The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-12
FAIR OPENS WEDNESDAY

FAIR OPENS WEDNESDAY
1t had been expected from the first
that as soon as announcement Of
the fact that we were TO put on fair,
and the dates were set, had reached
the farmers, there would be a hurried
inspection of live stock for the best
selections and a rush for space. But
II was not expected that more room
would be required than had been
planned for, or that there would be
such pressure for space at the last
minute.
OF course a park filed with live
stock alone would not make well
well balanced fair, but the raising of
live stock is a great business and as
drawing card comes first in every
agricultural show.
Live stack exhibits stand for so
much money and are so intrinsically
valuable in themselves, and are SO i'm
portant in the scheme of things, that
a fair lacking a liberal display Of ca
tie, hogs, sheep and horses, would
hardly be voted a success, regardless
of all other attractions. The grains
and grasses, the fruits and vegetables
and the tempting displays of pre-
serves, jellies and samples of the
culinary art, are all attractive and all
are important, of course, and are a
part of well organized state or coun
~ agricultural exhibit These and a
hundred other things give character
to the great ensemble which We call
a fair" They form part or parts
which cannot be spared and which
have their appeal to the hosts who
come to view.
Can't afford to Miss t..
And 1t is a satisfaction to know
that there will be this kind of a balanc
ing of affairs at the show which opens
in Glen Miller Park on Wednesday
morning In addition to the numerous
and varied lines of entries will be al
the concommitants which make such
gatherings so attractive. There will
be music-gocd music-with concerts
mornings. afternoons and evenings
There will be various interesting ans
clean concessions, refreshment booths
dancing, etc.
There will be crowds, or course, PEG
pie from near and far as auto trave
now measures distance. AS there viii
he displays from several counties, just
so will there be visitors, to each O.
whom will be extended cordial greet
ings by the committees in charge anC
by the people of Richmond
Hatfield, the Rainmaker.
Hatfield. the American rainmaker
who earned so much money by break
ing the Canadian drouth last summer
and who also collected cash on tn,
advent of several transforms in tn,
northwest, is now in Italy. Did h.
make it rain on sun-parched Italian
fields. We don't know? But this W,
do know, that after his operations
drouth lasting four months was broker
with copious rains in southern Italy
and that he is now looked upon a
one of the greatest men in that coun
try. So true is this that the Italian
are clamoring for the government t
buy his secret. Hatfield was sent TO
by the government and shortly afte
his operations wells and cisterns wer
filled and the streams ran bank full
We recall printing a similar report O
what he supposedly accomplished o
the burning fields of western Canad
in 1921. We also remember that tn
Canadian government was a bit sh
OF the Hatfield enterprise and that tn
general public raised a large fund t
bring the rainmaker west and mort
from the Dakotas. They agreed tina