Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1920 — FARMERS’ DAY AT WINONA LAKE [ARTICLE]

FARMERS’ DAY AT WINONA LAKE

“Farmers’ Day” at Winona Lake, August 11, is expected to bring thousands of people from all parts of northern Indiana. The Winona management is co-operating with the Kosciusko County Farmers’ Association in arranging the program, which will include addresses by the president of the State Farmers Federation, the vice-president of the National Association, representatives of Purdue University} and prominent farmers of the state. Committees representing the Kosciusko County Farmers are at work soliciting funds from business men and attractive prizes will be of-’ sered for the largest delegation, farmers coming from the farthest distant point, and other contests which are being arranged. J. W. Keefer and Charles Anglin, officers of the Kosciusko County farmers’ organization, predict that “Farmers’ Day” at Winona will attract between 8,000 and 10,000 people. One of the purposes of the all-day meeting will be to create a closer relationship between the farmer and the city man. “Farmer’s Day” will be one of the big events staged in the new Winona auditorium just before its dedication, August 13, by “Billy Sunday. Farmers who come for the big meeting will have an oppertunity. to witness the great historic pageant “America” which will be presented by 1,000 persons in the evening of August 11. On the following day Galli Curci will sing, and just preceding “Farmers’ Day” will come “Americanization Day* with addresses by speakers of national reputation.