Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-10-02

The Harrison County
Fair, 1913
Editor Observer
Will you kindly give space
that we may say something Of
the Harrison County Fair as
some others see it.
First / want to thank the OBJ
Iserver for all it has said and
done for the betterment of the
county fair. But your article
in the last issue doesn't bear
the earmarks of a booster to
me and if you had given more
facts in regard to entries and
the amount of premiums award
ed and not so much space to q
terrible wall of disappointment
about the airship, poor races
and punk ball games, ETC., it
would have been of more inter-
est to the people who really
help to make the fair. We
agree with you that the fair
could be made much better
and also l think we would in a
general way agree as to how it
could be made better.
You may ask what more
might have said? You might
have truthfully said that the
merchants of Mo. Valley gave
splendid exhibits, very credit
able for any county fair, and
further there were many more
horses, cattle and hogs than
have been shown for several
years past, and it is fair to as
sumo that they were among
the best of our county has, and
as to the amount of premiums
paid out during the last five
years, the 1913 session paid
nearly double the amount of
any one year in the last five,
according to the report given
me by the treasurer. Notwith-
standing all pessimistic views
we consider this a very credit
able showing.
As to the entertainment; the
poor races, the punk or rotten
ball games vcn speak of. The
association offered the best the
county would give so who is to
blame if anyone. l will say
that through the kindness Of
the management of the Logan
ball team they have entered
the Harrison Co. Fair ball
tournament for the last three
fairs with the phenomenal rec
ord of never yet winning q sim
gle game, so let US not throw
any stones but just try to con-
sole ourselves by thinking posi-
bly, they did the best they
could.
You say you confess the fair
was q disappointment this year.
As to the airship making its
flights we admit that no one
there felt the disappointment
as keen)y as the management,
as they had every reason to be-
lieve that it would be a success
and highly entertaining and
Through no fault of theirs we
had no flights and the aviator
got no pay, so it was discourage
ling both to the aviator and
management, but wholly un-
avoidable on our part. So why
this wall of such terrible ma
ture as for people to say, q
will never go again" Candid
ly brother you know that kind
of a spirit never helped to
build up anything.
So if we become 80 pcnt up
lin our own little selves that We
lcannOt be fair enough to appre
ciate the fact that others have
sacrificed to try at least to give
US of their very best efforts tt
make it both pleasant and pro
fitable to attend what shoult
be a fair composed of all thu
citizens of this one of the bes
counties in the state-then i
lis better both for ourselves ant
1.-The Association that we sta!
away and don't be a knocker.
1t was reported that threat
Ito do violence to the aviator
machine we're made by SOM
who had been imbibing to-
freely of spirits. Those thing
ought not to be. l speak Of j
To show the unrnasOnableneS