The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-31
REDWOOD COUNTY FAIR BOARD

been SO generally approved by fair visitors
or SO much enjoyed.
While crowds were consistently good,
many failed to attend the grandstand shows
and there was no bumper day, the kind that
really makes fair profits. Many theories
have been advanced as to why the show was
not the financial success which first seemed
likely, among them that the Diamond Ju-
bilee to some extent over-shadoWed the fair
and drew many people who did not come
back for later events. The jubilee and fair
were planned together as a gala week and
the fair no doubt benefited to some extent
by the unusual amount of pubgity. An
other theory is that crowds are tired OF
thrill day programs and crave horse racing
again, although Tuesdays race program did
not prove a major attraction financially.
Still another answer is that prices are low
and money consequently is scarce. Probably
all these and other factors hurt the box Of
ice.
Persons not closely associated with the
air sometimes fail to realize the problems
If the fair board. A celebration committee
stages an event and, win or lose, it's over
out the fair comes around as regularly as
The fall season. For full year the board
individually and collectively plans for the
show and CANDLES all on three days of good
weather, plus crops and business conditions
and the Whims of an amusement bound pub
lie. It's deficits are not made up by assess
ments, but carry over to be paid off next
year, or the year after-whenever every
hing smiles on the fair.
Persons who haven't stock and never
show up at stockholders meetings have been
known to bring up annually for decade
some action Of the directors that didn't suit
their fancy. The board is expected to put
on show clean enough for children yet
worldly enough to attract the multitudes
The community is consistently behind the
fair, but not always close enough behind to
help push.
In spite of many setbacks, the Red
wood county fair has progressed through
the hazardous sos, staging its finest show
in 1889. The outlook is good for the '4Os.
. . .
EFFORTS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR A
memorial to Charles M. Babcock, father of
Minnesota's good roads, are being revived
after lull of several seasons. The slow
progress of the drive was due partly to the
lack OF any definite plans on the part of the
committee as to what to buy or build with
the. funds.
There is no questioning the service to
the state rendered by Mr. Babcock; or that
he left memorial to himself in the great
Improvement in the states highways
brought about through his efforts.
Obviously the man chiefly responsible
Tor these fine roads might be forgotten in
years to come by citizens not concerned with
history but this could be avoided by plac-
ing appropriate plaques at intersections of
several of the states best improved routes
Better still, as the state gradually improves
a road extending from one end of the state
to the other, such as highway, II, it might
be named the Babcock highway and so
marked In appreciation of his activities.
Whatever the memorial, it should be
something associated with roads, designed
70 call attention to Mr. Babcock's public
service and contributed to by the entire
state
CIVIC LEADERS IN MINNEAPOLIS
are formulating plans to celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of the founding of
the city, next October Instead of planning
celebration, those good people ought to
clan ways and means to rid the city of muir
terers and racketeers and make it safe
place to live IN. If the pioneer founders of
Minneapolis could look ahead 1Ou wears and
see the present city, where farmers have
been mobbed and their produce ruined while
irving peaceably through the streets;
Guild see the lives of poor women threaten
wing and peaceable citizens murdered in
he city streets in broad daylight and the
nurderers go unpublished, they would no
doubt have left the land with the Indians
-Waseca Herald.
MAN IN IOWA, IS YEARS OLD, HAS
withdrawn an application for an old age
oension, stating that his SO year old mother
has stated her willingness to support him,
which is a reversal of the usual CUSTOM
Carlton Vidette.
WE PASS ON THIS BIT OF SOUND
sdvice-It takes less time to avoid an acct
lent than to fill out an accident report
thief River Falls Times.
THE DRUNK BEHIND THE WHEEL
is still the great traffic hazard. When he's
on the loose he's on the loose. The road is
his and that's that-Willmar Gazette.