The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
HAYS TO HAVE FAIR
No Entry Fee and No Admission
Charge.
Every Business Firm In the City Gives
Premium

With no entry fee and with no charge
of admission, the Golden Belt Agricult-
ural and Live Stock Exhibition and
Fair which will be held on the Fort
Hays Kansas Normal School campus
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
October ID, IA and Is, promises to be
the most successful enterprise ever at
tempted in Hays.
Prof. E. B. Matthew has just finish
ed, this week, the complete list of
prizes. There will be $1,000 in cash
prizes and the business firms of Hays
have offered in addition to this amount
$500 in premiums. Every single in
dividual firm or merchant of Hays has
offered prizes. There are sixty-four
business firms in Hays and the entire
lot, every one of these sixty-four, has
put its shoulder TO the wheel and is
boosting the Golden Belt Agricultural
and Live Stock Exhibition and Fair
with as much enthusiasm as possible
Professor Matthew says that never be-
fore IN the history of Hays have the
citizens of Hays exhibited such single
ness of purpose. Without doubt Pre-
fessor Matthew is the busiest man in
Hays.
If enthusiasm is any criterian of the
success of the fair there can be no ques-
ton in the minds of any one as to its
assured success This fair idea is every
catching" In the language of pop
ular song, Everybody doing it, and
everybody has got the bug"
Several Of the premiums are very in
teresting. For instance, five cases of
pop for the school showing the largest
attendance at the fair. The faculty of
the Normal give $500 to the schools
making the best display on school day.
The Golden Belt Garage gives one Kelly
Springfield tire to the township trustee
showing the best road leading to Hays,
and the North Side Garage gives as one
of its prizes tool box for second place.
c. Schwaller's Sons give one ton of ce-
ment to the township which has the
best road leading to Hays.
Not only are the business and profes-
sional men of Hays boosting this fair
but the farmers are just as enthusiastic.
Derry Gosser told the committee 81 will
be glad to give 800 toward the fair and
if necessary build my own barn on the
fair grounds This is the opinion ex-
pressed by large number of farmers.
The cash prizes out of the $1,000 which
has been subscribed, are not yet distri-
buted from this sum, and cannot be an
nounced this week. The Fair catalog
will be out about Sept. 1. Preserve
this copy of the Free Press for use until
the catalog is printed.
PREMIUM LIST.
Citizens State Bank
Cup, Best registered stallion.
Cup, Best grade mare.
Cup, Best team, wagon and har-
ness.
Cup, Best colt.
$1,000 Gold, Best dairy cow.
$500 Gold, Second best dairy cow.
Cup, Best scoring pen chickens
$500 Gold, Club girl making best
Domestic Science exhibit.
$500 Gold, Club boy showing best pig
$500 Gold, Club boy showing best calf
$500 Gold, Boy or girl showing best
agricultural exhibit.
Geo. Philip, Sr.-s15 Vacuum Wash
/ ing Machine for best pan of bread con
sisting of three II OF. Ioaves bakeC
/. from hard wheat flour.
H. H. Winters.-One SIS Clothe.
Wringer for best display of preserve.
and canned fruits.
Il. A. Nickles.-Dress Pattern fol
best display of home grown fruit.
Peter Staab, Jr.-One Armour Sta
Brand Ham for best SOW any age.
) J. B. Basgall-5O Piece Dinner Sc
= for best five pounds of butter.
First National Bank.-S5 for best !,
bu. hard wheat. S. for best ten ears O
corn grown by boy under 20. S. TO
best vegetable display grown by gir
under Is.
i Shultz Jewelry Store.-11 dozen Vic
tor Records for best SKINNED milk cal
2 shown.
: Farmers Restaurants Meal Tick
D ct for heaviest weighing three dozel
chicken eggs.
Candy Kitchen.-5 pound Box o
Chocolates for best display of came
beets,
Stairs Cafes Meal Ticket 70
, biggest squash.
Gottschalk's Furniture Stores
Rocking Chair for biggest pumpkin.
;, Meyers Grocery gallon can o
Crisco for best cake.
The Misses Virmond.-Any S. Hat i
the house for the best display of ere
cheting,
y Hogg's Cafes meal ticket for tn
! biggest head of cabbage.
Bissing's Pantatorium-- cleane
. and pressed for captain of winning att
:. letic team.
Henry Meyer, Merchant Tailor.-s
in Swiss Dry Cleaning for best pen O
:, Plymouth Rocks.
Miles Brothers.-TBo Months Clean
ing and Pressing for best house dres