The Billboard 1911-07-08: Vol 23 Iss 27 (1911-07-08)

i , q : 4 : The Billboard JULY &, 1911. FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS Land Show of Big Proportions will be Held at Omaha— Jamestown Exposition Site Ordered Sold by Court—Fair Notes LAND SHOW FOR OMAHA. Omaha, Neb., board) .— The be held from June 30 (Special to Omaha Land Show, which will October 16 to 28, will be the big amusement affair of the Missouri Valley next fall. It comes as the successor of the National Corn Exposition, but with added features. Last year it was held in the Omaha Auditorium and Was a big success, and in order to have gufficlent space they will use the Ak-Sar-Ben Collseum for their second show, and will. also put up at least four annexes. The show is put on for the purpose of developing the West, and a The Bill big attendance will be drawn from people who are interested in land, machinery, ete. The show is backed by C. C. Rosewater of the Om| aha Kee, and is under the management of W. _ 0. Paisley, who was general manager of the first show, and who was also connected with both of the Corn Expositions. Othere connected with the miavnagement are Louis W. Buckley, formerly of the A. Y. P. Exposition, and Z. T. Howell, who was with other expositions in this city. Mr. Paisley has announced that they will use some high-class amusement features as wel] os several musical and athletic turns in connecon with their land show. Nothing that will not fit in with an educational display will be considered, and the plan is not to add festures where they would require a separate admission BIG FAIR FOR ONTARIO. London, Ont., June 29 (Special to The Bill hoard.)-—-The management of the Western Fair. have this year made a number of changes re garding their attractions and midway perform ance They have entered into a contract with a reliable New York firm to fill up the entire midway with good, clean, moral shows of differ t bin's th ittractions in front of the gramistand will be of a high order and well worth traveling miles to see, There will be a number of military maneuvers and the local Firemen will give an exhibition of their work daily Several bands have already been engaged, and a military tatoo will be held each evening I vorks: will be on the pro gramme ever “Modern War Street Car anc sample of 1 collision between a omobile, The Street pro gramme this t best ever offered by the Exhibition The ites are September Sth to 16th. THIRD ANNUAL FAIR. Ryan, Okla., June 28 (Special to The Bill board.) If the plans of the management of the Jefferson Count Farmers’ In Association is carried out. Ryan w of the largest fairs n this stat was ‘ f tl first start a after statehood was granted. It is the purpose of those in charge to give ll visitors an onn rtunity to see what progress has been made along lines of agri cultural and live stock production and every farmer and ranch wher will have a chance to exhibit his best There will be many amus¢ ments, which should 7 attractive to pleas ure goers The races will be the best ever, many fine horses will be seen on the track. 1S ORDERED SOLD. Norfolk. Va.. June 17 (Special to The Bill board) Federal Judge Edmund Waddill Jr. today held that the Jamestown Exposition Company Was a corporation, against which mechanies’ liens can be enforced. and ordered that the exposition site on Hampton Roads should be sold than November 1. 1911. of today’s decision is that $200,000 in mechanics’ liens will come ahead of the Exposition Company's first mortgage bonds of $240,000 outstanding, mechanics’ liens to be gatisfe4 first after court costs. vet to be determined, and an original purchase price lien of $65.000. The exrosition site must seil for more than half a million dollars if the Govornment. &s a general creditor, is to recover loan of £1,.000,000, any of its HURON TO HAVE BIG FAIR. Huron, 8. D.. June 29 (Special to The Billboard).—The South Dakota State Board of Ag riculture has arranged for what it considers the very finest attractions for the 1911 South Dakota State Fair. Attractions to be given before the grandstand in the afternoon and evening, The feature of the outdoor attractions will be aeroplane flights, which take place every afternoon. The machines used will be those of the | Exhibition in Cairo, the is due to his highness. held on Redah Island, | uated for the purpose jcenter of Cairo, It is initiation of whieh The exhibition will be which is admirably sitand quite close to estimated that it cost $2,000,000 to $2,500,000. The government is expected to lend its nancial help, and sub scriptions will be raised among the different societies interested and private people. FAIR NOTES. The Olean Fair Association, Olean, N. Y., is planning this year to give its patrons the most for their money of any fair in the state. They bave already booked a Curtiss biplane for a guaranteed flight each day with either Ely or McCurdy as aviator. Mlle. Vallecita’s trainea leopards and the Clark-Razzillians. aerialists and equilibrists, together with the Wallace orebestra, which made such an immense bit at last year’s fair. All of these attractions are free to the visitors to the fair. Many improvements are being made on the grounds in readi ness for this year’s fair. A new main building is under way which, when finished, will have a floor space of 265 feet by 50 feet. The track is being put in excellent shape for races and an addition is being built to the grandstand. A new entrance of a most attractive being built which will extend the