The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-09-17
BETTER
THAN EVER, FAIR
OFFICIALS CLAIM
Gates viii Open September 23
for Four Day of Fun and
Education
NEW FEATURES PLANNED
Races, Fireworks, Free Acts
Are Best Obtainable; Barns
Will be Crowded

The gates of the fifty-eighth annual
Redwood County fair will swing open
Wednesday, September % for four
day program of entertainment and
education.
Final preparations will be made
this week and early next to accom-
modate the record breaking crowds
expected. The barns and exhibit
buildings will be crowded and entries
in the horse races and other contests
where purses are offered are expect
ed to exceed the marks of other
years.
Among the new attractions on the
fair grounds east of Redwood Falls
this year will be an exhibit of game
and fish prepared by the Redwood
County Game Protective league. Glenn
Hillig, president Of the league, and a
committee selected by him have
secured the cooperation of the state
game and fish department in securing
live and stuffed exhibits which will
be shown in the Shell building and
adjoining lots. New breeds of pleas
ants and other game birds and per-
haps a cub bear will be among the
featured exhibits.
Free School Tickets
To insure the attendance of school
children, the fair board has mailed
out thousands of school tickets which
teachers will issue to school children.
Schools east of county road run
ming through Delhi, Wabasso and
Lamberton will be admitted free
Thursday while county children west
of that road will be admitted Friday.
Children from outside the county will
get tickets for Saturday. In case of
bad weather, tickets will be good the
following day.
Fair officials are convinced that
this years program will be among the
best ever offered. They have secured
two free acts which are headlining
the best fairs in the northwest for
entertainment before the grandstand.
These are the Toyama Japanese
troupe of nine versatile entertainers,
who do Juggling, acrobatics and
dozens of other stunts in manner
seldom seen except on the best vaude-
vile circuits, and the Five Flying
Lavans, aerial artists who are famed
for their performances on trapeze
high above the crowd. 1t is seldom
That LON these companies appear on
the same tair bill. Other free acts
70 <hn
gram.
Four county bands from Belview,
Seaforth, Lamoerton and Redwood
Fails have agreed to play for the
fair crowds. They will divide their
time so that band music will be heard
Oh the grounds most of the time.
Many Race Horses
Horse race entries were closed
Tuesday with many entered. since
the Redwood County far is the last
in the state and one of the last in the
northwest, its races have always been
well filled and fast since none of the
horses are being saved for larger
purses offered elsewhere.
Two novelties this year are a Ford
and hog race Friday afternoon and an
old fashioned car race Saturday.
Prizes are offered for entries in
both classes.
Three evenings of fireworks also
help attract large crowds and this
years program has been especially
prepared to please. Free acts will be
given every evening and during the
last three afternoons and fireworks
will follow the acts Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights.
A horse shoe pitching contest with
$50 in prizes is another innovation at
the fair this season and is expected
to have many entrants. A pair Of re-
gulation shoes will be given to the
best scorer each day.
Many Exhibits
Many All club members, some Of
them just back from the state fair
with premiums, will show livestock
and home economies exhibits in .
large section Of the grounds given
over to their work while the large
number of premiums offered their
elders in similar divisions is expect
ed to swell entries there.
Besides the regular fair program,
the fair board has accepted requests
for space from many concessions. A
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