The billboard (July-Dec 1895)

12 BILLBOARD ADVERTISING IS READ ALL OVER THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD. KIND WORDS (?) THE "IMPKRTmU* HTT1TUDE OF THE PRESS. Distorted Observations, Misrepresentations, and Downright lies, Gathered from Here, There and Everywhere. The National Association of Bill Posters is holding a convention.in Albany. We have not, however, yet gone as far as a national association of bootblacks.— Omaha Bee Two sign painters of New York were arrested and fined for defacing rocks in a picturesque locality with advertising signs upon their sur- face. It served them right. There is a time coming when every self-respecting city will abol- ish, the unsightly bulletin boards which now abound upon every street -They are an eye sore and a nuisance.— Inter-Ocean, Chicago . Bill Posters Beware. It is now a misdemeanor for any person to ring the door bell or arouse the occupants of a house when leaving a hand bill or advertising sheet. Bill posters are prohibited from posting bills on rocks or trees adjoining the highways or on buildings without the consent of the owners. There are penalties of Jioo and six months im- prisonment attached to the offences. It will be gratifying to the public that the laws now pro- vide punishment for the impudence of the bill distributer, who rouses the family to greet a bill -which they do not want to see and. also for the * one who ruins the scenery along the country highways by advertising signs that are neither beautiful nor artistic. — Standard, GtoversirilTe, N. y. What's doing On? One or two correspondents of Chicago newspa- pers do not like the comments of Leslie's Weekly in reference to the bill board nusiance ia that city, recently illustratedin these columns, rhey characterize our remarks as impertinent and querulous. But the Evening Ibst and other journals applaud our remarks, and insist that the authorities should, jrut a stop to the plastering of walls and fences with vulgar, unsightly, and in many cases indecent bill boards and signs, I,esue's Weeelt is quite certain that the best public sentiment approves its efforts, first made here at home, for the abolition of a great nuis- ance, and it will not be seriously disturbed by anything that may be said in condemnation of its coarse by exceptional Chicago admirers of things hideous and shamefuL— Leslie's Weekly. On the 35llicott Square bill board is the picture of a girl holding a placard which asks passersby if they eat some kind of oats. I should think one took at the picture of that girl, who suppos- edly was bred on the kind of cereal she asks about, would cure anybody'of a wild desire for oats. The girl looks as if she were nndergoing a simultaneous attack of cramps and colly-wab- bles. Those who gaze alt her disjointed counte- nance must think those oats would kill a horse. There is art in advertising; and thep. again there isn't. In the newspapers is where adver- tisements ought to be placed. Effigies and freaks painted on fences cheapen the article they.are supposed to advertise.- Buffalo Enqnirer The crusade against billboards, noted as spon- taneous in several cities, has broken out also in Chicago."' As a matter of fact, the bill board is a relic of cruder theatrical times, and it is in many respects an annoyance to theatre managers as well as sometimes a public eyesore—Dramatic Mirror. The Everlasting Panorama. — The bill- sticking fiend would erect a hoarding in Para- dise if he got half a chance. As it is. he does not blush to rear one within five yards of a church door. There are any number of good newspa- pers to advertise in ; and we fail to see why the eye should be offended and the heart grieved by an everlasting panorama of shrieking capitals in. every colour of the prism.