Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
ARKANSAS VALLEY DAY
Wednesday, Sept. 40, at the Colorado
State Fair,

State Fair.
kansas Valley Day at the State Fair
in Pueblo:
500 a. m. All buildings and barns
open to public.
900 a. m. Band concert on Mid
way.
1000 a. M. Prof. Frank G. Odell,
the Bee Wizard, will give an exhibi-
ton in cage with bees, also deliver
his far famed lecture on Scientific
Agriculture.
1000 to 1890 a. m. Exhibition by
Buffalo Jones of his World Famed
Buffalo, Cattaloe and Persiarino and
Gorisian Sheep.
1890 to HOO a. m. Exhibition by
o. E. Rymel of his wonderful Mule
Foot Hogs, which are shod the same
as mule.
1000 to 1900 a. IN. Judging fancy
riding and driving horses.
Band concert.
Judging hogs in the swine pavil-
ion.
Judging of sheen and poultry in
buildings.
100 to I:3o p. m. Band concert.
1880 to 500 p. m. 2;3o pace. Purse
$500.
Free for all trot. Purse $500.
Gentlemens' driving race; one-half
mile heats. Purse $I5o.
State Fair derby; one mile. En-
trance fee per cent and $500 added
money.
One-half mile running race. Purse
$I2s.
Two and one-half mile relay race.
Purse $500.
Five vaudeville acts in front of the
grand stand.
800 p. m. Band concert.
$3.50 to 1000 p. m. The great pyr-
otechnic display Last Days of Pom
peii." using $4,000 worth of fire
works. $50 people taking part in this
great production.
Special train leaves Rocky Ford at
o:38 a. M. Sept. 20. Fare round trip
SAILS. Good returning any day dur
ing week.
The races this year will be the big
feature of the fair. There are IS har-
ness horses entered and 200 runners
will take part in the events. There
will be FIVE races daily and number
of the best relay strings in the West
will compete in the relay races.
Pains fireworks showing the Last
Days Of Pompeii, the greatest pyro-
technic display ever conceived, will
be the attraction every night OF the
fair. A milking contest in which at
least 100 of the best milk cows in the
state will compete. will be one of
the interesting features of the fair.
The creameries of Denver and Pu-
cblo have offered several hundred dol
lars in prizes for the milking contest.
Any cow is eligible to entry.
The State Agricultural College will
conduct miniature poultry farm at
the Fair grounds. The farm is sup
posed to represent a 5-acre poultry
ways and coops and field where iced
for the poultry will be grown. In
connection with the instructive and
interesting exhibit Prof. w. f. Vap-
ton will give daily lectures on the
care and breeding of poultry and how
to conduct the ideal poultry farm in
accordance with years of experiment
tai work carried on at the Agricultur-
al College.
The book issue for the month of
August just passed the one thousand
mark.
The following books of fiction were
recently transferred to the free
shelves: The Mistress of Shenstone
by the author of The Rosary; The
Skyman; A Successful wife; and Rex
Beach's Going Some.
Among the new things of popular
interest are: Panama; the isthmus and
the canal. Letters to His Holiness
Pope Plus X by a Modernist Rub
Der. its production and utilization.
Negro life in the south, its present
condition and needs.
Some recently added books of hc-
tion are: Amelia E. Barr's Song of
single note: Maeterlink's Blue Bird.
The Green Fairy Book. My lady of
the North. Real letters of real girl.
The young people who have been
reading that old familiar. Uncle
Toms Cabin during the holidays
should be interested in a newly added
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, writ
ten by her son and grandson, and
made very entertaining by its record
of little family intimacies not COM
monty entering into the biographies
of eminent people.
With the opening of the schools
there is increased interest in the heav-
ier reading, especially along the lines
of History and Economics.