The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-26
There viii Be Unique Features
at State Fair.
Exposition will Be More Than
Pumpkin" Show.
MAY CHECK BABIES
Modern WoOdmen to Care for
"Kiddies" at Headquarters.
Other Items of Interest Con-
corning the Fair.

There will be many entirely new
features at the Kansas state Fair this
fau. one of these viii be a street
called '.Fraternal Row" Here various
fraternal orders will have their head
quarters. and they will provide rest
rooms and other conveniences for the
crowds at the fair.
The Modern Woodmen Of America
is the first organization 40 engage
space in the row. and their headquart-
ers win serve not only for spot where
the members can congregate put as d
place where ali persons may take ad-
vantage of the Woodmen's hospitailty'
May Check Babies.
Ice water win be on tap all the time,
comfortable chairs and rockers ma
terials for writing a letter home, ana
every convenience provided 10 make II
attractive AS one member OF the
committee EXPRESSED it, There may be
prospectfve Woodmen on the grounds
with their wives and best girls that
viii appreciate a place to sit down and
enfov the comforts of Woodmen
tent as we'll as members OF the order
General Saxon suggested that neghlhs
he omitted. even to the checking Oh
babies. if the mothers desired to see
the races. The Woodmen tent viii be
located at the junction OF the main
road and the row of cottonwood trees
near the main entrance to the GROUNDS
from which a splendid view OF the en-
tire grounds is possible. Attendants
will be IN charge night and day ana
the official rest rooms and intorma-
ton bureaus viii thus be relieved OF
much of the work that usually de-
wolves upon them.
There will be numerous other rest
rooms on the grounds Then the Com
mercial club Will maintain genera
bureau of information and telephones
will be at the disposal of those on the
grounds.
An Interesting Display.
Among the many exhibits at the
fair one that viii be entirely unique
Will be a display which Alexander T.
Case Of Marion has been preparing for
a period of twelve years In glass
cases in the agricultural hall will be
the crops of Kansas for as many con-
secutive years.
The display is interesting inasmuch
as II shows a comparison of the quality
Of the crops produced under varied
weather conditions. The exhibit Will
occupy about 20 feet of wall space in
the hall
The best Individual farm display, to
consist of products grown in 1911 on
one Kansas farm and shown by the
grower. win bring the winners hand-
some returns at the Kansas State fair.
There are three prizes in money offer
ed by the fair association, of SD STU
and SIS. To the winner of first pre-
MUM will go a feed grinder offered
by the International Harvester COM
pany of America valued at S35; to the
second. q suit of clothes, added by the
Palace Clothing company, valued at
see. and to the third, double-bar-
relied shot gun. valued at SIS. The
Ifuvlor- ic m consist IF corn. VPgeta b les.
fruits. seeds. grain, sheaf grains.
stalks. etc, and must be separated
from any other exhibit. This is GER
tainly worth while
Lively Competition.
Notwithstanding the cry of drouth
that has Dervaded the west this sum-
mer there will be some lively competi-
tion among Kansas counties in the col
lective county exhibits of farm pro-
ducts and cereals at the Kansas State
Fair in this city The winner of the
premiums in this class Will have to go
some to excel, as there are several
mighty handy decorators among the
enterprising farmers of Kansas who
have the knack OF putting up attrac-
tive displays.
A special prize of ten dollars for the
best and Ave dollars for the second
best state Fair sign made in seeds and
grain, and bearing the words kansas
state Fair" will bring out some fine
work by the artistically inclined al
next months big show. There is one
in the Office of Secretary Cook from
last years fair that is hard to beat.
An interesting feature of the dairy
exhibit at the Kansas state Fair vii
Be the lectures by the judges in this
department one on Tuesday at one
o'clock on How to Produce Prime
Mix for Domestic Use" and another
on Wednesday at the same hour or