Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-09-10

Society held its annual fair from last
Tuesday until Friday. The grounds
were handsomer than were ever
known. The heavy rains of the past
summer have made the pine and hard
wood groves exceptionally beautiful,
and if there was nothing more than
the midway; the merry-go-round aid
the restaurants they would be sufficient
to draw out large crowds, for our peo-
pie should get out at least once a
year and get better acquainted in the
mutual enjoyment of one large pic
mic; but there is always more than
this in the large display of live stock,
poultry, farmers produce, etc, at our
annual county fairs.
Tuesday, the opening of the fair, was
spent in making entries, arranging
exhibitions in the various buildings,
getting in the live stock, etc. The
day was a beautiful one and gave
every promise of being followed by a
week of sunshine and balmy weather.
However, during the night rain COM
menced to fall and there was no let
up until Wednesday afternoon at
about four O'Clock, when the clouds
cleared away. 1t was too late then to
ever dry the grounds for the follow
ing day, SO Wednesday was pretty
much of damper upon the ultimate
success of the fair.
Thursday is always the big day at
our county fairs. 1t is on that day
that business places close in the after
noon; mills and factories give their
employees half day off and all paths
lead to the fair grounds; it was SO on
Thursday. The day could not have
been more appropriate. The race
track was worked all the forenoon
and until the races started in the
afternoon, by drag hauled by an
automobile and by many horses being
gotten in readiness for the races.
This had the effect of drying out the
course and putting it in very fair
condition, though it was heavy and
slow time was made. There were
perhaps 5000 people on the grounds
on this day.
The display of farmers produce was
not as large as in former years Meth
er was it as good. There was rea-
son for this, Marathon county has
never known in its history of having
such a wet summer. 1t has been
rain, rain, rain, and nearly every day.
This has retarded the ripening of
crops and most everything seems to
be in an unripened state, excepting
grains of all kinds. Bridges have
been washed out all over the county,
roads have been in very bad condi-
tions, our farmers have been behind
in their work and all this had much
to do in the agricultural display.
The lower floor of the main build
ing, running north and south, was
given to the display of agricultural
products; what there was of it was
very good but for reasons above given
many shelves were empty.
The balance of the lower floor was
given up to the displays of our mer-
chants. Among those of our mer-
chants having booths, with their
goods artistically displayed were, the
Kiefer Produce Co., Bauman Hard
ware Co., Wiechmann Hardware Co.;
Wisconsin University Extension
School; III. S. Wright, jewelry, and
monographs; VIM. Sell hardware;
Wausau Clothing Co.; Winkleman's
department. store. Besides there was
on this floor the exhibit of the Mara
thon County School of Agriculture,
consisting of house plans, drawn by
the students, cabinet work and various
kinds of soils.
Upstairs was the display of ladies'
fancy work which was exceptionally
good. The domestic department had
also an excellent display of preserved
| fruits, various kinds of bread, cake,
etc. The Northwestern Dying and
Cleaning Works had an attractive
display on this floor also the shoe
store of Huffman & Brach, The Mer-
rill Shoe Co., Collie book store and
Lund's and Philips, florists, had a
profusion of flowers artistically ar.
ranged in the new west addition on
the second floor. On this floor the c.
f. Dunbar Co. had a display of jewel
| ry, clocks, etc.
The exhibition of live stock was ex.
ceptionally good in blooded stock
| Especially was this so in the Guern
sey and Holstein cattle.
GUERNsEYs
Among those who had Guernsey
stock at the fair were:
B. +. Wilson of this city, who took
many first premiums; f. j. Bandy, ]
j. Bean, Paul Kickbusch, Adolpf
Thompson, az ri Wausau, Louis
Meuret, town of Flieth; A. ] Pillow
man Elderon.
r. c. 0sterhaus of the University
of Wisconsin,, department of agricul.
tnre, Madison, who judged the above
made il very interesting to the crowc
of spectators present. He also made
the following recommendation:
''The Marathon county herd o