The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-12-22
SIEAkNS LU. FAIR
In BAD CONDITION
SEVERAL STRONGLY FAvOp
THE COMPLETE DISCONTIN-
UANCE OF THE FAIR
MASS MEETING TO Be HELD
1920 SHOW LOST $4,000 AND 1921
EXHIBIT $2OO0-PRESENT
INDEBTEDNESS $4,000 =,

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IL any one should happen to ash
you the S0earns County Fair is in
a very bad way.
One Of the principal reasons foy,
this is that the great majority Of
business men and farmers of this
section apparently do not care ran
whether the fair prospers or goes on.
the rocks financially.
President Schoenhof called q
meeting Of the stockholders of the
association for last evening and IL
was attended by less than a dozen
and half. The fixing of finan-
cial program to clean up the indebt-
edness and to formulate a programs
for next years fair were to be tho
big features of the meeting.
President Ben Schoenhoff asked for
report of the auditing comm. tt Q
.fter the roll call of directors and
he minutes of the previous meet
NV were..read and approved.
Chairman Strebel of the auditing
committee reported that the books
lisc'ored the fact that the fair CT
1920 lost $4,000 (includ ng the amou-t
paid for pigs), and the fair of 1921
lost $1,000. At the beginning Of
1920 there was balance of $1,000
on hand.
The net result is that the associa-,
ton today faces an Indebtedness OF
/ $1,000 -. There Is one note Of $1,000
outstanding upcn which the interest
has been paid and the note extended
for another year.
Twenty-eight hundred dollars must
be raised to clean up the present IN
debtedness.
Pres dent Schoenhoff has given the
i1922 fair considerable thought and
outlined his program for the consid-
Grafton of the stockholders. He
asked for the cooperation Of all
,itizens the coming year and insisted
he fair should operate strictly upon
1.-The budget plan, and keep its expen-
futures within that budget. He re-
.ommended that insurance be carried
to protect the association against b.l
weather.. He also urged an esrly
fair, but recommended that the dates
be not definitely fixed for some time.
He called attention to the facs
hat the horse races this-year cost
the association $2700 and that the
rec attractions 5000 more. He
would dispense with the circuit races
and in their stead have running ara
rotting events, by local horses, with
4 fast ball game every day OF the
air. He has several local PROPOSE
lions in mind. q
There was a strong sentiment ex-
| pressed during the evening that the
4 mir be dispensed with entirely; thai
.lehe debts be cleaned up and to try
md dispose of "sick horse.
Others present were just as eertesn
4 hat Sank Centre could not afford g
4 How the fair to pass out OF exist
The result was d vote instructink
Z he president to call q mass meeting
: If business men and farmers as early
I'm January an war praeticabie 70 a.
,ermine Just what shnnid be done
with tine fair.
The time has arrived when 6 az
the citizens Of this section must get
.ehind the fair or it has gond
s'bluey." ss.. , 800,
In the meantime Secretary G'lbG
{ has been instructed to not issue a~y
u checks against the association Toy
q any purpose until the mass meeting
; shall have taken definite seton asato
what shall be done with the FAIR
Inst before. Adjournment VIM. FAR
s kers moved that Sank Centre " TN.
q drsu from the racing circuit and fhas
no races be held in 1922 unless stney
RI could be arranged among ioeaa
= hnrses for smaller purses.