—7««£s Leeds, England Advertising Run Wild. Is the end of the century marked by aesthetic anarchy? Is the fate and the very name of Wilde significant of Nordau s doctrine of pre- valent abnormality and degeneracy? Form and color seem to be running wild; in some directions they may be said to be anarchical, as, for example, in impressionist art* and in the ampant headgear of women, loaded with flam- ing red or other color, possibly emblematic of woman's insurrection. And the carriage gear, even much of the body of vehicles and entire drag carts have this year taken on the red-repub- lican pigment. Fence boards blaze with intense raw color In advertisements. It is a general eruption with which nature sympathizes in her recent quakes and volcanic outbursts? Who knows that it may not end in a grand coincidence of nervous crazes and natural catastrophes like those In the fourteenth century, when the dark ages grew darkest just before the dawn ? All jesting apart, however, the advertising display signs call for special consideration be- cause we are forced to see them everywhere, and of the most obstrusive kinds that ingenuity can invent. They are not merely in proper place where the business advertised is carried on, but confront "us in every place—on fences by the roadside and fencelike devices on roofs, on chimneys and barns, on every part of the elevated railway stations, on the interior of cars, on rocks audi what not. If they were reasonable in size and quantity of color, and not impudently repeated, one night endure them good-naturedly as we endure a beggar's solicitotions, or a news- boy's eager trotting beside us with - his papers held before our eyes. But, with big and. often grotesque type and. violent tint, the advertiser stares at us, safe from personal rebuke z and, not satisfied with an occasional stare, he follows us everywhere, repeating the offence. Yes, since displays like these are well termed loud or stun- ning, he is shouting along our daily path as per- sistently and harshly as a strolling street peddler. The ultimate effect Is tiresome, though one may be interested momentarily in some new poster or freshly pictured wall. Moreover, a suspicion is raised that the thing so extravagant- ly advertised must depend for success on thesize' and antics of a paintbrush, or the amount of ink paper and paste, rather than on merit. A posi- tive prejudice, indeed, maybe excited against the bill the suburban property, or the play, that must yell itself into notice. One who thinks at all of it would prefer Dobbs v moderately an- nounced to HobbsV over-trumpeted sarsapaiilla tonic Of course, it pays to advertise, espec- ially in newspapers, where one may read at leis- ure; but a paying advertisement is not necessa- rily like a circus poster that may be artracive once a year, but would be execrable all the year round. : In its place, as in classified columns of a news- paper, or in a nostrum almanac or other pamph- let, a medical specifiemay be welcome to those who find it of interest. But who likes to have Filter's Easy Emetic or Pestle's Pleasant Purga- tive forced on his attention at every step and glance ? As for the big tobacco signs multiplied in every situation, a retailer would probably testify that consumers find out for themselves and adhere to whatever preparation of the weed they prefer, and the many noncousumers must be often annoyed by the screaming sign, inten- sifying their prejudice. Many other