The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-08-07
KEEN COMPETITION
BY FARMERS CLUB
THREE LIVE WIRE ORGANIZA
TIONS WILL EXHIBIT AT
THE COUNTY FAIR
TWO-DAY HORSE RACING
SECRETARY DUBOIS ENDEAVOR-
ING TO BOOK NATIONALLY
KNOWN SPEAKERS

SOIIpeClClOn between FARMERS
clubs of Western Stearns County will
be the keenest at the 1924 Stearns
County Fair to be held at Sank Cen.
tire Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes.
day, Aug. rs, 26, 81, in the history
of the organization.
For a number of years the Pro.
gressive Farmers Club of the Nc
Cormick Lake territory had the field
to themselves but the competition
was keen however as the club was
divided into two sections and two
distinct displays were made. Last
year the United Farmers Club of the
Birchdale and Cedar Lake territory
made most creditable showing and
this year the Lyman Prairie Farm
ers' Club have signified their inten-
ton of competing for the prize of
fered by the Fair Association for the
best club exhibit.
Because of the excellence of the
crops in Western learns, an adund-
ance of high class garden truck and
small fruits the agricultural building
this year should be full to overflow
ing. Besides the club exhibits men,
toned above, the Sank Centre AL
falfa Club have arranged for space
in the Agricultural building and will
make comprehensive display which
will be both unique ,Qnd educational,
and proving to the satisfaction of
the most skeptical that alfalfa can be
most successfully raised in this Sec
ton of Minnesota.
The sport program is rounding in
to shape. There will be horse rae
ing at the Fair Tuesday and We'd
nesday, Aug. 26 and 27. On Tues
day there will be 2:18 pace and a
2:30 trot. On Wednesday there will
be 2:24 pace and 2:30 pace.
The kittenball game between the
Mccormick Lake farmers and the
Sank Centre business men for the
possession of the loving cup will be
played on one of the fair days, prob
ably Monday afternoon, but this date
has not been definitely decided upon.
AS stated in the Herald two weeks
ago Little Sank and Browerville will
play ball on Tuesday, Aug 26-Al
bany Day. Wednesday Aug. 81
Brooten-Belgrade Day, the Ball teams
from those two villages will clash.
Applications coming in for reser-
vations in both the livestock and
agricultural sections indicates quite
clearly that this years Stearns Coun-
ty Fair will in reality be an agricui-
tural and livestock exhibit in keeping
with the Importance of this section of
Minnesota in an agricultural way.
General Secretary B. F. Dubois is
angling for speaker of national rep
utation to address the farmers of
Stearns county on one of the Fair
days. He is not in position at this
time to announce the name of the
speaker he is after but if he can be
obtained folks will come many miles
in large numbers to hear him.
Every evening during the fair
there will be a big dance at Dream
land pavilion under the auspices of
the Fair Association and American
Legion.
Harvest will be well out of the
way before fair and the farmers will
have an opportunity to relax from
their labors and cooperate with the
fair board in making this years fair
the biggest success ever. The real
object of the Stearns Couny Fair is
not to make money but to improve
the agricultural and livestock condi-
ton of Stearns and adjacent coun-
ties.