Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — CHILDREN’S BIG DAY [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN’S BIG DAY

Fine Features for Them at Mana State Fair. The school children of Indiana between the ages of seven and twelve years are to receive unusual consideration at the coming State Fair; As in other years, they will, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, be admitted to the big exposition without charge and they will have free run of the grounds and all it contains. The fair management has always held out extra Inducements to the youngsters to attend, and has found that the boys and girls who on yesterday tasted of the exposition's enjoyment, are today and tomorrow the adult patrons of the enterprise. Children find every part of the fair and all of its popular features of entertainment strongly to their liking, •nd it is common on their special day 'for $.0,000 or more of them to see the exposition, and there is little that escapes their eager eyes. The big show for children at the coming fair will be given in the coliseum. It will be a pony show—the richest of its kind the fair has ever offered its juvenile friends. Arrangements for the pony show began months ago. There will be scores of these animals In the arena—every pony bred in the purple. They will be hitched to carts •nd other vehicles, and some wlh be under saddle when they contest for prise ribbons. Also to the liking of the children will be the special programs given by 100 ponies belonging to different breeders who have agreed to send their choicest Shetlands to the fair and will unite their herds for the special program. It will open with a parade and will include all sorts of "wild west” •ad trick riding and Ben Hur chariot races. Children who trained the ponies will put the animals through their tricks and paces at the fair, and broncho busting, high school and other fancy gaits will be particularly Plessis to the children.

Experts as State Fair Judges. fa the earlier years of the Indiana State Fair a common method of obtaining judges was to pick them up as they could be found at the exposition, but at the coming fair a well-organized force of judges will tie the ribbons on the prize winners. The list Is made up of men who are widely known as experts In their special lines. The judge of draft horses will be Prof. W. L*. Carlyle of Moscow, Idaho; coach, M. A. McDonald, West Lebanon, Ind.; heavy harness, Hon. C. W. Barnum, of Connecticut; show horses, T. Bell, Chicago; saddle horses, James L. Gay, Pisgah, Ky.; beef cattle, I. M. Forbes, Henry, 111., and John G. Imboden, Decatur, Ill.; dairy cattle, Prof. C.‘ S. Plumb, Columbus, O.; sheep, George Allen, Lexington, Neb.; Hal’ Woodford Paris, Ky.; U. C. Brouse, Kendallville, and Uriah Privett, Greensburg, Ind.; swine, J. S. Henderson, Kenton, Tenn.; Carl Scott, Salem, Ind.; Hugh Atkinson, Mt. Sterling, Ky,; F. U. Campbell, Tipton, Ind.; Thomas Vtnnedge, Hope, Ind.; poultry, O. L. McCord, Danville, 111., W. W. Zike, Morristown, Ind. L. J. ger, Stewartsville, Ind. The presiding judge of the races will be Frank E. Stone of Burlington, Wls., regarded M one of the most competent starters in the country. The great quantity of exhibits will give the judges a busy wook.