entire frontage of the grounds. The architecture is of the ' Spanish tvpe with imposing entrances and exits and executive offices. The entire structure will be built of solid concrete with roofing of red tile. A landscape gardener will have charge of the laying out of the grounds which will a to the general beauty of the place. Many concessions have already been booked, the large record of attendance last year, leading the privilezge men to want to get in early. Olean is in the Western New York Racing Association and is governed by the rules of the National Trotting Association. . The management of the Napoleon Fair Company, Napoleon, Ohio, is putting forth every effort to make the Henry County Fair, to be held September 4-8, 1911, the best in its his tory. The best free attractions obtainable have been booked Vaudeville the Western The racetrack is becondition for the Association ing put in training of ew have been built md many of the old ones repa J art nd agricultural halls have ween ¢ urged and re-decorated throughout. The list has ven revised and the premiums increased : every department The Agricultural Society is offering additional premiums amounting to the best exhibits : ’ ir The speed program is the best ever by the Napoleon Fair Company, and are already being received concerning | rent races. | The success of the International Aviation | be held on the State Fair grounds at it, Mich., June 29 to July 4 sit s } alread assured The advance sal f tickets | \ yg Pa ; Was € I larg if ud l ste p i rang j gy to 1 xcurs s from points iM | 0 1 Indiana w jles of that |< t rea ce test eve | Purses egating ver : offered as prizes and there will be flights of probably at least seven mono Hanes and three biplanes in the air at one time Resides this there will be races of automobiles and motorcycles against aeroplanes and combinations of box tional ascents on and other exciting features, The seDsSAa kites, Morris County Fair Association, Grove, Kan., was reorganized during the and is now in good shape for future meetings. They will hold a big race meet July 18, 19 and 20. and next year will add all the fea tures of the county fair. Council Grove one of the fastest tracks in the state and this year has a large entry list and promise some of Counce spring the best racing ever seen’ in this part of the country. The association hopes to be able to add the features of aeroplane fiying, and also obtain the services of a first-class band for this meeting. The management of the California State Agricultural Society is figuring on the biggest fair ever held in California. They have decided on very much the biggest and best race program ever put on in the state, the highest purse run ning to $10,000. There are more applications for exhibit space than ever before at this time of the vear. and the fiving machines, fireworks and Wild West features intervening, they hone to have not only the best fair. but also the biggest attractions and. consequently, the big gest crowds ever assembled on a like oceasion in this state. For the purpose of the | will | design is | has | | noon mapping out certain preGlenn H. Curtiss type. These flights will be the | iminary plans for the coming Tennessee State best ever seen in this state and should attract | Fair. the Executive Committee, Nashville, Tenn., a great deal of attention. The Scottish sheep | met on June 23 and among other things, apdogs will give exhibitions of how ther take | Deinted E. M. Foster, John Early and George care of lost sheep. : Holle as a committee on location for the several Besides many other high-class entertainments, | departments of the fair. The committee de there will be band music given every afternoon | Cided it necessary now, on account of the great and evening. ; amount of work to be done, to meet weekly a ra eae The amusement committee, of which W. G. Hir sig is chairman, promises rare exhibits in the NO FAIR FOR JACKSON. way of both special and the free show attraceee tions. Jackson, Mich., July 3 (Special to The Bill The Marion County Fair Association, Ocala board).—The Jackson County Agricultural So Fla.. which will hold its fair Nov. 21-24, is ciety will hold no fair this year. A number | now in its fourth season. It is situated in the | of meetings of the directors showed unnsnal | center of the richest agricultural region and interest in ¢t nroject. bot the fair grounds | all indications point may be purchased by the city for a park, and | It will be the aim until after next spring’s election no action can | bine pleasure wit! be taken. providing the best ar ——_——_ and sideshows The re ‘ a close sttent EXHIBITION AT CAIRO. | Treive close atte nieqena ‘ which will } The following item appeared in the dail consular report last week: The swim exhit r f Cora Beckwitl “Pan African Exhibition of Cairo.