Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — BIG CORN SHOW. [ARTICLE]

BIG CORN SHOW.

More than 10,000 Entries for tl»e Exposition to Be Held in Chicago. That there "will be more than 10,000 entries fbr the National Corn Exposition which is to be held Tn the Coliseum at Chicago, is the confident belief held by the management, based on the hearty response that met the first appeal to the farmers in the corn belt. Within a few days after sending out the list of the classifications for the entry of corn to contest for the SIO,OOO cash prizes and the $25,000 in special premiums offered, application for 1,500 entries were made. Quite apart -from the educational end of the exposithsttpif will be especially strong in attractive shmv features. While the most striking of these doubtless will be the lavish decorative scheme "which has been completed at an- expenditure of $30.000, a number of specialties have beeD arranged.