The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-08-05
MINNESOTA COUNTY FAIRS HAVE

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MINNESOTA COUNTY FAIRS HAVE
had good many ups and downs in recent
years, with board members resorting to
every scheme possible to keep attendance up
and to prevent their heavily indebted in
situations from slipping further in the red.
Fortunately the Redwood county fair
entered the depression period without a
great debt burden and with excellent man.
agement and fair break on weather has
managed to keep its head well above water.
First step to defeat the hard times bug
aboo was the reduction in the gate admis-
sion price from SO cents to rs cents, a step
taken by most fairs. To offset this loss,
boards in a great many communities helped
attendance by offering automobiles or cash
prizes on lucky number tickets, financed in
many cases through sale of the tickets to
merchants, to be given with purchases.
While the idea served a good purpose
in keeping fairs alive, it was generally re-
cOgniZed by fair boards as a "bait" attrac-
ton and unsound as a permanent procedure
because the fair must eventually stand on
it's own feet if it is to exist.
With a brighter sun in the financial
heaven, many fair boards have seen fit to
abandon the prize attractions and depend
upon quality program as the crowd-puller
In line with the trend, the Redwood fair
fathers have booked thrill day" to be stag
ed by Bob Ward who manages that feature
at the Minnesota state fair and other top
circuit shows. The board, after consulting
the arrangements of some of the institutions
where he has played, thought we'll enough
of the show to eliminate one days horse
racing to make room on the program for his
company.
The Redwood fair will be the only coun-
ty fair in Minnesota offering thrill day Of
state fair attraction proportions. 1t will lift
the show out of the ''just another fair"
class and should swell the gate and grand
stand receipts to profit making proportions.
The fair is the greatest single under
taking in the county. The part it plays in
All club work promotion alone makes it
worthy of the support of every resident of
the county. Enthusiasm for the institution
has grown steadily in recent years and with
success in the venture this season, the fair
should be able to add to the plant and in
other ways make great strides in coming
seasons
WE HAVE FROM TIME TO TIME
expressed our lack of sympathy with dog
prisoners. We think they are misguided,
underhanded lawbreakers deserving of little
sympathy. But they do have the defense
that they are "driven to it" in lots of cases.
Too many dogs roam the streets at all hours
They bark under your window and mine but
apparently never the window of their own
ers. They bark at if not actually bite the
klddles, they dig in gardens and shrubbery
and paw over the garbage can. There would
be fewer dogs poisoned if the owners exer-
cised little restraint on their fields of dis
comforting endeavors.
THE REDWOOD FALLS FACULTY
won't seem quite the same this fall without
Nicholson, Obermeyer, Miss Vittum, Miss
Chaplin and others who not only have done
exceptional work in the classrooms but have
been particularly pleasant in their dealings
with the public. Their sincere interest in
the children, without which any instructor
is lost, has never been questioned They
have taken an active part in civic endeavors.
The communities to which they go are in
deed fortunate.
FOR PURE PIFFLE, THE FEAT
ure" sections of Sunday newspapers are
ecllpsed only by the society bunk, the movie
and radio blow-ups and about half the stuff
That makes up the sport pages. Thank
goodness they send few colored comics
along for intelligent reading.
WITH THE SMALL GRAIN CROP
somewhat spotted but generally running to
good yields and excellent quality, along come
rains to brighten considerably the prospects
for bumper corn crop. Redwood county
truly is deserving the title Goods country
MAYBE THE TROUBLE is THAT
there are too many thinkers and too few
thinkers.-Thief River Falls Times.