The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-14
GREATEST Event
OF THE YEAR
NEW STATE FAIR AT MUSkOGEE
BIGGER AND BETTER
THAN EVER.
HUNDREDS OF new FEATURES
speed Prizes Of $17,5oo Have Attracted
425 of the Best Horses In the
Country.-Thousand Of
Industrial Exhibits.

The event Of the greatest interest
TO the people of Oklahoma and more
especially the Eastern part of the
state Will be the Fourth Annual Fair
and Live Stock Exposition at the New
State Fair at Muskogee, Okla, the
week Of October 9Th to 11th, 1913.
The management of the New State
Fair have been working necessarily
since the close of the Fair last Octo-
Der, in preparing for the visitors to
the Fair of 1913, the greatest Fair and
Live Stock and Agricultural Exposi.
ton ever given in the southwest.
Since the closing of the last Fair
the grounds have been improved and
improvements Of many kinds have
been made preparing for the Fair Of
1913 With the prospects for the
most abundant crops and business in
all commercial lines improving and
general feeling of prosperity over the
country, every thing points to the
largest attendance at the New State
Fair ever held In the State Of Okla
homa.
In the speed ring department the
Association is Offering some s17,5O0O0
In purses and stakes and the fastest
and highest class of race horses are
entered at Muskogee, for these events.
With AIS Of the best horses in the
country entered in these events the
contests are sure to be fast and fur
lous. In addition to the above num-
Der OF harness horses there will be
gathered at the track to contest for
the liberal purses offered in the run
ming races and the fastest thorough
breds in the country will take part
Exhibitors and breeders of the high
est grade Of Standard bred and draft
and saddle horses will exhibit their
stock at the New State Fair and con-
test in the show ring. A thorough
inspection of the cattle, sheep, swine
and poultry exhibits will be a treat
to those interested in better bred
stock and more Of it, and an education
to the farmers and stock rasers.
All of the space in the Merchants
Building, in which the wholesale and
retail merchants will exhibit their
wares to the visitors of the Fair has
already been engaged and one will be
repaid by visit to this department.
In the Implement and Machinery
department there will be exhibited the
atest improvements in all lines and
he most labor saving farm machinery
Will be on exhibition. To any one
Interested in agriculture, farming or
visit through this depart
nent will amply repay them.
The Association has made a large
Increase in the premiums offered this
ear in the Agricultural Department
nd thousands Of dollars will be paid
n premiums in this department alone.
One Thousand Dollars is offered In
rizes to the Boys and Girls Clubs
I the State, divided among the Corn,
'otton, Kafir and Canning Clubs.
'ounty collective agricultural exhibits
re encouraged by the Association and
ONE Eight Hundred dollars is offered
)r county exhibits alone, first money
this department being s225.00.
The Fair will open Monday, October
tn, 1913, and continue both night and
ay until the close of the Fair on Sat-
rday night, October 11th, 1913. The
remium lists have been and are being
attributed all over the country and
nyone Interested. who has not as yet
'ceived one of these premium lists
ay receive copy by dropping a card
the Secretary, VIM. c. Boon, 2O9
st, Muskogee, Okla