Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-02
THE COUNTY FAIR
BUT SIX WEEKS OFF
Fair Management Arranging for
Many Special AttractiOns-A
Big Night Show This Year.

Many SpecMl AttfactlOnS-A
\ Big Night Show This Year.
Six weeks from next Monday the
gates of the Audubon County Agricul-
tural Society will be thrown open for
the thirty-eighth annual fair. The
dates for this years fair are Septem-
Der 10, IL, II, 10, starting just day
earlier than last year. Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 18th, will be children's day, as
has been the custom for years, and all
school children fifteen years and un-
der will be admitted free. All old SOL
diers and wives will be admitted free
this year.
Tuesday and Wednesday nights big
night shows will be given. Last year
i the first night show was given by the
management, and proved to meet with
i general favor from the public, and
4 the fair board voted unanimously to
! continue this innovation. Two eXcep-
| tionally strong night programs will
be given, starting each night at 1880,
with a band concert in front of the
amphitheater. A big feature of the
evening program will be a night bal
loon race. Two large balloons. car
rying aerOnauts, will leave the ground
/ at the same time sailing away. Espe-
4 cially at night this feature should
! prove very interesting one.
| The free acts booked for this year
are very good and include Ramona
1 Ortiz, an artist without a peer upon
! the bounding wire. She is young
queen of equipose. and for a number
of years has been one of the leading
features in one of the foremost cir
cuses. She is acknowledged to be
the worlds greatest wire equilibrist.
Another great free act is Professor
| Spaulding and his troop of trained
pigs. 1t is hard for anyone who I'M
derstands the habits and Characters
tics of the hog to precOnceive the
performance given by Prof Spauld-
ing's educated pigs. This act is one
of great merit, and one which will
please the children along with the
older folk. Another free act of par
excellence is the Bell-Thazer Broth
ers, who made good at the San Fran
cisco exposition. Their work is very
spectacular and accompanying there
is comedy galore and laughs for all.
A big feature of the Night shows
will be the display of fireworks,
which have been contracted tor with
the Thearle-Duffield Company. This
is the same company that gave such
a fine show here last year, and this
years contract calls for a still bet
ter display. For q number of years
this company has furnished the spec
tacular fireworks displays at the Iowa
State Fair, and the patrons of the
Audubon County fair can rest as
sured that the fireworks display to
be seen here will be in keeping with
the high reputation held by the
Thearle-Dufield Company. In visit
ing the fair this year. do not fail to
remain for the night show. and wit
ness the display of fireworks. You
will sit enthralled by the grandeur
and beauty Of this display, which will
l.be under the charge and direction of
an expert from the factory.
This years fair promises to be the
best ever held in the county. AS the
Audubon county fair stands as a peer
and pattern for all Of the other coun-
ty fairs Of the state. this statement
means much. For two weeks all of
the pens in the swine pavilion and
stalls in the cattle barns have been
engaged, and the stalls in the draft
horse barn are rapidly filling up. This
is a true indication that the exhibits
at this years fair are to be excellent
and numerous. When it comes to live
stock, Audubon county is in the front,
and this years fair will prove to be
one of the best livestock shows to be
seen anywhere.
The fair is an institution. 1t is a
measure Of its community. 1t is not
promoted as money making propo-
sition. Our fair is given for instruc-
ton and enjoyment. 1t is your OPP
portunity to show what you have
done, and see what others are doing.
II is your chance to enjoy yourself,
and it is your duty to give 1t your aid
by attending. Then. it is your fair,
and HOME COMING TIME for the
present and former citizens of the
county. Here the different residents
of the county and former citizens
meet upon common plane, and re-
enjoy the early scenes of their ac-
quaintanceship and mingle and enjoy
themselves with relatives and friends
of former days. 1t is the happiest
holiday of all the year in the county.
With good crop prospects and the
enjoyment of prosperity, let's all unite
now. and make plans to boost for and
attend the great Audubon county fair.
1t is the greatest of all county fairs,
and your fair.