The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-09-20
STAGE ALL SET
FOR BIG FAIR
West Kenosha County Fair
to be Bigger and Better
This Year.
PROGRAM PUBLISHED

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| The fourth annual West Kenosha
County Fair opens this Thursday at
the village of Wilmot and continues
through Friday and Saturday, .Septem-
Der 20, 21 and %, all day and evening"
| Thursday will be children's day and
the parade at 1880 Thursday morning
will be made up of floats entered from
the schools in the West Kenosha
county district The floats will be
Judged Immediately following the
parade and the prize winners will be
allowed to enter the Friday morning
parade which will consist of floats
entered by business men of the COM
munity. Comic floats and agricultural
floats will be entered.
Prizes for Paraders.
Eighty-fve dollars in prize money
is being offered for the two parades,
] Winners in the comic floats will re-
ceive Ave dollars for first place and
three for second. individuals in the
comic floats two dollars and one dol
lar Rural school floats have been
offered for prizes $500, $500, $500
and $500. Graded school floats will
receive the same awards of $500,
$500, $500 and $500. Three prizes
have been given for the first three
places in the high school entries, $500,
$500 and $500, Winning entries in
the business floats are to receive
$500 and $500 and the agricultural
floats $500 and $4.00.
| Saturday prize winning stock is to
! be paraded and as there are more
entries than ever in this years fair
this parade promises to be very
interesting,
Saturday is Kenosha Day.
Friday has been designated Farm
er's Day and Saturday, Kenosha Day.
Judging from the entry lists in the
fancy work, cooking, sewing, flower,
vegetable, curies, fruit, grain, poultry,
pure bred livestock, boys and girls
club work and the school exhibits
each of these departments will excel
not only in quantity, but quality, any
former exhibition here. Especially
has the poultry exhibit exceeded all
! expectations, A man from Lake
Beulah has entered truck load of
chickens, alone.
! RPlSDdlN DpC0hSAo AaNG pNki pSSAA
ed for each of the three days Thurs
day afternoon at $3.50 Geo. Hull, presi-
dent of the State Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton will address the crowd; at
$3.50 Friday afternoon the \ commits
sioner of agriculture, John J. Jones
is to talk AT the same hour on Sat
urday Judge H. H. Schmidt of Mani
towoc, has promised to appear.
/ Alfred Reynolds, and a committee,
are busy planning devious ways to
distribute the fifteen dollars that the
fair directors have allotted daily for
the winners In the tugs of war, pie
eating contests, races and so on, that
will be daily feature every after
moon of the fair.
Thursday and Friday evening the
gymnasium will be thrown open to
the dancing public and Bardens
Melody Boys of Kenosha are to play.
Saturday night an interesting film,
"Manslaughter" with Thomas Meigham
and Leatrice Joy starring, will be
shown at the gym. Following the
picture the Gupps orchestra of Sill
verlake will play for dancing,
Plan Plenty of Music.
There will be band concert each
day with the U. r. H. band playing
under the able dictatorship of Clar-
ence Wright the first two days, and
the renowned Simmons band of Keno
sha, on Saturday, Kenosha Day.
The women of the West KeIiosha
County Fair community are exerting
every effort to provide the famous
dinners that have been served at pre-
ceding fairs. The gymnasium base
ment is to be utilized again as serv-
ing hall and twice daily at 1900 and
$500 dinners ware to be served.
All week men from the community
have been at work on the grounds
and eleven large tents to be used for
stock, automobile and many other ex-
hibits were erected aside from num-
erous smaller tents to be used for
individual exhibitions. The merry-go
round has arrived, over fifty automo-
biles are to be exhibited and this year
much more machinery than formerly
is to be shown. A threshing outfit,
corn shredders, milking machines and
many engines are listed.
| The department of agriculture from
! Madison has their tubercular and foul
seed exhibits on the grounds, This
should mean much to each individual
farmer.
Baby Show is Feature.
A baby show will be held in con-
nection with the work of County
Nurse Williams. Mrs. Williams has
promised her same line of interesting
exhibits that she put on last year.
Two of the largest mercantile COM
panies from Burlington and Kenosha
have secured space, Mccarthy Furni-
Eture company Of Burlington, and the
Barden company from Kenosha.
Twice daily the famed Stirling Trio
Of acrobatic performers will enter
tain the crowd.
The fair directors and the various
committees have spared no efforts to
make the fair of 1923 well worth at
tending, for it will far surpass all
former exhibitions in the excellence
of the exhibits and the entertain
ment that will be offered,