Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — FISH, FOOD, FORERTRY EXHIBITS AT STATE FAIR [ARTICLE]

FISH, FOOD, FORERTRY EXHIBITS AT STATE FAIR

A new feature of interest to all visitors at the coming Indiana state fair will be a large exhibit of fish from the lakes and streams of the state, which will be exhibited by Eugene Shireman, fish and game commissioner. Fifty varieties of the finny tribe, from the smallest perch to the largest bass and carp, will be shown in twenty-five aoquarluma, making it the greatest show of fish from Indiana waters that has every been made. The Indiana board of forestry will have an extensive exhibit in its building on the fair grounds, and a number of the lumber companies will join in making the forestry display on much greater scale than usual. The Indiana food commissioner will also make a great exhibit at the fair, one of the features being of fraudulent weights and measures taken from unscrupulous dealers over the state, and another will be an unsanitary grocery store, showing how foods are handled in some unclean stores, and still another will be a clean grocery that handles only pure foods. All of these state government exhibits will have high educational value and will teem with attraction sos all visitors at the fair.