Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1910-09-08
THE BEST IN
THE WEST
Better Exhibits, More Machinery
Better Races and the ONLY
Derby in the West
BIGGEST CLEANEST BEST
A Last Word About The Great State
Fair, The One That Marks New
Epoch in So. Dakota History.

Falr, Inc One hat Marks q New
Epoch in So. Dakota History.
Are you going to the State Fair?
Only a few days more to make up your
mind, and, while it is important to the
Fair, and to your fellow citizens who
are vitality interested in its success, it
is even more important to yourself to
decide right.
The day has passed when a father
could educate his brightest boys for
the law, the ministry or commercial
life and make farmer out Of John
because he hasn't enough sense to do
anything else" Twentieth century
farming demands the best brains in the
family aided by the best special prepar
alton that money and effort can secure.
What is Especial preparations" 1t is
simply a familiar knowledge of the
highest results that can be reached in
the profession. What kind of a look
ing COW will produce the most butter,
what kind Of steer will turn out the
greatest weight of the highest priced
meat at the least cost, what kind of u
hog pays the most for corn, what is the
best of every kind of grain, where it is
grown and how? No place. no other
school," affords so much, or so cheap
instruction along these practical lines
as does the State Fair. To take part
in one boys judging contest, of either
stock or corn, Is worth to any farmers
boy ten times what it will cost his
father. II you are pushing industri-
Gus farmer, mechanic or business man,
you owe yourself and your family few
days Of rest and recreation, of sight
seeing and social intercourse. II you
have been lazy ard "shiftless," you owe
it to yourself to come out and see what
energy and industry can accomplish.
Maybe it will wake you up.
The state, through its legislature and
Fair board has done its part. 1t has
provided five days of instruction com
bined with entertainment of the very
highest order,-a State Fair second to
none. You may come and profit by it,
or you may, by staying away, let it be
wasted as far as you are concerned.
Which are you going to do?
South Dakota has never given, South
Dakota has never seen such fair as
this one. In number and in volume
the exhibits, the races and the enter
tainment will be double all former fairs
in quality they are not to be compared
Above all else, you should see the great
South Dakota Derby on Monday
September 18th, the opening day of tn,
Fair, the only one in the west. Re
member that both Iowa and Nebrask;
started Derbys but neither of then
| filled with starters What those tw,
comparatively old and rich state
could not do, the young state of Soutl
Dakota has accomplished. 1t is al
earnest Of the states determination t
distance her elder sisters in other re
lspects.
| Come and see what corn and whea
and oats and barley, yes, and the fruit
and vegetables, the honey and butte
our state has produced in this year O
universal drouth and short crops. |
will astonish you. That Black Hill
mining exhibition is a revelation to
, man who has always imagined that thi
is solely an agricultural state.
l. And then the farm stock, horses
cattle, sheep, swine and poultry
there are l2G pens of Poland China
alone already entered. You may scarce
ly believe, unless you come and see fo
!, yourself, that breeders will be her
from Wisconsin, Minnesota and evel
from the Bluegrass region of Kentucky
to buy better breeding stock than the
can find at home.
Another feature of this fair tina
should commend it to every goo
citizen is its decency. Not only will
there be- no gambling or games O
chance permitted, but the shows al
lowed on the grounds will be clear
Nothing vulgar or even suggestive o
vulgarity. has been given a license
q The management has given special in
ducements to clean, high class enter
tainment organizations, following th
same rule in this respect as in ever
other in an effort to make the Sout
!, I Dakota State Fair, "The Best in tH
u West"
Come Monday and see for yourself.
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