Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-30
(TrIbune's Helena Bureau.)

Helena, Sept. 29.-Better weather
than that of Wednesday and Thursday
favored the Montana state fair .on
Friday, but did not serve to bring out
as good crowd as on either of the
preceding two days, the stands, how
ever, being so nearly filled that not
many vacant spaces were IN evidence.
During the early part of the after
Moons entertainment program the
princesses from the various counties
and their queen were brought to the
stand by automobiles and the queen,
Miss Dorothy Bevier of Gallatin coun~
ty, was introduced as such by chester
c. Davis, commissioner of agriculture.
At the same time the prize winning
horses and cattle were brought out in
parade for inspection by the occupants
of the stands, the animals being led
down the stretch of the racetrack by
the Helena municipal band. The ex-
hibit of livestock had been one of the
largest and best ever seen at the fair,
and, in consequence, the parade was
lengthy and interesting.
The exhibition buildings received
their usual amount of attention during
the day. the judging having been COM
pleted in all departments the previous
day, with the exception of the agrlcul-
tural hall, where the work OF scoring
had not been completed late Friday
evening.
Cascade Makes Mark
All the individual awards had been
made in even this department, but con-
siderable labor was required IN flgur-
ing the county collective scores. This
work had been completed in three OF
the divisions, vegetables, potatoes and
corn, Friday afternoon, and showed
that Cascade county had landed the
high honors in the vegetable division
by a large margin and had taken third
place in the potato division
She did not take place in the corn
show, but made a very good showing
against the big producing coun-
ties, landing fifth place in this competl-
ton.
The scores of the four leading coun-
ties in the vegetable division are:
FIathead, $50; Lewis and Clark, l1S;
Cascade, 90; Blaine, "a. The. scores
of the five leading counties in the corn
show are: Fergus, $50; McCone, 1866;
Rosebud. 1874; Richland, 1856; Cascade,
14S Scoring was made on three points,
viz: Volume, the full number of entries
brought to the judges, which is multi.
piled by two; variety; total number of
lot numbers exhibited, multiplied by
two and quality; by which each first
premium was entitled to three points,
each second to two points, and each
third or under to one point and the
whole multiplied by six, which totals
give the points predominating as the
county score.
Short Racing Program
The racing program of Friday was
not as lengthy as those Of the preyl-
Gus days from the fact that but one
automobile race was run and only one
harness event was filled, the latter be-
ing decided in three heats, whereas
most of the races heretofore have
gone the full five heats.
The girls relay race again aroused
the enthusiasm, the winning rider,
Mrs. Dan Harvey, succeeded in making
the three circuits of the half mile
track, riding three horses, in less than
three minutes. She finished the four
days race with a margin of less than
three seconds over Miss Dan Stanley
and less than six seconds over Fannie
Sperry Steele.
Henry Powell, riding for the Black
feet tribe, took the inter-tribal relay
race by a fraction of a second, his
time for the four days of racing being
nearly a half minute under that of his
nearest competitor.
The mems relay race was won by
Grover Gilbert, who not only won the