Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-09-15
The County Fair, the Big Event
of Year, About To
Open
MANY ATTRACTIONS;
LIBERAL PREMIUMS
Races and Baseball Will Furnish En-
tertainment For the Sports
Many Things For Many
People

PlanS are complete for the biggest
best county fair next week that Rusk
county ever had.
| The county fair is the one big event
OF the year in Rusk county where the
people m1ngle for four DAYS on COM
mon ground. 1t affords the greatest
opportunity to meet your friends and
acqualntances and all those who make
OF TINS event homecoming occasion.
Besides the pleasure of meeting ones
friends, there is the opportunity to see
all the styles in dress from colonial
days TO the present, on living models
some posed, and some unconscious of
wearing clothes.
1t is a place of great joy for tbe
children, for the things they love are
there both for stomach and eyes. All
their senses are appealed to.
1t is the meeting place for the
swain and his best girl the painted
and the plain; the washed and the nm
washed; the fakir and guiltless: the
wise and the unsophisticated. Don't
miss it.
Children Free
On Tuesday all school children will
be admitted free and the program in,
cludes series of school events to be
participated in by school children
only
There will be 100-yd. dash for
which the Vaughan clothing store
will award $4.00 pair of shoes to the
winner. Fastest time running around
the baseball diamond, 1st, catchers'
NIT, given by Sands Hardware Co:
2nd, fielders' mitt by Uttormarks;
lloyd. dash, slip-on sweater, by Rusk
County Bank; broad jump, hat or cap,
Levin clothing store; high jump, pair
basketball shoes, Benson Bros.
Girls Races
twenty-five yard dash, ID years old
OF over, pair silk hose, Pioneer Ma
tional Bank; 75-yard dash, - to 15
years, pair silk hose, Holtz Dry Goods
Co.; 5O-yard dash, pair silk hose, the
Bon Ton. Besides these races there
will be county free-for-all horse race,
five-mi'e motor race, auto novelty
race ana running race.
Wednesday
The pace or trot, 2:1S class, will
contest for purse of 5000. The
farmers free-for-all, purse SIS; coun-
try motorcycle race, miles, purse
$4,000; and the auto slow race, half
mile, purse $4,000.
Thursday
Pace or trot, 2 80 class, purse 5000.
Motorcycle race 5 miles, for 2-cylinder
machines, purse $500; and a Ford
bug race for a $500 purse.
Friday
The consolation race, whatever that
means; will be run for purse of
$100; free-for-all race, purse $500;
and the giving away of the Ford car
to the holder of the lucky number will
take place at o'clock. One must be
present to win the car.
Free Acts
The Arabian gymnasts are reputed
to be the best actors ever engaged in
this section of the country. Their act
alone will be worth the price of adj
sion acts, is also a good one. These
free acts will be held every afternoon
and evening before the grandstand.
Livestock
A large exhibit of horses, dairy
cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry is eX-
pected to- be on the grounds. Premiums
offered are attractive and all breeders
of pure-bred livestock should plan to
be there with the best individuals Of
their herds. The advertising value Of
these exhibits is worth more to a
breeder than are the prizes, which
makes it a profitable venture.
Grain, Fruit, Vegetables
That there will be a magnificent dis
play of grain, fruit, hay and vege-
tables of all kinds is manifest by the
displays exhibited at the smaller vii
lagos of the county The best of these
exhibits and many others will be at
the fair and they show the productiv-
ity of Rusk county's SOIL than which
there is no better on earth.