Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-02
OFFENDER MONTH OF AcRIcul
TuRAL SHOWS, WITH FORTY.
THREE LISTED FOR IOWA.
PUMPKINS ARE RIPE AND
EASY SEASON Is HERE
Fair Managers Abandoning Earlier
Dates Because People Prefer Sep
tember-Many Fairs Held in July
and August Fail to Make Good
Financial'y-Fairs This Month.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moiues. Sept. 2.-Septembcr Is
the month of county and district fairs
in Iowa and no less than forty three
fairs are to be held in the state during
the next four weeks. A considerable
held.
In recent years county fair managers
have been showing their dates ahead
of the old time schedules and some
are held as early as July. This is done
particularly in order to get their race
programs filled. There are compare
lively few in the racing game now ana
when several county fairs are held the
same week it is difficult to get racers.
But September still holds its old tihe
place in popular favor as the ldeai
time for the county fair. The ''punkins'
are not ripe until September and very
few of the products of the fields are
ready for display before the mellow
days of fall put the bloom of maturity
on all outdoors.
,rhe fair managers have discovered,
too, that people naturally take to the
fairs in September apd the attendance
is better in that month. Efforts to hold
he fair earlier in some of the smaller
counties of the state have proved DIS
astrous. The farmers are too pussy
earlier in the season to attend ana
there is a general lack of interest In
the event. But when September comes
it's as natural to think of the county
fair as it is to remember that the
schools are opening and the college
boys will soon be playing football. so
it's the September fairs which get the
crowds in the average county.
Fair Dates.
Dates and places of holding county
fairs during the coming month follow:
Adair County Agricultural Society.
Greenfield. Sept. 8 to IL: Audubon,
Sept to p; Cedar Falls, Aug. 80 to
Sept. 5: Waterloo dairy cattle con-
-gress, Sept. % to 2S: Aurora, Bucnan-
an county, Sept. 9 to II; Butler county,
Allison. Sept. 9 to IS; Cass county. At
lantic Sept. l to 5: Cedar county, TIP
ton, Sept 2 to 5; Clay county, Spencer,
Sept. 90 to 26; Clayton county. Ma
tiona. Sept to 3; Clinton, Dewitt,
Sept to u: Crawford county. Arion,
Sept. 16 to 10: Davis, Bloomfield, Sept.
to ~; Delaware county, Manchester,
Sept. to 5; Greene county, Jefferson,
Sept. s to So: Grundy, Grundy Center,
Sept. Is to IS; Guthrie. Guthrie Cen
ter Sept 16 to is. Hamilton. Webster
City, Sept. to 5: Hardin, Eldora. Sept.
16 to 10; Harrison, Missouri Valley,
Sept. 8 to IL; Henry. Winfield Fair
Association. Winfield Sept 2 to d;
Humboldt, Sept. 9 to II; Iowa, VIII
liamsburg, Sept. to II; Jasper. New
ton, Sept Is to IS: jefferson, Fairfield,
Sept. IS to 10: Keokuk. What Cheer,
Sept Is to 10; Kossuth. .Algona Sept.
to 5: Lee West Point. Sept. 9 to. II;
Lucas Derby, Oct. 8 to IL: Mahaska,
southern Iowa fair and exposition. Os-
kaloosa, Sept. to -: Mahaska. New
Sharon District Agricultural Society
New Sharon. Sept. to 4; Marion. l'es-
laN district fair. Pella. Sept. % to 70;
Marshall NTarshalltown, Sept. 8 to- IL:
Monona, Onawa. Sept. to 5; O'Brien,
Sutherland. Sept. 3 to 8; Sioux. Orange
City, Sept. to 5; Story. Ames. Sept.
23 to 26 Tama, Toledo, Sept Is to 1S;
Wapello, Ottumwa Sept. Is to IS:
Warren, Indiahola. Sept. Is and 16:
Wayne Corydon Sept. to s.; Webster
Fort Dodge, Sept. 81 to Oct. 4; Wood
bury, Interstate Sept. 10 to 20, Sioux
City