Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-06
Nebraska
STATE FAIR TO BE
BETTER THAN EYER
Officials Assert This Week Will Be
One Of Big Things at
Lincoln.
A RECoRD-BREAKER PREDICTED
From a Staff Correspondent

Rrom q Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, Sept. 6-(Special. )-officials
Of the Nebraska state fair are feelinl
good today and are lolSing forward to
big things during the week II the weather
man will continue to smile upon the fair.
What do you want The Bee to say
tomorrow about the fair7' was asked
by a reporter OF the paper OF President
Joseph Roberts, as he sat at his desk in
the administration building.
you can say anything you like. You
can't put 1t too strong this year. The
outlook is the best since my connection
with the fair association. Exhibits are
coming in fast and II the weather holds
good look to see attendance figures run
up far above any previous years. Every
thing is looking good. Space is being
taken fast and the feeling all over among
be q record breaker.
viii nave Hummer.
Secretary w. r. Mellor was in a like
mood I'VE are going to have hummer
this year." said he. THE entertainment
features are going to surpass all previous
years am feeling particularly happy
this morning because the machines and
other racing material of Barney oldfield,
plane fixings of Deloyd Thompson. the
aviator dare devil, came In this morning
and those two gentlemen will DO here
this evening. 1 expect that their racing
around the track, Oldfied in his big
automobile, and Thompson in his flying
machine, will be thriller and nobody
can afford to miss 1t.
Looking over the grounds, one is inn
pressed with the idea that the 1915 exhi-
bition along all lines is bound to be an
eyeopener. 1t is said that many people
from the east, who have been attic nding
the Panama-Pacific exposition. are
planning on stopping over in Lincoln on
their way back in order that they can
see what kind Of an agricultural show
Nebraska uts on. The Nebi aska State
fair has a national reputation and thus
the state will get some good advertising
from the show this year.
Picture of Nebraska.
Nothing strikes Ii !. stor coming from
the west quite so A. ably as the grand
picture spread out before them in Ne
braska after passing through the noun
tains and barren places of the west and
the Nebraska State fair ought to i'm
press them strongly.
Monday has been designated as Old
Soldier day, Children's day, Labor day
and Lincoln day. The gates will open
at $50 in the morning and the big fair
will be on. George Green and his band
of Omaha will give concerts in the audi
torium and Hagenow and his Lincoln
band in Automobile hall, while the Fifth
Regiment band will furnish music in the
coliseum.
At 1850 in tho morning DeLloyd
Thompson will do some of his tumbling
bug flights from the race track, while
at 1:9O and $3.50 he will loop the loop.
At / o'clock in the afternoon Barney
oldfield will try and oeat the record on
half mile track with his big automo-
bile, which will be followed by the rae
ing program. At 4:9O will come the race
between Thompson and Oldfield and at
in the evening Oldfield will again try
to beat the half mile record on a dirt
track. This will be followed by a vaude-
Vile performance on the platform in
front OF the stands.