The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-27
STATE
Opens Next Monday WOmen's
Free Day and Old Soldiers
and Chlldren's Day.

With Women's free day ro-ostab-
lished. with old Soldiers and Chill
dren's Day again q feature, and with
other things popular with the pub
lic. again on the program. the Ohio
State Fair viii reopen next Monday
for what ls expected 10 be the big
gest 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 10 adopt the pol
Icy that the state fair is not prImar-
lily a money-making institution, but
that 10 is the peoples show, on the
peoples playground, and that to fig-
ure out the most which can be given
them for their admission price would
please the people better than simply
10 see big sum of money on the pro-
Gt side of the ledger The Board
therefore, has figured on how 10 give
n big one cents worth of pleasure for
every cent the visitors spend. IL
wants to give the biggest show pos
sible without piling up any debts for
tax payers TO settle.
Modified rules for exhibitors give
promise of the largest displays Of
livestock, farm products machinery
etc, ever seen I'm Ohio. Larger
prizes In various departments have
attracted more exhibitors; larger
purses and adoption of the policy of
six monies instead of four to race
winners, with no deduction has re-
suited in the largest entry list for
the races of any state fair in the
country The state itself Will be a
large exhibitor One entire building
has been set aside for state exhibits.
and the State Industrial Commission
viii have the largest display ever at
tempted by any state department. It's
Safety First" show and other eXhib-
it's vii give the people their first clear
idea of what this large Department
is doing for the people, The State
Board Of Administration will have an
enlarged exhibit, and in addition will
show fifty head of fine Guernsey cat-
tie, and farm products, raised at
state institutions.
one Of the big features will be the
spectacular and educational Pains
display Opening of the
Panama Canal, which will be shown
at night Four hundred and fifty
persons participate I'm this produc-
ton A fete day at Panama. in
which the residents are gathered to
see great circus performance is in
terrupted by a thrilling attack on
the city by land, sea and air, giving
in graphic manner an idea of the aw-
full results of modern warfare. The
city is destroyed entirely; then comes
the great display of fireworks, which /
Will introduce everything new which |
have devised during |
the past twelvemonth. The Pain |
spectacle will be preceded by mann |
9th Horse Show, each day conducted |
after the fashion of the great horse /
shows given at Madison Square Gar |
den. Louisville and other horse cen |
ters. An offer of nearly $2,5 in |
prizes has attracted the finest horse |
flesh in the United States. The State |
Fair is fortunate in being on Horse |
show Circuit. Cleveland's show 7
closes Just before the Fair, then from T
the Fair the horses viii 90 TO Indiana I
polls. then to Louisville. This has |
been responsible for the long entry /
list of horses whose values run into /
fabulous sums.
The visitor to the State Fair this
year will find the entire Grounds and
Show modernized, with electric light
ing all over the Grounds, automobiles
admitted free of charge, many i'm
made to Buildings and
all in all an effort to give the people
more for their money than they have
ever received before.-adv.