The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-10-09
THE GREAT FALL
FESTIVAL IS ON

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PRODUCTS or mAHAskA couN.
TY MAKE FINE SHOWING
THIS IS OLD SETTLERS DAY
Town is GaiIy Decorated and the Car
nival Spirit Is In the Air
Good Weather Assures
Big Crowds.
With concert on the Episcopal
chimes, played by Mike Cruzen, from
six to seven O'Clock Tuesday morning.
the wheels of the great Mahaska Fall
Festival were set in motion and with
generous promises of fair skies by
the weather man the first day was a
most suspicious forerunner of gen
uine carnival of good fellowship and
amusement. At ten o'clock the first
band concert was played by the Iowa
Brigade band and everybody was
awakened to the fact that the long
looked for celebration was on.
| Oskaloosa has donned holiday raj
ment and is fair to look upon. y
Streets have been bedecked and drap-
i ed with fall foliage and the offering of
the fields and woods. Festons of fall
garlands are suspended from the
awnings at the fronts of the bust.
ness buildings and the lighting APP
paratus and field products, corn stalks
and the fruits of the field appear
prominently in the elaborate scheme
of decorations, Much of the decora-
ton has been accomplished since the
rain of this, morning and the effect
Is pleasing and artistic.
Attendance, while not what II
would have been had the roads re-
NAMED suitable for auto travel is
large and the crowds increased with
the lengthening of the hours. Secre.
tary |. w Cook at his office in the
Frankel building was engaged with
entries all morning and so busy that
he had to call for assistance. Miss
Eda Haskell gave valued assistance
Ray Duboc, of New Sharon, assistant
secretary, who was to come down
early this morning by auto arrived on
train little later and is doing his full
share. Russell Henry is also engaged
in the clerical work of the office.
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I a Exhibit Hall.
Exhibit Hall was ready for the big
show and a better place could not
have been found anywhere. With q
floor space of one hundred and twenty
fleet square all under one roof with
practically no posts, ample room fol
exhibits and big crowd are pro
vided. The big hall was lighted w
for the first time Monday evening and
the accommodations are perfect. Light
is furnished by means of forty, one
hundred candle power tungstens and
effect surpasses anything the commit
tees in charge had hoped for. The
room is filed with the products OF
farm and factory, and many surprises
await the visitors. Everybody should
be out this evening for the first even
ing entertainment at the hall. II will
be place for everyone and there will
be room for all. G.. M. Porter, r. d
Walton and Charles Penland are In
charge of the Exhibit hall and space
| Governor VIII Be Here.
Governor Clarke will be in Oska.
loosa Wednesday morning without
fail. That one fact is assured.
Just how he will come has not been
fully arranged. II, perchance, the
roads are in condition to make auto
travel impossible, train arrangements
will be made and the Governor will
arrive about eleven o'clock by train.
The trip down town in farm wagon
drawn by draft horses will be made
| The program for Wednesday. Gov
ernor's Day, is as follows:
l 500 a. m.-ChimeS
9:00-Horse Show, judging of the
horses and farm products.
10:00-Band Concert in Park -
10:30-Governor Clarke arrives in
farm wagon drawn by ten two.horse
teams, and doing his own driving,
/ 1900 m.-Picnic Dinner, Governor
Clarke guest of honor.
100 p. m.-Band Concert in Park
| 1:15--Address by Governor Clarke
2:0O-Grand Parade.
3:30-Free Street Attractions.
7:30-Free Street Attractions.
Exhibit Hall open day and evening.
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! Old Fiddiers' Contest.
The old time fiddlers' contest in
connection with the Old Settlers day
of the Fall Festival was held in the
opera house at IL o'clock Tuesday
morning and was largely attended.
The program was scheduled to begin
at 1890, but the committee expected
that many of the contestants who
had intended to come from the north
ern part of the county in automobiles
would arrive on the M. & st. l.. train
and the opening of the program was
delayed for while in order that they
might be on hand Those from New
Sharon and vicinity who would have
come in cars had the rain not inter-
fered, however, decided that they
would be late If they came on the
train and did not get here. Many
had been expected from that part of
the county and the contestants were
considerably cut down in number by
their absence
Five old time fddlers of Mahaska
county participated in the contest
and delighted the large audience
with their rendition of the old fash
Toned tunes that will never be for