Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-06
CASH BALANCE sLloHrLY
LARGER THAN YEAR AGO
sserstary Urges the Need Of Providing
Additional Means Of Raisins Mercy
-ss''sv'' Price Of Admission shoaf4
d Raissd TO IS csnt.- Give. SUM.
mary Of Expenses and Receipts.

Of tbs ltockholders. held at the Mar
shalltown Club rooms today. Secre-
tary Clark urges the need Of providing
more money for barns and stalls for
show stock. and an increas of the price
Of admission from 25 to IS cents is ad
{ vocated.
The financial statement, accompany
Ing the report. briefly summarized
shows the receipts Of the association
to haxe been. 81. 32l.69. which includes
a cash balance of $647.21 carried over
froms1910. The expenditures totaled
$10,622.9Q. leaving a cash balance for
next yearof $69s.79.
cIark's Annual Report.
Mr.. Clarks report, in part, is az fol-
lows;
The county has completed the fenc-
ing Of the grounds the past season, so
we now have substantial and perma-
nent :. fence enclosing the entire
grounds.
During the year your executive
committee has rebuilt a part of the
fence around the track. installed adj
ditional water service, added to the
toilet facilities, built new office
building. and otherwise improved the
grounds
standing in the State.
Both the Mason City and Bremen
county fairs. the latter at Waverly.
CLAIM to be ahead of Marshall county
in amount of premiums paid in 1911,
but theresis good reason for this. Mr..
c. H. Barber secretary at Mason City,
sayssin his premium list, we take
particular pleasure IN calling attention
to and gratefully acknowledging the
special premiums offered by business
and professional men, the total
amounts to $1,225' Mr.. Long. the
Wavsrly secretary, also says in his
premium list. We take off our hat to
the business men Of Waverly and her
sister towns. The following is list Of
the a1Rellpts subscribed by our friends
among the business men and Industries
Of Waverly. Then follows list Of
the donors, with the amount given by
each. which foots up over s1.70O. This
clearly explains why their reports to
the state department show mors paid
In premiums to exhibitors than we do,
an every dollar paid by this associa-
ton was paid from the receipts Of the
fair. and the very few special prem
lums offered by business men were not
taken into consideration in arriving at
the amount patd In premiums. Their
figures are undoubtedly legitimate, but
are misleading.
More Barns Needed.
II wish to call your. attention to the
imperative need Of providing some
method of raising more money 1t is
useless to tell you that we need addi-
tionals barn room. as every one who
attended the 1911 fair. and saw the
temporary stalls the management was
compelled to build to take care Of the
overflow of horses and cattle, fully un,
derstands the situation. The renting of
tents. .and building temporary stalls,
has cost the association enough in the
past six years to have built . barn 4Ox-
zoe feet. or duplicate Of the horse
barn built In 1910. We paid $3.50 this
year for rent Of tents and barns. Add
to this the cost Of labor in building
temporary stalls and pens, and You will
readily see that 1t IL a waste Of money
to continue on the plan we have been
competed to follow in the past
Wants Admission Increased.
Heretofore I have been opposed to
the raising Of the price Of admission at
the gate above rs cents. But after Wis
itinE numerous fairs during this and
former year,. and comparing them
with the Marshall county fair, am
fully convinced that we would not cut
our attendance to any degree by charg-
ing asbigher admission at the entrance
gate. We have . show. taken as a
whole. 50 per cent larger than any 9TH
er county fair in the state. and get 10
1 cents less for every adult that passes
our gates than other fairs that claim or
attempt to be in our class.
sOf. tho seighty-six fairs that report
Z 60 the state. fifty eight charge 35 cents,
twenty-six charge 26 cents and two
charge so cents at the gates. The price
charged for teams 10 usually Is cents,
and children Is cents. the same as we
y charge.
Grand Stand Receipts Increase.
The paid afternoon admissions to
the grand stand for Tuesday. Thurs
day ana Friday Of this year atyg Is
cents were larger than they were In
1905 or 1910 on corresponding days.
Whilesthe evening paid admissions 1t Is
cents this year. for Tuesday and
Thurpday evenings. were more than
responding evenings OF former years
shows :conclusively that the additional
charge ct the grand stand did not keep
people from going In TO sec the events
/ that Were being carried on on, the
track &
Il would urgently recommend that
the price OF admission for the 1912 fair
be placed At 81 for exhibitors and sea-
son tickets, single admission for adults
i o5 cents. that teams. automobiles and
ehildren's tickets. and the prices 1t the
grand stand remain the same ~ this
year.ss ..s
The INST three years our gate
yocet6ts atsa6 cents and 81 for 1oAson
sand Sexhibfs9rs' tickets. IS would have
oeven 10 approximate &esQ00 more
1Aan we have received.
W. snead NOM funds to caSxx on the
4air e Sne hI6h u idafd Il M6W sN'Nnd'
= 60 - no better way to raise Il