The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-07-30
M|NNES0TA'S FAIR
IMPROVES WITH AGE
1918 Promises to Be q Banner
Year in the History Of the
Gopher Institution. r
MORE BEST FEATURES.
Exhibits, Indians, Cowboys, Fire.
works, Horse and Auto Races, Mu-
sic, Education and Inspiration.

"Bigger and better than ever" is q
hackneyed phrase, but it seems to be
the one that can be most appropriate
ly applied to the Minnesota State Fair
and Exposition of 1913. Large plans
have been surely laid to bring this
about, and the managers OF the
worlds biggest state fair insist that
nothing but bad weather during the
week of Sept. 1 TO 6 can prevent this
years show from surprising, in every
department, it's predecessors and
other such expositons in the United
States. Even bad weather will not
prevent the exhibition of educational
features at Hamline from being bet
ter than ever before, and with the
exception of some Of the amusement
features, everything will go on just
the same, no matter what the perform
ances of the weather man may be.
OF Educational Value.
The Minnesota State Fair last year
offered more money in premiums than
any other fair in the United States,
and this year the managers have in
creased these offerings, making a
grand total Of $91, $4,000. These nber-
al prizes, hung up in fifteen depart
ments, insure the appearance at the
fair this year of championship exhib-
It's in every line Of work and play.
In addition to the regular exhibits,
there will be scores of practical work
ing exhibits, from which the visitors
can learn the operation Of the latest
Inventions, the most scientific meth.
DDS Of raising and handling live stock,
poultry, bees, etc., and can gain in
struction in all the matters that make
farming profitable. The managers are
adding everything possible to make
the State Fair what 1t should be-"the
peoples school for a week."
Farm Boys Camp.
The Second Annual State Fair Farm
Boys Encampment will be big feat.
ure of the 1913 exposition. The man.
ayers will pay the expenses of 104
farm boys. One will be selected by a
local committee in each county of the
state, and two have been chosen by
the managers from each congressional
district. These young agriculturista
will be entertained and Instructed
during the entire week, and will go
home with new information and In
spiration. .-
Unusual Entertainment.
AS in all live schools, amusements
have big share in the Minnesota
State Fairs success. Contracts are
being made for the greatest list OF
entertainment features ever seen at
any fair in America. Without exag.
geration, it can be said that the fair
goer this year will get five times the
amount of amusement for the money
that he can get anywhere else. Some
Of the headlines are: ,..
r>-..s.. Horse Races. ..,-... .
Twenty-seven thousand five hundred
dollars worth of horse racing. The
fastest race horses from all over the
country will compete over the famous
Hamline track during the first five
afternoons of fair week. In addition
to the races, each afternoons pro-
gram will include large variety of
high class vaudeville numbers, plenty
OF good music aud exciting special
track features =
~ r. Automobile Program.
Saturday will be Automobile Day,
and on that afternoon the speed de-
mons of the automobile racing world
will be seen in competition and exhi-
billions against the worlds records.
An effort IL being made to secure III
Of the brightest stars In the racing
armament, and If present negotiations
are concluded, the list Of entries will
include Ralph milford, Joe Nickrent,
wild Bilp' Endicott, Tetzlaff, Louis
Disbrow, and others nearly as famous.
Frontier Days Show.
Each evening during fair week there
will be seen. in front of the grand
stand, the worlds greatest Frontier
Days Show. The best Of this famous
show that has been successfully given
at Cheyenne, Wyo., for several years,
will be moved to the Minnesota State
Fair grounds, and everything exciting
and instructive in the life of the wild
West" will be wildly reproduced.
Society Horse Show.
q the Coliseum there win be hele
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