Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-02
STATE EXPOSITION is BEING
PLANNED UNDER MOST FAV-
oRAsLE CONDITIONS.
MORE LIVE STOCK
THAN EVER BEFORE
Entries Coming in in Large Numbers
Buildings and Grounds in Best Of
Shape-Horn Of Plenty, Made From
Corn, to Be Reproduced-State lnsti-
tutions to Exhibit Products.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. with the iowa
State Fair only about three weeks
away, preparations for the big event
are going on apace. Entries in the live
stock departments are coming in in
such numbers as to cause the manage
ment TO predict more stock on exhibit
ton than ever before.
The mana cement declares the season
is right for an unusually big fair. The
season is we'll advanced and when fair
time comes around. Aug. % to Sept. !,
farm work will be we'll in hand and the
farmers will have time to attend the
big exposition.
The buildings and grounds are in the
best shape they have ever been. There
was no construction work on the
grounds last season nor this season so
that the grounds have not been torn
up. This has given the management
an opportunity to put in quite little
time getting the buildings and grounds
in general in the best of condition.
The women and childrens building,
used for the first time in 1914, will
again be the center of interest for the
women and the children. The baby
health contest will be put on as usual.
Each child is given an examination be-
fore IL is examined physically so that
no children with sickness of any kind
can get into the contest rooms. The
art exhibit, school and health exhibits
and child welfare work will be inter-
esting features of this building. In the
auditorium moving pictures of an edu-
catlonal nature will be put on.
Horn Of Plenty
The famous horn of plenty showing a
river of corn thirty eight feet high.
fortyfive feet in diameter and sixty
feet at the base, an exact reproduction
Of the exhibit shown out at the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition at San Francisco
last year, is to be put on in the agricul-
tural building. This great display of
corn set everybody talking about Iowa
at the big Frisco fair last year. The
idea was conceived by Prof j. A Bu-
chanan, OF the Iowa State College. The
design is being worked out in the agri- :
cultural building here by the same men
who did the work out at San Francisco,
| The entire agricultural display which
won for Iowa the grand prize in COM
petition with the whole world at the
San Francisco fair will be shown in the
agricultural building here. There will
also be more individual farm exhibits
than ever and many county exhibits.
The state institutions will show their
manufactured products and their agri-
cultural achievements in two big tents
The Iowa State College will have its ed
| ucational exhibit as usual except that II
viii be more complete than ever. The
results Of COW test which has been in
progress for more than a year will be
graphically set forth by Ames College
men. The cows used in the test, which
include both good and inferior animals
Will be present and the results of the
test will be set forth in charts.
In the amusement line there will be
music and racing and big night shows
Ruth Law. famous woman aviator, will
fy day and night. There will be auto
mobile and trotting and running races
vaudeville programs will be put on
The Last Days of Pompeii will be
the big night show put on by the
Ihearle- Duffield Fireworks Company
At the stock pavilion each evening
there will be splendid horse show
Llperatis band. including sixteer
| grand opera singers will give concerts