—Onr Alex. | Will make a doz more tv fairs West of andria correspondent writes that His Highness | Chicago tt und f Jake Rosentha Prince Fouad Pasha, has embarked there for | the theat l ’ er of Dmbuqne lowa is France and England with the object of putting | managing the far * swimmer making his himself in direct relations with the specialists | twelfth summer season with the Miss Beckwith there who are organ'zing the great Pan African All parapbernalia f the Beckwith Show is new, including the portable Natatorium, subnet 1 swimming pools, seats and lights. The roster for Miss Beckwith will include: Charles Carter Snyder, Clarence Mitchell and George Wood | ruff. The Humboldt Tri-County Fair Association, | at Humboldt, Tenn., will be held Sept. 27 to) 80, inclusive. A fine half-mile track and race is a feature. The pacing record for Kentucky Tennessee Fair Circuit, 1910, was made on this track. Liberal purses for trotting and pacing races are offered. The attendance last year Was from 3,000 to 5,000 daily. Considerable improve ments are being made this season in the way of new buildings, etc., and the largest attend ance is expected at the September meeting. Extensive repairs are being made upon the track belonging to the Cornish Agricultural As sociation, which hold forth at Cornish, Maine, making it one of the best half-mile tracks in the state. A splendid new front and gateway are improvements that will add much to the general appearance of the property. A new ticket office and rooms for the president, secre tary and treasurer will enable the management to conduct the fair upon a more progressive basis than ever before. The Allentown Fair, Allentown, Pa., wil! hold their fair Sept. 19-22 this season. They have engaged nine acts direct from the New York Hippodrome and are also negotiating for fast horses, but as yet have not signed a contract. It is intended that the Southwest Vir ginia Agricultural and Live Stock Association. Radford. Va., will, this year, cater more to the entertainment of the agricultural representatives that any fair in Virginia. The dates of this fair are Sept. 1-8. The novelty of the Linco'n County Fair Association, which will be held in Toledo, Ore., September 5 to 8, will be the children’s exhibit. In fact, it will be the feature of the social life. The agricultural exhibits will be more catered to this year than ever before. Many prizes will be given for live stock at the Tate County Falr Association at Senatobia, Miss., this coming October There will be many amusements on the grounds, and a big success warranted. Big trotting purses will be the feature of the seems Marshall County Fair Association, to be held at Lewisburg. Tenn., this coming August and September. There will also be many other up to-date and novel attractions to be seen, and amusements of all kinds will be there to give both young and old the time of their lives. Everybody who does not have a light heart and with an overabundant of good nature will have no use for the Marshs’l County Fair this season. The Crawford County Grange Agricultural So ciety. whi holds its annual fair at Robinson, Ill., Sept. 25-29. is planning to ve or of th The Knights of Pythias f the fair and from present in Versailles Fair should prove a r grounds I well equipped mile ’ ino re te it te level f or just back for neess ° g 0 f the hat has r ‘ in ida 1 hr t to of e¢ 1 t t ex rida Ea ( st R to irs ( ae a Prown £ 1 the & é I 1 is su ssfnul promoter of fairs and ex s. will bie t engaged to take the active ma nent of the celebration The West Oxford ricultu Soc ety of Fryburg, Maine. will hold its fair Oct. 3. 4 and 5. This fair is strictly an agricultural one, and does not cater to many The prizes offered for high-bred looked upon as the crowning event several wealthy men interested in the they have taken great pride in of the best and most elite Applications for ground rent and race entries are alreauy being made for the big county fair which opens at Belfast Me., on August 15-17. This fair *°s one of the best midway grounds in the state, and precedes in succeeding weeks the fairs at Bangor, Waterville and Lewiston, being on the State Fair Circuit, The fair grounds are easy of access by boat or train, and located in a city of six thousand inhabitants. The Livingston and Ontario County Carnival! will hold forth at Livonia, N. Y.. Aug. 7 to 12 It will be one of the largest and most attractive fairs ever held in this section of the state There will be the midway, hippodrome, Coney Is land and other attractions of this sort. A band will be on the grounds at all times, and everyone fond of music will have the chance to hear anything from the barn dance to Rigoletto. The Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition, to be held at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Aug. 30 to September 7, is the largest live stock and agricultural Fair in Eastern Canada, offering a prize list of $200000. Seven days horse racing with seventeen races, purses offered, $6.600, Vaudeville in front of grandstand every afterand evening. Concessions on Midway. Either lump sum or on commission. Much interest is being taken by people who art interested in agricultural and domestic lines, whose exhibits will be seen at the Kanabec County Fair. which takes place at Mora, Minn., in September There has been scheduled several good races, which will have good purses attached, From the early reports the whole race program will soon be filled ana a big time is being looked for, October 17 Arcadia Fair Crowley, La amusements stock are There are fair. and making it one affairs in the state the young is set for the Association, which takes From the amount of looks as if this hivh water opening date of the place at preparations yg coming opening will he the mark year Every ac commodation for the patrons will be had. and all are expected to have a good time Horse races will be one of the leading sporting fen ture The Montpelier Fair and Driving Associa tion of Montpelier, Ind... will open its annual fair withn the next few weeks, July 18 being the opening date, The trotting races will be ome of the chief features of the fair. 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