Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-08-29
MINER GROUP IN FRESH OUTBREAK
IN TROUBLED AREA, ". VIRGINIA
ATTRACTIONS APLENTY TODAY
With OPENING OF CENTRAL
Maine FAIR AT WATERv|LLE

This Is the opening day of the Cen
trail Maine Fair. 1t starts in this
morning, for five days of real fair.
At the Central Maine Fair grounds
Saturday and Sunday, everybody
seemed to be in a hurry. And well
they might be with al the work there
was to be done. At late hour last
night. things were ready. The mid
way is there, waiting for you, the
shows arrived all day Sunday, and
were set up. Great trucks, little
trucks. wagons and buggies carried
the men and women, the tents and
planks, and all the weird equipment
of the modern travelling show, to it's
place.
1t appears that there will be no
dearth of food at this fair. From the
lowliest hot dog man. to modern
booths run by concerns from town,
there is an ample store of proven
der, ready to be cooked and eaten.
In the halls, with all the art they
are capable of, men and women have
been working long hours to arrange
the displays which they are sure will
all take first prizes. Decked out
with bunting, With banenrs hiding
the rough boards. with the delicate
sheen of fruit and the glitter of
vegetable and preserve jars, with the
colors of their juices glowing on the
shelves. old Exhibition hall is a
veritable palace. All sorts of organi-
cations are represented. The bust
ness establishments are there with
boards of booklets which will go out
all over Maine tucked away on some
body's bag, to be dug out and read in
the long winter evenings. For, the
Wanderer. there is the both run by
the Canadians, with it's book full of
promise of riches in the homesteads
in Canada. For the housewife, there
are all sorts of appliances, conceiv-
Cd to tighten her work, all sorts of
furniture and household goods TO de-
light her eyes. The farmer can see
spread, out around him every imag-
Unable kind of literature to tell him
how. to raise better hog, or how to
make his corn fuller to the ear.
1t seems to be all a question: of fer
! tilizcr according to the books. Small
Johnny and his sitter will find so many
things to delight them that it is
doubtful if they ever get away. There
are guns on exhibition-not airguns
alone, but real rifles. Moreover, there
are the things essentially dear to the
feminine heart, the quilts and tides
and the water colors, to be found in
the art exhibits, How much hard
and painstakins work has gone into
them no one can say.
Outside. the smooth oval of the race
track is ready, brushed and scrapcd
and rolled to within an inch of its
! life. all ready for the pounding hoofs
of Names best horses to beat it ur
again. The judges bell will sound its
clang once more. And that in a little
while
With roars of motors and belchngs
of villainous smoke, the tractors and
trucks will cavort in this corner And
yet just little way off there will be
test. Automobiles will be there, and
right beside them will stands old Dob
bin. placid eternal.
The bellows and beats and cackles
which viii be heard all around are sig
niffcant messengers of the animal
shows There will be some cattle and
some horses, and so on, worth seeing
out there today. From all over the
State they have been arriving for sew
eral days past. There are some horses
there which came from Massachu-
sets. riding serenely in their own
private car. 1t was not a railway
car, but an ordinary truck suffering
along with a regular house on the rear
where were the horses, the sulkies and
the hostlers. Plenty of style TO those
horses.
There will be a baseball game and
a band concert every day. There will
be all sorts of amusements in the
evening. when the Midway turns out
in all its glory. There will be a free
show daily in front of the grandstand
along the race track.