displays, especially fence posters, pertain to theatres. It is pleasant to notice that these have not been so objectionable for a few-months as during several years previous. It has been found very likely, that high art in museums and low art in photo- graphs render town eyes indifferent to the coarse nudities of board fence picture. In respect to even the posters that have lettering only, -why make so prodigal and coarse a show of colors simply to give in huge letters the name of a madarae or raadamotselle and the play in which she appears? In short, why everywhere a per- petual Fourth of July of cannon firecrackers— letters and wide flaring red lights, yellow lights. blue lights of printer's ink or painter's ink? It tends to blunt the observer's sensitiveness to the fine melodies and harmonies of form or color in nature and art. It belongs with the gaudy blanket of the Indian, or the fiery carpet of "sprawling pattern hung before a misfit store in a black street. At best, it is semi-barbarous, like a Russian temple said to have nine turu'p do ues, each of a different color, or like Ru>siau shops. with, for examples pictured beef and hams co\*- ering the whole front. Not printer or painter, but those who order the work are responsible for our monstrosities. Some do seek and secure a really refined piece of work, as in chromo-litho- graphy, and it would be impressive if shown here and there, not made ubuiquitous. Others, insane about large space, are sane in having it filled with an unpretentious poster multiplied like a regular decorative pattern. A tawdrily papered fence may have the merit of holding a rubbishy, vacant lot, but to paint the most or all of the hired blank wall of a build- ing with black, blue, or chrome, as a ground for brobdingnagian advertising, and, still worse, to hire every possible wall for the same announce- ment, is a gross disfigurement of the town and an indignity to the public, look, for example, toward either end of Brooklyn bridge from the bridge ; and in this case it is something set forth apparently for juvenile Intestinal ailments; -for this private speculation much of New York and Brooklyn thereabouts is converted into a mon- strous bulletin board. Such excesses should be prohibited by ordinance, just as a similar deface- ment of nature was forbidden by state law, after it had become an outrageous nuisance. And why should somebody's Imperial Polishing Powder, in vivid letters on vivid ground, be nailed on every stair of a railway station, and the waits, outer and Inner, and the railings be rented to advertisers? Must the railway eke out its otherwise sufficient profits by crazy-quilting with A's and B's wares it sown tastefully con- structed and painted stations ? As to the suburbs and country generally. Commuter Jack and Farmer Jill may Indulge in whatever decorative eccentricities they will, for their own delectation or ostentation, but surely they have no moral right, for the sake of a few dollars, to mar a land- scape or simply tease our eyes, by allowing a va- grant sign man to paint an entire fence, roof, or barn with black, lettered large with who ping white or yellow, simply to inform us of what we care nothing to know—that there is such a thing as Dick's Hair Dye, or Hary's Hair Oil, and even exhorting us to "try" this or "use'* that. It is not merely a matter between one man's purse and another man's paintpot, but is a public nuisance. . It is but fair to add, in dismissing the subject, * that impudent advertising may in some instances override all objections by the humor of extreme impudence, especially if transient and quite