Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — BIG SHOWS AT FAIR [ARTICLE]

BIG SHOWS AT FAIR

Spectacular Events of Norses and Cattle at the Indiana Exposition Week of Sept 6. PRIZES AMOUnTTo $25,566 Elaborate Parades, Ring Bhowe, Band Concerts and Vaudeville Will Mark Rich Program of Night Shows In the Coliseum—Fine Conteeta Also In the Morning and Afternoon. With a coliseum to match any In the country, and with a horse barn which cost 140,000, both offering splendid facilities for the purpose, the State Board of Agriculture has the incentive to organize its day and night shows on an extravagant scale for its State Fair at Indianapolis the week of September 6. The money prizes offered by the Indiana Fair and American associations of horse-breeders amount to over 113,000, and the silver cups, gold and silver medals which are to be offered in several special contests will bring the total worth of the premiums up to $15,000, a generous increase over the horse show prizes at the Indiana Fair in other years. Since the coliseum, with its immense arena, gay decorations and electric lights, was erected, the State Fair horse show has become far famed. It is year after year attended by many thousand people, and this feature of the fair gives promise of being the ruling spectacle of the coming exposition. The classes for horses include every kind that is held in high esteem by both breeders and admirers, ranging from the humble mule to the proudsprinted high school horse, from the lowly truck horse, with blue blood in his veins, to the nattiest roadsters. For the Percherons, Clydesdales, Belgians, shires and heavy draft horses, a total of $3,000 Is offered In prizes, gold and silver medals will be awarded the best Percherons and Belgians, and silver cups and ribbons will goto the winners In special classes for shires. In coach horses,, including hackneys and Germans, the prizes reach $1,090. The premiums offered on mules amount to $370. The showing of harness horses is unusually good in the Fair’s premium list, the prizes offered being ample to cause a large number of contestants. The premiums for roadsters reach $450 and S2OO is offered for women who drive fancy turnouts. The sum of S6OO Is offered for htgh-steppers and park horses, S2OO on tandems, SIOO on unicorns and S2BO on four-in-hands. In an effort to bring into the arena of the coliseum the big show teams of the largest business concerns of the west, the Fair management offers prizes to the amount of $1,225. For two-horse delivery teams, hitched to wagons, $225 is offered, and as much more will be given on teams hitched to trucks; $325 on four-horse teams and truck, and $450 on six-horse teams hitched to heavy trucks. One of the richest divisions of the horse show will be for gaited saddlers, the total in prizes amounting to SI,OOO and In addition a trophy worth SIOO will be awarded. The State Fair horse shew Is always marked by many high school horses, $350 being offered for them at the coming Fair and S3BO for equestrians. The high-jumpers will receive $250 in prizes and $690 will go to the ponies. Many of the events In the horse show are for women drivers and riders and about every horsewoman of Indianapolis, with a number from over the state, will, as In other years, complete' for the money awards and ribbons. The night shows at the Fair will be enriched by a parade of hundreds of horses and cattle, a spectacle that is not outranked by anything of the kind given in the United States. While the contests for ribbons are In progress ' concerts will both afternoon and night be given by Natiello’s band of fifty men from Philadelphia, one of the canspiclous ,concert organizations of the country, and by the Indianapolis Military hand of thirty-five men. The live stock contests are to.be supplemented by numerous hippodrome events. One of them Is an aerobatic novelty by six performers. Another Is a hazardous wire act by four performers. Nicholas Chefalo will “loop the death loop”; the LaTell sisters, the "flying fairies”; the Marco twins, In “a laughing fit"; two men In a thrilling bicycle act, and a Japanese troup of acrobats are some cf the other attractions prominent in the hippodrome features, and several gifted high school horses will be put through their paces with a woman In the saddle.

The cattle shows will be held in the coliseum morning and afternoon. The combined prizes In the beef and dairy classes amount to $12,566, making total awards for tfie horse and cattle Bhows in the arena of the coliseum $25,566. Several national and Indiana associations of cattle breeders have Joined with the State Board of Agriculture In enriching the premiums. For shorthorns the prizes amount to f 1,942; Herefords, $3,774, of which sl,959 is offered by the Indiana Hereford Breeders’ association; polled Durhams, $1,021; Aberdeen-Angus, $1,331; Oolloways, $501; red polled, $846; The cattle show will culminate on Thursday of Fair week In the contest for the grand championship, the prize for which is SIOO. Dutch belted cr.ttle will be one of many features in the uarades and arena shows of livestock.

Do you realize that one person of eight dies of consumption, Lagrippe, pneumonia or some other lung disease- Just think what that means. Of the people living in the United States to-day, over ten million will die of tuberculor or some form of lung trouble. You can’t afford to run risks, and you need not. Watkins’ Cough Cure taken as soon as you begin to cough, stops the trouble. Numberless families find it a safe-guard against colds and coughs. You need it. Don’t run risks. Keep It in the house. See my full llnv of goods when I arrive. I’m coming soon. Full line of goods at Knapp’s livery office. V. M. PEER, Agt.