The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-28
COUNTY FAIR NEXT
WEEK, JULY 2-3-4
Programs of Unusual Merit
Have Been Arranged for
Tuesday and Wednesday
SPELLING CONTEST TUES
Industrial Parade Wednesday
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dis
play Two Evenings

Everything is set for the 1928
Stearns County Fair which will be
held in Sank Centre, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, July 2, 8, 4.
- Monday will be entry day only.
The fair proper will start with
the spelling contest for the cham
pionship of the Rural and Graded
schools of the county, supervised
by County Superintendent Boerg-
er. This event will start at IL 100
A. M. All children of school age
will be admitted free on Tuesday.
Tuesday afternoon and evening
Will furnish an amusement pro-
gram which should please the most
fastidious. There will be horse
races, auto races, acrobatic acts,
vocal music, Sank Centre Boys
Band, concluding with an unusual
fireworks display in the evening.
A feature of the evening pro-
gram will be the COW calling con-
test sponsored by the Blue Valley
Creamery Co. This event is open
to men, women, boys and girls, and
the prize will be tuneful nickel
plated COW bell. This contest will
conclude Wednesday evening when
the champion will be selected.
One of the features of Wednes-
days program will be the Indus
trial Parade with floats prepared
by the Sank Centre business hous-
es. This event is in charge of Har-
old Bishop. If you have not turn
ed your name into Mr.. Bishop,
either do SO or go ahead and pre-
pare your float and be at the
starting point, City Park, befor@
100 P. M. Three cash prizes have
been hung up-$12.00, $500 and
$500
The program of horse races and
free acts will be given. A feature
of the afternoon will be a half mile
running race between green horses
owned and kept on farms and rid
den by farmer boys. No horse
having won a prize in a previous
race will be eligible for entry.
The Hines Shows furnishing
three modern rides and five high
class shows will be the lading fea-
ture of the Midway.
The Fair officers have spared
neither time nor expense to make
this years fair a success. Eastern
Stearns will turn out in large num-
bers. The work on the farms of
this territory is not pressing and
if the people of Western Stearns
will stand by the fair their is a
fair chance to liquidate the re-
naming Indebtedness of the fair
association this year. The fol-
lowing is the program:
Tuesday, July 3
HOO A. M.-Spelling Contest
Tor championship Stearns County
by students of Rural and Graded
Schools.
100 P. M.-Band concert corn
er Third and Main, Sank Centre
Boys Band.
1870 P. M.-2:24 Trot.
200 P. M.-Free Act-Mar-
mott Troupe.
2:15 P. M.-2:18 Pace.
2:30 P. M.-Free Act-The
hangers.
2:45 P. M.-2:24 Pace.
2:45 P. M. = Free Act
"Snooby," Trick Horse.
3: 100 p. M.-Free Act-Univer-
sity Farm Male Quartette.
3:15 p. M.-2:18 Pace.
$3.50 P. M.-1Free Act-Marnot
Troupe.
3:45 P. M.-2:24 Trot.
400 P. M.@Free Act-The
hangers.
AIS P. M.-2:18 Pace.
4:30 p. M.-Auto Races.
7:30 P. M.-Concert by Melrose
Band. 49,
7:45 P. M.-First Session Cow
Calling Contest for men, women,
boys and girls, prize, nickel plated
COW bell offered by Blue Valley
Creamery Co..
500 P. M.-Free Acts.
900 p. M.-Fireworks Display.
Wednesday July a
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