Charlevoix county herald., 1919-09-05
Getting Ready
For the Fair
Will Be the Greatest Fair Event
Ever Staged In Northern
Michigan.

Al the Charlevoix County Fair
grounds in East Jordan, gangs OF work
men are busily engaged getting the
grounds in a first class condition for
the 1919 Fair which will be held Sept.
10th to 10Th. The addition to the new
educational building in progressing
rapidly and is nearing completion. The
30x60 room in this addition is practi-
cally finished and the Standard School
is being plastered. This StandSd
School will be n model for country
schools and will be complete in every
The new ticket office and
entrance TO the Fair grounds are being
built as is also the new judges stand.
A wide cinder walk is being placed the
entire length OF the midway. This will
do away with the sand OF former years
and is an Improvement which will be
greatly appreciated by the patrons Of
the Fair. The exhibition building which
the Loeb farm is to build for their eX-
hlbit is not as yet started but Mr.. Sloan,
manager for the Loeb farm, expects TO
put large force of men at work on
this building and to erect ii in a very
short time. This building will be an
addition to The County Fair which no
other Fair in the state will have, and
in this building patrons OF the Fair will
be able to see blooded horses, cattle
and swine, which are without doubt the
very best in the State.
applications for concessions spaces
are coming in rapidly. The Collins
Amusement Company have contracted
with ii. =. French, manager OF the
Muskegon Park for his Jumping Horse
CarrouSelle and len concessions. They
will also have a Merry -Go-Round and
perhaps a Ferris Wheel. The midway
this year will commence with a tent
show, requiring a 100 foot frontage
opposite the dining hall on the space
used in 1918 by the Red Cross bowery
dance and will extend about 200 foot
south OF the grand stand.
Plans are practically completed for a
huge Victory Pageant 10 be put on by
the school children OF Boyne City,
CharlevoiX and East Jordan. If this
pageant is CARED out as now planned
the Boyne City schools will have charge
OF the Wednesday evening section,
Charlie voiX schools Of the Thursday
evening section and East Jordan
schools the Friday evening section.
The pageant will depict the develop
ment Of America from its discovery by
Columbus TO the present day. A more
definite announcement will be made
later.
Ewing's Zouave Band will furnish
music for the Fair, giving concerts each
day and night. This is a chautauqua
band OF unusual merit. Ii has with il
Miss Alma Huntley, lyric soprano, OF
recognized ability From press. re.
/ports there is no doubt but that this
band will furnish music such as has
never been heard at the CharlevoiS
County Fair and it will repay any lover
OF good band music TO hear this organi
zatlon at the Fair.
Carlisle's Frontier Wild West Shows
with ten different acts will take care oi
the free amusement features OF the
Fair as they have never been taken
care OF before.
Reports from all sections of the
county indicate that the exhibits viii
be larger, of greater variety and oI
more merit than ever before. This is
especially true OF the cattle depart
ment, as great many owners of regis
tered cattle have for some time beer
getting their animals i'll condition tC
exhibit them at the Fair. Only pro
gresSive farmers own registered cattle
and they are proud OF their stock anC
wish their neighbors and visitors o
CharlevOiX County TO have an oppor
tunity ol seeing the class of stock which
is being raised here. This is also tru,
OF the owners oi registered swine anI
sheep and great exhibit OF live stool
is assured for this years Fair.
Every effort is being made to hold
Fair which will be replete in every de
partment and which will be entertain
ing and instructng TO all who attend
The race track has been worked sine,
last May and is in A No |. condition
Horsemen are sending in their entries
fnd good races are assured. All resi-
dents OF Charlevoix County should plaI
10 attend the County Fair at least on,
day and evening.