Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1918 — BIGGER FAIR AT KANKAKEE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIGGER FAIR AT KANKAKEE

Timely War Time Exhibits Come August 26th to 31st. EDUCATION AMUSEMENT

That the Kankakee Inter-State Fair is the World’s Greatest Outdoor Entertainment is the claim made by many who have visited that great exposition and who have

noted its phenomenal growth from a small country fair to a Fair of nationwide repute. That Fair, deeming the encouragement of agriculture a patriotic enterprise, is making preparations to hold a more complete, iiiterestlng and educational exposition than ever before In Its long and brilliant history. The -Kankakee Inter-State Fair will this year .4)6 held August 26th to August 31st, inclusive. Patriotic Fair. The Kankakee Fair will present many novel and patriotic features, both of educational and amusement value. The premiums of the Fair have been enlarged, the departments reclassified, and the exhibits rearranged, all with a view to rendering patriotic Services in a time of war and general need. The raising of live stock and of greater crops being of primary importance in the present world-struggle, those angles of the big Fair will receive especial Emphasis. Then, too, the Culinary and War Cookery department, the classification of which has been revised by an expert, will do .valuable and important work in teaching the essential lessons of thrift and

household economy. From end to end, the far-famed Kankakee Inter-State Fair has adapted its enterprise to aid in the achievement of victory. Diverting Entertainment. Realizing that, in days of hardship and stress the public requires amusement of a high grade, tlie Inter-State Fair has exerted unparalleled energies to produce a splendkL-vafted and diverting entertainment. On each afternoon and evening of the Fair, from August 26th to 31st, inclusive, there will be presented a dazzlingly spectacular series of circus and vaudeville acts, upon the spacious platform opposite the mammoth amphitheater. Here the tired or worried person may see and be delighted, here are entertainment numbers that will revive drooping spirits and rekindle enthusiasm and optimism. What is more welcome in days of war than such an entertainment! Expensive Horse Show. By way of its brilliantly beautiful fancy Horse Show the Kankakee InterState Fair encourages the raising, breeding and training of thoroughbred horses. In more than seventy choice classes, premiums aggregating $9,500 are offered to exhibitors of highly trained riding and driving horses. These intensely fascinating sho’ws, one being presented each afternoon and evening of the Fair, have received the unstinted praise of all lovers of horses. Here are gathered in compe-

tition horses from long lineages of aristocratic sires; here are shown the classiest products of the finest stables in America. An All-Around Fair. These are but a feyn-pf the many attractions at the jgreaf"Kankakee Inter-State Fair; the limits of space permit us merely to mention some of the many other features that are produc&Ltp educate and delight the public. Mention should be made of the vast Percheron horse show, and the exhibits of other drafts; the splendid displays of cattle, sheep and swine—to encourage and promote the breeding of which is a work of highest patriotism. There will also be at the Kankakee Inter-State Fair five afternoons of clean, exciting horse races, and one afternoon of daring automobile contests; a textile and needlework display of great beauty and large in size; a health exhibit; school work displays ; an art show, a varied exhibit of farm products, and many other departments, all of huge proportions and intensely interesting.

Looking at the Fair as a whole, there are none who cannot find amusement there, and none who cannot gain Information of value to him and to the nation. The Kankakee Inter-State ■Fair is promoted as a work of patriotism—to encourage ' large crops, the counteract disappointment and anxiety by amusements of the highest character. ■ i It is first in war and first in peace—the World’s Greatest Outdoor Entertainment