The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-06
ALL THE BILLS
WERE PRESENT
Each One Brought all of
His Friends.
LOOKED LIKE A FAIR DAY
Crowd Numbered at Least
5000 Souls.
Everything, Excepting the Motorcycle
Race Was Pulled Off According TO
Program and the Day Was Enjoyed
by all.

The big Bills little Bills, long
Bills, short Bills, lean Bills, fat Bills
young Bills, old Bills, middle aged
| Bills, lawyer Bills, doctor Bills and
| even few preacher Bills, were there.
Then with the Bills came their
wives, sisters, daughters, sweethearts
and uld-be-sweethearts and all OF
their friends. 1t was indeed one big
party. Monday afternoon the Fair
| ground gave the appearance of a
| Thursday of fair week rather than
| just a picnic. There were fully 5000
on the grounds and everyone of the
5000 was in good humor, ready for
anything which might be offered in
the way of amusements.
The Bills congregated at the Court
house and at one O'Clock, headed by
Bakers band marched to the fair
grounds. Then there began con-
| tinuous stream of humanity which
| did not cease until the rain began in
| the evening. Bill Leuellen, dressed
to represent Theodore, the great hun
| ter, acted as grand marshall and
mounted upon a white bucking bron-
ko, and armed with a tin mega
phone, he played the part of chief
cook and bottlewasher.
The program of the afternoon was
opened with the adress of welcome
by Bill Scofeld and after he had con
cluded there was not a doubt in the
minds of anyone that all were well
come. Bill Hoops of Marysville,
could not be present and his place
was taken by Rev. Bill Ice, of IaRue.
Ihe Bills octet rendered a num-
ber of selections which were well re-
ceived and heartily applauded.
Then the races were started. There
were three entries in the trotting
race. The horses were not named
so the names of the owners were
used instead. The owners were AL
bert Trey. Ray Merchant and r. L.
Goetting. These horses finished in
the following order:
Albert Trey -, Ray Mer-
chant 2-1-2, r. L. Geotting "a.
Time-1:30. 1870, 1872 1-2.
In the second heat of this race n
horse driven by Mr. Brewer was al
lowed to start, but he was ruled out
for the third heat. This horse took
the second heat in 1925.
For the pace, three horses were
also entered and in this also the
name of the owner is given, the
horses finishing thus;
Ed. Drake 3-3; William Noyes,
II; Albert Trey, 2-2. Time 1920,
1912.
The automobile race was the real
exciting event of the afternoon. For
this event there were two entries, a
Rue, and Cole 80. driven by Dale
Towbridge. The machines made q
flying start for three mile race and
the manner in which they kicked up
the dust on the half mile track was
indeed exciting. The result was a
victory for the Ford car, by a narrow
margin, the time of the halves being:
half mile, so; one mile, 1:41; one
and one+half miles, 2:31 1-2; two
miles, 3:21; two and one-half miles,
4:10; three miles, Sol.
For the mule race there were three
entries. This was a half mile dash,
but 1t was not so very dashing. One
of the mules became unruly just
after leaving the wire and made a
dash for the fence but was headed
| off before he had thrown a shoe and
when the gate of the stables was
reached two OF the hybirds determin-
ed to go to the barns, but they were
| persuaded to continue around the
| IL al laxg y
Bush was the only one which showed
the effects of his raising. The mules
finished like this; e. T.. Bush, first.
Stanley Strayer, second and Will
liam Deal. third. The time was 1:2S.
Bert Crow who owns the great
pacing horse, Egozine, with a mark
of 2:06 IA gave an exhibition OF
his speed.
At the conclusion of the races
the crowd dispersed for supper and
soon the contents of well filed bas-
kets were spread upon the tables
and the Bills and their friends fell to
demonstrating that they were moi
lafflicted with Indigestion and dispep'
sa. Fried chicken, cake, pickles and
all the things which go tos make NJ
picnic dinner disappeared like
magic.
In the evening there was dancinl
in the arts hall with fireworks or
the outside. The crowd fingered un
til late in the evening, even though
showers were threatening and thu
weather was disagreeable at times.
That the picnic of the Bills was {
success in every respect cannot b.
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