The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-24
STILL BOOKING
 NOVELFEATURES FOR STATE FAIR
Adding New Novelties Has Be. come Habit With Officials of Fair Opening Next
 Week

| an already full program has become habit with Alabama State Fair of ficials. Although the opening of the states annual show Is Just one week away, the date being set for October 3. President R. A. CBuster) Brown and Secretary J. L. Dent continue to book new attractions. Their lead ing trump for the past week In tho way of booking new attractions, came when they put over a deal that will bring to the state fair tho worlds champion mule team as well. Announcement was made Saturday 1 that the M. c. Peters Mill company,s ! prize-winning championship horse team and mule team would be one of the live stock features at the fair.
 These celebrated equines will make | daliy appearances in front of the grand stand and at other points on the ground, hitched up in regal splen- dor. and showing off beeore company. The harness alone which these teams wear cost more than the average six horse team. They're going to be wearing their party clothes for Ala ceiHo ctato r ar visitors.
 Wins 21 Hue Ribbons
 One of the wheel horses of the out fit, Butcher" by me, and known tho world over in horsedom. eninvs the distinction of having won 21 blue ribbons at international airs. state fairs and horse shows. His mate. l lvanhoe'" has invariably ta.ren off second honors when the two vera ex- hibited together The average height of the six-horse team is IT 2 hands and the average wei~ht of the horses is 1000 pounds.
 They say it's horseless age hut the fact stili remains that wher ,ver fine. blooded F ock is shown, it al- ways draws Digger crowd of en- tnusiasts and creates more comment than when a showing of the con- quering man-made horse power ve- nioles are put on display. This added attraction fs feather in the can of fair officials and they ar wearine. broad smiles over having obtained It Tor the fair here next week. It ontaiied an enormous expense. hu, Messrs. Brown and Dent are bent on giving the patronage the best fair ever held here. and they are rot fig- 'uring ex1enses at all. They belieTa that a great show will draw the biu. gest crowds ever attending tha fair during one week.
 | Greatest Stock Show
 l .Ine singing of the mule and horse championship teams will give the in- tuition far anf away the most elab- crate and most. complete live stock snow ever held l.ere. Tt booking oL the exhipit of the American Jersey Cattie club insures them of the hest dairy cattle exhibit ever atagsd The plans of the poultry show ds- partment elclipses anything ever at- tempted. Superintendent M,Is. bradford know that it was coing ,o pc the most gigantic poultry show eVer staged In the south, but he had no Idea 1t would expand into fta nraa ent enormous dimei. :ionsi Whan tt was arranged to give over two entiro exhlpit halls to the poultry show ,t was figured this would be room ,, arunoance. New MT. Bradford as- serts that he has his doubts as to
 s'hsr the two buildings will take care of all the poultry exhibits
 Ado on one of the most oomni... asricnltural exhitits and ons ot the best industrial shows ever riven and one may get an idea of jrst how bie ene eAhloit departments of tho fair will be this year.
 Running Races
 prom an amusement end there has ! never been an iota of douht hut what it would surpass past achieye- 1 Inehts. There's the runnine race feature. for instance. Heretofore they have beeen either mixed m In the program. or used harness ra- eng exclusively. This year only the Dlue-bloods of the running races will De seen competing for the huge purses offered. Jockeys regaled in bright-colored trappinss will apply the iash as some of the best thor | oughpreds In America dash around the track and come down the horne stretch in a mad burst of speed and swirling clouds of dust Then there are the automobile races, in which chariots of death spit blue flamea or Tire as they plunge around the cir l cular track. Some of the foremost speed demons In America will com pete. led by the famous Sig Hugs dahl in his equally famous "Wiscon- sin Speciap with which he has shat tered 9ll world records on the beach, es of Florida.
 Fourteen stupendous feature hip podrome acts have been arranged for two daily showings in front of tne eranostano- A great display of 1 fireworks will mark this feature of the nightly program in this depart ment of entertainment. California Frank and his wild west show will be one of the feature attractions in l front of the grandstand.
 Johnny Jones' Shows
 Johnny H. Jones' shows have been signed for an appearance on the mid way. To fill the Birmingham en- | gagement, MT. Jones has combined his two road shows. and will bring these into Birmingham on two spe- cial trains. 1t will be one of the l few times that the famous Jones' shows have been consolidated for ono whole week. This insures the Alabama State fair of the greatest and most complete midway 1t has l ever been able to offer.
 Broadcasting and receiving sta tions have been erected at the fair grounds by the Alabama Power company and Matthews Electric l company in order that artists may broadcast programs. while fair vis.- tors look on, and these same visitors 1 may drink in the programs of the big eastern broadcasters as they are | picked out of the air at the state | fair Every dealer in the Birming ham district will also have an ex- ! to ho Ia ha asc