Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1938 — Page 18

PUBLICITY IS FEATURE WORK OF FREE FAIR Publicizing 0 f Street Fair Advertises Merits Os City, County - There is an old saying that "It | Pays To Advertise" — and In n 1 wanner of speaking it pays to ad , tertise the Decatur Free Street

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I Fair and Agricultural Show. It will be remembered that boost- ; Ing the fair and agriculture show also boosts the city mid communI Ity. i Undoubtedly me beat example j of the old adage occurred In 1938 | 'during the celebration of the city’s Centennial Celebration. | Newspapers and press service | over the entire nation carried the word that the city and county were celebrating tht\ 100th anniversary of their founding. Citizens in all corners ‘of the nation, many who heard of Decatur land Adams county for the first time, read these dispatches and ! were reminded of an active, alive community. Many paused to pass

YOST BROTHERS—CAL YOST — —• ““ ATTOS YOST Building and Bridge Builders-Sand and Gravel Producers THE NAME OF YOST BROTHERS HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE BUILDING AND CONTRACTING BUSINESS FOR MANY YEARS. WE’VE ENJOYED EVERY DAY OF IT AND THROUGHOUT THIS SPAN OF ACTIVITY WE HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING TO BUILD AND IMPROVE DECATUR AND ADAMS COUNTY. WE LOOK WITH PRIDE ON THE MANY FINE ROADS, BRIDGES and BUILDINGS WE HAVE HAD A PART IN CONSTRUCTING. • In ALL CONSTRUCTION WORK, WE USE MATERIAL FROM OUR OWN GRAVEL PIT LOCATED A SHORT DISTANCE NORTH OF DECATUR. THE MATERIALS TAKEN FROM THIS PIT ARE PRONOUNCED BY EXPERTS TO BE THE FINEST IN THE STATE. WE} SELL SAND AND GRAVEL FOR INDIVIDUAL JOBS AND CAN MAKE DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME UPON VERY SHORT NOTICE.

Attend The Big | Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show AUGUST 1 to 6

favorable comment, while some! ■ dispatched messages of congratu ’ latlons. Thus, one of the major benefits j derived from the staging of an: event similar to the street fair] Hand Centennial is the favorable; publicity given the city and conn I ty. While the publicity of an annual fair Is not us heavy as that of the Centennial, Its effects are far-reaching. First, a live mid hard-working j committee that handles the pub-1 liclty fur the fair, spreads the tid-l ings of the coming event over a. wide area mid then follows with newspaper stories and advertisements, as well as short radio an-j

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I nouncements. 1 The distance which some of the i fair visitors travel affirm the benelilts of this publicity. Most importhint of nil, the success of the fair, j resounds to tile credit of Decatur hind Adams county, and the fume (Os the fairs carries to distant j points by word of mouth. — o————— Police Hunt Pet Mink Elyria. <). <U.R> Police received a different kind of “missing person" call. The missing one was a “Mrs. i Mink” — not human, but a female | mink valued at SSO. Its owner. O. V. I Carper, told police that animal had them to help look for it. strayed from his home and asked — —... o Rat Bite Belatedly Fatal London <U.R> — Mrs. Lois Pearson. a Lincolnshire woman, has just died from the effects of a rat ibite she received 15 years ago. Since tnen she had Ibeen frequently inocu- > lated against poison, bnt recently the infection grew worse and ehe died. o Editors to Miss Letters London (U.R) — A man who wrote more than 80,000 letters "to the! editor" in his lifetime is dead. He! was Rev. J. P. Bacon-Phillips, 80, i acclaimed as the world's champion for writing letters to newspapers. I — o Tramps Edit Newspaper Paris.— <U.R>— Paris tramps are 1 publishing their own newspaper. Called “Le Clochard," Paris slang for tramp, it is intended not only to inform tramps about all things which- concern them, but also to tell other people about the lives and the hopes of vagabonds. Airport In Bottle Fairport. O —t(U.R>—An airport in side a quart bottle has been constructed by Eddie Kuchlnski. The airport, built through the mouth of the bottle without breaking it. consists of a hangar, three airships and an aerial beacon which blinks on and off. War Diary Finally Returns Tupper Lake, N. Y. —KU.R) —Lost on a muddy, shell-torn field in ■ France during the World War, a ■ black-bound diary owned by Carl A. Sutter has been returned to him after 20 years of circulating around Europe, England and America. o Australia to Send Warship Canberra (U.R) — In recognition j of the United States' gesture in sending four cruisers to Australia’s 150th anniversary celebration, the, government in planning to send an ! Australian warship to the 1939 San j Francisco International Exposition i

GOODING WILL FURNISH RIDES Big Eli To Be Outstanding Os Gooding Bides This Year At Fair The rides for the Decatur Free ■ Street Fair ami Agricultural Show 1 will again be furnished this year by the F. E. Gooding company of ! Columbus, Ohio. An announcement of this kind Is 1 expected to convince everyone familiar with street fairs that this I department will have the best and ■ that nothing will left to be desired In this form of entertainment. i Swing devices for the Decatur i Free Street Fairs have been sup- . plied by the Gooding company ■'since the first homecoming and , they have come to be recognized as one of the reliable features of. Hie event. Decatur has always been first on the list of new rides of the: Gooding Company, and the devices ' are of the class that gives assur- | ance against accidents. Big Eli Promised j Outstanding among the rides for i this year's fair will be the Big ■ Eli, gigantic ferris wheel, which | was used at the Cleveland Exposition. , This wheel will undoubtedly be ; the largest ever to appear here,! if Mr. Gooding is able to schedule it for the Decatur fair. The No. 1 unit of the Gooding company will be in the city, thus assuring the fair-goers of “tops" in rides and attractions. The shows will be of the usual, attractive calibre, synonymous with Gooding shows and are expected to draw their share of the fair visitors. . .o— ■ - — Robins Rout Hawk Herkimer, N. Y. —KU.P.S A chicken hawk attempted to rob a robin's nest in the eaves of a house here, but a flock of angry robins “gang--1 ed-up” on the marauder. The red- ' breasted birds swarmed over their ; ' larger foe and drove it off. * . o Toledo Manager Thrifty Toledo (U.R) — John N. Edy saves Toledoans money by filling the, posts of city manager, safety direc-' iI tor ami finance director, but his i j triple official role id not approved : b-.- the Court of Appeals. The city , > j manager has sole authority to name ■ J the directors, but the court held (that he could not personally pet- ( I form the duties.

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