The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-08-15
FAIR TO .,
BE BEST EVER.
Premium List Just Issued Announces
Premiums Amounting
to 100000.

the st. Louis County Fair OF 1918 IS
issued. As booklet it is somewhat
more pretentious than any previous
effort, but as a record Of the advance
ment Of the organization in stimulat-.
ing interest among the farmers Of the
county, it stands supreme among the
offerings of the fair associations of
the state.
Premiums amounting to $4,000 will
be offered in the various departments,
and including the purses to be paid
the winners in the speed events, the
total amount of money to be expended
in awards will exceed the $4,000 mark.
The horse races this year will prove
exceptionally interesting to followers
of the track. three fast events being
They are divided as follows:
scheduled for each day.
Hibping and Chisholm Day, Thurs
day, August 2s:-Free-for-all trot or
pace, purse $500; 80 trot or pace,
purse $500; SO mile running race,
purse $500.
Duluth Day, Saturday, August 80:
-2-18 trot or pace, purse $500; 2-22
trot or pace, purse $400; SO mile run
ming race, purse 500.
All Saints and Boosters Day, Aug
ust 1:-Free-for-al trot or pace,
purse $500; 2-20 trot or pace, purse
$500; SO mile running race, purse
$500.
In addition to the regular card OF
harness races there will be several
specials to be arranged after the
horses have arrived.
Featured in the premium list are
neatly arranged score cards on which
visitors may register, by points, their
opinions of the exhibits. Scoring in
all classes are thoroughly explained.
Exceptional scope is given this
wear to the educational exhibit, open
to students in st. Louis county alone.
First and second premiums, ranging
from fifty cents to two dollars, are
offered for writing, free hand draw
ing, original designs, map drawing, re-
lief maps, manual training, carpentry,
blacksmithing, etc., sewing, baking,
and garden department work. In
the boys and girls department there
are also prizes for the best essay on
"Growing Clover" and for specimens
of knitting, darning and patching,
open to students in this and adjoin-
ing counties.
In the women's department are
prizes for canned goods, dried fruits,
baking, cakes, cookies and doughnuts,
pies, china painting, drawn work, en-
broMery, garments, knitting, leather
tooling, darning and mending, paint
ing and drawing, quilts, rugs and
mats.
Fruits raised in the county are eli
gible as exhibits in the horticultural
department, in which prizes are offer.
ed for fruits of all kinds, flowers and
decorative plants and potted plants.
w. A. Dickinson and w. A. Ware
are to be in charge Of the field ane
farm crops department, in which al
especial effort has been made to Sc.
cure representative exhibits. Award:
are offered for corn grain and fiele
4 seeds, forage, field crops, garde1
vegetables, and potatoes. Special priz
| es, amounting to 800, are offered TO-
the best agricultural displays from
any district. j;
] The live stock department includes
premiums for horses. ponies, cattle
sheep, swine and goats. a large sill.
yer cup is offered BY the Mmnesota
State Dairyman,s Association for the
best herd. 49,. -: ss 1865 4
s Poultry is also given a important
place on the list. -: i z. IS. .s.s:
Work on the buildings and grounds
IS progressing rapidly, and Secretary
! Gifhn IS certain that NJ win be in
readiness when tie DOOR are opened
Special attrac lions for the evening.
and deznons tiion Kork a rood build.