Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-29

Fields early in the year announced that
every community in the Valley would
be given one booth free Of charge, as
has been the custom in the past and all
of these are being used. Every foot of
available space has been contracted for
exhibits.
Every community in the Valley has
taken a booth, and many of them have
paid for extra space, so that the COM
munity exhibits will be among the most
interesting Of the entire fair. The
central theme Of most Of these exhibits
will be citrus, as the exhibits of last
year and other years showed
Individual Displays
In addition to the community booths
there will be number of individual
displays featuring citrus fruit. These
displays will be entered by the fore
most citrus growers of Cameron, Will
acy and Hidalgo county, most Of them
having already been placed on display
at the fair, and being ready for the
opening Monday night.
The educational exhibits, under the
supervision of County Superintendent
P. d. Kennamer, form an interesting
part of the fair, and are all in place
now, ready for the opening Monday
These exhibits are in that part Of the
grounds under the race track grand
stand, and will be furnished with a per-
manent home there. The exhibits depict
school work from the lowest to the
highest grades, and schools from all
three counties of the Lower Valley are
represented.
Boys club work is represented unde;
County Agent Henry L. Alsmeyer; girls
club work, and women's home demon
stration club work under Miss Kate
Adele Hill, county home demonstration
agent, farm displays in general, for
which premiums are offered, all will be
shown.
The Valley Fair catalog shows that
close to $4,000 in premiums will be dis
tributed to winners Of prizes in the ex-
hibits and displays. This will be a
large increase over all former years,
when many of the prizes were only
ribbons.
A. &. NJ. College is sending an ex-
hibit to the Fair, this exhibit being a
reproduction of the college building, the
county health units Of Cameron and
Hidalgo counties will have booth, the
Missouri Pacific Railway system is
among the exhibitors. while a number
of private corporations and individuals
will be represented, such as the Alamo
Iron works. the International Harvester
Co., and others.
Horse Racing Four Days
The exhibits constitute one feature
of the fair There are several other
phases of the entertainment and inter-
est offered the visitor.
Attractions in the way of acrobatic
tunts, wire walking, etc, are offered
in the trope. of acrobats who have been
signed UP for the fair, according to
the schedule These attractions will be
given every day on the fair grounds,
and on Saturday will come between the
automobile races.
Horse races will be held every after
noon Of the Valley Fair. The races will
start at 2 O'Clock, and will continue un-
til around or 5 o'clock, with five races
to be run every afternoon.
Rodeo features, including bareback
riding, calf roping, bull dogging, and
other similar stunts Of the cowboy and
rough rider, will be held between the
horse races. Horse racing win be start
ed Tuesday afternoon, and will continue
through Friday, with about $4,000 offer
ed in purses. More than 75 horses are
at the fair grounds now, and will be
ready to leave the mark with the open
ing Of the fair grounds proper on Tues
day.
The last day Of the Fair will witness
automobile faces, with twelve automo-
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