Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-08-31
FAIR in FULL
BLAST WITH
IDEAL WEATHER
Opening Day Was Largely Attended By City People, But
Few Country People Present.
,OWDS LOOKED FOR FRIDAY AND SATURD
Automobile Show Friday Night Will Be The Only Evening
Performances--Will Be Society
Event

A smiling sun looked down on q
happy scene in the Pennyroyal Fair
grounds yesterday and Tuesday.
If opening days could be made to or
der like fall suits sent C. o. D., you
couldn't have tailored one that would
have suited the tastes of the people of
Hopkinsville better than Tuesday
1t was simply great.
Beginning early in the morning
people began to pour in. By after
noon the machinery was running like.
a super-six and Secretary John Rich
ards was grinning so widely that he
almost bit his ears. "All we want is
good weather." the directors have
been saying for two months and they
guessed right. The crowd squeezed
in through the good old gate until if
almost broke it open. Many eSti-
mated the attendance as the largest
that has ever attended the Pennyroyal
Fair.
But the size wasn't what tickIed
President Cowherd, who really pulls
the strings. What tasted good to him
was the way all were enjoying them
selves.
HOPTOWN HAS THE STUFF.
The city of Hopkinsville certainly
arose to the occasion, The industrial
parade was all to the good. Ii was
one of the most unique things ever
perpetrated in these parts. The
Mayor and Commissioner headed the
body OF the parade. Before them as
an escort of honor rode officers Jim
Cliborne and Harvey Nixon of the III
P. D. looking as dignified as the occa-
sion demanded. All the city wagons,
even the water wagon, were in the
parade.
Hopkinsville people came out in
great droves and were never happier
in spirit. The shuttle train carried
large crowds as did the "jitneys" and
private vehicles.
The Metropolitan Shows on pleas
ure Avenue" played to big crowds
The shows are all good and add
greatly to the fair. They gave '"You
Go First bow to the speed rings in
the afternoon but began Immediately
after the contests were over. The
Flying Winnies or weenies or some
thing took the platform in front of tsse'
grandstand and gave one of their
chilling acrobatic performances. 1t
was one of those wonderful stunts
that r!akes you afraid they will hurt
Themselves all the time. Then
, hIv-n', yet.
AS TOR THE RACES.
, The speed program was good
Tie most exciting was the rumaag.
rae. Stanley West, he who, is,
cognomened "Skeet" which is shuEtr
for mosquito, came wagging a wear
foot across the centerfield pull
main force his horse, "P' -'@ by
is about the color Of - ~-5oAj" thai
liouid He = that wen-knowu
SSoved :. srabben a. boy and
$40, am on her. The horse
HdI"ed aroNnd and somebody yelled
Hold her Newt, she's headed for the
S oarn. He dragged her ppo t4 the
! barrier or rather to where tbo !. =,
r'er would have been if there T Sad
been one. The other borsos h '.'l
0een there waiting several minutes
AS he dragged his horse IN tbe.
starter called Co."
And them That horse imped liz, ,
a frightened hare and danced twe1s
lengths in front. Her jockey bad =.
pun her hard to keep her back WIZ,
'ne bunch. II was one horse rae.
and Skeet's Ryola was the one horse,
WHAT'S GOING ON.
one OF the good sales has been liar
Of Clarence Freeman, of Triqq eo.,-,'.
y, 70 1ohn II. Williams, of Christi,
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