Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-09-28
Good Attendance at Fair Yesterday
Plenty of Amusements Fine
Stock and Grain
WEATHER MAN IS FINE
Soldiers Drill at Fair is Feature
Yesterday-Large Number Of
Agricultural Exhibits

The Forty Fourth annual fair of
Stevens county promises to be one
of the most successful ever held.
There are far larger number of ex-
hibits than was at first expected and
a surprisingly large crowd was on
hand yesterday, the first day. We'd
nesday could hardly be called a reg
ular day as most of the morning and
afternoon was taken up in enter
ing the different exhibits.
At the main livestock building
and at the hog and sheep building
space is taken up by prize stock.
The splendid appearances of all the
stock on exhibit is a self-evident
fact that Stevens county is fast COM
ing to the front as stock raising
community. The early frosts evid-
emily didn't kill as much corn as
was first predicted for the corn on ex-
hibition in the Agricultural Hall
was splendid in quality. A large
number of fine specimens of all of
the smaller grains was on hand,
showing that the dry summer must
have added bushels to the Stevens
county harvest.
The fair this year is more than
ever a home event. There are none
of the foreign race horses, auto
racers, or motorcycles. There were
horse races, motorcycle races and
auto races, however, but the con-
testants were all from Stevens coun-
ty. The new idea seems to be a
popular one, for there was just as
much interest shown in the harness
race between the pacing horses of
Bill Richards, BIanch' HolIenbeck
and Peter Gaffney and between the
five mile motorcycle race between
Ernest Charles, of Hancock, Nels
Erickson, of Hancock, and Otto
Swenson, of the University farm
school, as shown in the races be-
tween foreign horses for large
purses. By the way Bill Richards
won the first heat of the horse race
and Ernest Charles won the motor
cycle event yesterday. Mr.. Charles
made the distance in minutes and
40 seconds.
The platoon drill by the twenty
Stevens county volunteers in the
First Minnesota regiment, was the
feature of the day. The efficiency
and fitness of Minnesota's crack re-
giment can never be questioned, for
the boys executed all of the squad
b.
with a clock-like precision and uni
formity that was almost perfect.
The drilling was performed on the
track in fornt of the grandstand.
Senior Corporal R. L. Anderson was
in charge of the detail. The soldiers
will drill this afternoon in front of
the grandstand at p. m.
One of the principal places of in
terest was the tent where the Uni
versity farm school exhibited large
number of grains and work of the
engineering school. Two of the en-
terprising merchants of Morris had
attractive exhibits at the fair. The
]. H. Walz Hardware store had on
exhibition a Homer furnace and
Monarch range and F. Carron de-
monstrated how his Delco Light
Generator could be used for a milk
ing machine, an electric light pro-
ducer or to run a washing machine.
The program for today, the last
day of the fair is as follows:
PROGRAM
Free for all horse race, Stew
ems county horses only, 3 heats,
purse, $4,000.
Running race, horses, heats,
purse, $500.
Team race, (team and buggy
purse, $25.00.
Combination race, { lap trotting
and lap running) purse, $25.00.
Motorcycle race, high power, 5
miles, purse, $4,000.
Motorcycle race, low power, 5
miles, purse, $4,000.
Auto race, 10 miles, free for all,
purse, $500 ..-
Relay race, II mile, Schools Of
Morris, Hancock, Chokio, Donnelly
and Alberta, boys 16 and over, purse,
$4,000 @laa -
Relay race, same as above, for
boys under 16, purse, $4,000.
Boys 200 yd. obstruction race.
purse, $1,000. ,~s-
Free for all dash, 100 yds. purse,
$1,000. r-
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