Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-09-09
FAIR THIS YEAR
BIGGEST EVER HELD
Gate Receipts First Two Days Over
$4,000. Boys and Girls Star
In Exhibits.

proved to be the biggest fair the
county has ever held not only in the
quantity and quality of the exhibits,
but in the number of people who at
tended. Over $4,000 was taken in at
the gate on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Every visitor to the fair this year
was impressed with the valuable
character of the boys and girls club
exhibits. The women said that as far
as canning was concerned they would
stand no show when compared, to
their children. The dairy calves and
pig club exhibits were unusually
good.
One of the great features of the
fair was the thrilling midair perfor-
nance of S. A. Kusma who walked
on the wings of an airplane in flight
and hung by his knees on a rope lad
der underneath. The crowd watched
breathless while he rode the slippery
fusilage. AS long as he was in the
air he was alright, but when he was
decending in a parachute and was
forty feet from the ground he met
with misfortune. When he saw that
he was going to strike some electric
wires on the east side near Second st.
he freed himself from the ropes Of the
parachute and jumped to the ground
to avoid wires that might not be in
sulated. He broke his left arm badly
and cut himself under the chin in his
fall. His parachute remained caught
in the wires. He was rushed TO a
doctors office where the bone was set.
The attractive booths of the far
mers' clubs were striking manifes-
tation of the interest shown in the
fair by the people of this county. The
fact that the school exhibits were not
as large as usual is accounted for
when it is considered that school did
not open until after the beginning of
the fair.
The more general exhibits which
were in the room next to the boys
and girls club exhibits were very at
tractive The art exhibits showed an
unpredecedented number of pieces of
needlework The flowers were at
tractively arranged and made a good
showing considering the lateness of
the showing. They included good
display of astors, pretty Zenias, snap
dragons, sweet peas, cosmos, gladio-
las and daisies. The canned goods
exhibit while not as snowy as that
Of the boys and girls gave evidence
of care and shill.
Moore township won first honors in
the farmers club exhibits, Hodges
came second, Horton third, Stevens
fourth and the Alberta Corn Club
fifth. Paul Somer and his sister Ber-
tha had the prize baby beeves, win
ming first and second places respec-
lively. Walter Mecklenberg's baby
won fourth place. Walter Mecklen-
berg and Merle Stevenson won trips
to the South St. Paul Junior Live
stock show for having the two best
baby beef senior calves in Stevens
county, and Arthur SOLVE and Carl
Stevenson won trips to the same
show for having the two best junior
yearling beeves in Stevens county.
Margaret Meyers calf was awarded
the premium in the dairy calf show
with Margaret Buss getting second
place and Lynn Paulson third Mar
garet Meyer and Margaret Buss will
also be sent to the Livestock show
in South St. Paul.
One of the things which greatly
pleased the people was the fireworks
at night The rockets and star shells
were beautiful and crowds gathered
all three nights to see them Many
people sat in machines along the
pavement in order to watch The
platform which looked very pretty
with it's bower of green boughs was
very popular every night.
Weum-Belverud Company has some
handsome fall fashion exhibits in the
main building, E. ]. Jones, J. H.
Walz and the Delco Light Co., had
exhibits of farm equipment, Caloric
furnaces and electrical appliances
respectfully.