Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-23
WILL MAKE RECORD
IOWA STATE FAIR TO GO EVERY
PREVIOUS YEAR ONE BET
TER.
ATTRACTIONS WILL BE
FAR MORE NUMEROUS
Senatorial Fights in Iowa TO Be lncor.
porated in Hook-state Food Com.
mission to Delay Action on Whisky
ouestion-Dr. Hornibreok May Be on
Board of Control.
pecial to Professionalism.

Special TO Times-Republican
Des Moines, Aug. 23.-It will take a
full week to see this year. state fair.
The man who comes to Des Moines
Friday next and stays till Friday of
the next week when the fair closes
VIII not be able to find any time hang
Ing heavily on his hands. Every year
there are more exhibits, every year
more attractions and every year a
bigger attendance. Secretary Simpson
Is confident that this year will again
set new record for next year to beat
The best way to see this years Iowa
state fair is to first secure a program
and make a careful study of 1t before
making any plans. Then there are
number of things of interest to see that
are not mentioned in the program and
this article will endeavor to tell OF a
/ few of these
/ Now as 10 the program. The races
are held every afternoon beginning at
l o'clock and continuing thru the after
noon till finished. In addition to the
races there is high class vaudeville
entertainment in front of the amphi-
| theater, and this vaudeville which con-
sists of nine acts is quite as interesting
as the races and more so to some .peo-
pie. The vaudeville which Is given in
the afternoon before the amphitheater
during the races is repeated in the ey-
ening in the stock pavilion between the
acts of the hippodrome and horse
show there In the evening before the
amphitheater there will be the specta-
cular show of Pains Battle OF the
Clouds.
There will be three bands and an
orchestra at the state fair this year
Liberatti will give concerts Sunday af-
ternoon and Sunday evening. On other
days Of the week he will play from
1890 to 1880 a. m. on the stand in the
| plaza near the administra ton building:
from l to 8 on the stand in front of the
anlphitileater and from to $3.50 at the
same place.
The Fifty-sixth regiment band OF
Fort Dodge will play from 9 to IL: 80
in the stock pavilion. from to in
front of the amphitheater and from
$50 to 1926 in the stock pavilion
I The Iowa Brigade band of Oskaloosa
will play from 10 10 in the stand in
the plaza and from 5 to on the same
stand and from 1880 to 1890 in the
stock pavilion. Graham's orchestra will
play forenoons in the agricultural
building and afternoons IN ths stock
pavilion.
The judging of the stock Is best seen
and only seen from the stock pavilion
continuing from in the morning till
nearly in the afternoon. No admis-
sion is charged to the pavilion during
these hours, and the judging here is
limited 70 horses, cattle. ponies and
mules. Hogs are judged in the hog
pavilion and sheep in the sheep barns
and poultry in the poultry building In
the stock pavilion horses are judged
during the forenoon and cattle during
the afternoon.
At each evening performance in the
stock pavilion there are parades Of
prize winning cattle and horses and of
other blooded cattle and horses
The best way to see the stock IL one
has but one day at the fair is to join
one of the touring parties to be con-
Quoted by students from the state agri-
cultural college which starts from the
SOlleSS putting on the GROUNDS at IN
the morning.
In the agricultural building there will
be found an educational exhibit in
agricultural puroducts never before at
tempted. It cost $4,000 to install it and
1t is something fine. A part Of this ex-
hibit will be alfalfa grown in Iowa,
There will be stacks of alfalfa just east
of the agricultural building for the
benefit of those who never saw any and
men who have grown the stuff In Iowa
will be on hand to tell how to do it.
The agricultural exhibit in the build
ing formerly used for a woman's rest
building should not be missed by any
! one neither should the exhibit of state
{public schools in the exposition build
4 ing. AT the agricultural college exhibit,
there will be classes taught just as they
are taught in the college and domestic
1 science classes showing just how cook
ing is taught.
The State Horticultural Society will
4 soon publish a book on the senatorial
4 fights in Iowa. Material for the book
is now being gathered by Dan E. Clark
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