Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — State Fair Items. [ARTICLE]

State Fair Items.

The business department of the I diana State Fair to commence September 28, indicates success.— Seven States already represented on the booksFive new exhibition buildings by individual enterprise going up, one of which is to cost $4,000. A new fountain is erected near the center of the ground connecion is made with the City Whiter Works, and the supply for all purposes unlimited. More stalls, pens and space for exhibition will be a necessity. sl,800 offered in speed list.

A grand Dog Show has been arranged for at the State Fair, sloo in premiums offered on Mastiffs, St. Bernards, Setters, Pointers, Terriers, Collies, and miscellaneous. A show of one hundred dogs guaranteed. Fifteen special premiums offered on dogs by business men of Indianapolis. Usual rules will govern. Send for prize list. The Woman’s Department has so increased as to require all the upper floor of the Exposition Hall, a brick structure 300 feet long and 150 feet wide. $175 in three premiums is offered for the best drilled female companies not less than sixteen tn each company, wbh Brooms, Fans or Spears. A fine display of German Carp Fish will be on exhibition.

The prosperity of the country, and the evident wealth of th farming community is largely due to the improved Live Stock, and wonderful improvement in Agricultural Machinery, which will be illustrated at the State Fair. No enterprising farmer can afford to stay away from this Grand Educator. A force of workmen are engaged in putting the groun s and buildings in complete order. The managers are contemplating an extension of the Fair Grounds in the near future, to provide for the best Agricultural Exhibitions in America.

The success of the State Fair is the true index of the prosperity of the country, and all indications point to an improvement on all former efforts. No limits for competition. If there is any better Stock or machinery than we have we want to see it.

Peterson’s Magazine for October makes us marvel more than ever how so beautiful a monthly can be published for so low a price. The principal engraving on steel, "lne Star of the Night,” is a portrait of one of the loveliest of women, and looks as if painted from life. There are two colored patterns in embroidery; a mammoth colored fashion-plate; a story ■ rofusely illustrated; and some fifty wood-cuts of fashions, work-table patterns, etc., etc. The powerful novelet by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, which has awakened such interest all the year, grow i more absorbing as it approaches the close. “Josiah Allen’s Wife has one of her unrivaled humorous sketches; Frank Lee Benedict begins a new novelet; and there is a little sketch, “That Horrid Dress,” which every lady ought to insist on her husband reading. But enough:J the test thing to do is to write for a specimen of “Peterson,” which will be sent gratis, and compare it with others, when you will be certain to subscribe, or get up a club, for 1886. Now is the time for this.— The price of this “lady’s favorite” is but two dollars a year, with great deductions to clubs. Address Charles J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

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