The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-11

between sixty and seventy visitors
The excursion was intended as an ad
vertisement for the county fair, and
reminders Of this fact were scattered
around town. After dinner the band
played a few minutes and the guests
then left for Estelline, their next stop,
ping place.-Bruce Herald.
Last Friday afternoon this busy
burg was blown into blithesome bliss.
fulness by the beautiful blasts breez.
lily bugled by Brookings brass band
and all work was dropped like a hot
potato. The cause of the commotion
was the arrival in our little city of a
Fioyal bunch of Brookings boosters
boosting for the Brookings county fair.
The party rolled into view in fifteen
autos, and was accompanied by the
Brookings band, the latter putting up
some Of it's soul-stirring selections
which we're a feast to u music-loving
citizens. Col. Rudolph, president of the
fair association, with his helpers, were
soon furnishing the crowd with adver-
Using matter telling all about the best
county fair in South Dakota, and be-
fore you could say Paul butcher" the
bill boards about town were plastered
with catchy paper showing the coming
event in all colors of the rainbow.
Capt. Doc Harris, the irrepressible
ex-president Of the Brookings CONNER
cial Club, popped into view in one of
the autos, and in a few well-chosen
words introduced Major Philo Hall,
the president of the aforesaid live wire
organization, who, in his always happy
vein, gave us a rousing speech, setting
forth the whyness and the wherefore
Of the appearance of this company of
fair lockers and hearty eaters in our
midst. He cordially invited every
body to join hands and jam shoulders
IN "blChu yOui O"h SOulJg ldIl,
and in smoothly modulated American
lied sentences portrayed the beauties
and benefits offered by the coming
county fair. His short, sweet vocabul-
airy was enthusiastically received, and
many decided then and there to be
present at the fair and again shake
hands with George Thayer. The band
played Marching Through the Banner
County" and the aggregation rolled
out Of the city amid the smiles and
good wishes of all. We had about con-
cluded that our fair officers had been
by the summers heat, al
they had not been advertising the 1913
as Justify as heretofore, but their
guns were loaded and the skirmish line
in position ready for the captains
to fire" and make every shot
count. "The Fight is On" and the
county papers are filled with glowing
accounts of the success to be achieved
at the Brookings county fair, Septem-
Der 23~-24-25-26, 1913. Without any
coloring this will be the best fair of
any since the organization was effect
We are going to have the best
exhibits, the best races, the best at
fractions, the best entertainment, the
best music of any former fair.
1t is up to our people to awake to
their opportunity and bend every effort
70 help out every feature of the fair
that they possibly can, and also roll up
4 big attendance to the fair from every
of the county.
Three weeks of solid, continual
boosting will put our fair at the head
Of the list of all county fairs in the
state! viii YOU be a booster?-Elk-
on Record.
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