The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-08-30
COOP 6SNTTSAfNHACssff 4 EXEF FAIR
Men In Charge are Confident That
This Will Be the Best
Fair Ever Held

those in charge of this years Mon
tana State Fair took on a rosy aspect
today. Mr.. Horace S. Ensign, secre-
tary of the fair has received kilograms
from the secretries of the Missouri
and North Dakota State Fairs and
their contents were such as to create
a feeling of confidence in the hearts
of those who have been working SO
hard to make this years show the
biggest and best in the history of
Montana. There has been some talk
going around the state that the at
tendance this year would be likely to
fall down. Mr.. Ensign is insistent
that this propaganda be put to an
end at once. Never before have the
resources of this state been in such
an excellent condition for display and
never before has such an activity been
demonstrated around the entire state
as there is about this years fair.
When President Wilson and Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover issued statements,
recently, urging the people of the
various states of the Union to con-
tinue the State Fairs and to put them
on a bigger basis than ever, they had
in mind the educational and recreative
benefits which would accrue to those
people attending those exhibitions. In
accordance with their request, the
Sixteenth Annual Montana State Fair
has been put on just such a basis.
Mr.. F. w. McRoberts of the North
Dakota State Fair telegraphs: "Our
attendance exceeds that of any State
Fair we ever held-receipts from out
side gates, from the grandstand, and
from the bleachers exceeded u big
gest year by fify-five hundred dol
lars" He also stated that their carni-
val receipts aggregated fifteen hun
dred dollars more than ever before
and the receipts from the concessions
only missed the previous high record
by ten dollars.
AS proof of the more intensive pro-
duction, he stated that the livestock
which was exhibited was better in size
and quality tina never before. The
North Dakota State Fair was held
from July Is to July 20.
All the way from Missouri: Mr.. E
G. Bylander, secretary of the State
Fair in that state wires: "Attendance
increased fifty per cent over last year
thirty per cent w next highest rec.
ord; exhibits thirty-three per cent
increase; government exhibits mos,
valuable asset" MI. Bylander also
stated that the concession receipts in
creased sixty per cent and broke al
existing records. Two days of rain
he says, is all that kept the attend.
ance from a hundred per cent in
cas- This is convincing evidence
that State Fairs are proving theil
value in times of war. Increased at,
tendance and receipts show tina
money is still in free circulation a.
it should be in a country which il
prosperous. The government exhibit.
mentioned by Mr.. Bylander will alse
be shown at the Montana State Fair
The Calgary Industrial Exhibition
Canada, which closed July 9Th is al
excellent example of what these show
mean to a country which has been il
this war for four years. The repor
shows a total attendance Of 1O1, 49:
people as compared with 1851 il
1917. The carnival shows which playe,
the fair did not suffer as is witnesse,
by the fact that they took in $751; 1887
The receipts in 1917 were only $26,
1852. The livestock exhibit was one o
the best v shown. There were ex
hibited practically 600 head of cattle
500 horses, 600 sheep, and 400 hogs
and remember that all this took plac
in the Dominion of Canada.
All three of these exhibitions wer
held before the Railroad Administra
ton issued it's orders for the reduc
ton of freight and passenger rate
for fairs. People in the above state
had no reduction allowed them what
soever. Mr.. McAdoo has issued an or
der that reduced rates of one an
one-half fare shall be in effect he
tween all points in Montana and HeI
n during Fair week. Not only this
but the arrangements of previou