The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-15
PREMIUM LIST
OF COUNTY
is ANNOUNCED
Prizes Offered for Exhibits of
Live Stock and Poultry Will
Attract Many Entries-In-
terest Shown In County.
PIG SHOW ARRANGED

The premium list for the Wayne
county fair, Sept. 1915, provides for
many classes and breeds of stock most
strongly represented in the county,
says an announcement by the farmers
! fair committee Tuesday.
The prizes, the committee says, will
be liberal enough to repay exhibitors.
Sums of $40 and SIS are offered for
first prizes in the cattle department;
$40 to 81 as firsts in the horse de-
partment; $5 and down for hogs; the
same for sheep, and 50 and 81 for first
prizes for poultry.
! The premium list was made out by
the farmers fair committee Monday
evening
Various Breeds
Breeds for which classes are pro-
vided follow:
Horses-Percheron, Belgian, grade,
mules, ponies, saddle horses.
Cattle-Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein,
Angus, Hereford, Shorthorn.
Swine-Big Type and Spotted Po-
land China, Duroc Jersey, Chester
White and Hampshire
Shesp-Dorset Horned and South
down, Shropshire. Oxford and Hamp-
shire
Poultry-The three breeds of Plynl-
outh Rocks, White and Buff Wyan-
dottes, White, Brown and Buff Single
Comb Leghorns, White and Buff Orp-
ingtons and Single and Rose Comb
Rhode Island Reds.
i Bantams, rabbits, buff, brown and
white Holland turkeys will have class
es also.
One of the features of the fair will
be the county pig club show. Four
breeds of hogs, Big Type and Spotted
Poland China, Duroc and Chester
| Whites, will be represented. and, in
addition to the winners prizes, con-
ISOLATION or compensatory prizes of S.
. Will be offered to all children show.
, ing their pigs. Similarly, a dollar
will be paid to all exhibitors of club
record books who do not win other
prizes.
Eliason Chosen Head.
OWING to the absence from the
, county for the next few days, County
Agent Dolan was unable to serve ac.
lively on the committee, and Wood
EllaSon of Centerville, who supervised
last years fair, was chosen in his
stead Mr.. Dolan will cooperate with
the committees after his return.
Mrs. Porter Pike of CenterviIle. was
the choice of the committee to head
the poultry department. and Mrs w
D. Scott the women's department.
, The committee viii try to have all
entries closed by o'clock Saturday
evening, Sept. 8, preceding the fair, in
order to complete ARRANGEMENTS for
accommodating the exhibits.
Work Out Premiums.
: Wood Eliason, Of CentervilIe, pre-
} siding as chairman of the fair prem
i ium committee, and the various de
partment superintendents worked out
2 the list of classes and prizes to be
submitted to the general committee
: County Agent Paul Caldwell, of Con
: nersville, representing the cattle inter
e ests; F. A. Williams of Williamsburg
= for swine; c. L. Clifford, of Fountain
: City, for the horses, and c. F. vii
liams for grain and vegetable pro
i ducts, with Mayor Lawrence Handle;
e and Paul James representing the bus
S mess men, formed the committee
I which worked out the plans. y.
1t was reported by Mayor HanAel
that the board of 7Sorks has granted
the use of Roosevelt field in Glen Mil
Ter park, for the county fair, and tha
Richmond citizens stand ready to co
operate in any way possible with the
y exhibitors committee.
The plans for the fair will be pre-
| sented to the Kiwanis and Rotar,
s clubs for their approval also. Tht
?. date for the fair was set at Sept. 13
l. ii and Is, which will prevent an,
), conflict with other fairs in tn
n vicinity.
l. The premium list will be publishe,
IS within a few days. it was announced
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