The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
Entries for Big State Fair
Swamp Secretary.
Two Train Loads of Live Stock
From Nebraska Fair.
BAND PLAYS SUNDAY.
Of 25 Cents Charged
to Grounds.
President BOrman Enthusiastic
About Fireworks.

Just the last minute, SO to speak,
said Secretary H. L. Cook of the Kan
saS State fair today, "entries are COM
ing in thick and fast, and everything
is being put into shape for the OPEN
ing hour of the show-a week from
| this morning.
The gates will be closed Sunday but
! those who pay rs cent admission fee
will be entitled to hear the sacred
concerts by Liberat's band at 8 and
7:30 O'Clock. The grounds will be a
| busy scene Sunday as that is the day
when it will be necessary to put the
displays in place in readiness for the
opening Monday and to allow free
admittance to the general public
would mean the hindering of the ex-
hibitOrs in their work.
Two train loads of live stock will
be brought direct to the fair grounds
from the Nebraska State fair at Lin
coin and these exhibits will be of the
highest order.
I have just returned from the fair
at Lincoln and / want to say that
they have a fine show there. The paid
admissions numbered more than 90
600 the first day and we can boast of
a like attendance if the people right
here in Topeka and Shawnee county
come to the support Of the institu-
ton of which they may well be proud"
Tt Was Great.
Il saw Pains Last DAYS of Pom
peif, and it was the greatest thing a
man ever saw said President r. A.
Borman of the fair association, in
speaking of his recnet visit at the
Iowa state fair at Des Moines. THE
people of Topeka have a rare treat in
store for them
The fair was great, but the ex-
hibits in the vegetable department
were slim on account of the adverse
The day before I visited the fair
there were $4,000 people on the
grounds-just think Of it,
THE only thing that can hurt the
fair at Topeka will be the unfounded
rumors that have been spread abroad
relative to the smallpox situation in
Topeka. Every station agent on the
lines going through Topeka has been
instructed to tell the people the facts
of the case-that smallpox has been
stamped out in Topeka
THE people of Topeka and Shaw
nee county alone can make the fair a
success if they turn out in a body"
If Joshua Browning says so, it's so,
and there's an end to it. At least
that's the general opinion am ong those
of Shawnee county's residents that
know the popular and substantial Sol
dier township farmer whose hobby is
good sheep. Mr.. Browning came to
Topeka and made a trip of inspection
over the state fair grounds just to sat
isfy himself as to the reported i'm
provements of the grounds. A report
er met the old gentleman afterwards,
and in the course of conversation he
volunteered the information that no
public corporation had ever received
more for the money expended than
had Shawnee county for the $4,000
spent for new buildings and improve
ments at the state fair grounds.
VIII Buy Own Ticket.
I was down there today and looked
over the entire grounds said he, land
I want to tell you that there is more |
tangible evidence of value received |
than in any public expenditure have |
ever known of. The taxes required to /
realize that fifty thousand dollars were |
not felt by any taxpayer, yet they have |
in these new fair grounds buildings and |
the other many improvements an in |
vestment that denotes permanency,
beauty, utility. and a lasting source of |
pleasure to future generations.
I will gladly pay my share of an |
other fifty thousand dollar appropria- |
tion to further the work. I'm mighty |
well pleased with the way this first |
money was spent, and also want to
say that the credit of building a great |
fair should be placed where it belongs |
before the man dies, too. We've got q |
real fair builder in our secretary, Mr.. |
Cook, and don't you think [ say it for |
any favors shown me over any other |
exhibitor. I buy my own and my |
familys tickets, pay my pen rent, and |
am under no obligations to anybody, |
but I'm everlastingly for the state fair, |
and want to see it succeed"