The Sauk Centre herald., 1922-08-24
Attendance at the 1922
Stearns County Fair Was
Disapp0intrnentt0 Officers

She was very well received by the
large audience in the grand stand
when she made the statement "That
she was not d candidate for public Of
flee as woman, but as an American
citizen, that she was asking no ia
vors because she is a woman and
urged the people not to vote against
her merely because she was a Wo-
man." Mrs. Olesen undoubtedly made
votes for her cause by her address.
The attraction put on by the Wild
West company appeared to please the
people because it was so vastly diff
ferent from the ordinary run of free
attractions that appear at county
fairs. =,
The live stock parade in front Of
the grand stand was a wonderful
showing Of the wide variety of splen-
did pure bred stock raised by the
farmers of this section of Minnesota.
An interesting feature in connection
with the live stock parade was two
Holstein calves belonging to the
children of County Commissioner F.
j.. Borgmann. The animals have
been broken and were hitched to a
miniature prairie schooner, the wagon
having been made by the youngsters
from wheels off old farm machin-
cry. The calves were as docile as
an old work horse. The attraction
received generous applause from the
audience.
Thursdays bal game between Bel
grade and Richmond has been COW
cred elsewhere in this issue of the
Herald.
The receipts from the first day of
the fair were slightly in excess of the
first day of the fair last year, and
were highly encouraging to the fair
officials.
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Friday
4 Fridays crowd was a distinct dis
sappeintment to the fair management
as the receipts were several hundred
dollars less than usually comes into
the gate on what is generally accept
ed as the ebig day of the fair.
DR.. Henrik Shipstead former Non
Partisan candidate for governor and
at present Farmer-Labor candidate
for the U. S. Senate was the speak
er for Friday afternoon. The Doc
tor made the usual radical har-
rangue, condemning practically all Of
the existing conditions and not offer
ing one practical solution for the ex-
listing evils.
! sThe speaker was away late in get
ting started and he missed dozen
good places to stop. It is not very
courteous for a crowd to hoot a man
down, but that is exactly what hap
pened before DR.. Shipstead finished.
Fridays ball game between Melrose
and Albany is covered in another Sec
tion Of the Herald.
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Saturday
Congressman Harold Knutson of the
Sixth District was the speaker fol
Saturday afternoon. In introducing
Mr.. Knutson, DR.. J.. A.. Dubois
rightly said that Mr.. Knutson was
a public servant who desired to fol
low out the wishes of his consti-
tuents. Any matters left to him by
the people Of his district were sure
to have prompt and satisfactory adj
justment. The Herald publishes Mr..
,Knutson's speech in full in another
part of this issue.
The attendance for Saturday was
only slightly less than the attendance
for the last day Of 1921, while the
program was decidedly the best OF
the fair. The result of the ball
game between Melrose and Belgrade
for the county championship can be
found in the sporting section of the
Herald.
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Among the fair visitors Thursday
were the officers of the Morrison
County fair, Joseph Meiglen, presi.
dent; Charles E. Lucas, secretary;
w. II. Ryan, treasurer and two OF
the directors. They came to learn
of the experiences of the Stearns
County fair and incidentally left some
little information relative to their
own.
The Morrison County fair has more
Indebtedness than the Agricultural
Society of Stearns County, and like
most organizations of this kind have
experienced losing years of late. The
live stock and rural school exhibits
at the local fair came in for then
special praise. They expressed sur
prise that this fair did not hold night
fairs and have all concessions on
the grounds. They hold night fairs
each year and consider this an inn
portant feature in the making of their
fair financial success.
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