The billboard (Apr 1897)

THE BiLLBOAfcB If there is a bench show connected wil your fair, Mr. Manager, you will find AW. <,'«» osrf jUwaW a bright bi-weekly paper, both interesting and valuable. It is published at 514 Third street. Louis, ville, Ky. Send 5 cents for a sample copy. This is the second season of the big Northwestern Indiana Fair Circuit, which embraces Plymouth, Crown Point. Val- paraiso.Laporte, South Bend and Bourbon, in the order named. A. A. Bibler, of Crown Point, Ind., is secretary of this he above classes each society will give several local trotting and running races, with very liberal purses. One of the best at H. Bisshopp. of Beloit. Wis., in the way of pony chariot races. These ponies none of them stand over 44 inches tall; they are highly colored and run for all there is ir it, hitched to chariots four abreast. At Janesville, two seasons ago. they made 3 quarter in 39. The outfit consists of three cliariots, four ponies hitched to a chariot. Pain 1 ought K r: Iff. money up in pn up for special large proportion The exposition bill appropriating f 100 was passed in the House by a vote of 70 Mrs. Salrina Bisshopp, of Beloit, Wis., whose husband made the first importation of Shetland ponies into this country in 187J, will sell at public auction, May la, at 1 p. in.. at Beloit, Wis., some thirty-five head of Shetland ponies, mares, stallions and geldings. These ponies are very fine and some of them highly colored. se who attend a fair is and who care for nothing on exhibition. They want to see something exciting, and the fair associa- te ,■■ .-il ft a □aking a grave mil the gate receipt*. The fairs in Wisconsin have adopted a good scheme. It is to have the premium lists of all the fairs ] Secretary Reeve, of Sparta; Secretary Nye, of West Salem ; President Johnson, of West Salem, and a number of local horsemen and others interested in fair Officers for the circuit were elected for 1S97 as follows: President, A C. Plum- mer; secretary, F. H. A. Nye, of West Salem. Dates of fairs for the circuit were fixed as follows: Sparta, August 14.15,16 and 17 1 Maua- tom, August 31, September 1 and 1; Tomah, September 7, 8 and 9; Viroqua, September 14, 15, 16 and 17 ; West Salem, September », ji and JJ. It was decided to havj mixed races, five seconds in favor of trotters. Classes as follows : Three min. class, j-40 class, 1:30 Chaa and fre. ft. Sfcttta. «ecreury of the Jefferson county -all. e Monday befi Chicago, with a smaller population, has 3,549 miles of streets. Philadelphia, with a million and a quar- ter population, has 1,317 miles of streets. The population of Boston and St. Louis are about equal, but Boston has 769, miles of streets, while St. Louis has 1,334. These figures have a good deal to do with your billposting appropriation. f W. H. Delayed e. Ind., March, ,5th, rs^. 7. P. BAXTER, Richmond, Ky. list by the fairs he: liook when bound and trimmed shall be Sjf inches long by 5% inches wide. Uhrichsville and Denniaon, (Ohio), have organbed a Driving Park Associa- ft.aoo at races to be held June 15, 16 will be the twenty-ninth annual fair given under BILL POSTERS tion, wherein the trill posters acting as our agents, have divided or shared their commissions with patrons. Others have given the entire amount to their customers. This is a senseless pro- ceeding. There is no reason for it. Our prices are low, and we insist upon their being maintained. If we hear of any more rate cutting, we shall cnl off future commissions from the party CANADIAN BILL POSTERS, NOTICE. ££"J £ sr by satisfactory references '■ Lane, London, W. C. has tak- en on the sole agency for our posters, commercial and theatrical, in the United Kingdom. He came* a complete stock of all styles, and orders addressed to bim will be filled far more promptly The a will be offered by