The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-18
COUNTY FAIR
IS NEXT WEEK
BRookINGS COUNTY's BIG FAIR
OPENS TUESDAY AND CON-
TINUES FOUR DAYS
OPENING DAY WILL Be BEST OF week
Fine Program Arranged For All Four
Days-"Joy Way" the Night Pike
Is a Pleasing Feature

County Fair Association opens next
Tuesday morning at the grounds in
west Brookings and continues four
days, closing Friday night. The fair
this year promises to be bigger and
better than ever, especially in the line
Of amusements as a fine program has
been provided for the entertainment
of fair patrons. Everything depends
on the weather and if that is good We
will have a great fair.
The fair is a week later than last
year and as the season is earlier most
of the fall work will be out of the way
and the attendance should be large.
The people from outside Of the city
will be the guests of Brookings and
the citizens of Brookings should do
everything they al to make them feel
at home and enjoy their stay here. Our
people have always had the reputation,
whether or not they deserve it, of be-
ing rather stiff and formal, and now
is a fine opportunity to show the out
siders that we are as cordial and as
hospitable as the people of any other
town. The visitors will enjoy the fair
a great deal if they have the glad
hand extended to them and know that
we are glad to have them come to
Brookings.
The Joy Way" which will open
each night at seven-thirty will be a
new feature this year and should help
in making the fair a success. This
will be held on the fair grounds, the
shows being located from the ticket
office north to the stock pavilion and
another row opposite along the race
track. This part of the grounds will
be brilliantly lighted up and a good
time will go on as long as any of the
crowd remain. An admission of twen-
ty-ive cents for adults and ten cents
IOT CulluIeu Wll UC II 6Cu W ~
grounds in the evening, and every n
who goes will get his moneys worth
several times over. He will see every
thing that the visitor to the fair in the
afternoon sees, except the races, in
Guiding all of the free attractions and
in addition he will participate in the
general good time that the carnival
crowds will be having.
The free attractions which will per-
form on the grounds both afternoon
and evening are: Rollo, the Limit,
who coasts down a seventy-foot in
cline on roller skates and turns a back
ward somersault in mid-air; Link
Brothers, rough tumblers; McPhee &
Hill, the clown and the lazy man. This
is a European attraction, using two
sets Of apparatus, and affords lots Of
fun for all. The Crazy House, is the
real thing. All kinds OF tent shows
and novelties on the Joy Way" Big
bowery dance, with good floor and
good music. Large merry-go-round,
and other attractions.
A special effort is being made to
make the first day one of the best If
not the very best Of the week. In
other years the crowds on the first
day have been light, as there were no
harness races and the program was
not UP to those of the following days,
but this year the opening program is
going to be a hummer. A committee
from the Commercial Club, together
with the president and secretary of
the fair, have arranged some great
stunts. Chief among these Is the egg
race, the object of which will be to
roll an egg 100 feet with a row bar.
II the egg is broken the contestant
has t O go back to the scratch and start
over again with another egg. DR.. Har-
ris, who has this event in charge, tells
us that he already has about twenty
Ave entries, mostly of business men
along Main street, and 1t promises to
be one Of the best stunts of the day.
]. NJ. Smythe. o. o. Graves, ]. L. Jarvis
and o. o. Olson are already in training
and may be seen any morning early
working out in abbreviated costumes
in their back yards. Mr.. Graves tells
us that he is somewhat handicapped
as he will have to train up to a point
where he a lift the crow bar. Mr..
Olson tells us conidentially that he is
going to slip M over on the judges.
as he has an unbreakable china egg to
exchange for the real egg that IL given
him. Another good stunt will be the