Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-08-20
MANY CASH PRIZES
FOR FAIR WINNERS
TOTAL REACHES $2,OOO-LIVE.
STOCK DIVISION HAS $1,000
OTHERS IN PROPORTION.

With all the emphasis on the live
stock and agricultural features and
the amusement program only as a
sideline, with upwards of $4,000 in
cash prizes already arranged for for
winning exhibits in all the usual de-
partments and with little better
than $1,000 of this in the livestock
division alone, and with the superin-
tendency of the different departments
in the hands of leading and inter-
ested farmers from different parts of
the county, Thurston county is going
to have real fair at the Carlyon
racetrack October II to 16, fair
which the promoters hope to estab-
lish as the first of an unbroken Sc
ries of annual events in the years to
come.
The farmers of the county have re-
sponded literally, in d ! v dua y,
through the subordinate Oranges and
through the county Pomona Grange,
put the project on a satisfactory
basis, and the business and profess
sional men of the city and all others
interested in the agricultural devel-
opment of the county have joined in
putting up the cash prizes. So it is
that the plans for the fair, under
General manager O. c. Van Houten,
county agriculturist, and the Pomona
Grange executive committee, are ma
terializing much more satisfactorily
and with prospects for an even
greater success than was hoped for
when the Pomona Grange first origi-
mated the project last winter.
Livestock Prizes Total $1,000.
The variety and liberality of the
prizes offered in the livestock divi-
sion alone are indicative of the whole
project. Here are cash prizes OF
more than $500 for horses, $400 for
dairy cattle, $500 more for beef cat
tie, $3.50 for hogs and $3.50 for sheep
and goats, the exact figures bringing
the total well above $500. In the
culinary department, as another ex-
ample. a department of course de-
signed to interest the women and
girls Of the farms OF the county,
there are 20 divisions and total OF
58 prizes, divisions such as bread,
cake, pies, jellies, jams, canned
fruits. canned vegetables. and the
like. The same care and the same
liberality in prizes are shown through
out all the branches of the fair.
These prizes are in addition to the
purses to be put up for the benefit OF
the drivers and riders Of the speedy
nags" of the county in the racing
program that will be arranged as one
Of the amusement features. a series
of races intended solely for Thurs
ton county horses, save for a free
for-all event now and then in which
anyone may compete. The details OF
this program and the number and
amount of the purses have not been
arranged.
Superintendents Are Named.
General Manager Van Houten an
nounced this week the names OF the
superintendents of the different de-
partments. N. G. Christensen Is to
have charge OF the livestock display;
]. r. Johnston the poultry exhibit;
H. p. Briggs, fruits and vegetables;
Mrs. J. B. Chambers, apiary and
dairy; Mrs. r. B. Rowe. the culinary;
and Robert e. Hawthorne. the school
department.
Considerable demand is already
evident for concessions at the fair,
General Manager Van Houten re-
ports, and present prospects are that
the management will be able to net
more from that feature Of the exhibi-
tion than it had hitherto expected.
The concessions will be sold for
stipulated sum, the purchasers to
erect their own booths.
Family and individual season
tickets for the fair were placed on
sale in different parts of the county
this week and are being literally
purchased. it is reported The man
agement wants to place as many OF
these tickets as possible in advance.
The work of erecting the sheds for
the exhibits Of cattle. hogs and sheep
will be undertaken early next month.
Large tents, for which Van Houten is
now arranging, will be used to house
the other exhibits this year.
City Attorney and Mrs. George X.
Ripelou nrnoae4ho fora mart of this