The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-10-05
SEC, MASON MAKES C0MPREHEN-
SIVE REPORT TO FAIR BOARD

wiring Exhibition Building, $646.76;
extras, $605.2O; total, $1,251.96.
Thomas A. Colter-Material and
labor for fitting Of Exhibition Build
ing, building fence, Judging ring,
stock chutes, ETC., $1,181.75.
Northern States Power Co.-Mater-
ial for power line on grounds, $537 .33.
Setting of poles and power line on
grounds, $436.58.
twenty-five dozen chairs for grand
stand boxes and buildings, $3.50.
Minot Decorating Co.-Materials
and painting at grand stand, $464.9S.
Four wells-$278.96
Filling in and around Exhibition
Building and at gates and grand
stand-$17925.
rveys-$117.5O.
Minot Display Advertising Co..
Lettering and making road sign-S73.
Six fire extinguishers--$6O
Fair board record book-$33.
Grand total S55 5,526.87.
Receipts and Disbursements
Totals of receipts and expenditures
for the 1922 fair are not yet entirely
complete but are nearly so and show
that the receipts from all sources
other than county appropriations
from funds outside the fair fund were
$7,397.83 with $122.5O still due from
premium book advertisers, $49.75 still
due from renters Of machinery dis
play space at the fair grounds and
$22.50 still due from concessionaires.
Somes of the unpaid bills are uncol-
lectible.
Disbursements for the 1922 fair re-
corded to date total $9,838.85. A few
additional bills are still to come in.
All are small and include the bills of
two judges, Fred Thornhi]l's bill for
straw, several small newspaper ad-
vertising bills, two pumps, Olivier &
Uleberg for making display boxes and
few others. The present deficit,
outside the unpaid accounts and bills
not yet received, is 2,441.02.
Receipts
Receipts were from the following
sources:
General gate receipts, $4,O61.22
Grand stand receipts, $1,138.26.
Concession fees, $1,O14.34. 49,
Advertising in premium book and
on signs, $559.50.
Space rentals for machinery, etc,
S25S. - -
| Taxi fees, $3.50.
Class entry fees, $113.
Electric current charges, $56.51.
Delivery wagon fees, S32.
Speed fees, SIG.
Materials sold, Sl1.
Tickets sold BY secretary, SO.
Total, $7,397.S3.
Disbursements
i'll, ~ fE<,
conducting the 1922 fair, exclusive Of
improvement items, have been as fol-
lows:
Cash orders issued by secretary,
Sc ,283.21.
Premium books (2,5o0) and entry
blanks e3.5OO), $484.76.
Miscellaneous items, S34l.56.
Labor, 1925.
Printing, $361.83.
Advertising, $171.07.
kiwanis club for handling gates,
5000.
Stenographer, $3.50.
Supplies, $55:70.
Rent of tent, $38.20.
Cleaning grounds, $8.15.
Unpaid premiums for 1922 (203 ac-
counts), $l,Os4.50.
The total of $6,23321 in cash or
ders issued by the secretary to the
treasurer included 70 separate orders
and were issued on order Of the fair
board and county commissioners for
the following purposes:>
Race purses, $2,712.
Free acts, 1925.
Live stock premiums, 1856.
Fireworks, S539.5O.
Flying circus, $500.
Band, $468.
Labor, $28O.6O.
Handling grand stand tickets, $1O0.
Rent of automobile, $54.
Supplies, $28.98.
i. Baby show. $25.
Refunds, $3.50. 70
Carnival guarantee, $500.
State soft drink license, SIS.
Total, $6,283.21. =,
The total of $341.56 listed, as mis-
cellancous items covers money ad-
vanced by the secretary to pay small
labor accounts, purchase, office sup
plies and supplies for the fair and
pay small bills for the maintenance
of the secretary's office, all these bills
having been later allowed and paid by
the county commissioners. 1t has
been impossible to exactly separ-
ate all accounts. as some items in
clude bills for permanent improve
ment work that are classed under ex-
penses of the 1922 fair and vice versa.
The totals are approximately correct,
however.
The secre etary's books show total
Of $2.1S4.85 received thru this office
and $2,198.35 turned over to the
county treasurer. The discrepancy of
$3.50 is accounted for by the confu-
sion at the fair incident to lack Of
help, incompleteness of organization
and excessive rush of work.
Kiwanis Club Building.
A noteworthy and pleasing feature.
of the fair was the work Of the Ki-5
wants club Of Minot. This active club
erected and conducted building on
the grounds, used as rest room for
women and children, a most neces-
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