New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-09-06
1915 FAIR DRAWS
BEST ATTENDANCE
FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY CARS.
PARKED AT FAIR GROUNDS
friday.
RECEIPTS MORE THAN 5000 .ce
OVER THOSE OF LAST
YEAR.

NoCmHe more cOulO nave been eX-
pected OF the weather man than what he
supplied in the way of his product for
the days of the Brown County Fair.
Cloudy mornings caused some appre-
hension but the sky cleared Friday early
enough so that no one who really ex-
pected to come to New Ulm was kept
at home and a record breaking crowd was
in attendance.
The number of exhibits was not so
large as some previous years. A lack
OF space prompted some of the merchants
to omit their usual displays but there
was nothing empty about the administra-
ton building as it was crowded to the
edges with excellent samples of the fruit.
vegetables, grains and handiwork of the
community. There were some very
beautiful specimens of lace work, fine
sewing and embroidery to say nothing
of the drawings and paintings which
were entered by the several young people
OF the city who are looking forward more
or less to an artistic career. These
drawings and paintings show great i'm
provements over those of earlier years.
Probably the exhibit which drew the
greatest number of spectators attention
was that of the Sleepy Eye Girls and
Boys Canning Club. This Club was
formed by the agricultural teacher of the
Sleepy Eye Public Schools and he was i'm
charge. Several of the Club members
were on hand in their uniform of cap
and apron, showing just how the work is
done. They seemed to be very handy
at the work and we'll exemplifed the
home training that the young people
may secure in the schools Of today.
The New Ulm schools had very good
exhibit of work from the Manual Train
ing and Domestic Science Departments.
Mr. Haynes, manual training teacher
was in charge. and explained to visitors
the various kinds of work undertaken in
the city schools in addition to the book
courses. There were large number of
samples of sewing done by pupils and
smaller number of exhibits in the line
of cookery that smelled and looked very
good, indeed. The Mechanical Drawing
exhibit was also particularly good.
G. A. Ottomeyer had a very nice
display of ladies' fur garments and there
wac the usual fine display of musical
instruments from the Winkelmann Music
Store. The hardware dealers as usual
had their space we'll taken care of and
showed fascinating collections of kitchen.
ware that would make any woman UNI.
happy unless she could have something
like them. The Red Front Grocery had,
corner in which a pleasing array of
their brand of canned goods we're tempt
ingly displayed.
Metzinger's Clothing Store had good
display of mems wearing apparel and
made to order goods. A model dis
played the fit of the coats and Mr..
Dapper, the tailor in charge of the Metz
niger tailoring department, showed the
care with which orders are taken and
executed.
The florists may. always be depended
upon to furnish two very handsome
exhibits. The Dill people had collee-
ton of foliage plants and the New Ulm
Greenhouses showed some very beautiful
flowers in addition to the banks of
foliage. Other floral entries were made
by Mrs. George Marti, being three
baskets made of watermelons and
pumpkins containing cut flowers. Another
exhibit shown by the Martis consisted of
gigantic lawn vase of trailing vines.
1t took six strong men to lift this vase
with its creepers into position in the
administration building but the pleasure
it gave to fair visitors repaid the effort.
From every one who passed could be
heard EXPLANATIONS of delight at it's
beauty and grace.
In the pantry store department were
a large number of entries and house,
wives particularly were interested in this
display and stood about exchanging
experiences in the handling of fruits and
vegetables in various methods of pre-
preserving them. E. H. Haeberle was
exhibiting a pressure outfit such as is
advocated by the Department of Agri-
culture for the preserving Of vegetables
in water only.
The Pioneer Nursery conducted
guessing contest in which prizes of
nursery stock were offered to the lucky
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