The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-10-06
SCORES OF NEW FEATURES
ARE IN TABLELAND FAIR
Opens At Gimbels In Pittsburgh
On Wednesday, October 10


Scores of new features, including
displays from the Federal Government
and the State of West Virginia will
make the seventh annual Tableland
Fair this year an unusual one. There
will be exhibits by the United States
Soil Conservation Service and ten
other exhibits from the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. There will also
be an exhibit ofrural art scenes partly
owned by the Russell Sage Foundation
and partly by the Department of Ag-
riculture.
The fair will be staged, as in 1887,
in the 18th floor auditorium and on
the sun deck of Gimbels Department
store in Pittsburgh. The date of OPP
ening this year will be Wednesday,
October 10, and continue through Oc-
tober %. Prizes will be awarded as
usual for best exhibits entered from
the Tablelands, and the number of
contests will be large and varied.
Of particular interest will be a
showing of rare Brown Swiss cattle
by Meyers Bros. of Meyersdale. Four
H boys and girls of the Tablelands will
once again enter competition in q
wide range of prize contests, including
twenty classifcations and four prizes.
There will be stamp and coin exhibits,
craft exhibits, photography and many
other interesting hobbies on display.
The best in every case will earn its
owner prize.
The Conservation Department of
the State of West Virginia is sending
dioramas of forestry, recreational and
fire protection activities, panels illus
trating state parks, plus an automatic
protector showing motion pictures in
color of park recreational activities.
Poultry raisers will be especially in
terested in an exhibition of fine turkeys
and a large number of rare poultry
collected particularly for the 1888 Ia
bleland Fair Cages for these fowl will
be set up on the spacious outdoor sun
deck as in past years.
Another noteworthy addition to the
Fair will be a personal representative
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, who will set up an in
formation bureau and who will have
on hand booklets on every phase of ag-
riculture. Every visitor is cordially in
vited to visit this bureua and make use
of its facilities.
The United States Farm Security
Administration is preparing special
exhibit of photographs which will por-
tray human problems in American ru-
raj life, particularly in the Tableland
section.
Not only are the number of eXhib-
it's, both from Government agencies
and the Tableland, unprecedented this
wear. but the number of contestants
has never been so large. Gimbels is
flooded with entry blanks from all over
the Tableland.
Tableland merchandise will find a
ready market in Pittsburgh when
given the opportunity of display which
the Fair offers. Experience has shown
the value of having potato raisers,
egg dealers, apple growers, or anyone
with farm produce ready for the mar
ket on the spot ready to take orders.
An unusually large number of people
visit the Fair from Pittsburgh:
Any man or woman subscribing to
The Republican can get an entry list
from either Gimbels in Pittsburgh or
from County Agent John H. Carter.
If you haven't time to get copy of
the official entry blank, make up your
own list on plain paper and forward it
to Gimbeds by October 10.
There is no charge for making en-
tries. Trucks will come out from Pitts
burgh to pick up each exhibit after en-
tries are received.