Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-01-01
MOVEMENT
BEGUN TOWAA
HAVING BIG FAN
Chairman Hutchinson to Be
Ready With Committee
Of Eighteen Soon
MEN WILL DEVISE
WAYS AND MEANS
Nine Will Be From Ottumwa
and Nine From Outside
of This City

ottumwa, southeastern Iowa and
northern Missouri are anxious for "
fair, an agricultural exposition and ~
live stock show, and they have taken
steps toward securing 1t.
Enough enthusiasm had been arossSx
ed among men in this vicinity To M
the rooms Of the Commercial assoct IN
tion with as cosmopolitan a EFoub
Thursday evening as has. evef been
gathered at any singh eetie1in thM
city. Business men. merc ANTS, pro
fessional men, doctors, lafkyers. dent
lists, and others, stock laisers, fancT
farm products dealers and newspapsf
men We're there. Everybody talked
about it, everyb0dy asked about Ii ana
everybody leffned about It. ThkTM
were men there who are professionally
in this line of work and they explaineN
the details Of inside workings OF such
a movement; there were men thefU
who We're active in the days OF the
old fairs In Ottumwa and they
reminisced; there We're men thaFB
who do not remember much aboJU
the old fair except for sneaksR
IN under the fence, and they learned
for the first time what such an organz
ization really Is, what 1t stands fOW
and what 1t can do II started In tho
right manner.
M. B. Hutchison who presided aS
chairman at the meeting was instrucg
ed by unanimous motion of1the men
present to appoint a committee Of
eighteen to devise ways and means tG
ward taking the proper steps for organ
gizing a fair association here, for ak
ranging the location, outline the can
paign for stock subscriptions and II
look after other general matter
which go with such. a propositions. Mf
Hutchison asked for time to make hiA
selection and at the close of the SEA-
sion announced that he would prob
ably complete his list by Saturday IN
the first OF next week. The matter u
stock selling will. not be confined t8
this county, this section OF the stats
or even this state AS it Is planned t6
take everyone Interested In southern
Iowa and northern Missouri III q, tllia
move. Nine OF the committee will NJ
from here and nine from outside.
Hoiconnbe Outlines Work.
g. III. Holcombe, secretary and maris
ager of the Tri3State fair. at BurliuE
ton, discussed the proposition Of 0H
tunwa having a fair from the stanG
point OF the professional, for thatNG
his work organizing expositions &
shows Of this kind. He said that frutiE
what he had read Of Ottunwans and
others views on the matter tn
thought that there was but little Je6
to say However, he dill discuss th9
steps which lead up to the promoting
and ultimate success OF the Burlington
fair. He placed most Of the credit
upon j. F.. Deerss, the former OttumN
wan and now farmer near BruIingt0H
who had "saddled" into the presideucY
of the. Tri-State exposition and ha
said that 1t would be necessary for on
tumwa to find a Deems to push tho
matter If it was to be success Va
everything rested upon the man
head OF the movement.
The Burlington or Tri-State
c.udes ten counties, four In low
In Missouri and three iD 1llino'
was sold to 450 persons In
counties. In Galesburg $50;
of stock was distributed
share holders. Mr.. Ho1ct
mates that plant coulHbe
here and put In excellent
der for about $4,000.
spent $4,000 for improv
bought and paid for fort
ground and have thre
twenty more at a rent
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