oc- casional, like all effective wit Years ago the grand finale of Fourth of July fireworks in the City Hall Park was a naval battle, representing ships and all, and-reaching nearly across the park. As the last pyrotechnic guns and lights of the crumbling ships were expiring, a patent medicine piece was slyly set up and set ablaze at the eastern end of the naval scene, as if offering a sovereign remedy for the wounds of war. No doubt if an apparatus could be invented, as the humorist Bangs imagines, that would project ad- vertisements on the face of the moon, it would be in constant use by those who, in the methods now mentioned, are already howling lunatics.— Atnsp York Tribune. Fun For The Goat*. There will probably be an exodus shorty of the billy goats which gambol over the barren and rocky heights of Hoboken and other aristo. cratic suburbs of New York. They are looking towardChicago as their coming earthly paradise. The one thing in this world which caused every gastronomic nerve of a goat to tingle at a 2:04 gait is a rich and juicy bill board. When the "new woman" abandoned hoops for bloomers one of Sir William's choicest articles of diet was dropped from the bill of fare, and since then he has eked out a miserable existence from tin cans, ash heaps, and refuse thrown in the streets of the big city of the Empire State, which cannot support a Civic Federation. So many of the peo- ple of that place go away in the summer to Chi- cago and other health resorts that the theatres cannot afford to keep open, and consequently the goats long in vain for the succulent paste and paper of the bill boards of the effete East— Chicago Inter-Ocean. Traveling bill posters take the cake for unadul- terated gall. They go into a store and hang up a bill and then ask the proprietor to sign am agree- ment to see that the bill is hung up until after the show exhibits. One of the kind was in this city to-day. Advertising sign painters who used.w'ithout permission fences along the Central Hudson Railroad near Poughkeepste were arretted and fined $25 each. The railroads ought to suppress those who mar the scenery with impudent signs making the ride on the railroad a long string of agony instead of a delight as it should be.— Star* Schenectady, A*. Y. The city'of South Bend has just been mulcted in the sum of $1,500 for injuries, to one of her citizens through the falling of a bill board. Two trials were had in the St. Joseph county circuit court. In the former trial a verdict of $5°° was rendered, but Judge Hubbard set it aside. Should this verdict stick it will be a pointer for all muni, cipalities to guard against dangerous bill boards. — Messenger. Valparaiso, Ittd. A couple of sign painters, who spoiled the beauty of some rocks near Fishkilt, by painting a hideous "ad" on them, were fined 525 each by a Fishkill justice at the instance of the New York Central Railroad Company — Gazette, Ktrtjervis, A'. )'. Advertising Run Wild. Gross Disfigurement of Fences and Walls. A Citizen Protests Against the Glaring Adver- tisements Which Are to Be Seen at Etery Tarn Throughout the City. San Antonia and vicinity is thoroughly abreast with the rest of the world, at least in the number variety and hideousness of wall and fence adver- tisements. There is scarcely a hundred yards of blank fence or a wall ten feet square in the en- tire city that is not disfigured with a horrible printed or painted advertisement of some kind. People are forced to see them and they are of the most obstructive kind ingenuity can invent- They are not merely in proper places where the business advertised is carried on, but confront one in every place, on fences by the roadside\ 011 roofs, on chimneys and outhouses, on street cars, on rocks and what not— Express, San Antonia, Texas. 