The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-16
FAIR OPENS NEXT TUESDAY

Southeastern Idaho is now COM
pleting the last lap of the arrange
ments for its biggest and best fair,
to be held at Blackfoot, September
20 to 23 inclusive. They have the
finest fair grounds in the state and
the second best set of buildings in
the state for fair purposes.
More exhibits will be brought in
this year from other counties out
side of Bingham, thap have ever be-
fore been shown in the total of that
already famous fair. With all the
new buildings that were erected for
the 1920 fair at Blackfoot, the space
is all engaged and the fair manage
ment are shipping in tents, and two
carloads of lumber are now being
used to make more room for stock
and agricultural products engaging
space.
Such is the spirit of Bingham
county exhibitors, that they are Of
fering to give the best space to those
from a distance and put up with
temporary structures for their own
products where there is any shortage
of space. Bannock county is send
ing three carloads of exhibits and
Bonneville county is sending three
carloads of farm products alone. Sew
eral other counties are sending large
exhibits and the University at Mos
COW sent in an order for space that
was four times as large as any single
s1,o
there before in the nineteen years of
the annual fairs. AS these orders
continue to reach the management
they engage more tents and more
lumber and increase the scope of
their operations.
| Heretofore the crowds have been
handled easily thru four entrances.
This year there are six entrances,
and a thoro campaign for the sale of
season tickets this week is simply
flying matters at the entrances for
the general public who depend on
getting in line and buying tickets
each day. A tourist. park of four
acres adjoining the grounds makes
it easy for auto parties desiring to
sleep out and save hotel expenses.
The fraternity of cowboys operat
ing in the vast range country from
Soda Springs to Jackson Hole and
planning all their operations so they
can keep the engagement, Meet
me at the fair" While these men of
the mountains are bringing in their
widest horses to put on the bevies Of
bucking bronchos and relay races,
the men of the valley are assembling
products to prove the truth of their
motto, Better bulls, bucks and
boars build better bank balances"
Real Indian Fight.
The first event of the opening day
will be a parade of Indians and cow
boys in frontier attire, and this will
be followed by an attack on an emf
grant party and an Indian fight in
front of the grandstand that will
bring 5000 people to their feet at a
leap These events will be put on
by the famous Ralph Dixey, Sho-
shone leader of the Indion people
out the fair
Each day will witness an Indian
and cowboy parade, and each day
will witness a balloon ascension and
the balloonist will leap from the
heavens and then catch himself with
a parachute, the parachute will col
lapse, he will then open second
(parachute that will check his fall
and collapse and then open third
one that will break his fall.
Tuesday will be Pocatello day and
in the evening there will be a prize
fight in a great ringside erected in
front of the grandstand; Wednes-
day will be children's day and melon
day when 1000 water melons from
the big 400-acre melon patch OF
Obermeyer Brothers, the melon
kings at Emmett, Idaho. In the
i. afternoon there will be great free
dance for the children and a grand
display of fireworke in the evening
Thursday will be Bonneville day
and Bonneville county will arrive in
a body headed by their own band
Land will narade the streets and the