The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-23
EXPOSITION TO
OPEN MONDAY
Grounds Greatly Improved al
Ohio State Fair.
THOUSANDS WILL ATTEND

Sixty-seVenth Annual Fair Promises
to Be the Greatest In the History
Of the Buckeye State-Over $780,.
COO Spent In Recent Improvements,
Including Erection Of the Coliseum
to House National Dairy Show.
Thousands of people from al over
Ohio will go to Columbus next week
for the siXty-seventh annual State
Fair, which will open Monday, Au-
gust 27, and continue through Friday,
August 81. Indications are it will be
the greatest fair ever held in the
state in points of attendance, exhib-
its and entertainment.
More than S250,000 is represented
in recent improvements on the
groG ds, including the mammoth
coliseum, which will house the Ma
t.oaal Dairy Show in October, new
sheep barns. entrances and exits.
This is in addition to the states in
vestment Of something like $780,
900 on the l05 acres.
Premiums offered this year aggre-
gate in the neighborhood of $55,000.
Prizes in practically all of the live
stock classes have been literally in
creased. with the result that the ex-
hibition of animals and fowls will
surpass all former ones. Agricul-
tural products will be in abundance,
testimony of what Ohio soil and
farms have been made to yield in
behalf of Americas war for democ-
racy. Gardeners, both rural and city,
are to have their day at the fair. The
state, in recognition of their battle
against the high cost of living and
world starvation, has put up more
than $4,000 to be distributed in prizes
for the best garden produce.
In many respects this years fair
will be in the nature of an exposition
of preparedness and conservation.
The importance of food production
and conservation will be driven home
in many ways.
For lovers of horse-racing there
will be a splendid speed program with
races each afternoon. Three events
will be offered daily, except Thurs
day, when there will be an additional
one, including the historical open trot
for Ohio three year-olds for the Gov
ernor's purse of $500. There also
will be a trot for two-yearolds on
that day for a purse of $1,000. On
each of the other days there is Of
fered a $1,000 purse. Early entries
Indicate the largest turnout of rae
ing animals in the history of the Fair.
Entertainment will be plentiful
both day and night. The chief at
traction will be Miss Ruth Law, Gel
ebrated aviatriX, who will give flights
each afternoon and night, in which
she will demonstrate military tactics
which she learned behind the battle
lines in France only recently. From
high in the clouds she will drop
bombs. At night she will make
fights in an illuminated machine. In
her flights Miss Law will perform all
sorts of death-defying feats, such as
looping -the-loop, turning upside down
and making perilous drops.
Her exhibitions and big program
of top-notch vaudeville will be free
to fair visitors. There will be several
bands on the grounds, and field caba-
ret will be introduced by an aggre-
cation of colored musicians and sing
ers. Each night $500 worth of fire
works will be set off.
Of the many interesting attrac-
tions will be an exhibition of Colum-
bus-made products, conducted by the
Manufacturers and Jobbers' Asso-
citation of the Chamber of Commerce,
which has leased one of the largest
buildings for the exhibits. Another
large building will be devoted to an
automobile show, which, the promot-
ers say, will compare favorably with
any other in the country.
Women will be admitted to the
grounds free of charge until 5 p. M
Monday. Children under ID years OF
age will not be required to pay or
Friday, nor will old soldiers wearing
the G. A. R. button. Present day
soldiers in uniform will be admitted
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