Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-08-14
HAVE ALL YOUR
old FRIENDS. Come
Spend Fair Week in This
City as Your Guests
MEET NE AT THE FAIR
ON WATERMELON DAY
Is an Invitation that Cannot Be Over
worked for Its Acceptance Gives
Pleasure All Around


A beautiful custom has grown up
in this cosmopolitan state, of writing
around among friends and arranging
to meet at the Arkansas Valley Fair
Meet me at the Fair OF Watermelon
Day" 1t is a pretty good slogan. be-
cause where you meet those whom
you expect, you are certain to meet
twice as many whom you do not ex-
pcct. and-you know how il is your
self-it is the unexpected pleasure
that thrills the heart.
Bring the wife too. that dear old
wife who has grown gray mothering
the hens and milking the cows and
nursing the babies through all the
long struggle from poverty up 10 af-
iluence; watch her checks blush and
her eyes sparkle while her heart
throbs with pride in the grandeur she
has helped to achieve. Yes. and don I
l,ave the children at home. There
will be instruction as well as amuse-
mont ior children and grown-ups at
the Arkansas Valley Fair. and it has
become necessity for all as well
as luxury.
You should come to the Fair and
bring the whole family with you-not
because the Fair needs you. but be-
cause YOU need it. Think of what
you'll get ii you go and what you'll
miss il you stay away. Why, you will
see all the finest and fastest horses
OF the Great west-running horses
perfect flyers-trotters, PAGERS. three
year old colts, that can lower the
speed record of thirty years ago, and
it without turning hair; and you will
see magnificent drafters worth $500
to $1,000 each; wonderful Poland
Chinas and Chestcrs hat-will almost
make you wish you were quadrupcd
yourself instead of biped; great, big,
sleek cattle that weigh about, and sell
for, twice as much as the kind you
have at home. and you will go talking
around among the owners till you
learn that it costs but trifle more to
grow them than to turn out a $50
plug or a scrub steer. You will be
surprised to see how many other
{ laces there are in the state besidcE
Way Back and how many things
the people in those places can do bet
ter than you can. You will see all the
II iraculous inventions of this miracu-
lous century-nachines that can do
everything human except talk-yes,
an talking machines. too.
And then, after the novelty has
worn off little, you will begin to no.
tice people as well as things. Tfu
will unexpectedly bump up against
one OF your old playmates from llli-
nois. Ohio or New York, who is here
from some other corner of the state
with bunch OF prize pigs. or pump
kins, and you will have the time OF
your life talking over those dear old
boyhood days-will learn who your
first sweetheart married, where they
live, how many children they have,
and turn your face away from your
wife TO blush when you learn that she
has named the oldest boy after you.
Say, you can't afford to miss the
Arkansas Valley Fair. as the follow
ing summary of the program will
convince you:
Tuesday. Sept First day OF the
Fair. Exhibits received all day up to
6 p. m. Entries for horses and cat
tie and all other live stock close at
IL o'clock. noon. Entries in all 9TH
er departments close at 6 p. IN.
The amusement feature will be
baseball game between the Rocky
Ford Cubs and the next leading team
in the Arkansas Valley League.
Wednesday, Sept. 2-Fair opens at
8 a. m. All exhibits must be in place
in all departments at that time
Conclusion OF judging of all live
stock, poultry. agriculture, fruit.
honey. kitchen and pantry stores.
flowers, art textile fabrics etc.
In the afternoon fine program OF
races, interspersed with novelty fea-
lures by Campbell's United Shows.
Watermelon Day, Thursday, Sept.
3.-Arrival OF excursion trains from
go to IL a. IN. Visitors will be met
at the depot by bands and escorted
to melon grove at entrance to Fair
grounds.
Free melon feast as soon as trains
are all in.
At l p. m. Grand parade in front
of grand stands OF all horses and cat
tie competing for awards. In this pa
rade there will also be fancy driving
horses. saddle horses and ponies.
l:30 p. m. Amusement program
opens, and some of the finest races
ever seen upon the Santa Fe Circuit
are guaranteed Then there will be
novelty races, cowgirl and cowboy
races and sensational stunts by the
Fearless Greggs" with autos that
pass in the air.
Friday, Sept. 4.-Home Folks day.
when the exhibits may be seen TO
better advantage than any time dur
ing the Fair.
In the afternoon the racing events
will be hotly contested and well
worth seeing. Other amusement fca-
lures will be the same as upon Wat
erIuclou day,