Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-09-24
FAIR IS
To OPEN TOMORROW
Many Celebrated Herds OF Livestock
mt Memphis to Compete for
! $4,000 in Prizes.

Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 23.-Every
exhibit On the grounds will be i'll
Iplace and ready for inspection when
the ninth annual Tri State fair opens
next Monday morning 70 remain Open
until Wednesday, Oct 4.
Exhibits Of all kinds hare been ar
irving in the city daily for 4 week,
and have been arranged attractively
in the eleven exhibit BUILDINGS on the
| fair grounds. Hundreds Cf workers
will toll all Sunday and Sunday
night to place the last exhibits to
arrive.
Two special trains Of livestock vii!
arrive in Memphis carly Sunday
morning to take pall i'll the big
shows of the Tri-State fair One will
bring the celebrated herds IF the
northern corn belt from tbs Illinois
State fair, and the othar Viii bring
equally celebrated her!s from the
Tennessee state fair.
The livestock shows will be the
distinct feature of the Memphis fair.
More than $4,000 il premiums has
been offered for beef and dairy cat
tie; $685. for swine, and $1,740 for
sheep. Eleven national livestock
register associations have supple
mented the premium lists with cash
premiums, silver cups and ribbons.
Another big feature will be the
poultry show, in which more than A.
600 of the finest specimens in the
United States have been entered. The
Tri-State Poultry ASSOCIATION has Of
fered more than $4,000 in cash preml-
ums, in this, the greatest fall show
in the country.
Fifteen counties in Tennessee, Ar
kansas and Mississippi have seat
county agricultural displays to the
Memphis fair. These counties are
proud of the results achieved through
diversification, and competition will
be keen to win premiums which total
more than $1,000.
The women's building has been
filled to overlooking with all sorts
of exhibits of peculiar interest to
women. Tri-State women have been
unusually jealous this year in send
ing their needlework. art and culin-
airy products to the fair. The women
this year have building all their own
for the first time in history, and they
have made it by far the most attrac-
tive on the grounds.
Music of better quality and in
greater quantity than ever before has
been provided for the fair. Natiellos
Royal Hussar band has been engaged
fer the ten days. The Mariana, Ark,
band will play on Arkansas Day
Wednesday, Sept. q; the Martin
Tenn, band will play on Tennessee
Day, Thursday, Sept. 20, and joint
band from Tupelo and New Albany
Miss, will play on Mississippi Day
kFriday. Sept. 20.
| Several Orchestras have been en-
gagged to give daily concerts IN the
women's building, in the new Shelby
county building, and at the auto show
under the grandstand. Three solo'sts
of note also will sing daily at the
fair. They are Miss Mary Conway
of the metropolitan Opera company
Miss Charlotte Brand and Glrodant
Pellonari. the Memphis boy tenor
whose wonderful voice has been cul
tivated through the efforts of the clul
women of Memphis.
The amusement features nave oeel
stressed this year also. The tastes
harness horses in the country vii
race daily the first week of the fair
Auto races will be the big feature th'
second Monday and Tuesday, ant
motorcycle races will be the big care
| the last day.
ALI railroads entering Memphis
have authorized special rates while
the Tri-State fair is in progress
Sept. 25 to Oct. 4.