The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-08-11
.kATO EXPO WILL
HANG UP BIG BILL
FREE ACTS, HoRsERAcING
CARpED BY MANAGERS
DISPLAY FOR EVENING
Grounds Are Being Put Into
Shape; Dates of Show
September II to IA:

free dCtS VI CuLSi ShluuShI, DdSo-
ball, horse racing, a White Way. fire
works, displays of all kinds of ma
chinery and farm products and all
the accountrements of county fair
are, being whipped into line by ofrl-
GERS of the Mankato Fair association
in anticipation Of the greatest fair
that has ever been held on the Local
grounds. Dates of the fair are Sep
TENDER IL to IA inclusive and on
these days, afternoons and evenings
will be crowded to the guards with
attractions for the thousands of Wis
itors who will visit Mankato dur
ing the big four days.
The big premium list is now in
the hands of the printers and will be
ready for distribution within a few
days at which time they will be
mailed far and wide. A complete
scheme mas been adopted
300 car banners which
will be placed on automobiles oper-
ating out of this city.
Number of Free Acts
The free acts include turns by The
Three Casting Rays, the Seven
Whirling Arabs, W. J. LANCER, Tran
ton ana Eta and James Walker.
There are all finished vaudeville
and are suitable for
open air exhibition. They will per-
form afternoons and evenings during
the time OF the exposition.
Fireworks will be shown every
of the four days and those
in charge promise the usual high Or
der of pyl otechnicS for these occa
sions. They are to be in charge or
men who are thoroughly experience
ed in getting the best out of their
material and promise to be worth
the price Of admission.
Improve Fair Grounds
AS improvements at the fair
the streets within the en-
closure have already been graveled
and there will be none of the dis
agreeable mud that made the lair
grounds SO unpleasant last year.
John Macbeth has already spent
much time on improvement of the
track and that speedway is rounding
into shape for the hign class harness
events that are to come off at that
time. 1t is said that there will be no
less than three harness events each
day of the fair and they will be for
attractive purses. -
Yielding to the wishes of the
Mankato and Blue Earth county
baseball fans, the management has
agreed to allow two high class base
ball games here during the fair. On
the first day Amboy Will be matched
against GAINESVILLE for a struggle to
attain a purse of $275. The winner
of the first game will be set against
New Ulm the last day when the
purse has been increased to $500.
Amboy and GAINESVILLE have bitter
rivalry and are anxious to meet
again on a strange diamond. 1t is
said that each of these will be load
ed for bear when they meet and the
winner will be all set to meet the
strong. New Ulm club.
Hold Live Stock Parade
Not satisfied with holding one OF
the largest live stock shows in the
history of the Mankato fair, the as :
has arranged for a big pa
rade of all prize winning stock on
the race track during Thursday af-
ternoon and at that time the finest
ChLlIC wal NC
all dressed UP for inspection.
The exhibit of farm products this
year should be the largest in history
Crops are uniformly good and much
effort has been made by farmers in
getting some products that will be
worthy of showing at any fair.
There will be exhibitions of the
work of county and city Boys and
Girls club projects and the public
has not yet forgotten the fine work
done by the local bread making
team which won all honors in the
country. last year. =
There will be further Information
the fair available from
day to day as the time grows shorter
and each day Is expected to bring
out some new or more complete fea-
ture than in any previous year.
The Speed Program
John Macbeth today released the
seed program for the fair which calls
for some good horse racing for
purses of $3.50 added money. On
Monday in addition to the baseball
game there will be 2:20 pace and
some running and novelty races.
Tuesday will be the same class of
trot and a free for all trot or pace
in addition to the running races.
afternoon the speed de-
partment offers a 2:25 pace and a
3 :25 trot with the running and no
yelties and on Thursday, getaway
day. there will be a 2:18 trot with
the novelties and a baseball game.