Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-09-12
1912 CARNIVAL IS
GREATEST OF ALL
The Mitchell Corn Palace and
Corn Belt Exposition will
be Enlarged this Year IN
Every Respect

That the 1912 Corn Belt exposition
and corn palace carnival will be the
greatest yer this year-the twentieth
anniversary of its creation, is u~ndoubted
when the good things to be presented
by the corn palace committee and the
people of Mitchell are generally under
stood. The people of the state of South
Dakota need no introduction to what
the Mitchell Corn Palace is. 1t has been
an established institution in the state
for twenty years and its reputation as
the only thing of the kind in the world
has gone far and wide over the entire
country. There are very few persons
in the state today, who have not anti
cipated a trip to this grand entertain
ment at some time or another. To those
of them who have failed to crafty that
anticipation, the invitation is extended
this year with the assurance that the
whole affair will be put on with about
twice the usual amount of care and
expense.
Chief among the new features this
year is the new SO, 900 European Hip
Uodrome which will consist of many of
the best acts and high class feature
attractions obtainable. This magnif-
cent show will be presented twice daily
and will be shown on the newly enlarged
stage of the TORN palace building. The
hippodrome will consist of ten, big acts
inside and three grand free street attrac-
tiors. 1t combines the feature acts of
the best vaudeville in the world with
star performers garnered from the four
corners of the circus world.
The Congress Cabaret orchestra, the
pride OF Chicago, will also play two
daily concerts in the corn palace. This
is IN an aggregation of musicians, every
one of which is a soloist and a distinct
artist in his line. The concerts by the
orchestra will be interspersed with the
~hippodrome show.
The decoration of the corn palace
building will excel anything this year,
ever before attempted. At a cost of
$4,000. 90 it will be presented to the eye,
a thing of beauty and a JOY forever. DR..
ellis of the Michigan state university,
who has had charge of the decorating
for many years past has again been
induced to superintend the work. His
design will be beauty and simplicity of
decoration and the effect is beyond imag
inatior to describe.
Six silver cornet bands from different
sections of the state have been engaged
and two of them will be on duty every
day of the week. They will meet all
trains and will play daily concerts on
the streets.
In addition to the usually attractive
corn palace show, the street carnival
section has not been overlooked. This
part of the event will be greater and
grander than ever. The "Main Drag"
will be replete with all the attractions
so dear to the heart of the carnival
goer. Nothing has been omitted and so
great was the demand for space this
year by street attractions that the COM
mittee was enabled to make an usually
good selection.
The city of Mitchell itself has made
such improvements in the past year
that it will hardly be recognizable. The
new cement paving on Main street
extends from the Milwaukee to the
Northwestern depot and this is fanked
by h new system of cluster boulevard
lights which makes the finest appear
ing main street in the state.
Every effort has been made and every
convenience for the entertainment of
the guests of the city corn palace week
has been provided for. There will be
plenty of shade and water for all and
the city will be thrown open to those
who come for the greatest week of
pleasure ! IN the history of the city.
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