The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 13, 1916, Page 7

i s e e 3 < \ | Telling the Story of a Great Victory . Willey ~ opinion.” Hurrah! X - FITH bigger and better educa- 5 .- tional features and an enter- - tainment . program that ~promises to outshine any of the: past, the State fair at Fargo, July 17 to 22, inclusive, promises to bring ‘record crowds from all parts of the state. Approximately $60,000. will - be spent on the big show this: year by the North Dakota State Fair association for Fargo, ‘which is $45,000. more than the appropriation of $15,000 allowed by the legislature. © Of the 'state’s money $10,000 goes for prizes and premiums solely and $5000 for maintenance and improvements of . grounds. Gate: receipts, therefore, are relied upon by the management to- make up the great bulk of the cost of the big event. Important new entertainment features for this year are the champion woman avaitor, Miss Ruth Law, who will loop- the-loop and fly daily; awhole after- noon of motorcycle races, which is an entirely: new feature of the fair pro- gram; . auto speed events, the usual classy program of saddle and harness races and five brass bands to furnish continuous music. In addition the entire carnival outfit of the C. A. Worthan Carnival company will show at the fair during the entire wpal= FIRST BABY CONTEST ' - FOR ENTIRE STATE = .- In ‘the " educational line ‘the big new . - feature for this ‘year ib the first state- wide baby contest ever pulled off. This event is open to all babies of North ~Dakota and Clay and Becker counties, Minnesota. Cash prizes and certificates of award will be given in ihree classes. There will be a first and second prize for boys and the same for girls from the rural districts, and a first and second prize each for boys and girls from the cities of over 1000 people. The third classification is for twins only and this is open to the world, while the other two' classifications are confined to North Dakota ‘and; the two counties of Minne- _sota mentioned. All contests. are limited to babies between the ages of 12 and 36 months. P2 ' This- contest, intended ts promote the ‘raising of better children, will be in charge of a committee of North Dakota . Physicians, aided- by baby experts of national reputation. > 1 _:The last state fair in Fargo had an REGARDS TO TOWNLEY ... Editor Nonpartisan Leader; = - . -Qur ‘dear Governor Hanna got "orie, vote - in Stewart . precinct (Kidder county). What’s. the matter with “Hanna? P . g Have heard from .some other preciicts. Landslide is- all there is to it. Tell Townley he is a:bear, and we want him to stay right on the job. All he needs is the whiskers and he can call his middle name Moses. : J. F. HALLIDAY. GOOSE EGG FOR “FROGGY” ' “Milnor, June 29. Secretary Nonpartisan League: X On June 211 was appointed at our Nonpartisan precinct’ meeting to " watch the count at the primary June 28. I was one of the clerks of election, so had a chance to see that everything went straight. There were 45 Republican votes polled and six Democrat. En- closed find list where the League is away 'in the lead in Willey' township. P. S.—Smith gets goose eggs in township. This “is “public L. E. PARKS. . EVERY MAN VOTED R . Bucyrus, N. D., June 29. Edito thparfisim Leader: all out. I and my neighbor, Mr. O. E. Roe, went out the 28th in the morning il arotind the ship’ lieve we good, but the next thing was to get them - Better This. Year exhibit of about 1050 live stock, but this department will be much larger this fairs: here. Every. kind.and variety -of farm’ machinery, including: all the latest designs and improvements, will be on display. .- . = et » FAIR HAS GROWN - AT WONDERFUL RATE The first North Dakota state fair was held in 1905; the first year the:legisla- ture made an appropriation to help put on the big event. The fair is held alternate - years at Fargo and -Grand Forks; the latter getting the event the Than Ever Before Grand Forks have developed the annual event into a great educational institu- tion as well as one for amusement. The five bands that will be continu- ously on “the grounds are the Fargo band, the Larimore band, the Valley “ICity “band, "the 25-piece’ band of the Carnival company and the Kilties band of ~Belleville; " Ontario,, Canada. The lIatter: will be one of the star attractions of the fair, being an organization of international reputation. It has 25 pieces ‘and- a soloist. ‘ The list of special days announced for the State fair this year are as follows: Monday, July 17, Children’s day; Tues- The picture shows a part of the amusement ‘sec.tio'n-_'of the ‘state fair grounds at ‘ Fargo. This part of the big enclosure north of ‘town will be a mad whirl of gaiety daring the state"fair, to be held the week b«_ag'inning‘July{"l"(. o}ld-numbered years ‘and the former the even-numbered. The first fairs put on were really. race ‘meetings only, “but since then the associations of Fargo and additional ‘entries. ¢'* NS Y Much " attention is-being paid- to- the machinery exhibits and this department will. outrival any -of the past at state year. figures on’ at least 1200 entries in the live stock division this ‘year. A big addition to.the swine and sheep: pavilion is being constructed to accommodate the made good. The result was that every man voted this year, which is something that has not happened before since this township:was organized. 2 R LSO, KIAR: VICTORY FOR THE VOTERS ; Niagara, N. -D, July 8. Editor Nonpartisan Leader,-Mr. Town- ley and not to forget the cartoonist: I am pleased with the result of the primary election and will congratulate . you and the League and the independent voters -of the state who brought this fight to victory. To my mind it was-a foregone. conclusion that. the League would win, as I have had some experi- ence in a political upheaval. like this. . I¢ was in the midst of the fight in the good old populist days of 1892-1894. I have taken interest In our state politics: for more than 32 years and at all times stood for the’ rights of ‘the taxpayers. I have been correspondent for 'a number of Norwegian papers for 84 years. d . C. J. SUNDAHL. < ~IN BURDICK’S North Fork township in ‘B eep for Frazier, 16 t0 0. Manager C. ‘A. Nash of the fair’ ..0.......O.............Q....O..