Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-09-23

set up by circus OuCnC, ana mere,
under canvas, was shown a fine line
of buggies and farm machinery.
Fischer & Pagenkopf also had a
fine display OF farm machinery,
wagons, etc., one of their leading
attractions being their Keystone steel
Winrow Hay Loader.
Henry Belz made good display
of wagons of his own manufacture,
which have record for reliability
that cannot be disputed anywhere
they are known.
The auto dealers were very much
in evidence. VIM. ]. Carmody, repre-
senting the Horton Auto Co., was
there with an Overland model, one
of the 1915 models with all of the
modern appliances. He has sold cars
faster this year than he can obtain
deliveries,
Vesperman Bros. had a number of
cars on display, including different
models of Cartercars, Bucks and the
midget Saxon. In this display was
the famous Buick car model SIC.
owned by Emil Hokanson, the general
agent at Madison, and by him driven
in the recent reliability tour of SOB
miles, in which he won the Milwau
kee Sentinel trophy and made a re-
cord of 24.8 miles per gallon of
ooSOlioa ,IooJ Tho VocOorro RrOc
sold two Cartercars during the fair,
one to Henkel Bros, Fennimore, and
one to John Martin, of Farview.
The Knox Auto Co. had good
display of Studebaker cars, and one
of the novelties of the showing,
alongside of the 1915 models, was
an sc. M. F." of 1910, the first
Studebaker ever owned by Mr.. Knox,
and sold by him to c. G. Roberts, of
this city. 1t has travelled many
thousands of miles and is still in
good condition.
A Studebaker car was winner of
the Milwaukee Free Press trophy in
the recent sos mile reliability and
durability tour of Wisconsin, in
which it finished with a perfect
score, on time at every control, no
mechanical trouble and car not touch
ed for repair from the starting of
the trip to the finish. The last 1877
miles of the tour showed a record
for this car of gallon of .gasolin e
used for every 253 miles.
This was the society's second year
of night fairs. and this feature was
well patronized. There seemed to be
much uncertainty in the minds of the
people as to whether these were to
be on Wednesday and Thursday
nights or Thursday and Friday nights,
the particulars not having been suffi-
GENTLY advertised. The result was
that many did not go on Wednesday
night who would otherwise have been
there. On Thursday night the crowd
was very large and the program was
much enjoyed. The platform per-
Torrance by the japanese troup was
excellent as was also the trapeze
work by the five flying Moores. The
leading feature, however, of the
night fair was, the splendid display
of fireworks. These were furnished
by the famous Pain Fireworks Co.,
the greatest of it's kind in the world,
which produces many stupendous
spectacular fireworks features-The
Fall of Pompeii, The Destruction of
Rome, and hundreds of others. The
displays given here were specially
selected and man was sent here by
the company to have charge of the
firing. 1t was the best thing of the
kind ever shown in this vicinity and
much appreciated.
On Thursday there was a baseball
game between the South Lancaster
team and the Little Giants of Lam
caster, won by the latter in score
of 5 to 2. On Friday forenoon
the Roger Hollow North Lancaster)
team, with Mt. Hope battery, de-
feated South Lancaster, and in the
afternoon defeated Lancaster's Little
Giants by score of 6 to 5.
In the boys corn growing contest
there were many entries and a fine
showing. Floyd Chapman of district
3, Beetown was awarded first prize !;
Edwin Bruss, of district n, Little
Grant, second; Leo Henkel of Lam
caster, third; Harold Frost, district
10, Beetown, fourth; Leonard 1ver-
son, district 8, Clifton, fifth. There
were As other prize winners and their
names will be printed next week, at
which time the entire list of pre-
MUM winners at the fair will appear
in The Herald.
Jerry Linton of Mt. Hope was
awarded first prize in the alfalfa
growing contest.