7V\auberret^ printing House, limited Printing "POStCrS in /^fe. \j all sizes- " ^ym nil *uvio^ ■Work all sizes- all stvles. THE FINEST. Prices THE. LOWEST. BILLBOARD ADVERTISING is the Official Orpan of the Indiana Bill Pos ters' Association. 13 Branches hes. /-"- 526 to 532 Poydras Street, Kngravim;--• • MHW ORI.Ji.VN5. LISToEFAIRS •f + 15 9 5. + + REVISED AND CORRECTED. Copyright, June. 1S95, All Rights Reserved This flepnitment will hereafter lie made a regular feature of our columns, and will be broadened in scope so as to admit Expositions. Pure Food Exhibits, Celebrations. Fetes, Horse Shows, Flower Shows, llench Shows. Poultry Shows, and all Industrial Exhibitions whatsoever. Managers of any attraction of this nature can have their dates, official roster, town and name of the society under whose auspices the exhibition takes place, published free of charge in nonpareil The rite for bold face type will be made known on application. Belle Maine, Big Four District Fair, W. J. Guinn. pres. LeRoy E. Cox, sec'y Oct. 1 to 4 Eagle Grove. Eagle Grove District Agricultural Society, John Wassem, pres't. Hugh Donly, sec'y. Oct. : to 4. KANSAS. Wichita. Kansas State Fair Association. E R. Powell, pres't. W. R. Hewey, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 5 Mound City, Linn county Fair Association. H. H. Woy, pres't. Ed. R. Smith, secy. Oct. 1 to 4 Holton, Jackson county Fair, S B McGrew, sec'y. Sept 30 to Oct 4 Oskaloosa. Jefferson county Fair, Geo A Pat- terson, sec'y Oct 11 to 13 Stookton. Kpoks county Fair. I N Pepper, sec'y Oct 3 to 5 Ness ' ity, Ness county Fair, S G Sheaffer, sec'y, Oct 10 to 12 Oswego. Labett county Fair Association, Oct. 9 to 11, Robert Elliott, sec'y. KENTUOKY. Greenville, Muhlenberg county Fair, P. L. O'Brien, pres't. W. L. Phillips, sec'y. Oct. 9 to 12. Hopkinsville, Christian county Fair Association J. B. Gallreath, sec'y, xstweek in Oct. Owensboro, Daviess countv Fair Association. C. H. Todd, pres. J. W. Carter, sec'y, Oct. i to 5 LOUISIANA. Alexandria, Alexandria Fair Association, Phil L. Asher, sec'y, Oct S to 13 AHKANSAS. Newport Jack?oa County Fair, Oct. 8,9,10.11,12. C.illelt, The Stuttgart Fair Association, Oct. 25. W. S. fictile, sec'y. l'aracoiild. Greene county Fair. Oct, 39 to Nov. I. CONNECTICUT. Chester, Chester Agricultural Society, Dr. K. S. Smith, pres't. E. G. Smith, treas. Hared E. Smith, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 3. Clinton. ■ Hilton Agricultural Society. E. H, Wright, pres't. G. H. Brooks, treas. C. H. Evans, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 4. Danbury. Danhury Fair Association. Samuel H. Rundle, sec'y, Oct. 4 to 12 WilHmantic. Willimantic Fair. J. H. Gray, sup't, Oct. I to 3. Harwinton, Harwinton county Fair, "Oct Simsbuiy, Simsbury county Fair, Oct Stafford Springs, county Fair, Oct 8 to 10 Enfield, Union Fair, Oct Ness. Ness county Fair Association. O H far- away, pres S G Sheaffer, sec'y, Oct 10 to 11 Wolcott, Wolcott county Fair, Oct 16 DELAWARE. Dover. Agricultural Society of Delaware, Geo. A. Milliligton. pres't. Louis Schabinger, treas. John B. Wharton, sec'y, Sept. 30 to Oct. 5 Wilmington, Wilmington Fair Society FLORIDA. Bartow, Dixie Social Fair Society, No Fair .S95 GEORGIA. Atlanta, Cotton States and International Expo- sition Co. Valter G. Cooper, sec'y. Opens Sept. IS, closes Dec. 31 Warrenton. Warren County Fair, J. H. Robin- sou, pres't, P. B. Walker, sec'y. Oct. 33 to 35 IDAHO. Boise City, Boise