The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-16
name FINANCE
COMMITTEE. OF
FAIR SEPT 1915
Budget Is $4,000, Including
$4,000 in Prizes, Music,
Decorations, Tents, Pens
and Features.
LIST IS READY

The plans for the Wayne county
fair to be held at Glen Miller park
Sept. 13 to Is, were fast nearing COM
pletion today, some of the committee
having been working night and day
since the dates were set just four
weeks in advance of the fair.
Chairman Lawrence A Handley ap-
pointed N. H. Johnson as chairman of
the finance committee and j. A. Brook
bank and Harry Gilbert as assistants
on this committee
The budget as outlined by the com
mittee will amount to about $4,000
which includes $4,000 in prizes. music,
decorations, tents for exhibits, pens
for the live stock and a number of
entertaining features which will make
the fair one of the most interesting
ever held in Richmond
Premium List Ready
The farmers organization today
completed the. premium lists and a
number of farmers have already ap-
! piled for entry blanks to exhibit their
! stock.
The finance committee started today
| on completing its organization which
will probably consist of 100 men.
! One business man said: For 4
| long time Wayne county farmers have
been taking their products to other
| county fairs adjoining Wayne and they
/ have largely contributed to the sue,
! cess of these fairs and it is now
time for Wayne county to put on its
own fair and show just what we
| have"
He added that this county raised
more fine stock and grain than any
of the counties around Wayne
To Invite Governor
4 A committee is to go to Indianapo
lis within the next day or two and
:! ask Governor McCray to open the
Wayne county fair. They will alst
try to arrange for other prominent
men to speak during the three days
i One feature of the fair which is ex
pected to arouse special interest il
the roadster and saddle horse show
which is to be included The pre-
MUM list, which has Just been com
pleted by Wood Eliason and Pau
James in accordance with the recon
menddtions of the exhibition commit
tee, provides for four saddle horst
classes and for seven classes of road
sters.
Premiums are modest, but Superir
tendent c. L. Clifford is confident that
with the strong interest being show
in the fair by the citizens of Rich
mond and Wayne county, sufficien
entries will be secured to make
good display.
Kinds of Premiums
, In the saddle horse class premium
! are provided for the best lady or ger
: tleman rider and for the best boy o
: girl rider under 16, also for. the bes
three and five-gaited horses.
r In the roadster class a total of 81
r in premiums is offered, with classe
: for stations and for brood mares wit
t sucking colts. Roadsters are to sho1
j in harness.
: Strong expressions of approval c
3 the Wayne county plans for fair hav
+ been heard in adjoining counties, eve
Q in communities which have fairs {
their own.
8 'It always has been marvel to me
said Ed Clark, farmer near New Pari
anu CudlIuldA Ol ll6 FTGUie count
farm bureau. that Wayne count,
with its wealth, and the generally pr
gressive attitude of its citizens, neve
? has been able to organi a permal
ent annual county fair.
Such an event is a mutual affai
no more exclusively a farmers pr
5ect than private enterprise of or
r of the furniture or dry goods dealer
y and | believe Wayne county is on I'll
. right track in the cooperation show
. this year.
Results also, will not be confine
I to agricultural interests. but will il
g. prove city relationships with the who
- trading district of the city, even
:. Ohio, for such a fair spreads its i
II fluence irrespective of state lines. v
er in Preble county are glad to see sue
Is a fair started"