Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-01
AT COUNTY
 FAIR OF HIGH ORDER.
Besides Excellent Exhibitions There Will Be . Banner Midway.

when you go to the circus, you fig ure that with the three rings nlfeo with acts every minute or the per- formauce you get lot for your money, but when you take in the old county fair and after roaming through the cattle sheds and the sheep pens and looking over the pens of fancy pork CTS, looking at the exhibits Of fruits speeding the pens of blooded poultry and other barnyard fowl, watching with eager enthusiasm the stirring fin tsnes of the trotdng and motorcycle with enjoyment and you feel that the day is well spent and yet the best part of the show has not yet been mention ed. After giving this. big program to it's patrons, the New London County Agricultural society, which runs it's fair not with the idea of making money but of seeing just how much enter tainment of tfe cleanest kind they can give for the price, puts on, on the Dig open stage across the track opposite in any big city, indoors. would cost Q dollar.
 This year they have secured the services for the sensational act of the Inspiring and heart-stopping descent 6S1 bicycle down a steep incline, dis aounting the bicycle at the foot of the dAoeent and diving head first into a tank of water at full speed. The Ho1- nan Brothers will caNse severe spasms of laughter to all who see their comi- calfties on the triple ba.s and the trick house with which they work. La Maze and Blaze will introduce nov city with their comedy act You have perchance seen funny falls from hay wagon, but you never saw anything to equal the antics that these two aero bats do in a regular hay wagon while being driven up and down in front of .5 batic act upon the stage. One of the prettiest tight wire acts now On the road is the act presented by the Four Wilson's, three ladies ani one man. who. working with umbrellas, do some of the niftiest tricks known to the wire walking profession. The most amus- ing act of the bill and the one which will most certainly prove the drawing card for the children Is Alters roller skating bear. This is the original ing the huge, ungainly ere ature as it sways Itself around and up and down tAe stage you wonder at the patience and the care it must take to teach one of the dumb animals how to propel it. self upon a medium which to many humans is an impossible means of To- comotion. To finish up the days en- joyment in the line of thrilling acts every afternoon Prof. A. Blondin Marsh will make a balloon ascension and make three parachute leaps before ar Irving upon terra f1rma. Don't fail to zee the big acts, for the old county fair only comes once a year and with the mighty upheaval going on throughout the world nobody knows where they will be when the time for the next county fair rclls grounds.
 When the papers are spreading abroad the prophecies of the poultry raisers that the coming winter will see eggs go to s1 per dozen, ones thoughts naturally turn toward the source of the supply, and in order to get a good idea of the machines that are expected to produce the valuable necessity there is no better place to go than to the New London county fair which will open in Norwich, Conn, On Labor day.
 The poultry exhibit at the fair has always been one. of the most inter. esting and most successful of the many of the annual exhibition. and under the capable and efficient su- pervision of John H. Curry of Yantic. Conn, this year will provo the best of any poultry show held in this section of the state. There have been a num- Der of changes in the poultry depart u1ent thle year making for the better nent of the exhibition, and a number