Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — NO STATE FAIR PASSES [ARTICLE]

NO STATE FAIR PASSES

OFFICIALS AND PATRONS PLEASED WITH NEW RULE. Msn Who Will Manage the Departments and Judges Who Will Tie Ribbons on Prize Winners. The "no pass” rule adopted and rigidly followed by the state board of agriculture at the Indiana state fair last year gained the full approval of the board members and the ever-pay-ing visitors to the exposition and the same rule enforced with strictness will govern the coming fair. Visitor# will again drop their coins of admission in the slot machines at the gates, each admission being registered by an electric device not only in the slot machine, but in a Central register in the treasurer’s office. Instead of the abolishment of the pass evil last year resulting in reduced attendance, the fair broke the record for paying crowds. Farm people who visit the flair and invariably pay their admission now have the satisfaction of knowing that every one who patronizes the exposition is on the same basis at the gates. The same liberal rates prevail this year. General admission adults, 50 cents; children, 25 cents; vehicles free. Members of the state board who serve as department superintendents will have charge of divisions of the fair, as follows: Admissions, L. C. Boyd, Indianapolis; grand stand, J. Lynn VanNatta, Lafayette; speed, C. H. Anthony, Muncie; horses, Dan C. Reed, Attica; cattle, Clem Graves, Bunker Hill; swine, H. L. Nowlin, Moores Hill,; poultry, Warren T. McCray, Kentland; art, J. E. McDonald, Llgonler; horticulture, John C. Haines, Rockport; agriculture. Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes; mechanical, Ed. 3.« Tuell, Corydon; concessions, Oscar Hadley, Plainfield; coliseum, Knode Porter, Hagerstown; amusements, Stephen B. Fleming, Fort Wayne. I. Newt Brown, of Franklin, is president of the board, Dan C. Reed Is vlce-pres-Kent, and Charles Downing is secretary and treasurer. The judges in departments will be; Draft horses, Mat Biers, Mendota, Ill.; coach horses, Richard P. Sterricker, Ooonomowoc, Wis.; harness horses, John A. Campbell, St. Louis; saddle horsee, E. A. Trowbridge, Columbia, Mo.; ponies, R. T. Sterricker. Cattle —shorthorns and polled Durhams, Frank W. VanNatta, Fowler, Ind.; Here fords and Galloways, Thomas Clark, Beecher, Ill.; Aberdeen Angus, red polls and brown Swiss, L. McWerther, Aldo, Ill.; dairy cattle, H. S, Berry, Lexington, Ky. Sheep—Shropshire, Oxford, Southdown, Hampshire. H. L. Compton, Kyle, O.; Cotswold. Lincoln, Leicester, Hal Woodford Paris, Ky.; Merino, U. C. Brouse, Kendalvllle, Ind.; Cheviot, Dorset and Tunis, Uriah Privett, Greensbufg, Ind. Swine —Berkshire, G. Wi Jessup, Rockville, Ind.; Poland China, John Harcourt, New Augusta; Duroc Jersey, Carl Scott, Shideler; Hampshire, L. M. Huff, Newcastle; Chester White, Joe Milner, Noblesvllle; mule foot, Tom Vinnedge, Columbus. Poultry—O. L. McCord, Danville, 111., and W. C. Pierce, Carmel, Ind. Agricultural products, William J. Ritterskamp, Princeton, Ind. Horticulture, H. E. VanDeman. Table luxuries, Mrs. W. L. Berryman, Tipton, Ind. As a new feature of the fruit show at the State Fair, about half of the apples on exhibition will be displayed in trays, and the others in plates. This change to trays has been made because the knowledge apple grown have gained in the last year ip sorting and parking trait for the marked