Fergus County Democrat., 1916-12-07
FAIR BOARD APPOINTED.


Monday afternoon the county during their
invited the county agrcuur and the secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce with them and go the outline for the county
lair for 1917.
Mr. Peterson the county agcutust and Mr. Blodget. Of the
Chamber Of Commerce had prepared list Of sections
Of the who would be act the
board Of directors Of the coming fair They also outlined
eested BY Rch months how the could be
divided into ten sections ubcountes to speak lhs
plan been enlarged somewhat and accepted the board
AZ once
Among the suggested the selected the
Of y Wentworth Of Lewown; Tom Nicholson of obson;
Zen Hills Of Coffee Creek Amos SNYDER Of Beckett and den Rom
unsad Of Fergus These five will have complete charge Of the
planning and operating Of the next county fair this meeting they
so selected l. Blodgett secretary this board Of directors
This will place the central office of the fair board the Office Of the
chamber where there already centered much work that has do
with the outlying sections Of the county presumed that the Farm
Bulletin will have much do with creating interest the fair as
will take the TO the farmer that no other county
paper do There will be much attend getting ready for
the event the way Of preparing premium list selecting the various
modes Of entertaining the public and handling the of
which there will no doubt be many.
This board Of five will appoint several who will have
the relation the county fair that Mr. Wentworth has he
fair These will advisory board and
will create interest their sections bringing into the fair from each
exhibit with which they will to win the grand prize IN the same
that county with the other counties securing the
state tar grand from all directions the word that people
interested the fair project and planning making one
Of the best county fairs in the northwest
In this the commissioners making every effort
additional and this Of be done only by get
ing into the hands Of the farmer who will stock
end poultry the premium list which will tell hm Just what he get
cGnns the privilege of getting out this list and OF
this vii be medium OF advertising that merchants all towns
of the county will wish avail themselves Of The Chamber Of Com
advertising committee met yesterday afternoon and passed
favorable resolution this class Of advertising and gave card to
the young who have undertaken supply the needed
lists There will undoubtedly be least thousand Of these printed
Tor will take that supply the the farm bulletin list
and with of these farm home will be worth while from
advertising stand point.
There will be meeting of the board of directors called within
the month take up business Of making this great and
much constructive work will have be done by them all their
plans worked good Publicity will be given the fair
all the journals of agriculture and every effort made atac
tions that will make it worth whies
One of the big enterprises that will fit the fair scheme is
the establishing of cattle market The board of commissioners
listened outline of this plan by Secretary Bodge during the meet
ing and accepted it in detail.
The plan establish sales market the fair grounds building
sales stables cora and sales ring much after the pattern Of the
sales ring at the fair Helena is proposed make this
regular sales corporation handling hundreds head Of livestock
ieraby cattle sheep and hogs bringing them from all points OF the
state for sale The Milwaukee officials have their word thai
tie siding leading the fair grounds and which has been used b,
D. Burke. will be made permanent affair.
This will not only facilitate the handling Of stock for the
sales corporation but will be worth much the handling of stock
shipped from parts of the county the local fair There
several loads of fancy stock listed for the county a
from parts Of the state and when these find sale
stable the heart of that buying hundreds of head of cattle
during the they will be influenced to the extent that he
will turn Le~istown point where constant demand for hg
grade and registered cattle sheep and hogs will be found 1t
surprise know that the last two years there has bee
brought and sold farmers 900 head of cattle In tn
Of such sales stable being located the fair grounds prom
ed UNANIMOUSLY by the there will be brought here 70
sale stock from the farms of the breeders other parts of the
who make practice of selling the fair This will enabl
them have market for such stock month Of the and
time develop into institution of value to Lewisown, tn
greatest little railroad center the state.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING
We learn from the Lvstown merchants that the campaign naug