Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1908 — STATEFAIRBLOOMING [ARTICLE]

STATEFAIRBLOOMING

Bigger Than Ever It Was and the Enlarged Buildings Too Small for Exhibits. REAL LEMONADE WILL BE SOLD Unlucky Man Has an Experience with the Busy Bumble Bee Fish Ducks a Fair Angler. Indianapolis. Sept. 8. —With live stock, farm products and macliir.ery by .the trainload as the raw material the making of an exposition of big proportions has been under way for several days, and the Indiana State Fair has opened its gates for the fifty-fifth time. Since it is an exhibition founded for the purpose of showing the products of the soil t is. of course, the same old fair, but much enlarged in all directions and richer in the quality of its materials.

Some Improvements Noted. And in the grounds where the blood ed live stock and the best yields of field and orchard are on show many improvements over a year ago are to be seen. Chief among them is the new horse barn. Another is the long stretches of broad cement walks which follow the nmm drive from east to west, one walk leaching from the grandstand of the race course to the fine arts hall and the other from the live stock pavilion to the women’s rest building. This Is going to be a dustless, mudless fair, too. for the drives have been oiled. Many drinking fountains have been put in and ill over the grounds can be found little ind large improvements for the comfort of visitors. Everything Is Too Small. But ther» is a fly in the ointment The new barn, built to meet the wants for some to come, will not hold all of the fancy horses that seek admission. The cattle barns are more than full and the surplus Is ’being taken care of under tents. The adjoining pens for swine and sheep, with Stretches of canvass, shelter two of the largest exhibits the fair has ever had. The agricultural building, one of the largest on the grounds, is filled to Its capacity with the products of the Hoosier soil. The art building, poultryhouse and other structures are not large enough for the exhibits. All of the permanent pavilions for machinery are filled and about thirty acres of canvas has been put up to shelter the displays of plows; vehicles and other contrivances which are used on a farm. It Will Be Real Lemonade. The state board of health and Its food Inspectors will be busy during the state fair, according to H. E. Barnard, state food and drug commissioner. Barnard lias decided that no Impure food or drinks shall be sold at the fair, and he declares that if the rules are violated arrests will follow. There •will be no lemonade without lemons at this fair this year.

HE IS SURELY UNLUCKY Hoosier Citizen Has an Interesting Time with Bumble Bees—His Other Misfortunes. Petersburg. Ind., Sept. B.—James Waid, of this city, better known as “Unlucky Jim.” has met with more misfortune. After taking a picnic party to the country he bitched his mule team over a bumble bees’ nest, and the bees made it most interesting for iwth himself and team. Waid was only stung twice, but the bees settled on bis mules and it was necessary that a fire be built beneath the animals in order to get rid of the bees. Both animals were badly stung. Waid recently lost four horses by a mysterious disease, and then fire destroyed his barn, burning twelve cows and twenty sheep, on which he earriednoinsurance. Horse That Love* Devil Wagons. Owensville. Ind., Sept. 8. —Louis Johnson, a farmer, living south of this city, owns a tine spirited buggy horse that fairly loves automobiles. Every time a machine passes the animal ft tries to turn around and follow the machine. Most of the farmers in this community are experiencing considerable difficulty in getting their horses accustomed to meeting automobiles on the public highway, but this is not the case with the horse driven by Johuson. O.' |-_ f ' Mrs. Johnson Got a Bite. Sullivan, hid.. Sept. B.—While fishißg In the Wabash river, two miles •hove Riverton. Mrs. Lizzie Johnson, es Indianapolis, fell Into the was almost drowned. She was sitting cat a log, and when she got a bite she became so excited she lost her balance and fell Into the river. She was rescued, the tishline recovered and at the and was a ninepotmd catfish. Tree la a Nature Faker. Milroy, Ind., Sept. B.—Mrs. Rosen* Crawford has a natural freak In the jyay of a. cherry tree which is In fujj

bloom. The’tree bore a crop of fruit in the spring and is now preparing for . a second crop. She also has some raspberry bushes which are bearing a second crop, having bloom, green berries and ripe ones on them now. This Fisher Caught a Pearl. Milan, lud.. Sept. B.—While fishing in Laqghery creek, near Napoleon, Benjamin Johnson found a $45 pearl.