Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16
WINNESH|EK FAIR MET
WITH POOR WEATHER
The PROSPECTS Were Great for Big
Crowds But the Rain on Thurs
Forced the Fair Off for
That Day.
THE VARIOUS ATTRACTIONS
WERE ALL GOOD
The Fast TrOtting Races Proved a
Great Feature of the Program.
The Stock Display was
Also Good.

Also Good.
The Winneshiek fair for 1914
passed into history Saturday eve'g.
after a week of the most inclement
weather the fair has encountered in
years. Rain, coupled with cold
winds, took the flavor away from
the big program provided for the
visitors, otherwise the fair would
nave been great success. The
opening day the usual crowd was en-
tertained, and on Wednesday one of
the biggest crowds ever appearing
On that day was in attendance, the
gate receipts being over $14OO.
Wednesday night rain started to
fall and it kept up all day Thursday,
and the fair was declared Off that
day, extending the program to Sat-
urday, Friday afternoon the wealth
er proved ideal and good sized
crowd was out, but Saturday thes
weather man served up cold wealth.
| ev and the people didn't veature
out. Naturally the fair manage
ment will run behind, but all bills
will be paid in full.
The free attractions this wear
were good The high dive by a
young man from an S5 foot ladder
Proved thrilling, as did the balloon
ascensions. RAMA & Arno, in COM
edy acrobatic work furnished lots of
fun, while the flying Gilmores in
their aerial acts were the best at
traction seen here in years OF course
the side shows drew the usual large
lratrcrage. :.
The floral and agricultural halls
both had fine displays but the lat
ter showing was much lighter than
for several years.
Floral Hall.
There were elegant displays of
merchandise by Ben Bear, Mott G
Co., Graceman & Co., B. o. Marsh,
The American Drug G. Press Associ-
alton. The pupils of the Decorah
public school had very attractive
manual training work display.
The display Of Filipino curiosi-
ties by Mrs. Mida Hegner was very
interesting. The display was sent
to her by her brother Sergt Conrad
Hanson when he was serving in the
Philippines. Mrs. E. Cutler also dis
played showing of Filipino head
wear, brought here by her son Hor-
ace from the Philippines Mrs. N.
l.. Bailey showed case containing
an old English bible, beads and
many other articles collected there
by her on her trip to the Holy Land
some time ago. Mrs. c. j. Weiser
and Mrs. j. H. Bradish also display
ed many articles from Japan AID
other foreign places. The display
of butterflies by A. F. Porter were
very interesting. The needle and
art work display was very extensive
and many beautiful pieces were
shown.
Agricultural Hall.
The displays in this hall were not
as large as other years, but never
theless there were a number of fine
exhibits. S. E. Brickner, E. l..
rH K, ~
Makepeace. o. o. Lomen, G. A. Mat
ter and B. F.. Headington showed
a fine display of corn. In the
vegetable displays good showings
were made by w. T. Symonds and
Sons, Ira Rima, ID. A. Leach, HI.
Gross and Martin Half Mr.. Leach
had a great display of sweet pota-
toes, raised by him, which is going
some for old Winneshiek. A good
showing of millet was made by T.
f. Kirkbride.
+. w. Cutting. o. o. Lomen and
Valentine Barth had a showing of
grapes and apples, Mrs. Otto Dahl
jelm, Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. Lomen,
Miss Lee, and Rev. Wn. McVettie
had a beautiful display of flowers
and house plants.
In the display of canned goods
Mrs. o. o. Lomen showed an unus-
ually fine lot. The dairy butter and
cottage cheese showing was made
by Mrs. E. w. Cutting and was most
excellent.
L. r. Morrison showed Quicker
yet Washers, and H. F. Thompson
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