City Driving Club. ILLINOIS Grayville. Grayville District Fair Association, Oct. 1 to 4 C.olconda, Pope county Agricultural Society, John R. Smith, pres't. Ed. B. Clark, treas. u. M. Lewis, sec'y, Oct. 1 to 4. Jerseyville, Jersey county Fair Association. Col, W. H. Fulkerson, pres't. J. A. Shephard, treas. H. A. Shephard, sec'y, Oct. 3 to 4 Salem, Marion Countv A^ricultura. Society. J. W. Laiuiin, pres t, C. lv. Hull, treas. II. T. Sweeney, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 4 INDIANA. Angola. Steuben Countv Agricultural Societv. A. M. Parscll, pres't, li. I,, llutsou, sce'v. Oct. b ton Bedford, Bedford Fair Association, A.C. Voris pres't, Jas. McClelland, treas. s. T. Zollman sec'y, Oct. 1 to 5. Bourbon, Marshall county Fair Association Geo. D. El linger, sec'y, Oct. 8 to n. Linton, Greene County Agricultural Society, Samuel Maxwell, pres't, John Bcmes, treas. W.J. Hamitton, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 5. P °P 1 "'; Grove, Poplar Grove District Fair, W. W. Smith, pres't. A. D. Wood, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 4. Rochester. I niton Countv Fair Association. N. A. Mi-Clung, pres't, Geo. V. Dawson, sec y, Oct. 2 to 1 Vinccnnes, Knox County Agricultural Society, J. It. Barr, pres't Ed. Watson, treas. Jas. W. Emlson. sec y. Oct. 14 to 19 Waterloo, North Eastern Indiana Agricultural Association, It. C. Boyer, pres't, H. K. Leas treas. M- Kiphinger, sec'y, Oct. 7 to 11 Winchester, Randolph County Union Fair, Thos. i".. Mullen, pres't, D. E. Hoffman, sec'y, Oct. 1 to 4 IOWA. Adel. Dallas county Agricultural Society, R. Banclv. pres't. S. M. I.each, treas. Lee 1 lioru- ton. sec'y. Oct. 1 to 4. Algona, Kossuth county Agricultural Society, D. D. Dodge, prest. E. B. Butler, sec'y. Oct. I to 4. MAINE. Topsham, Sagadahoc Agricultural Societv, John F. Buker, pres't, L. E. Smith, treas" w. S. Rogers, sec'y, Oct. 8 to 10 MARYLAND. Bel Air, Harford County Agricultural Society. A. M. Fulford, pres't, Jas. W. McNabb, sec'y. Oct, 8 to xi Cumberland, Tri-State Agricultural Society, Gen. Jos. H. Sprigg, pres't, J. L. Griffith, treas, C. Edgar Keller, sec'y, Oct. 1 to 4 Frederick City, Frederick Fair Association. Chas. N. Hargett, pres't, Harry C. Keefer, sec'y, Oct. 8 to lz . Hagerstown, Hagertown Fair Association, John W. Stonebraker, pres't, P. A. Witmer, sec'v, Oct. 15 to 18 MASSACHUSETTS. Athol, Worcester Northwest Agricultural Socie- ty, Wilson H. Lee, pres't, J. H. Goodspced, treas. J. H. Humphrey, sec'y. Oct. 1 and 2 Boston, Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Fair, Oct. 2 to Nov. 30. Brocton, Brockton Agricultural Society, Ira Copeland, sec'y. Oct, 2 to 5 Northampton, Hampshire, Franklin and Hamp- den Fair Association, E. E- Wood, pres't, D. J. Wright, treas S S. Warner, sec'y, Oct. 2 and 3 MICHIGAN. Centerville, St. Joseph county Fair, S. Cross, sec'y. Oct. S to 11 Charlotte, Eaton 'county Agricultural Society, J. H. Gallery, pres't, N. C. Smith, treas. Geo. A. Perry, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 4 Fenton, Fenton Union Fair, Frank Heath, sec'y. Oct, 1 to 4. ^- Hadley, Hadley District Fair, F. A otnith, sec'y, Oct. S to 10 Hillsdale, Hillsdale Fair, J.. r. Fitzsimmons, secy, Sept. >4oOct.4 Holland, Ottawa a id West'-illegan Agricultural Society, A. G. VauHess, preset, O. Brayman, treas. John Kertchef.