality as to astonish those
who have been accustomed to expect
only the single purpose grandstand
and never heretofore have seen a
combination such as this one.
A Prison Exhibit.
Among the special exhibits in the
agricultural implement department,
which give promise OF appealing to
a large majority of the visitors OF the
State Fair this year, will be one fur
nished by the state prison at Still
tual operation the machinery with
which binding Irvine is manufactured
| in that institution. Warden Wolfer
will also have on exhibition one OF
| the harvesters made by the Saltwater
| prison, and as a great majority of the
| farmers in the northwest are inter
ested in the output of this institution
| II Is UelcVcu LudL t1A1S CAAlDlI w LA
| attract a large amount of attention
| For the first time in the history OF
| the northwest a "binder-hitch" will
| also be shown at the fair grounds. A
| traction engine hauling four binders
| in multiples will make practical dem
| onstrations and will undoubtedly be
one of the big novelties of the agricul
| tural implement section of the State
Fair.
| Fast Fields Entered.
In spite of the fact that there are
| three other western state fairs held
! the same week as the Minnesota
| State Fair, the entries for the harness
| horse events has never given promise
/ of greater speed and closer finishes
than those that are now found on the
| card for the 1909 fair. 49,
! Mammoth Live Stock Show.
| Never in the history of the fair has
| there been such al Influx of live
stock exhibitors of every kind. There
are $50 more entries in the sheep de
partment than were made at the State
Fair of last year, and the entries II
the horse department are nearly 334I
more than those of 1908. The same
is true of the cattle classes and of the
swine classes. The overflow from tn,
dairy building has been accommodates
by devoting one of tie former car
rage exhibit buildings TO exhibits o
creamery machinery exclusively.
Minnesota at Gettysburg"
In the department of amusement
81 500 has been invested In the thrill
ing, historical, military spectacle en-
titled Minnesota at Gettysburg
based upon the famous charge Of thu
First Minnesota in that battle, which
spectacle bids fair to surpass th,
Fort Ridgeley in '62" spectacle o
last year In every detail It will b.
given each evening In front Of th,
grand stand. Another special featur,
which will be offered every evenin,
In front OF the grand stand win b,
the Carroll Austrian Ballet. to be con
cIlded by an enormous living ia,
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