Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-03
ATTENDANCE THIS YEAR FALLS
BELOW EXPECTATIONS OF
MANAGEMENT.
COOL EVENINGS cURTAlL
PATRONAGE AT NIGHT
Most of Winning Livestock Exhibits
to Be Taken to San Francisco Fair
Dean curtiss Believes State Will
Win World Honors-Prizes Awarded
to Boys and Girls.
Observation-Disclosures.

! Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. S.-With the
awards in the baby health contest
made this morning ana with auto races
this afternoon the sixty first annual
Iowa state fair and exposition came to
q close today III point OF attendance
and receipts the fair was not quite
what the management had hoped for.
Cool and rainy weather during the
opening days Of the fair cut down the
attendance, especially in the evenings
which were too cool to watch the night
shows With comfort.
EXHIBITS were released at noon to-
Gay. The big exhibitors here will show
al the leading state fairs before start
ing out to San Francisco where the
livestock show VIII be put on the lat
ter half of October. Dean Charles F..
Curtiss OF Anes. superintendent Of the
horse department at the Iowa state
fair and 9 member of the Iowa Pan
ANA exposition commission believes
Iowa has a splendid chance TO win
worlds honors in the livestock con-
tests at San Francisco
Most OF the winning exhibits here
at the Iowa fair Will go out to San
Francisco" said Dean Curtiss. We
ought 10 Win some of those best prizes.
Not alone in horses and cattle, but in
swine"
The Iowa Draft Horse Breeders AS
ISOLATION held a meeting Wednesday at
which ii was decided TO put on sale,
probably at the state fair grounds, next
January The annual meeting will
probably be held in Des Moines during
the second week in December when the
other agricultural organizations meet
here.
Boys and Girls Prizes.
Prizes were announced yesterday in
the boys and girls club exhibits.
These boys and girls clubs are con-
Quoted all thru the state under the di-
recon of Prof. E. c. Bishop OF the
State Agricultural College at Arnes
and there are 1900 members in all.
They are engaged in canning fruit and
vegetables, producing garden stun.
fruit, poultry and live stock. There
| were loo exhibits at the fair made by
the club members. Some Of the inn
! portant prizes awarded we're as fol-
/ Lows:
/ Best exhibit by any club member
| FIRST. Rachael Holt, Polk county, who
| exhibited sixty-five varieties Of canned
! fruit and vegetables. Second, Ruth
Parsons. of Clarinda, who showed
/ fifty-one varieties OF canned products.
/ Best work by canning club-F'irst
! w. J. T. Club, Jefferson county; sec
ond, Valley Canning Club. Washing
! ton county; third, Shannon City nigh
/ school. Union county.
Canning and Marketing Club-First,
( Clarinda Canning Club, page county;
second, Batavia Canning Club, Jeffer-
son county: third, Picnic Canning
Club, Decatur county: fourth. Sun
shine Canning Club. Decatur county.
County collective exhibit. canning
work-First, Jefferson county: second.
Page county; third, Polk; fourth, De-
catur: fifth. Washington.
Best club work Of any kind-F4rst
EIoist Parsons, Page county; second,
Beulah Clampitt Decatur county;
third. Bessie Huxsol, Floyd county;
fourth. Lobeta Green, Page county.
Babies to be Limited.
DR.. Lenna Means, one Of the officials
in charge Of the baby health contest,
have 10 be limited or less time given
I
which has overtaxed the endurance of
the judges and clerks in charge Of the
contest With 800 babies to judge and
from thirty FIVE to forty minutes givon
to the scoring Of each youngster it
has been a huge task for the judges
The officials gave cut great deal OF
Literature with reference to the baby
put out by the American Medical AS
he Iowa College
at Arnes ard the universal attention
now being given &c the study Of the
child vas evident in the eagerness
with which everyone sought for these
pamphlets.
Keen Rivalry in Livestock.
There was the keenest sort of rivalry
in the livestock contests at the Iowa
state fair. There were SO many entries
and the quality was so high that 1t was
a hard matter for the judges to place
the ribbons in many instances. Grand
championship honors are the ones the
big feeders are keenest for as they
carry with them an advertising value
and prestige which means increased
business.
singmaster & Sons, of Keota, Iowa
won several Of the Percheron cham
pionships. Lagos, owned by Sinsmas-
ters, was declared the champion stall
lion of that breed and also the cham
pfon owned iii iowa H.nhems, q
Wayne, ILL.,, carried off championship
honors for Fercheron mares with Tur'
aouise. For champion mare owned IL
.. Iowa Singmasters won with Meridion
ale. In the display of Ave stations