Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-09-01
RECORD CROWDS :. /.
AT COUNTY FAIR
OVER 5000 PEOPLE IN ATTEND
ANCE E-EXHIBITS AND
PROGRAM FINE

society, which came to close last
night, was pronounced one of the best
in the history of tho association &C
cording to the officials as we'll as tho
public that attended it. The attenu-
ance at the fair on Wednesday was
1000 in the afternoon and $500 in
the evening. It was estimated at
press time yesterday that the attenu-
ance for the day would exceed 1,5OU,
making a total attendance tor the fa1r!|
of over 5000 people, as compared with
5,271 last year. The weather was threat
ening yesterday and there was a light
shower in the afternoon, which no
doubt affected the attendance some
what.
Never before in the history of the
local fair association has there been
such a creditable collection of exhibits
in all departments and last year was
entirely outclassed. r. E. Olmstead,
university farm club specialist, one Of
the judges in the agricultural building,
remarked that the potatoes exhibiteo
here far surpassed potato exhibits at
county fairs where this was considered>|
the leading crop. Grain in sheaf and
grasses were very good. There was
but little wheat and rye on exhibit but
it was Of high quality. Mr.. Olmstead
said that Morrison county had the fin
est rye in Minnesota. Corn was of av-
erage quality. The garden stuff was
splendid in every instance and practi-
cally every known garden product was
represented.
Persons who have visited the county
fair year after year could not help but
notice the great change that has taken
place in the raising Of livestock. No
longer can you find any so-called scrub
stock at the fair here-every animal
exhibited was a grade animal or pure
bred. The entries were numerous, IN
fact it was necessary to build addition
al stalls for the sheep. In the poultry
section there were but one or two emp
ty crates. T. B. McCulloch, who has
charge of the Whitney Farm of st.
Cloud, was the judge for the livestock.
He spoke very highly Of the animals
exhibited and remarked that many of
them were good enough to be shown
at the state fair or any other fair. Mark
A. McCarty Of the state university,
who judged the swine, also commented
on the splendid hogs raised here.
A boys and girls calf club exhibit
attracted considerable attention and
praise from fair visitors. This exhibit
was a feature added this year, spon-
sored by the First National bank of
this city. The calves, some twenty in
number, were housed in an attractive
circular pavilion created at the expense
of the bank. This will be permanent
feature at the fair here. Five cash
prizes were given by the bank to the
winners in the contest.
Exhibits in the women's building
were so numerous that additional en-
try cards had to be printed. Mrs. Hen
ry Spindler Of Buffalo was in charge
Of judging. Mrs. w. H. K. Meyer had
charge of this building and was assist
ed by Mesdames J. B. Hoist, G. Rosen-
meier, L. O. Vessel, J. W. Berg, S.
Hammerbeck and Walter Anderson. A
feature Of this department was the
beautiful hand painted chinaware, Of
which there were many specimens.
The school exhibits were up to their
usual high standard, with entries from
rural schools predominating. One coulu
not help but marvel at the splendid
work turned out by the children anu
their fine agricultural exhibits. In the
school building was a library exhibit,
conducted by Mrs. j. L. Blanchard and
assistant, Mrs. VIM. Molde.
An exhibit of noxious weeds put OH
by S. Hammerbeck and R. G. Tedford,
county weed inspectors, attracted much
attention. They displayed about a
hundred different kinds of noxious
weeds and facts concerning them.
There were twice as many exhibits
in the fruit department as last year
and the specimens were exceptionally
fine, particularly the apples, which pre-.
dominated. Grapes rivaling the best
imported were on display.
Only two farm clubs had exhibits at
Randall Community Club and the Riv-
cry conceivable product of the farm,
canned goods, sewing, pastry, etc. There
were moro individual farm exhibits
than usual and these had very good col
lections.
The game and fish exhibit in the ag-
ricultural building, first ever shown at
the Morrison county fair, was one of
the best attractions. There was full
sized mounted buck deer, deer heads,
fawn heads, a large moose head, ante
lope head, cub bear, mink, bobcat, and
a large variety of ducks, partridge,
prairie chicken, ring-neck pheasants,
swan, number of insectivorous birds,
owls and hawks. One of the best b1ru
specimens in an educational way was
the Great-horned Owl with a prairie
chicken as his prey. This owl is one
of the most destructive pests to birds
that there is. The specimens drawing
the greatest attraction were the fish
exhibit which was secured from Mr..
Starkweather, the taxidermist at Hack
ensack. The exhibit consisted of a 10
pound wall-eyed pike, a z2 pound mus
kellunge, 26 lb great northern pike,
and and pound black bass, and
2 1-2 pound small mouthed bass. The
work is exceptionally fine and the ex-
hibit attracted the compliments OF ev-
cry one who sees it.
The exhibit was in charge of the
local game warden, j. M. Totten, and
literature and game laws were distrib-
uted.
Entertainment at the fair this year
surpassed anything ever attempted and
from reports everyone was well pleased
with all offerings. There was some
thing doing all the time and some
real thrillers were pulled off. :
The best attractions in the after
moons were the flying circus and the.
auto polo. In the former a man did
various stunts on an aeroplane includ-
ing standing on the top wing, sitting