Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-24
EXHIBITION HALL ADDITION
 NEARING COMPLETION
New Building at County Fair Grounds
 to Be Finished This Week.


 When Secretary c. D. Greenman of the New London County Agricultural society went to the fair grounds Sas urday afternoon he found the hal all dition well along. It will De finlsne1 this week, Contractor Frank E. Beck with thinks, and Secretary Charles w. Wiley of the hall feels that he will be able to fill the old building and the new one He has been working with a vim and a vigor since the latter part of July: he has all the old settlers booked, and a good many new ones will be on hand by Labor day.
 Entry Clerk F. Herbert Brown will he on his lob of years another week He is one of the institutions Of the fair. It would be ticklish proposi- tion to try to keep house without mn, the management admits. HIS memory is remarkable for the details of the s<- hibitions of bygone years. He IS one of the real workers the week before the fair opens. and after 1t gets under way he has. he declares. no time to be sociable. Next week, too, MT. Greer man will leave his desk in the Uncds bank for fair work altogether. After the fair he will get a week of vaca- tion. He said that he guessed hs'd need it all right.
 The entries in the cattle, sheep. poultry and pig classes will be heavy this year. That is assured. The cas- tie and sheep judges will have no sine cure. The poultry judge will have some beautiful birds to spass on-uo doubt of that New London is one Of | the poultry counties of the state. The society will have better free at fractions than usual this year. There will be something for the towns boys, and there will be something for he i boys from the country. The girl tn 1t flies through the fire is a thrilling girl. | Then, of course, there will be the av1- ator doing a free exhibition flight over the city the night before the fair. I've | flights a day, each day, will be made | during the fair. Of course there will
 be no flying at the night fair.
 | The midway will be a great midwa! :!
 The 1913 midway was pretty good. but | the show of 1914 will. Midway Manager Jakob declares, be the last word, . date. in eastern Connecticut midway | dom. He says he will give dandy | show and still keep within the law. Ie
 erybody at Savin Rock, the Connecti- cut Coney. and he Is not wholly 3
 stranger at the real Coney. either, for that matter. He will have anim Il freaks and he will have human freaks both in abundance He will have things to edify as well as to mystif J to instruct as well as to entertain That, MT. Jakob says, is his idea of a midway, and it is the idea of the mar agement of the Norwich fair.
 | or LACOT Qdy 6TCcIulldn VIII put on the five-mile running race fol New London county boys if. as he now
 feels confident, there can be secured
 enough entries to make the thins
 worth while. It will be an amateIl race no money prizes. Several of the
 May so Marathoners of the Y. M. C. A.
 will be available, and one outside man who was fast in the boys races over the Greeneville course in 1910, is train
 ing. Mir. Greenman expects Physical
 Director Nickerson of the Association
 to see him today about the footra ;e
 There is also a demand for motorcycle races. These will be handled oy
 Claude V. Pendleton, Jr., who alway.
 gets good riders, whether for local ol
 for open races.
 R. C. Plaut grins grin when any
 thing is said about the 1914 baby show
 He is sure it will beat the 1918 to g frazzle for numbers.
 Bright and early this morning the
 big advertising car of the New Londor county fair will leave New London
 where it has been in a garage sins Friday night. getting over tire ana carbureter troubles brought on by some
 awful roads in Rhode Island. for No-- wich and the finish of the biIlpostlnE
 and poster-hanging. The crew vii
 work Montville and Quaker Hill ana
 Mohegan on the way up. and that vii take care of the Comstock town so fal
 as the county fair advertising is con.
 cerned. From Norwich the crew vii
 work little vicinity villages-Yantic
 Fitchville Leffingwell and one or twt
 others that can be covered quickly and then Jimmy Nilsson and his assts . tant. George Linicus. will go back :; , New London, not exactly sorry thei contract has been completed