The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-09
for best displays in agricultural, hor-
ticultural and vegetable products.
Professional Exhibits Barred

Tor pest displays IN agricultural, hOr-
| ticultural and vegetable products
Professional Exhibits Barred.
All exhibits at the fair were made
by owners, growers or makers. Pro-
fessionals were barred.
After the fair the vegetable and
most of the pantry stores were sold at
auction. 1t makes a selling service
| for the country produce and city
| women go home laden with supplies
of vegetables and a knowledge of
| whom to call on when more is want
/ ed.
There are athletic contests attra CT
ing entries from miles away. Besides
the honor of winning there is the
added stimulus of competition in the
prizes offered. The friendly rivalry
of young people is exciting in every
way. Flowing contests, hitching up
contests for girls, and races take the
places of fakirs, side shows and horse
racing.
is friendly, keen and close The Sc
lecting of the superintendent of the
various departments is science.
This planning and carrying out of
school for the farmer and his entire
family.
A Financial Success.
Does 1T pay financially? Well,
rather. The grange meetings at the
start were held in a school house
Now they have a fine large hall, well
furnished and equipped for serving
and cooking meals.
The gate receipts -otaled about
5000 last year and the receipts from
dinners sold by the ladies of the
grange. at Is cents per, cleared $50,
making $3.50 for the work of two
days besides the fun and instruction.
1t would pay any community of far
mers to try the local fair idea.
The grange fair was held four miles
north of Topeka, and business men
who owned automobiles were attract
ed there for their MONDAY meal.
The number of dinners served in the
two days speaks for the quality of the
meals and efficiency of the service.
Two hundred and fifty were served
the first day and 500 the last day.
Preparing and serving the dinners is
the hardest work about the fair and,
of course, this part falls to the wo-
men.
A superintendent is appointed who
in turn appoints assistants In plan
ming the menu each assistant is given
something to look after. Much of the
food is donated by grange membe
Last year the following amount of
food was required to serve the crowd:
chicken pies, solicited; Irish
potatoes, three bushels, bought and
three bushels, solicited; four bushels
of sweet potatoes, bought; three dozen
pies, bought and nine dozen, solicited;
seventy loves of bread, bought; four
teen pounds of coffee, bought; one
dollars worth of sugar, bought; ninety
pounds of cabbage, bought; ten gallons
of milk, solicited; forty-eight pounds
of beef bought; twenty pounds of |
butter, bought. Five women were
hired as cooks at one-fifty per day. |
The assistant cooks aid walters do |
rated their services.
And a Baby Show Also.
Another feature of the fair is the
baby show. In years gone by babies
have been judged for beauty alone.
Next year they are to be scored on
nealth and physical perfection as well
rs beauty and better babies in the
will inevitably result for
t will teach mothers for what stand
ird to strive and what mother is not
Wiling to learn?
Prosperity in the community of the
indian Creek Grange fair has become
habit. The farmers are typically
and acquire an air and
manner invaluable in business transac-
ions.
1t is not only farm fancies and in
erests that are on disulay at the In
liam Creek Grange fair but all sorts
# advertising booths. Then. too, can
lfdates for local, state and national
ffices like to exhibit themselves and
,et acquainted with the farmers. The
Kansas State Agricultural college CO.
perates with the farmers loaning it's
aculty for judging and lecturing.
Interest Grows Rapidly.
The result of the whole movement is
he getting together of the people, the
of ideas and expert
noes.
Farming more than any other bust
ess requires the attendance at some
ort of conference If the farmer is to
eep up to the times on methods and
improvements and the women of the
arm need this stimulus, if possible
ven more than the men.
Indian Creek has not striven for
Lrge gate receipts but the increasing ]
umber of people attending has
moved them to the 5000 mark and
lat sum is a very welcome addition
, the yearly income of this corpora
on paying for a new grange hall.
The Fichest result of this fair is not :
lonetary rewards for meritous ex- :
ibits but an ever increasing ambition !
,r higher standards of stock breeding,
,r more scientific land culture, and
'r squirting on the youngsters to
igher ideals and greater RESPONSE .
lities.
The land and rating of the neighbor- n
God has increased in value since the =
eople have set to work with a pur- :
ose and their minds are broadened by
intact and experience.
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