The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-28
WORKERS BUSY
PREP airing FOR
|ND|ANA'S FAIR
Thousands Expected to Visit
Ground for Opening
Saturday.
SABBATH PLANS READY
Sunday School Session and
Booth Address on
Program.

erecting stands, painting buildings
and repairing roads at the state
Playground in preparation for the
seventy annual Indiana state
fair which opens Saturday, when
thousands from Indiana and other
western states will throng the city
and grounds.
The fair will come to a close Sat-
urday, Sept. Z, and the grounds will
be open only for church activities
and speaking Sunday.
Officials of the Indiana Board of
agriculture, sponsors of the fair, are
striving to make this years showing
larger and better than ever" they
said and expect a record breaking
attendance.
Two hundred police, under Major
Lewis Johnson and Captain Jesse
McMurtry and fire and hospital
squads are due on the scene early
Saturday morning. The Indianapolis
Street Railway Company will have
plans for additional street car serv-
ice on north side lines completed
Thursday.
Days Set Apart
The following days have been des-
ignated by state fair officials: Satu"-
Cay, Boys and Girls Club and Chill
dren's day: Monday. Labor day:
Tuesday, American Legion day;
Wednesday, farmers and former ag-
ricultural board members day;
Thursday, Governors and legisla-
ture day; Friday, Indianapolis day,
and Saturday, auto race day.
Children under IL will be admit
ted free the opening day and since
this is near the close of the summer
vacation, fair officials expect that
more than $4,000 children will push
their way through the turnstiles.
Sunday school will be held in the
Woman's building at $50 a. m. Sun
day, followed by sacred concert
and an address by Charles Brandon
Booth, in the coliseum Sunday after
| noon.
Tuesday, the fair will be the scene
of two feature activities. One will
be the city industrial and CONNER
cial parade to the Playground at
noon, and another will be the Kid
dies circus and pet parade in the
coliseum Tuesday night. Thirty
prizes will be given for the best en-
tries by children.
American Legion members from
posts throughout Indiana will be
special guests at the fair Tuesday.
AL G. A. r. veterans, soldiers and
Boy Scouts will be admitted free.
The ground will be open Wednes-
| day to Indiana farmers and former
members of the state agricultural
board, who. in years gone by, have
had the job of handling Indiana's
greatest seven and eight-day gath
ering.
Governor to Be Guest
Governor Harry G. Leslie and
members of the state legislature will
be the guests at the annual noon
luncheon given in their honor in the
Woman's building Thursday.
Friday will be topped off with the
annual visit of city officials and
their guests to the fair, followed by
the annual horse show extravaganza
in the evening, when Society night
is observed. This latter event is one
of the largest drawing attractions of
the fair.
The fair will close Saturday with
the annual auto races as the feature
of the day.
Races Each Afternoon
The biggest daily feature of the
fair is the Grand Circuit races each
afternoon on the ground track.
The horse show also will be open
each night, beginning Monday.
Injiana university students will
present a stage show each night in
the university building from $3.50
to $50.
In addition to these features, there
will be the annual midway and car
nival show daily at 10 a. m. to en-
terrain fair visitors.
The annual girls school at the
fair already is under way, with an
enrolment of 107, and the boys
camp is scheduled to open Saturday.
Members of the agricultural board,
President Edwin D. Logdson; Secre-
tary-Treasurer e. j. Barker, and
Levi P. Moore, publicity director.
have opened their Offices in the ad-
ninistration building at the fair
ground.