The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-08-27
Stearns Fair
To Open Its
Gates Friday
Fine Entertainment Will Be
Featured BY Profession
ais and All
BOOK SHOWS AND RIDES
Feature Pageant, Baseball
and Costly Display of
Fireworks

Stearns County's thirty-fourth
annual fair will open tomorrow
Friday, August 28th, for a three
day exposition of farm, garden and
home products, and a well-balanced
program Of professional and All
events.
Friday will be entry day and the
program Of professional aerial
acrobatic, vaudeville and magic acts
will open at the evening show.
These are all guaranteed attrac-
lions. They will also be shown with
q complete change Of program,
both Saturday afternoon and even
ing and Sunday afternoon and ev-
ening.
Saturday evenings program will
feature 1.-THE Spirit of American
Music" a colorful pageant to be
given by the combined 4-H and
adult groups. The music for this
event will be furnished by the Sank
Centre band. The pageant will be
under the direction of Miss Moan
Anderson, Home Demonstration
Agent.
Sunday afternoon, besides the
complete program of professional
acts, a splendid baseball game will
be staged at 2:30. The details of
this event will be found in another
column on this page. The Sunday
evening program will eliminate
with a splendid display Of fire
works.
The fair officials have booked
several very good entertainment
features, consisting Of professional
troupes Of acrobats, aerialists, mag
icians, clowns and vaudeville spec
ialists. These troupes include Anon
Sims & Co., comedy acrobats; Ba-
ker and Evers, vaudeville; Henry
Gordien, magician; and the Three
Lloyds. The Aerial Kesters. troupe
of extraordinary performers, met
with an auto accident and will not
be able to be at the fair. The Three
Lloyds, another high-class company
has been substituted for the Kest-
ers.
Arrangements are now being
completed to make the annual flow
er show one Of the beauty spots OF
the fair This show has always at
tracted a great deal Of attention
and has been one of the popular
Departments. This year it will ex-
coed the other flower shows from q
standpoint Of beauty and number
of entries.
Two-thousand dollars in prem
iums will be given in the various
departments, and although some OF
the departments will be light ow.
ing to drouth conditions, others
will be greater than they were in
former years.
Several shows have been booked
for the pike, and plans include g
Ferris Wheel and other riding de.
vices, besides the merry-go-round
which is permanently located al
the fair grounds. Among the shows
will be one of the outstanding mer.
it, a display of television, the latest
discovery in the radio and electrical
worlds. This new scientific discov.
cry, which transmits faces as well
as voices through the air, will be
demonstrated by Henry Gordien
former associate of DR.. Steinmetz
electrical wizard. There will also be
an athletic show, Hawaiian mus.
ical show, the Dillinger show and
others.
The fireworks display for Sunday
evening will be gorgeous event OF
set pieces and aerial bombs and
rockets, which will eliminate the
1886 fair in a blaze of glory.
AS admissions, the reduced prices
of the past two years will be con.
tinued, namely: Gate, afternoon
Csc, evening Csc; grandstand, each
performance 15c; season tickets
75c: car inside the grounds, 25c.