-secy. Oct-1 to 4. Litchfield, Union Agricultural Society, R. W. Freeman, pres't. A. J. Lovejoy, treas. L- B. Agard, sec'y, Oct. 8 to 11 Stockbridge, Stockbridge Agricultural Society Edwin Farmer, sec'y, Oct. 1 to 3 MISSOURI. St. Louis, St. Louis Fair Association, J. K. Gwynn, seje'y, No, 509 Olive Street, Oct. 7 to 12 Kansas Citv, Inter-State Fair Association, D w Longwelf. sec'y. Sept 30 to Oct 5 Palmyra, Marion county Fair, Oct. 1 to 5, W. E. Sites, sec'y. NEW JERSEY. Mt. Holly. Burlington County Agricultural Soci- ety, II. L. Budd, pres't. Edward B. Jones, treas. Henry I. Budd, sec'y, Oct. 7 to 11 Trenton, Great Interstate Fair Association, Johu Guild Mulrheid, sec'y, Sept 30 to Oct. 4 NEW YORK. Oivego, Tioga county Agricultural Society, J. C, Latimer, pres't. M. Hastings, sec!y. Oct. 10 to 12. Riverhead, Suffolk county Agricultural Society. Sylvester N. Foster, secy, Oct. 1 to 3. White Plains, Westchester county Fair, Sept 30 to Oct 2 Schoharie, -Schoharie county Agricultural Soci" ety. Daniel W. Jenkins, pres't. H.F.Kings- ley, sec'y. Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 Watkins, Schuyler county Agricultural Society, O. H. Budd, pres't. Jos. P. Frost, sec'y. Oct, x to 4 ' " NORTH CAROLINA. Edenton. Kdenton Agricultural-Society,Dr.££. R. Capehart, pres't. John C. Bond, sec j, Oct. 22 to 25 Raleigh, North < arolina State Fair. J. S. Carr, pres't, H. W. Ayer, sec'y, Oct. 22 to 25 OHIO. Akron, Summitt County Agricultural Society J. W. Keighbaum, pres. Albert Hale, sec'y Oct. 1 to 4. ' Bellefontalne. Logan County Agricultural So ciety. Geo. A. Henry, pres. S. E- Allmou treas. Banner M. Allen, sec'y. Oct, 1 to 4. Bellevue, Huron county Fair, Oct 1 to 4 Marion, Marion coun.y Fair, Oct 1 to 4 Somerset, Perry county Fair, Oct 16 to 18 Attica, Seneca county Fair, Oct 8 to 11 Canal Dover, Tuscarwas county Fair, Oct 1 to 4 Cadiz, Harrison county Agricultural Society, S. C. Dickerson, pres't. J. C. Glover, sec'y. Oct 2 to 4. Coshocton, Coshocton county Fair Association, Ed. L. Robinson, sec'y, Oct. 8 to 11 Hamilton, Butler county Agricultural Societv, S. K. Hughes, pres't. - W. C. Shepherd, sec'y, Oct. 1 to 4. Lancaster. Fairfield county Fair Association, Jacob Claypool, pres't, W, T. McClenaghan, sec'y, Oct. 8 to 12. Georgetown. Brown County Agricultural Soci ety. V. K. Thompson, pres. J. W. Hedrick ; sec'v Oct, 1104. Mt. Gileadl Slonow County Agricultural Society. W. O. Thunua, pres. O. J. Miller, sec'y. Oct. Ito4. Newark. Licking County Agricultural Soaett G. W. Horton, pres. W. C. Miller, treas AO C. Seymour, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 4. Russellville, Brown county Fair, Oct I to 4 New Comerstown, Tuscarawas county Fair Oct 1 to 4 Richwoou, Union county Feir, Oct S to 11 Orrville, The Central Ohio Pair, Proctor E. Seas, Sec'y and Sup't. October 8 to 11. Ottawa, Putnam county Agricultural Societv, A. L. Paul, pres't. A. P. Sandles, sec'y, Oct. i to 5. Upper Sandusky, Wyandotte county Agricul- tural Society, G. W. Cliffe, pres't. Henry Kear, sec'y. Oct. 8 to n, Wapakoneta, Auglaize County Fair, J.T. Van Horn, pres. M J. Crawford, sec'y. Oct. 8 to xx Niles. Street Fair, Oct. loth, PENNSYLVANIA. Bloomsburg, Columbia county Agricultural So- ciety, J. S. Mensch, pres't, A. H. Yost, sec'y. Oct, 8 to 12. Forksville. Sullivan county Agricultural Socie- ty. M. R. Black, pres't, J. I,. Hoagland, sec y, Aaddress. Lincoln Falls, Pa. Oct. 2 to 4 3reensburg, Greensburg Fair Association, W. r. Holtzer, prest. D. B. Fisher, treas. M. N. ClaxkvsecY. address.-Clarid_.-vPa. Oct.2too. r.ewiston, Aufflin cu„^iy Agricultural Society J as ~ H - s, s!er. pres'- Thos. W. Moore, treas. A. T. Hamilton, sec">, Dec. :s to 13 Montrose. Montrose AgTi~iltnral Societv, W.A.