The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
RECORDS ARE BROKEN
AT PREBLE FAIR FOR
ENTRIES And EXHIBITS
Especial to The palladium,

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EATON, Ohio, Sept. 26.-With re-
cord breaking increases in the entries
in almost every department, from the
girls club exhibits, through the various
stock departments and even in the
speed events, for which, experts say,
field is out that never before has
been so large nor so promising, the
Preble county fair this year has far
eclipsed the expectations of even the
fair board.
Records have been broken in the
number of entries in almost every de-
partment, and there is also a larger
amount of canvas covering merchants
trade exhibits than has ever been GA
the grounds before. Every food OF
available space has been reserved.
Among the exhibits, attention of the
general public centers more on the
children's and the grange exhibits
than any other one class. The girls
food and clothing clubs of the county
have this year taken exactly double
the space reserved last year.
Club Exhibits.
On the north side of Agricultural
hall, exhibits by the Gratis, Israel
Dixon and Jackson clothing clubs and
by the Gratis, Ishrael, Monroe, Jack
son Lanier and West Elkton food
clubs, have been arranged under the
supervision of Miss VanAusdal, assis-
taIt farm bureau secretary. All can
ming club displays are labelled with
the -Four H Club" brand, giving the
name of the product and the girl who
produced it, with date and the cor
rect weight. There are hundreds OF
erla 81 nd frI1i
some produced by girls of only 10
years. Some of these products are
to be sold.
Other exhibits by the school boys
are to be found in the pig club
displays, which requires whole tent
in themselves There are half a
hundred pigs showing in this class OF
the swine show alone. The winner of
the county sweepstakes is to be given
free trip to Columbus.
Exhibits by Children
Other exhibits by the children are
to be found in the displays put on by
various schools of the county in the
booths in Educational Hall Products
made by manual training, sewing and
cooking classes crowd every booth
There are many interesting displays
of collections of Preble county woods
and one interesting product map" OF
the United States. This map, shown
by the Verona school, shows the coun
try and states in outline, with each
regions principal product indicated
by a small picture cut out and pasted
in the proper space. The southern
states have small tufts of cotton
Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Illinois al
have pictures of oil derricks, and bits
of tinsel representing the various
metals dot the Rocky mountain states
The corn belt states are covered by
pictures of cattle, hogs and corn; {
shoe represents Boston; watch, {
section of Connecticut, and bits o
wool and silk, sections of Massachu
Sets
Grange Exhibits
The Grange exhibits show the usua
ingenuity in arrangement and decora
ton. Each Grange has worked out it
name on a sign in some unique man
ner. Eaton grange is labelled by let
tiers worked in glossy brown Buckeyes
on a green background formed b.
cockleburs Greenbush grange has it
name worked out in letters edged witt
white kernels of corn, the bodies o
the letters being shown by red-browl
wheat kernels Twin Valley grang
has made attractive letters of tn
cream colored inner husks of corr
Verona grange has excited public cul
iosity and belief that new variety @
popcorn has been developed by exhif
iting sign worked out in white an
pink popcorn.
Golden rod is extensively used i
canopies as we'll as corn stalks. bot
the dark green fresh stalks as in tn
Eaton grange booth and the ripenin
stalks with contrasting golden ear
from which the husks have been stril
ped down, as in the Greenbush grang
booth Red-leaved sumach and purpl
asters also figure in color schemes.
Among the livestock displays, popl
lar interest was divided between Ii