Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — Horse Show and Fair at Chalmers a Big Success. [ARTICLE]

Horse Show and Fair at Chalmers a Big Success.

The writer attended the Chalmers horse straw and industrial exhibit Friday, having been invited to act as the umpire of a ball game" between the old Chalmers team and the. present team. The old team as it played was composed >of John Smith/* Minus Irwin, jSam Hughes, Ted Minch, Clyde Raul?, Will Stoker, Jim Downey and the Shank boys. Fifteen years ago the pjayers composed a team that made it lively for any semi-pro team in the state. At that time Guy Peacock played and an effort was made to find him for this game but he could not be located. The present Chalmers team had their hands full defeating the “old timers” and at the end of the Bth inning the score stood 6 to 6. The youngsters’ endurance was better than the old fellows, however, and in the last inning the balloon went* up, so to speak, and the youngsters piled up 8 more runs. The game was attended by a thousand or more people. The horse show iwas a good one, lots of good animals being exMr. Maddox, who was the judge here several years ago, was the judge. The exhibit of farm produces, fancy -work, canned fruit, baking, etc., was fine and attracted the men and women in large numbers. The exhibit was. in a small store room, the articles being attractively arranged. Potatoes, tomatoes, winter radishes, squashes, beans, mangoes, peaches, apples,, grapes and many other things were shown from the truck gardens. Corn, wheat, oats and popcorn, as fine as you will And any place, any year, was shown. The baking and canned fruit exhibit was fine. Oakes, cookies, rolls, bread, jellies, preserves, pickles, all manner of canned, fruit was shown. Fancy quilts, an art that has almost been lost since the old country fairs died out, were on exhibition, and much fine linen work, inclunding lunch cloths, napkins, bed linen, handkerchiefs, handbags, pillow tops and other articles were shown and rare ability was evident n much of the display. It seemed to us of such importance that we wonder why such a show would not be much more valuable than many of the more trivial things which towns frequently support. A good free show was also given on the street, two attractions of merit being engaged. The ball game was also free.