Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1909 — AN IDEA WORTH TRYING. [ARTICLE]

AN IDEA WORTH TRYING.

Mr. and Mrs. Q. K. Ritchey, Jr., returned Sunday from Connorgville where they visited the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Myers, and attended the Fayette fair. They have a free fair down there, that is, no admission is charged whatever to the grounds. The grounds consisting of 40 acres were donated on this condition, and all exhibits and racing stock must be products of Fayette county. Osa says there was probably 8,000 people on the grounds Thursday. Many of the premiums and purses are donated, and the fair is a great success. The county fair seems doomed as they have been conducted in the past, but if they could be run on this plan—and the merchants and business men often put up enough money to get some carnival aggregation to their town sufficient to pay a nice lot of premiums for a fair—they can be revived and made a gource of profit to the community. Why wouldn’t this be a good thing for Rensselaer? The Stock Farm race track would make a fine place for holding a fair, and the race track is already made. While too late to think about this year, we believe if the matter was taken up next season it couFd be made a huge success.