Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-26
ATTENDANCE ON FIRST FORMAL
OPENING DAY IN EXCESS
OF so.cco.
kpEs MONIES couNciLMEN
DRIVE MULES IN RACE
Feature Day. Next Week With Old
4 soidier.' Day Placed EARLY Because
Of National Encampment r. Awards
SAnnounecd il Butter and Cream
4 Contests. 5sI

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weather conditions and an unusually
attractive program the sixty-second
Iowa state fair and exposition was
formally started yesterday. Judging
began IN ali departments ind a full
program was pu, On III every division
OF theEtalr.
4 The attendance went past the 10000
mark, Sbelns over 800 more than on
the corresponding uay last year. A
big crowd also turned out for the
night show. The first night program
in front Of the amphltheater showing
great fireworks spectacle, The Last
Days of Pompeii," was put on last
night This Is to given every night
except Sunday and the last Friday
night The horse show III the stock
pavilion will be put on for the first
time tonight. 1t will be on every
night next week excepting Sunday and
the last Friday night.
Today was Des Moines day. The
special feature of the day was mule
race with the four councilmen Of Des
Moines as drivers. Monday the man
agement expects to have the managers
of the four leading baseball clubs
drive mules and Tuesday probably Wis
iting state fair secretaries.
S Sunday is music day. Sunday school
exercises are to be held in the morn
ing under the direction of the Iowa
State Sunday School Association.
Llberati and Henry's bands will give
concerts both afternoon and evening.
Monday is manufacturers and inn
plement dealers day and Tuesday is
old soldiers day. With many Of the
old soldiers leaving Des Moines on
Monday night for the national en-
campment at Kansas City the nam
agement has arranged for an old SOL
diers program Monday afternoon at
which Governor George Nv. Clarke will
be the principal speaker. There will
also be program Tuesday afternoon
as usual. The speakers on that day
will be the Rev. A. E. Kepford, Hon.
G. w. Garrett. and Comrades r. E..
McCurdy, R. T. st. John and ]. E..
Risley. All old soldiers Of the Civil or
every day of the fair this year as are
also their wives and widows
Early Awards Made.
The management announced part
OF the butter awards early today as
follows:
Butter from cream-F'irst, j. H. Bak-
ken, Ridgeway; second E. A. Gud-
bangor. Hanlontown; third, ]. H. Ha-
gen, Joice.
Butter from whole milk-First, F..
w. Bremen, Sumner; second, ]. j..
Drummer, Strawberry Point; third, A.
NJ. Quincy, Tripoli.
Z Dairy butter-First, Mrs. Otto Ras-
mussen, Altoona; second, Mrs. William
Kile, Ankeny.
Cheese-First. H. A. Kalk, sheyboy-
gan Falls, Wis; second, Leonard
Christiani, Des Moines.
George A. Heyl of Washington,
Iowa, and Charles E. Bum, of Peoria,
ILL.,, carried off some of the principal
awards in the Shetland pony classes
judged yesterday. Heyl won first in
stallion, years or over, on King
Largo and also in stallion over and
under 2 years on Prince Largo.
Charles E. Bum won first on stallion,
years and under 4, on Lord Go Bang.
first in stallion years and under on
The Best of ALL first in stallion or
mare years or over on Ovilta. Other
winners were NJ. E. Bridgeford &
Sons Of JOY ILL.,; Woodin Farms, Of
Lake Forest, H.: D. G. Welty, Nevada.
Iowa, and George Birdson, of Panora
Iowa.
There were 10 boys entered in the
boys judging contest. Many of them
were members of the state fair boys
camp. Six scholarships are awarded
to the first six doing the best Judging.
The young men were required to pass
on live stock and classes in grain. Up
to a late hour the awards had not been
announced
The management is estimating that
the total attendance will meet the
100000 mark which has been the goal
for the, past three years. In1913 the
total attendance was 2s1.000. which
was the largest to date. If the weather
continues favorable there is every in
dication that their ambitions will be
realized.
The horn of plenty or river of corn,
reproduced from the San Francisco
exhibit which won Iowa fame at the
big Panama-Pacinc exposition is at
tracing much attention here The
huge mass Of corn, 300 bushels in oil,
pile forty five feet high and six
ty-five feet wide across the center
with the word Iowa" spelled in red
letters across the center, is the big
gest exhibit by far in the agricultural
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