Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-08-04
| 5000 Visitors
Saw County Fair
IL Gave Three Days of Big
Enjoyment to Thousands
From Over State

In the fifteen thousand who were
here Thursday to attend the fair it
was noted that Cavalier, Walhalla,
and points to the south as far as
Devils Lake and west to the Turtle
Mountain region had each a repre-.
sentative quota here to attend the
fair and renew the acquaintance of
loid friends. 1t was also noted that
the big crowd on Thursday included
Ino less than fifty autoes loaded with
lcur Canadian cousins from across the
laine in Manitoba. The statement can
be safelv made that at least 85 per
cent of the fifteen thousand fair visi-
tors here Thursday made the trip by
lauto, many. from distances var rying
from fifty to seventy-f five miles,
/ The educational, or what is more
3generally referred to as the school
lexhibit, was admittedly one of the
really big shows to be seen at this
year . county fair. In order to econo-
mize space and crowd the exhibit in
to the educational building there was
an additional two tiers Of exhibits
PLACED along the sidewalks and end of
the building and it was also found me-
cessary to place two center partitions
lacross the building to display the ex-
lhibit Of this year. This was the
Thirteenth annual fair, and for ten
years the schools of the county have
n furnished an educational exhibit that
has attained q growing interest with
fair visitors from year to year
This year Go. Sup't Boyd was able to
acclaim with q pardonable feeling of
4 pride that the exhibit was the big
h est and best they have ever made. 1t
is not personal pride so much as
one that is shared to large extent
i by the pupils and their teachers of
f the schools throughout the county,
Il though Mr.. Boyd has been associated
4 with this feature of school work for
| a number Of years. The group ex-
| hibit of graded and rural schools were
| for the special prizes offered BY Mr..
| G. B. Mcmillan. of Hannah, in which
| first and second prizes Of SIS and Sic
each we're offered to competing rural
and graded schools. This year in the
graded school sweepstakes the first
4 place honors went to Weaver, the
teachers being Misa Anna Amoth and
Miss Ruth Gavin; second place go-
1 ing to Munich. which up to this time
had carried off the sweepstakes for
4 five years hand running. The COM
petition was also quite keen among
the rural schools, Billings school No.
IA, with Miss Alma jacobson, as
teacher, winning out for first place
lover Mt. Carmel No. i, with Miss
Eliza O Reilly as teacher, by q
a close margin, Both sweepstakes
had quite field of contestants en-
tered. There was a larger and better
exhibit of writing shown than ever
. before. Pen and color drawing were
! uniformly good while excellent is the
proper adjective to apply to the fine
display Of map drawing Under the
classification of handwork the girls
Ehad showing of sewing. school
dresses, patches; darning and stitch
ing. The boys ID this classification
had large display Of joints, joining.
carving and wood work Of many diff.
fersnt kinds. The schools taught by
/ Miss Q Reilly, Miss Jacobson. Miss
Radford and Mrs. Laing made fine
competitive exhibits of collections sf
flowers and vegetables that had been
grown and cared for by the pupils on
the school house grounds. There were
ten entries in e new feature, poster
advertising for school entertainments
which had q place iD the premium
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