The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-06
Mrs. S. a. Hill, Second on Potted

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Florence Film. first on best made
Apron.
Winifred Hooking, first on = yards
Insertion.
/ Mable Scull. Second on Insertion
Mrs. NJ. ii. Weed won the specia
prize offered by the Brown Mercantile
Co. to the lady having the greatest
number of entries in the Domestic
Department.
Mrs. w. II. Hedrick won the spec
ial prize of years subscription tC
Pioneer for the best collection of Cut
Flowers exhibited at the Fair.
SOME FAIR NOTES.
Our merchants all did good bust
ness during the three days of the fair
There were h exhibitors who had
! Is entries in the Ladies department
The attendance on Friday was a
record breaker for the Mellette county
| fair.
The immense crowd here was a
pretty orderly and well-behaved bunch
of people.
There were % exhibitors represent
ed in the Agricultural exhibits and
they made 225 entries.
The ladies manifested considerable
interest in the demonstrations and
lectures given by Miss Wimple.
Mrs. w. Ii. Hedrick won years
subscription to the Pioneer this year
for the best display Of cut flowers.
Most all of the county candidates
were circulating among the fair
crowds, shaking hands and making
medicine.
The fair is over, and from comments
we have heard on the display and the
educational features. we Judge that it
was success.
We were glad to note the increased
number of exhibits Of small grains
this year, but the exhibit was not as
large as it should have been.
There were several hundred Indian
camps here during the fair, but all
had pulled stakes and departed for
their homes by Sunday noon.
The illustrated lectures on Agri-
cultural subjects in the evening were
not as well attended as they should
have been, but those who heard the
lectures were highly pleased with
them.
Congressman Harry l.. Candy made
IA very good speech at the race track
Saturday afternoon. He was listened
to with marked attention. He told
the people of his stewardship as Con-
gresham from this district.
There were no sports on the first
day except an indian Shinney game.
The day was rather raw and disagree
able, but the last two days were eX-
ceptionally nice, and fairly good
program of sports was pulled off each
afternoon.
Benjamin Larsen who won the spec
ial prize for the best individual ey-
hibit had something like 50 different
kinds of products on display in his
exhibit. This exhibit attracted con-
siderable attention and especially
from the strangers vino visited the
exhibit building.
There were people visited our Fair
| who had seen the exhibits at the
Trip county fair, the Gregory county
fair, the Rosebud fair and at the
White River fair and they told the
writer that the display of products at
the Mellette county fair had all other
fair exhibits on the Rosebud cut.
classed this year.
One Of the amusing features about
the fair to the natives was the, num-
erous expressions Of surprise at the
quality of the exhibits on display in
the agricultural hall and the ladies
department. by people from Iowa
Minnesota. Kansas. Nebraska ano
other states who happened to visit
our fair this year.
Urbin Cachelin of sRosebud Valley
made the largest number OF entries OF
any single exhibitor in the genera
display, having Is entries in all, and
he walked off with fifteen first and
nine second prizes. Mr.. Cachelin is d
quite old gentleman. and lie will leave
sometime this mGnth for his old home
in Desoto. Nebraska, there to cele
brate his golden wedding anniver
sary with his wife. He likes Mellette
county and will probably be back Oh