The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-11
TUESDAY TO Be
ONE OF BIGGEST
FREE FAIR DAYS
Big Program Ready for Chill
dren and State Grange.
Kansas Horse Shoe Pitchers To
Decide State Title.
HOLD FASTEST RACES OF WEEK
Purses in Tuesdays Events To-
tai More Than $4,000.
State Spoilers, Juvenile Bands
and Musicians Compete.

With fair weather forecast and a
tremendous program prepared, Tues
day will be one of the feature days of
the Free Fair. Tuesday will be state
grange day, with a meeting in this
Peoples pavilion at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, and Childrens day, with
many contests and attractions of es-
pecial interest to the kiddies.
The Poland China state futurity will
be held at 8 o'clock in the morning.
and will be the chief attraction of in
terest to stock raisers. In the Peo
pies pavilion at 1 o'clock the state
spelling contest will be held. 1t will
consist of a written contest of 100
words to be taken from the Kansas
Speller." Any ties resulting will be de-
termined by calling fifty words from
Webster's Secondary School dictionary.
Following this will be an oral contest,
the words to be chosen from the state
book. Any entrant missing a word
will step down, and the last one left
standing will be declared the winner.
Seven cash prizes ranging from $40 to
81 are offered the winners. Ransom
HEsted. 1858 Harrison street, is last
years champion in the written contest
while Floud Rue, of the Boys Indus
trial school, holds the oral honors.
Horseshoe Pitching Contest
Another event which VIII begin at
10 o'clock will be the Kansas Horse
Fair courts at the east edge of the
grounds, north of the cattle and horse
pavilions, to determine the state
championship. Ed Hollingsworth
Quenemo butcher and former national
champion, is the present holder of the
Fair last year. F. D. Steele, of To-
peka, was runnerup. Hollingsworth,
who is more than 60 years old, was ex-
pected to appear this year to defend
| his title.
Demonstration team contests will be
held at the boys and girls club pa
vilion at 1890 o'clock, and there will
be a bee demonstration on the plaza
! of Agricultural hall at II o'clock.
From 1890 o'clock to 1880 O'Clock
there will be a program on the Bell
| loud speaker.
Horse Races Feature.
The feature of the day, of course.
will be the horse races at 1880 o'clock.
which will probably be the fastest
races of the week. The program in
cludes the 2:14 trot for a purse esti-
mated at $1,000; the 2:14 pace for a
purse of more than 800 and the 2:1O
pace for $500 purse. The three run
! include the four and one-half fur
| longs, five furlongs and seven fur
| longs. Monday winners are barred
from the last two events.
The horse race fans will also be
entertained between events by the
Kansas juvenile band contest in front
of the grandstand from 2 o'clock until
5 o'clock. There are approximately
| ten bands entered in the event to COM
pete for the state championship. Al
| Sweets famous Singing HuSSarS will
also be on hand to entertain the audi
! ence with some jazz and popular Sc
| lections.
| State Grange To Meet,
| At O'clock in the afternoon will be
held the state grange meeting in the
Peoples pavilion. 1t will begin with
community singing, followed by some
selections by the Shawnee County Po-
/ mona grange chorus. Pollom's In
dian Creek grange band will also fur
nish music. The feature address, "Our
Best Crop" will be delivered by Fred
A. Seaman, principal and founder of
the Seaman rural high school,
There will be radio concerts in the
radio pavilion both afternoon and
evening. From 8 to 10 o'clock in the
evening Marshall's band will give a
| concert in the plaza of Agricultural
hall. The amateur musicians con-
/ test will be held at 1880 o'clock in the
| evening in the Peoples pavilion. 1t
/! will consist of contest for pianists, one
division under -12 years old, the other
IL to IS years old: a vocal contest for
both classes and contests for boys and
girls glee clubs. There will also be a
violin contest for both classes of ages
In the piano, voice and violin contest
three prizes ranging from SIS to S.
are offered both classes. Three prizes
of $40, S25 and SIS each are offered
the boys and girls glee clubs
Free Fair Circus.
In the evening. at 8 o'clock in front
of the grand stand, the big Free FaiI
circus and hippodrome will be held
composed of many new vaudeville and
circus acts, including the Flying Mil
lers, aerial artists, the Thomas Saxo-
tette. Al Sweet Hussars and a grand
pyrotechnical display.
Farmer Is Found Not Guilty.
Lyons, Kan. Sept. 11-F. w. Kent
a farmer living ten miles northwest OF
here. charged with a statutory nffens Sc