- Titsw^^» , - sec'y, Oct. 1 to 2 NVizaret! # Northampton county Agricultural Society, vl'm. F. Beck, p s't, J." J. Ma us. sec'y. Oct. 1 to 4 SOUTH CAROLINA. Columbia, South Carolina State Agricultural So- ciety, Thos. J. Moore, pres't, Thos W. Hollo- way, sec'y, address, Poinaria, South Carolina. Nov. II to 15 TENNESSEE. Dyersburg, Dyer county Fair Association, N. W. Calicut, pres't. T. C. Gordon, sec'y, Oct S. to 12 Paris, Henry countv Fair Association, John R Wright, pres't, R. A. Foster, sec'y, Oct 15 to 18 Rockwood, Roane County Fair Association, J. G. Crumbliss, pres't, S."P. Sparks, sec'y, Oct. 1 to 4 TEXAS. Belton, Bell ounty Fair Association, W. S. varter, pres't, Louis Tyler, treas. L-K. Tar- er, sec'y, Oct, 8 to 12 Calvert, Robertson County Fair Association, L. T Fuller, pres't, J A. Foster, treas. V. Wm Paxish, sec'y. Corsicana, Navarro County Fair Association Joel Hayden, pres't, F. C. Hand, sec'y, Oct 15 to 18 Subscribe for Billboard Advertising. One Dollar a Year Dallas, Texas State Fair Association, J. T Trezevant, pres't, J. B. Adoue, treas. C. A Cour, sec'y, Oct. 19 to Nov. 3 Groesbeck, Limestone County Fair Association, G. V. McClintic, pres't, M. H. Clark, treas. Dr. S. Bugg, sec'y, Oct. 9 to 12 Hillsboro, Hill county Fair, S. S. Harris, sec'y Victoria, Southwest Texas Fair Association. L D Heason, pres't, L N Hofer, sec'y D H. Reagan, treas. Nov. 7 to 12 Fannin county Fair, Oct. 8 to 13. New Braunfels, Comal county Fair, Oct, 12,13 San Angelo, Concho Valley Fair, Nov. 5 to 8 Texas Coast Fair. Nov. S to 11 Rusk, Cherokee county Fair, Xov. 13 to 15 UTAH. Otto, Big Horn county Fair, Oct. 16,17. VERMONT. Rutland Rutland Fait" Association J. H. Mead, pres't F. A. Field treas. F H Chapman, sec'y Oct, 1 to 4 VIRGINIA. Fre.lcricks'jurg. Rappahannock Fair Society. Oliver r-.tburn, pres't, S. J. Quinn, sec'y, Oct- 22 to 24 Lynehbura. I vnchbnrt Fair Association, Sam- uel T. Withers pres't, G. W. Smith, sec'y. Oct, I to 4 Richmond. Virginia State Fair Association, Henry W. Wood, prest, Wm. G. Owens, sec'y. Oct. 8 to 12 Roanoke, No Fair 1S95. Staunton. Virginia Fair Association. C.B. Coiner, pres't, Heber Kerr, sec'y. Oct. is to iB*- Suffolk. Suffolk Agricultural Association. Geo * W Nurney, pres't, J. Walter Hosier, sec'y Oct. 15 to 18. WASHINGTON. North Yakima, Yakima County Fair. Oct. 7-12 WISCONSIN. Durand, Pepsin county Fair, W. H. Hunting- ton, sec'y, Oct 2 to 4 Jefferson, Jefferson County Agricultural Society, John Whittet, pres't, F. P. Kispert, treas. Dr. J. L. Kearney, sec'y. Oct. 1 to 4. West Bene, West Bend Agricultural Society. S. F. Mayer, pres't, Geo. W. Jones, treas. Joseph Ott, sec'y. Oct. i to 3. West Salem. Lacrosse county Fair, O. S. Sis- son, sec'y, Oct 1 to 4 Donaldson Litho. Co., Ci nc innati, have the Beat Pair Posters. All New and Up-To-Date. * OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. El Reno. El Reno Fair Association. Oct. is to iS Guthrie. Oklahoma Slate Fair Association. Roy Teal, sec'y, Oct. S to it CANADA. Almont, North Lanarh Agr. Society. W. P. McEwen, sec'y, Oct 2 to 4 Beachburg, North Renfrew Agr. Association, John Brown, sec'y Oct 3 to 4 Burford, Burford Agr. Society, Albert Foster, secy, Octio-11 Goderich. Great Northwestern Exhibition, Jemes Mitchell, sec'y, Oct 1 to 3 Markham, E. R, of York and Markham Agr. Society, W. H. Hall, sec'y, Oct 2 to 4 Paris, North Brant Agr. Exhibition, H. C O'NeU, sec'y, Oct 1 and 2 Walkerton, Northern Exhibition, Oct. 1 to Arch Totton, sec'y ONTARIO, CANADA. Dresden, Camden Agricultural Society. Walker H. Clapp, pres't, N. B. Carscallen, treas., John Chappie, sec'y. Sinicoe, Norfolk Union Fair Association, d.b. Palmerton. pres't; J. Thos. Murphy, sec'y. Oct- 15 to 17. BRITISH COLUMBIA. New Westminster. Agricultural and Industrial Fair. Oct. S to 11