Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1914 — INDIANA HORSE SHOW GROWING IN QUALITY [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HORSE SHOW GROWING IN QUALITY

State Fair Night Feature Includes Natiello’s Great Baud. With the richest prizes it has ever offered, amounting to $5,984, and with a national reputation among owners of the fanciest stock, the Indiana State Fair night horse shows during the week of Sept. 7, will be on a more spectacular and dazzling scale than at any time in their history. Among light harness and saddle horse owners the Indiana Fair has -won first rank not only because of the generous prizes, but because of a superior coliseum and barn facilities for showing their stock, and there is further incentive to exhibit at the Indiana Fair because of the publi<? appreciation bestowed on these night shows. While this department of the Fair has been increasing in its wealth of horses, the attendance has been annually growing until the night shows now are better than at any time in their history and are annually expanding in quality and in public attention. The best show stables of the country will be represented in the State Fair arena, musical programs of high order will be given, and the parade of horses and cattle, a lavish featutre which rivals the greatest live stock shows of the continent, will combine in making the coming night shows of unusual splendor. Contests of roadsters, runabouts, carriage pairs of high steppers, tandem, four-in-hand and business teams, the prizes for which amount to $2,605; events for five- and three-gait-ed saddle horses, high school and other fancy steppers, with prizes amounting to $1,925; more than SI,OOO in prizes for ponies; contests for men and women equestrians, assure a horse show program each evening of wide variety. One of the choicest pleasures of these evening displays will be the concerts by Natiello’s band of forty-five men, with a number of famous instrumental soloists, and a feature of the band concerts will be the singing ly the Natiello quartet. * The Indiana State Fair will be prolific in amusements of many kinds during the week of Sept. 7, chief among these attractions being the vaudeville bill Jhat will each afternoon be given before the grandstand during the races, the variety being greater than heretofore offered. One of these stellar attractions will be the Royal Namba Japanese troupe of acrobats in contortions, perch balancing, equilibristics, head-walking and foot-juggling. The Mengean troupe of society acrobats will perform wonderful feats of ground tumbling. The Flying Devals will give a comedy casting act, including double hack somersaults, twißtjng double somersaults from catcher to catcher, and a series of comical acrobatics on a bounding trampoline. Differing greatly from all of these will be the Forbes-Cameron troupe of Scotch bagpipers and dancers, who in Highland costume will give flings, reels, jigs and Irish dances. The State Fair “midway” will again overflow with entertainment in the form of carnival shows of many kinds. The official management of the fair -will be in the hands of the following: President of the Indiana state board *bf agriculture, Clem Craves, of Bunker Hill; vice-president, Warren T. McCray, Kentland; secretary and treasurer, ' Charles Downing, Greenfield; department superintendents, admissions. Charles W. Hickman. La-

fayette; grandstand, comenus tJ-urieu, i Lawrenceburg; speed, Charles H. An- | thony, Muncle; horses, Warren T. McCray; cattle, Oscar Hadley, Indianapolis; sheep, John L. Thompson, Gas City; swine, Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes; poultry, John Isenbarger, North Manchester; art, Samuel F. Spohn, Goshen; horticulture, John C. Haines, Rockport; agriculture, L. B. Clore, Franklin; mechanical, Ed S. Tuell, Corydon; concessions, S. O. Dungan, Indianapolis; coliseum, Dan C. Reed, Attica; amusements, Knode Porter, Newcastle. California’s walnut growers will this fall ship a total of 10,529 tons of the finest and largest walnuts ever grown in the state. The crop is the greatest in history, according to the report of the California Walnut Growers’ association.