Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-18
COMMITTEES MET
TO ARRANGE FOR
THE CHERRY FAIR
Contest for Queen to Begin
MOnday---Splendid Program
Being Made

Cooperating with the state fair
board, the Cherry fair will begin Mon
day morning July with fraternal pa
rades, and close Tuesday night with
grand Fourth of July fire works dis
play at the fair grounds. This was
practically decided at the meeting last
evening at the Commercial club in
which several committees appointed by
Benjamin Brick discussed plans for the
| fair.
AS last night s meeting was the first
in which general plans were discussed,
no definite details have as yet been
arranged, but there is disposition
on the part of the II chairmen of the
committees to get busy at once and
report will be made Saturday in order
that each committee may work in mar
mony.
The queen contest committee, of
which Rev. James Elvin is chairman,
has already been working and has ar
RANGED plans for the election of the
Cherry queen by a voting process. 20,-
900 envelopes will be distributed to
all the business houses and offices and
public places in the city, and for the
price of one cent a vote, money may
be placed in the envelopes, and dropped
in boxes placed at the Capital Journal
office, the Statesman, Commercial
club, the Spa and the Gray-Belle. These
will be collected each day, and stand
ing of candidates announced each day
through the daily papers. The contest
will begin Monday and close June %.
1t is expected that fraternal organza-
tions will present candidates.
George Rogers though the $500 an.
propriated by the Commercial club
was entirely inadequate to put on a
real fair "Let's have a real good
fair, not cheap one. Let's have some
thing unique as we have plenty of
originality. Portland will soon be too
big for yearly fair and it will then
be up to Salem to give an annual festi-
val. Let S have a big fair, even if
we nave to 60 down in our pockets. "
Mrs Ella Watt was in favor of fra
ternal parades and believed that with
the 60 fraternal organizations in the
citv. fully 1000 people would take part
in a parade that would require at
least three hours in passing. She fav-
ored a separate auto parade. j. w.
Maruney, president of the Floral So
ciety, remrked that last year he spent
lot of time decorating automobiles,
and that they whizzed past so fast in
the parade he could hardly appreciate
mis- work.
r. B. Southwick was curious to know
whether there would be any admission
charge to the fair grounds on the
Fourth, and was informed that for the
horse races, there would be a charge
for seats on the grand stand.
D. A. White was of the impression
that the Fourth would be tine big day
as all stores would be closed.
Walter A. Denton opined that if
more than $500 was necessary for a
first class fair, that the 81 who were
so anxious that it should be held, be
solicited, instead of the business men
in the center of the business district
AS the prospects are pretty slim for
getting more money from the CONNER
cial club, it is probable. that additional
funds, if necessary will he solicited
from those who will benefit by nav
ing large crowds in the city.
Anyhow, the feeling is that the COM
ing cherry fair must be a credit to the
city, and that cooperating with the
state fair board, the prospects are good
for one of the most interesting fairs
ever held in the city.