Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-08-27
COLUMBUS NEXT WEEK
Ohio State Fair August 80 to Sept
ember 3rd. = Free Ladies Day =
Modified Rules Spectacular Dis
: plays-M0dernized Grounds.

With Women's free day re-es-
tabiished, with Old Soldiers and Chill
dren's Day again a feature, and with
other things popular with the public
again part of the program, the
Onlo State Fair will open next Mon
day for what is expected to pe the
biggest Fair in history-and from
the public standpoint, the best. Weeks
and months of newspaper discussion
of the State Fair has led the State
Agricultural Board to adopt the
policy that the State Fair is not
pialnarily a money-maJking insEitu-
tion, but that it is the peoples show,
on the peoples playground, and that
to figure out the most which can be
given them for their admission price
would please the people better than
simply to see big sum of money on
the profits side of the ledger. The
Board, therefore, has figured on how
to give a big one cents worth of
pleasure for every Gene the visitors
spend; it wants to give the biggest
show possible without piling up any
debts for tax payers to settle.
Modified rules for exhibitors give
promise of the largest displays of
livestock, farm product, machinery,
ETC., ever seen in Ohio. Larger prizes
in various, departments have attract
ed more exhibitors; larger purses and
adoption of the policy of six monies
instead of four to race winners, with
no deduction has resulted in the
largest entry list for the races of
any state fair in the country this
year. In real sport, the State Fair
races are expected to furnish as
many thrills as any of the famous
mile tracks of the country. The
state itself will be large exhibitor
One entire Building has been set
aside for state exhibits, and the
State Industrial Commission will
have the largest display ever attempt
ed by any state department. Its
Safety First" show and other ex-
hibits will give the people their first
clear idea Of what this large De-
partment is doing for the people.
The State Board of Administration
will show fifty head of fine Guern-
sey cattle, and farm products, raised
at state institutions.
One of the big features will be the
fireworks display-"Opening of the
Panama Canal" which will be shown
at night. Four hundred and fifty
persons participate in this produc-
ton. A fete day at Panama, in which
the residents are gathered to see a
great circus performance, is inter
rupted by thrilling attack on the
city by land, sea and air, giving in
graphic manner, an idea of the awful
results of modern warfare. The
city is destroyed entirely; then comes
1.-THE. great display of fireworks; which
Twill introduce everything new which
| manufacturers have devised during
the past twelve months. The Pain
spectacle will be preceded by a
mammoth Horse Show, each day,
conducted after the fashion of the
great horse shows given at Madison
Square Garden, Louisville and other
horse centers. An offer of nearly
$500 in prizes has attracted the
finest horsefesh in the United States.
The State Fair is fortunate in being
on a Horseshow Circuit. Cleveland s
show closes just before the Fair, then
from the Fair the horses will go to
indianapolis, then to Louisville. This
has been responsible for the long en-
try list of horses whose values run
into fabulous sums.
The visitor to the State Fair this
year will find the entire Grounds
modernized, with electric lighting all
over the Grounds, automobiles ad-
mitted free of charge many improve
ments made to Buildings and all in
all an effort to give the people more
for their money than they have ever
received before. Adv