Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-02
SERIES OF BRILLIANT DISPLAYS
TO BE SET OFF DURING
EVENINGS.
EACH DISPLAY LASTS
FoRTY.FIvE MINUTES
Sets and Series Of Pieces and Aerial
Fireworks to Constitute Each Of tho
Three Prosrams-Is New Feature for
County Fair-WiII Get State Poultry
Exhibit.

| A new novel feature is to be added
to the e. ening programs of this years
county fair. At a meeting Of the eX-
ecutive committee Friday afternoon, a
concIract was closed for series OF
three fireworks displays, one for each
evening. These displays, are proba :
+: bly, the most elaborate of their kind
ever seen in this city.
I They are known as Martins specta-
cuiar fireworks productions. A SER
les of displays, set and aerial peices
nave been grouped together for three
sepcrate displays on as many even
ing. 1t VIII require forty five
minutes each night 10 show the de-
signs and action peices, some of which
are comical sets.
Begins Tuesday Night.
II is the present plan of the amuse-
! inenI committee of which Z. T. S. Aus
Lin is chairman, TO put on the fire
works Tuesday, Wednesday and
THURSDAY evenings. They will sup
plemcnt the regular vaudeville acts,
and il is expected that the program for
the evenings that has been prepared
VIII make the most attractive even
ing entertainments the fair mas ever
attempted.
List Of the Displays.
Most of the displays are set peices.
uring 30x30 feet Other displays like
the aerial COMMANDMENT. will be fired
into the air far above the fair grounds.
The displays will be shown directly
in front of the grand stand and dur.
~ x,-h;o
set pieces, will be taken down so that
they will rot obstruct the view Of the
races. The company that furnishes
the fireworks supplies a staff of men
TO set up the pieces and fire them.
The following is the list OF pieces
that make up the three displays.
First display-Aerial bombardment.
chromatic star. forest IRE. imperial
brilliants, silver aurora borealis.
sparkling gems, three basin fountain,
Happy Hooligan."
Second display-Cross of Malta,
golden aurora borealis, Simple Sim
on" Aladdin's tabled jewel tree, star Of
Bethlehem. kicking mule Maud"
aerial bombardment.
Third display-Japanese fan, Alad
Inns. jeweled tree, Mutt and JEFF"
north star. Niagara cataract, dancing
skeleton, aerial bombardment.
The comic displays. such as the kick
ling mule Maud" Happy Hooligan"
and Mutt and Jeff' show the action
as drawn in the newspaper cartoons.
Got State Poultry Exhibit.
The committee will secure the ex-
hibit Of poultry from the poultry de-
partment Of Iowa State College, Ames.
which was offered the fair If it would
pay the freight, amounting to about
$50. This exhibit will consist Of the
finest poultry of the state college pens.
Special instruction and exhibits in the
details of poultry raising will be in
Guided and talks on poultry breeding
and raising will be given.
Improving Grounds.
| Improvements are being made at the
grounds in preparing for the annual
| fair. The educational building, which
was moved from it's site TO make room
! for the second merchants building, has
been moved north of the first mer-
chants building and foundation is
| being put in under it. The second
merchants building is we'll under way
Bailey Bros. who own a small piece
of ground just west Of the fair grounds
entrance, on which there is an old re-
freshment booth, will build a perma-
nent small building, Of the same design
as the ticket office, which will add t.
the appearance of the entrance.