Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-09-25
OPENING OF THE
STUTSMAN COUNTY FAIR
First Morning Of County Fair Sees Usyel Activity at Fair
Grounds New Secretary's Building md Exhibit Hall
Big improvements Race Track, B; pal Diamond and
Arena in Readiness For Home-C -Coml celebration De
tails For Parade ,5I
(From Tuesday Daily.)

(From Tuesday Daily.)
The county fair grounds south of
the city presented the usual busy
scene of the first morning of the fair
today, with the secretary's Office be-
seiged with farmers looking for
places to put their prize stock, ex-
hibitors seeking gate passes and
others arranging for concessions.
Every effort was made this year %
avoid a first day rush but it was i'm
possible to have everything arranged
as SO many waited until assured Of
fair (not county fair) weather be-
fore deciding to attend.
Because Of the danger of an epi-
demic of hog cholera, several cases
having been reported, there will be no
exhibits of thorobred swine at the
county fair, but the exhibits of other
stock promise to exceed those Of for
mer years. The new exhibition
building, which stands next to the
secretary's building, contains a long
table or bench running the length of
the building and twenty booths for
individual exhibits. The new build
ings are big improvement over the
tents used in former years, especially
in windy weather such as today.
L0cklear Arrives.
With the arrival of Lieuts. Lock-
lear, Elliott and Short on train No.
3 this morning, and the safe arrival
of, the two Curtiss airplanes, which
they will use in their stunts during
the fair and homecoming, about IL
o'clock, everything was in readiness
for the Homecoming celebration
Wednesday. The aviators were met
at the train by the members Of the
general committee, headed by L. B.
Neimeyer, Mayor Flint and the
Jamestown band, and escorted to the
Gladstone ohtel.
The airplanes, one coming from
st. Paul and the other from Sioux
City, arrived about eleven o'clock.
There were some misgiving about the
arrival of the aviators in the city
as Lieut.. Locklear was in the air
at Memphis Tenn. at four o'clock in
the afternoon and had to be on his
train on his way to Jamestown oy
four-thirty to reach here in time.
The planes used by Locklear are fur
nished free of all charge to the city
by the Curtiss Company.
AVIATORS GIVE THRILLS.
Tuesday afternoon the first air
plane flight was given at the far
grounds by Its. Locklear, Short and
Elliott. Two planes were used, both
Curtiss planes and the spectators had
more than their share of thrills at
the daring exploits of Locklear in
venturing out on the wings and
hanging from the bar high in mid
air. His pilot, 1t. Short handled the
ship with great skill. Locklear fac
ed a high wind in his performances,
which made his performance all the
more hazardous thereby. One spe-
cially death defying act was Chamber
ing along the smooth, rounded tail
piece of the machine. with nothing to
hold to for support and crawling
back with out accident. Locklear
seems to know no fear and scrambles
around under and above the wings
and out at the extremes, standing
upright waving his arms to the peo-
pie below, as If he was not over ten
feet from the ground instead Of $500
or more in the air: His pilot, 1t.
Short and 1t. Locklear himself man:
ipulated the aircraft in all kinds OF
fancy evolutions, dives and dips. The
thrilling sight, If not the foolhardl-
ness Of the exhibition, will never be
forgotten by those who saw it for the
first time.
1t. Elliott, drove the other airshiDs
and his work called forth the great.
est praise. His loops, back summer 81!
sauls, dives, tail spins and the vari-
GUS tricks in fancy flying were beau
tifully executed. Grace in motion In;
the air was fully illustrated by 81. El
lofts command Of the car. He was
alone in the plane.
The two big planes sailing along
high overhead turning. wheeling, Dip
ping and riisng and cutting wide cir.
cles, resembled two immense chicken en-
hawks, soaring around. looking for
their prey. l,5s !.
Both the rise and the landing of
zach plane were made without d!f-. d.
s.Nlty, notwithstanding the stin
invest wind that prevailed al the ll'' !
she ayiators we're san' the air. .
\ - &nding the engines were; s';sl shut lll l