‘...‘............‘....... ° 3 > Editor Nonpartisan Leader: ~of Ncrth Dakota beat the record of Isabel township in Benson count, ", 47 to nothing for Frazier? 2 : And this is the home county of Torger Sinness, Burdiek’s campaign manager, and the former home county of Burdick him- 3 Mr: Burdick -has many personal friepds in the county and 'in sabel township, but the farmers voted for the principles involyed spite of personal likings in the matter, =~~~ ; : ; enson county also made-a clean “day, July 18, Old Settlers’ day; Wednes- ~day,’July 19, State day; Thursday, July 20, Fdrgo-Moorhead - day; Friday, July - 21, Live Stock ‘day; Saturday, July 22, . Kutotnobile . dby. “Programs . appro- - priate to' these days will be conducted: in addition’ to ‘the regular features of the A total' of $27,914:50 .is ‘offered’’ this year by the: fair management in -cash . prizes, in addition to a.large number of gold medals :and . cups:.- The prizes are " divided ‘among’ the various classes of WHAT FROGGY DID Van Hook, N. D., June 28, 1916. The Nonpartisan -League- Campaign Committee, Gentlemen: The primaries in our precinct, No. 53 of Mountrail county, the township'south of Van Hook, are just finished ‘and seem * to me to give ‘a cause for- some after- + thought. . ) To start with I would like to state that we are here in “Froggy” Smith’s home territory. - One of his papers is published in Van Hook and another one of them is published in Plaza, where we previously used to trade. : Mr. Smith has distributed between us his “Plaza Pioneer” for some time as a free gift, and' this: paper has contained nothing ‘else lately than attacks on the League and personalities against’ the League officers besides the display of a - large picture of Mr. Henry J. Linde, our present attorney general, in' its editorial columns. Neither Mr. George Smith ‘nor Mr. FORMER HOME Can _any precinct in the state UNTY VOTER. State’s Annual Exhibition to Be Much exhibitors @as follows: Horses, $3287; Cattle, $9833; Swine, $2422; Sheep, $1726; Poultry, $1482; Dairy products, $210; Agricultural products, $890; Horticultural products, $98; Flori« culture, $182; Honey and Bees, $165; ‘Women’s department, $1244; Painting, fine arts, etc., $470; Educational depart« ment, $806.50; Speed department, $5000; Canning Clubs, $100. - NEW DAIRY BUILDING FOR 1916 FAIR ‘ In 'recognition of dairying, one of the state’s ‘important and growing industries, the ' fair management is erecting a new dairy department build- ing for the 1916 fair, and this end of the educational part of the show will be bigger and better than it ever has beens The North Dakota State Fair asso« ciation for Fargo, which puts on the State fair at Fargo every two years, is an organization of public-spirited men who aim to make no profit from the fair, In fact the fair association spends all its revenue in keeping up and improving the grounds and in putting on the big show. The bigger the receipts at the gates and for concessions the bigger and beter the fair is made._ The fairgrounds at - Fargo, like the Fargo municipal auditorium, was purchased by a stock company of citizens who bought stock, not to get dividends but to help a good . thing along. The grounds are the property of the state of North Daketa as long as the state makes its biennial appropriation for a fair at Fargo, but if the state should stop this appropriation the property would revert back to the stock company-that originally purchased jits C. A. Nash, the secretary of the asso- ciation and manager of the fair, has been in that position since 1914, having had . five years experience prior to that as an official of the Iowa State fair. The officers of the association besides ‘Mr. Nash are ,C. O. Smith, president; Alex Stern, wvice president; H. P. Beckwith, treasurer. Directors include the following: C. R. Stone, Fargo; W. H. Doyle, Fargo; S. F. Crabbe, Fargo; M. A. Baldwin, Fargo; R. S. Lewis, " Fargo; A. J. McKay, Bottineau; F. H. Sprague, Grafton; Erick Lysne, Churches Ferry; J. G. Mills, Hanna- ford; W. A. Scott, Lisbon; Charles Edwards, Drayton,. and D. B. Barnes, Gler ""Uin. Linde - polled a single vote in the precinct. This is Mr. Linde’s home county too, and he did bysiness here when he practiced law at Stanley.. J. B. OPSAHL. ~THE “LAMENTABLE PART” : Kintyre, N. D., June 29, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: : Enclosed find election returns from the village of Napoleon. Napoleon has been very antagonistic toward the League owing to the. activities of one of the banks. The proprietor of the paper here, the Napoleon Homestead, sprung a good one here last night at the supper table in the hotel. I brought in the returns from Krachber precinct, where 22 votes out of a total of 23 were cast for the League, eight -Democrats writing the names of the Republican candidates in on the Democraticiballots and explain- ing this by the fact that thespeople out there-had been reading the Leader ‘all | winter and were pretty well educated by this time. “Yes,” this sage replied, “that is the lamentable part of it. The poor inno- cent farmers have been fooled by a bunch of crooks down at Fargo, until they won't believe a word of anything else.” 2 PR Poor . innocent farmers—indeed! I want to repeat it—14 Republican votes for all the League candidates; and one vote for the gang ticket; eight Demo- cratic ‘votes with the League ticket - written in. How is that for solidity? And there are lots of other townships around here just as good. The League ticket will win next fall hands down. = » M. A STANLEY, i