Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-11
FAIR RECEIPTS ARE HEAVY
Will Exceed Those Of Any Previous
Year, Though Expense Was Large.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE IS laO,1i4
West LincOIn One of Most Popular
Places i'm Lancaster County Dur-
Ing ExhIbItIOn--Fair Grounds
order Good.
drom a stff Correspondent,

OFrom a STIFF Correspondent
state fair board has held an all-day meet
ing, winding up the business Of the week.
II will be impossible for several days to
give out the report of the earnings and
expenses, but the indications are the net
receipts viii surpass the receipts OF any
previous year, even though the expenses
have been unusually heavy.
The total attendance this year was 80, =
ll4. against 1926 in 1909 and ILL., 800 in
1905, up to this year the banner year.
TIE crowd was more numerous on
Wednesday. Dahlman day. but it might be
incidentally remarked that the aeroplane
had been booke dior flights that after
noon. following the fall of the aviator the
day before. On Wednesday 44,440 people
passed through the gates.
1t was apparent that the people who
visited the fair went home satisfied that
they got their moneys worth The local
papers condemned the boot blacks for in
creasing the price Of shines to 10 cents,
instead OF cents, but the visitors did not
seem to mind that increase, though there
was objections to the way some OF the
rooming houses robbed their victims, with
no very great protest so far as heard from
the local authorities and papers. one
night was held up for 50 for the same room
Tuesday night Instances of this kind were
reported numerous, though IL they cared
to pay the price most all of the visitors
could have secured rooms somewhere. The
Information bureau installed by the com
mercial club was of great benefit to the
visitors, In that the bureau furnished
callers with information regarding places
to sleep and eat
More people we're drunk on the streets
than usual and the disorder at night was
general along street crowd OF boys
and young men took it upon themselves to
insult women or strike them with patent
noise makers Two or three of the young
rowdes were knocked down by escorts of
women and one plate glass window was
broken. A carryall did a thriving business
between Lincoln and West Lincoln. The
driver walked his team up and down the
streets soliciting trade and about once an
hour he carried out load and brought
back q load loaded"
The order on the fair grounds was good
and visitors were we'll cared for. The en-
ployes at all times were courteous and ac-
commodating and kicks were not numerous.
Answer of PlattsmOuth Company
me Plattsmouth Telephone company and
is officers today filed in the supreme court
an answer to the petition of the attorney
general for an injunction to restrain them
from tuning the property of the company
over to the Nebraska Telephone company
The answers set out that the Plattsmouth
company was not a competitor of the Ne
oraska company and neither was it sold
rs part of any conspiracy, but instead
% extend the business OF the Nebraska
company. 1t is also in the answer that
the suit was hled for the benefit Of the
1wners OF Independent telephone companies
and not in the interest of the people The
attorney general it says has not been given
all the facts in the case but has been i'm
posed upon. The answer sets out that the
independent association has entered into
contracts to prohibit its members from
competing with each other or getting into
he territory of each other; that 1t was
threatened one time that If it did not Join
he association there would be Installed
II Piattsmouth competing system. The
asks that the Injunction asked
or by the independent companies be de-
ned.