The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-09-22
FINE PROGRAM TONIGHT Ii
AT NORTHERN MINI. FAIR
,Women's Department

The expansion OF the eXhlDlLlOn OF
women's work this year has been
nothing short Of marvellous. The big
question asked on all sides is, where
did it all come FROM" On the sec.
ond floor Of the grandstand, where
the women's work is housed, booths
have been filled by. the Presbyterian,
Catholic, Episcopal and Methodist la
dies Guild and Aid departments. In
addition to this there are four booths
of general exhibits in the women's
department and two Indian booths,
the work in the latter demonstrating
the handiWork Of yesterday and to-
day. ..
/ The bread judging contest Twas
also part of tnday's program in this
department and in the afternoon a
baby contest from 3 to 4 o'clock was
an interesting feature. { This was un
der the charge of Mrs. J. T. Tuomy.
49, Agricultural Exhibits -
Five farmers clubs have splendid
booths in the Agricultural building,
which have as exhibits some of the
finest products of = the farm ever
grown. The general exhibit is good
in all respects. The outstanding fea-
ture of. this department, however, lis
the fine vegetables. Never has such
an array of melons, squash and pump
kins been shown in Beltrami county.
Potatoes. ARE. good, but it has been
harder to get exhibits which follows
the true characteristics of the per-
feet potato this year. Grains. are
good but not IS good as some previous,
years. This, however, has been the
case in all grain exhibits at fairs
this year. Corn is excellent as are
also the tame and wild grasses. +, The
Judges in this department are A. ID.
Wilson, E. H. Ref and 7. M. Mccall,
who are all experienced judges of
agricultural products. $685..
The clubs which have entered ex-
hibits in these booths are the North
|ern Farmers club, the Better Farm
ing club, the Grant Valley Farmers
club, the Wide-Awake Farmers club
of Pleasant Valley, and the Equitable
Farmers club of FROM township.
School Exhibits T.
Fifteen rural schools have exhibits
this year and all are good. The city
schools also have some very interest
ing exhibits and in the high school
department the mechanical drawing
is excellent. Never has such a dis
play been made in this department.
F. B. Porten, mechanical drawing in
tstructor, has succeeded in getting to-
lgether some Of the finest workman
ship done by his pupils in this exhibit,
There are 20 exhibits from the
one-eighth acre potato plots in the
Boys and Girls club work and 10 ex-
hibits from smaller plots. A, baking
and canning exhibit of the rural
schools is also exhibited in this build
ing. r.:. .,1... ,.-
Live Stock
Oyer 100 individual exhibitors have
made entries in this department. Two
hundred, and five. head had been enter
ed this morning and there were a
n;mher of horses not included in
this count! :. The largest part of the
livestock exhibit l,is of registered
stock Il Many exhibits from stables
outside of the county are, entered, in
cllding Gleesing Bros! Pinewood,
Shorthorns;E. T.. Bonham. Park Rap
ids, Hplsteins;, R. III. Lymburner,
Usage, Mimi, Jerseys; Perry & John
son, Thief River Falls, Guernseys; j.
Jensen, Glearbrook,f Guernseys; F..
B. Conkhns, < Thief River Falls
Guernseys; Orton Olson, Thief
River Falls, Geurnseys; Carlson Bros,
Edskine, .Shorthorns; Ernest Kraft,
Erskine, Percheron; Carlson Bros,
Percheron; A. P. Symes, Clearbrook,
Shropshire Sheep. II ~.
Many local exhibits of pure-bred
stock including The Security Bank
Calf club, make, up the finest show
ing of registered stock ever shown
| inn Northern Minnesota. Over SO
hogs nand about 20 sheep, many of
themt registered, make d, a splendid
showing in this department.
In the poultry department, Mrs.