The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-01
Big Business Men Backing
Project and Former State
Fair Secretary at Helm.
v. P. WEEK AS IN OLD DAYS
Horse show, Farm Tractor Show and
Dairy Cattle Show, and Harness,
Running, Mule and Automobile
Races Are Among Features.

october to (Veiled Prophet
Week., will be In the nature OF a
revival Of a st. Louis institution
which in days Of old attracted to that
city many thousands of farmers and
other residents of Missouri and neigh.
boring states.
Representative business men are
officers and directors of the fair So
ciety, the secretary of which is John
T. Stinson, who for seven years was
secretary and manager Of the Mis-
souri, State Fair, at Sedalia.
Secretary Stinson has announced
that although the Horse Show, Farm
Tractor Show and Dairy Cattle Show
will be the three foremost features
OF the Fair, other features of especial
note will be the Agricultural Exhi-
bits, Swine and Sheep Exhibits, Poul-
try Show, Farm Machinery Exhibits,
Industrial Exhibits, and Mule Show.
Some of the Free ADJUSTMENTS.
| The free amusements so far an
nounced include harness races, run
ming races, mule races, automobile
races and daily band concerts. An
other free feature Of interest to many
viii be the general athletic meet of
| the Western Association of the
Amateur Athletic Union of the Unit
ed States.
Secretary Stinson is authority for
the statement that the st. Louis Agri-
cultural Fairs saddle horse stake, So
900, is the largest offered by any fair
or horse show in the world this year.
This stake, he said, is bringing out
the best horses in at least seven great
horse states-Kentucky, Tennessee,
Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Colorado and
Oklahoma. In addition to the $4,000
saddle horse stake, which will be COM
peted for in five sections-stallions
mares, geldings, four-year-olds and
under and champonship--ther is a
$500 under-one-year saddle colt stake,
a $500 roadster stake and a $500 fine
harness-horse stake.
Missouri being tho premier mule
state, tho Fair management is offer
lh5 pow ululo COIC STAKE,
The horse show proper will have
forty classes, including the saddle
horse, roadster, light harness horse
and cavalry and artillery horses.
The poultry section, under the man.
agement Of Henry Steinmesch, will
have 2S0 classes. Every known breed
recognized by the American Standard
will be eligible for competition.
Demonstrations of Power FARMING,
The important part that motor pow
er is playing in agriculture will be
demonstrated In the exhibition of |
farm tractors, which will be under |
the management of Frank Goodwin.
There will be practical demonstra. |
ton OF blowing and other field work. |
as well as demonstrations showing
the practicability of the tractor in
hauling and other farm work for
which horses are still in large meas
ure employed.
The agricultural exhibits will cover
general agriculture, as well as such
special subjects as truck farming and
contrasting The horticulture ex.
hibits will consist of fruits and school
children's garden premiums.
There will be working demonstra-
tons of the last word in farm nipple.
ments and scientific farming, which,
Secretary Stlnson promises, will be
of material benefit to agriculturists
and Observation-Disclosures tbro,,o1a,.4 A.
territory tributary to st. Louis.
Those familiar with st. Louis names
who doubt that the st. Louis Agricul-
tural Fair will be one of the best such
fairs ever held in America should read
the list of officers and directors. The
officers, besides Secretary Stinson,
are James e. Hereford, president;
Paul Brown, Adolphus Busch III,
James A. Houchin, John G. Roberts,
Charles A. Silk and w. d. Vandiver,
vice presidents; and Fletcher r. Har-
ris, treasurer; and the directors, in
addition to Messrs Brown, Harris and
Hereford, are E. F. Bisbee, L. w.
Childress, A. G. Einstein, Merritt Mar
shall, Jr., Richard McCulloch, Drinks
L. Parrish, A. L. Shapleigh, Col D. S. |
Henry Steinmesch and M. L.
Wilkinson
Purpose of Fair Society.
An announcement issued by the
of the st. Louis Agrieul.
tural Fair says in part:
THE purpose of this organization
is to revive the spirit Of the Old st.
Louis Fair, which for a time was sup
planted by the Louisiana Purchase Elk
position.
There is an insistent demand for
a revival of the old Fair, which did
50 much for st, Louis and tributary
territory.
This is not a mere temporary enter
prise for bringing together a collec
ton of side shows. This Association
is organized on a permanent basis
primarily for the permanent promo
ton Of the city and its adjacent terri
tory"