The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-07-28
FAIR BOARD WILL
MEET FRIDAY AND
PLAN BIG EVENTS
September Fair Will
Come up for Consid-
Grafton at Regular
Weekly Meeting
STOCK IS DONATED

olONh ID DOlNAlED
Shower Baths Sug-
gested for Tourist
Park
On Friday morning at 10 o'clock
the regular weekly meeting Of the
fair board will be held, and some
definite plans will be under consid-
Grafton for the September fair In ad-.
dition to the matters already an
nounced in the premium list which IS
now printed and about ready for dis
tribution. At the last meeting of the
board it was indicated that in an
other week or so it would be desir-
able to begin to tell the public some
thing about what is to be expected on
fair week which is from September
20 to 20. A good many Bingham
county people will invite their
friends from other places to come
and see them at fair time and see
the fat of the land on exhibit and
people want to know what to say in
their letters of invitation when they
write. For a number Of years the
sports of the roundup have been
featured rather prominently, and
now there is tendency to get back
to a mammoth exhibit of the pro-
ducts of the land and fill in the sport
program with horse races and base
ball as in the olden days before
horses became SO scarce. People
want to have one long last look at
the horse in action before he makes
his exit to give up the space to the
speed fiend.
Work on the fair grounds is still
in progress and the new steel fence
is being extended. The committee
in charge of Younie park have de-
cideG to reconstruct the crooked
bitches along the new steel fence
line and put them into one ditch
built right by the fence. There IS
considerable expression of local peo-
pie to the effect that by the opening
Of the 1922 tourist season there
should be shower baths at the camp
for both men and women, and the
place to have them in on platforms
over. the irrigation ditch SO the
drainage from the shower baths will
20 into the ditch. Everybody COM
ing in off of a hot, dusty drive wants
bath almost as much as they want
their meal, and shower baths can be
maintained with little expense. One
or two tanks of water with the
electric water heaters on them will
take the chill off of the water, and
another tank connected with the
kitchen with a water heater at
tached will keep a supply of water
hot for cooking. This is a great
help to hungry travellers. There is
considerable interest in the PROPOSE
tion to install some electric plates
for cooking and thereby making the
travelling public all happy. It looks
as If the fair grounds and Younie
park will be thought of almost as
one hereafter, since they are being
developed together into great play
ground and their drives are all
hooked up into one system.
About two dozen of the men and
firms around town have indicated
their willingness to have their fair
stock turned over to the grounds
committee and have the value of 1t
expended on improvements. The
plan is to have the county repay to
stockholders what they originally in
vested in fair stock, and this will be
paid out of the 1921 and 1922 taxes,
but H. f. Hoffman, DR.. MacFarland
and some of the other base ball fans
proposed last spring that people who
could afford it should sign over their
stock to the committee, and author
ize the expenditure of its value on
such improvements as the owner OF
the stock should designate. A good
many people liked the idea, said they
did not expect their money back
when they gave it, and would accept
this arrangement. 1t seemed the
more urgent because the county COM
missioners said they could not spend
much If any money on the fair
grounds this year, and If any work
was done it would have to be paid
for by individuals. Much incom-
pleted work had already been begun
last year and here is an opportunity
to give employment to few people
in dull times and get the most es-
sential work finished such as seed
ing the field to grass, getting the base
ball and foot bali grounds in perfect
condition and getting things to grow
ing to make natural beauty. The
commissioners consider that in cases
where the individual is willing to
| donate his fair stock, the county will
advance the money to cash it as fast
as the work is done instead Of wait
ing until the taxes are collected and
disbursed according to the contract
made for buying out the stockhold-
ers. Every taxpayer in the county
is now doing something for the fail
and the generous fellows who hold
stock have a chance to do more.
| These People Have Given
The following is a list of the
M mes Of those firms and people who