Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-07-18
RECORD CROWDS
TO ATTEND FAIR
NORTH MONTANA FAIR ATTRAC-
TIONS TO BRING PEOPLE FROM
ALL SECTIONS

Thousands and thousands of people
are coming to the North Montana fair
in Great Falls this year. Fair dates
are Aug. 5 to 10, and these six days
include enc Of the largest and most
colorful shows the west has ever
experienced. There's q place for every
thing ut this gigantic fair. Starting
with exhibits, the show covers the
field from agriculture TO zinc. Live
stock, agriculture, culinary. needle
work, art, flowers, automobile, mer-
camille. school and club work all
come in fer extensive display and
large sums In cash prizes.
One leading division of exhibits is the
National Hereford show and bull sale
which is to be held in connection with
the fair. This Is he first time that
this important meet has ever been
brought to the northwest.
Turning to the entertainment pro-
gram it is difficult to select those
features that are most outstanding. be-
cause the show has so many highlights.
The pari-mutuel horse racing begins
Monday of fair week and continues at
the rate Of seven races a day through
Friday. In addition M chariot and
n Roman rae will be run on both
Thursday and Friday afternoons. Com
mltlity saddle horse races are also
scheduled for these two afternoons.
The professional auto races will be
Saturday afternoon only, with a full
schedule of events contested by the
leading race drivers of the United
States and Canada. Gus Schrader, for
the past three years worlds dirt track
automobile racing champion, will drive
his record making 220-horsepower Mil
Ter racing a in these races. Some
special Improvements have been made
on the half-mile track this year max
ing it o suitable for automobile
racing, and as usual points won here
count toward the 1885 worlds cham
pionship.
An up and coming rodeo will be stag
ed the first three days of fair week,
crowding into these days all the activity
OF the former weeks program. There
will be from rs to 100 rOdeo events in
front of the grandStand each afternoon,
including brOnc riding, calf rOping,
wild COW milking, and trick riding and
roping as done by Monte Montana, the
movie actor.
Professional wrestling will be seen ON
a SAb 44lNdy anu odlQlQdy dllCl-
moons on the stage, when a Montana
state champion will be determined to
meet Lord LandSdowne, former worlds
welterweight champion, and again con-
tender for that crown, on Saturday.
-Four bands will be used during the
fair, including Phil Sheridan's Daven-
port hotel orchestra from Spokane, the
Plenytwood high school band, the
Blackfeet tribal band and the Great
Falls municipal band. Thrill acts and
speciality numbers that vary from
shooting a mar out of a cannon to a
sister dance team, will be fitted into
each daytime presentation between
major events.
A brilliant cast Of rs people will pre-
sent this years night show in the form
OF Presentations of 1885" Modernistic
costumes specially designed to register
under neon lights, chrome plated seem
cry, a 70 girl ballet line, and a variety
OF SpecialtieS combine to make this
Barnes q Carruther's musical comedy
tne greatest night show that the North
Montana fair has ever had. A COM
plete costume and routine change in
two OF the four ensemble numbers will
me made at midWeek to vary the show.
The fireworks program which will
each evenings grand stand
performance, will be greatly enlarged
this year. Spectacular effects will be
created both in the air and in set
Action and entertainment on the
midway is being provided this year by
the United Shows Of America, q 40 rail-
road car show, that is one of the larg-
and best midway attractions on the
North American continent. The o n
cesSion privileges have been let to the
Goodman Concession company who
nave a sterling reputation for providing
neat, attractive stands, operated on q
merchandise basis. Fourteen
riding devices will be In place. center
a midway that is second In size
only to Barnum g. Bailey and Ringl-
combined circus.
Everybody at the North Montana fair
N Great Falls this year will have an OBJ
portunity to share in $3,6O1 offered as
attendance premiums. The system OF
presentation will be the same as in past
years, with $500 in cash awarded each
of the fair at 4:45 in front of
the grandstand. The evening awards
include $3.50 in cash each of the first