The Glenwood post., 1910-01-15
APPLE SHOW
GRAND AFFAIR
Garfield County Slept After
Winning Prizes At 0th..
er Big Shows
MESA COUNTY DISPLAY
By II. G. Overlook

i, a block away from the big auditori
" um building in Denver last week q
faint odor of apples delighted the nos
trils
Approaching the building, the odor
grew stronger, and on entering, one
was greeted with the most delicious
"apple-ey" smell.
The apple exposition monotonous?
Nothing Of the kind. The very first
thing to strike the eye in the big show
space was the Garfield county sign. A
moro advantageous position could not
have been secured. There it was
catching the eye of every visitor, and
staring into the faces of the vast au-
diences that congregated every after
noon and evening to listen to the
speeches on fruit growing topics. AMI
the exhibit under that sign was no
slouch, even if it did fail to win 4
prize. 1t was good, and the only rea
son it did not win prizes was tina.
there were better. Mesa county had
wonderful display, and is justly en-
titled to its victory. Had the same
time been available for preparation of
tn. Garfield county display as was
evidently given to the Mesa county dis
play, Garfield would have shown up
better. That Garfield county has the
goods is shown by the record Of
Messrs. W. 8. Park and A. e. Fleming,
who had joint display apart from
the county exhibit, from their orch
ards at Silt. Between them they car
nried off eight frsts, six seconds, and
Dseven thirds, and also won four sp.-
cial prizes. No other apple producing
section in the exposition can make
the same showing by any individual
exhibit. Park and Fleming have been
preparing for this exhibition ever since
its inception, and the booth which
they had filled with apples was one of
the sights of the exposition. Atten-
tion was further called to it by an
electrical sign over the adjacent booth
occupied by the Antlcrs Orchard De.
velopment company. The record price
for apples was made by portion of
this Silt exhibit Twenty boxes of
Winter Bananas which formed a part
of the exhibit, were sold at SIS box,
making each apple cost about 40 cents
and one box sold for $53 These were
extra large, and made the single apples
Worth almost 81 each!
o. V. Coulter, who was in charge of
the Garfield county display, worked
from early morn till late at night, and
deserves more than mere vote of
thanks Another man, who had been
delegated to assist him, failed to
show up, and Mr.. Coulter, assisted BY
his young son. held the fort manfully
throughout the trying week, answering
thousands of questions and handing
ont attractive little folders about the
ecounty where his exhibit was grown.
The exhibit had been previously pack
>Dd under his supervision, and the ex.
eellent condition of the apples dis
played was testimony to the care
which he exercised in his preparations.
The apple queen, Of course, pervadei
the hall. A nice scheme, that contest,
for boosting the attendance. People
bought tickets because importuned to
give the fair solicitor some more votes
Then they used the tickets, merely be-
cause they had 'em, and were pleasant
ly surprised to find so much vpf inter
est. Even the housewives found some
thing especially interesting. That was
the apple kitchen downstairs, whH.e
they showed you how to cook apples
in about UNITY steen different ways.
There was apple rice, apple soup. ani
apple tapioca, and a lot more, but most
of the visitors stopped after reaching
the apple fritter line on the menn.
Heaven bring happiness to the cook
who prepared those fritters!
Leaving the apple kitchen one
plunged back to the vortex of apple
queens and displays. Not satisfied
with selling admission tickets, the
management provided the girls will
ballots to sell at 10 cents each. Fig
uring the average cost of ballots i
of course impossible, but anyway, il
is estimated the winning girl was a
least 500 worth more popular than he
nearest competitor. The coronatio,
was Z pretty ceremony, however, an,