The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 20, 1916, Page 10

PSR L: blooded stock being led before the grandstand at last year’s fair Falr at Grand Forks Is Next INF livestock, the choicest from several states, and ‘a series of thrilling aerial and track events have been provided by the Grand Forks County Agricultural society which is conducting the annual fair at Grand Forks July 25 to 29. Ior years the Grand Forks . fair has.been known as peculiarly a fair for farmers, and this vear it is expected that the livestock entries will be better than any ever seen there - before. Many fine herds that were unable to go abroad last season because of the hoof and mouth disease will this year be seen there, and _additional stall room has had to be pro- vided to take care of the entries. Among the attractions to be seen will be the Hankinson auto-polo teams, which last year were a sensation at Grand Forks. was made a year ago and these teams will be seen in this thrilling sport at - - Grand Forks only this season. They have just completed a tour of the Orient, where they were received as wonders of daring and skill. Balloon races -will take ‘the place of acroplanes this year, and some new thrills will be provided in a sky-high battle between two of these monsters, and a triple drop by parachute, two women and a man making this descent. The return’ engagement The livestock parade is one of the big features of the annual fair at Grand Forks which will be held next week, begmnmg Tuesday, July 25. Dlrectors Spare No Pains to Have Good EXhlblthIl of State S Products This Year One of the Fine B dmgs at the Grand Forks Fair ene Liberal ‘Arts ‘puilding at the Grand dorks fair is a un.que and commodious structure. It ‘is 207 feet long, 100 feet wide and its height 'is 75 feet to the top of the dome. . Automobile races under the auspices ‘of " _the International Motor Contest associa- tion, with seven famous speedsters on the track, will be daily features. On the midway will be seem some entirely new: ‘equipment, ‘to provide sensations” not” heretofore to be had ‘on merrygoround or ferris-wheel, in addi- tion- to these two favonte devxces, and .© " the entire output of 'the Patterson “.shows will ‘be new. - Games of chance will be barred; but the midway will be a lively place w1th ‘many. specialties. This *fair alternates ~with that: of . Fargo in Jommg,thh the state fair, the: state fair being held ‘in' odd' numbered years- at Grand Forks, and in even numbered years at Fargo. For the past 11 years the Grand Forks society has kept a paid secretary all the year round, and it has a solid organization’in which™ farmers are prominent. Of -its 15 directors, nine are farmers, the nine being: Andrew Veitch, P. C. Peterson, John Scott, J. E. Eastgate,, James Murphy, Thomas Mooney, J. Kennedy, Hans Geogeson, "and N. Eddie.- The other members of the board of directors are: Fred L. Goodman, A. L. Hunter, E. J. Lander, Tracy R. Bangs, "and Jerry Bacon. The ' officers Fred L. Goodman; vice presidents, J. E. Eastgate, and John Scott; treasurer, O. S. Hanson, secretary, Don V. Moore. North Dakota Farmers Lose True Frlend ~ Cancer Ends Life of George S. Loftus; Raising of Fund for Family Contlnues EORGE S. LOFTUS, well known leader of the Equity movement and fighter for popular rights for many years, died Sunday at his sister’s home in St. Paul, age 48, the victim of a cancer which had developed ' rapidly during the past year. - Mr. Loftus was 48 years of age,-and is survived by his. widow, three daughters from 15 to 18 years of age, and a son of eight. was that his funeral be conducted by the Ecuity society, and this = was respected, scores of friends from many ‘points in North Dakota going to St. Paul to attend. Mr. Loftus begun life in Wisconsin at the age of 16 as a clerk in a railway office and for 15 .years followed" this - line, until he became private secretary - to the general manager of ‘a Minnesota railway, from which he ‘stepped forth into the grain and feed business. His intimate knowledge of railroad practice was later ‘one of his strong resources in the fights which he'led for rate reduc- " tions, and he is " credited with being chiefly ' responsible for the lowering of freights ‘and “Pullman rates in Minne- ' gota, For the past 12 years he has “been ' ‘closely 'associated with the gram -h;wmg formed’ ‘the Loftus- business, Hubhard company sof aneapohs, with His last request: former Govemor Hubbard, in which he continued as a partner until his work for the Equity took all his energy- and ~time. In 1912 he became sales manager for the Equnty exchange and quickly won prominence in championship of - the rights of the farmers, similar to that he had already. achieved in the reduction of ‘rates.” He was: well known in every town and village and had thousands of friends. - About a year ago the .cancer, which had not been recognized before, took a virulent turn, and he was con- fined to his bed a large part of the time from then until his death, although he spent seyeral: months during the ‘winter in Florida. A few weeks ago he returned to St. . Mr. A. C. Townley: Dear Sir: S. A. OLSNESS succesafu A Better Day For the People I wish to thank you for your splendid and efiiment handhng of the great “drive” by the North Dakota yeomanry. agamst the mtrenched forces of Big Biz and unscrupulous politics, 1 do not congratulate you because of victory and vindication thst come to you personally, neither do I feel that I deserve any credit or have any- mason" to feel “swelled” over the affair, but I do feel-that this splendxd vnctory*means" a bettet day, not only for North Dakota fo; the le lfaul and it was thought for a time he Sheyenne, N.. D., July 2. _ Boemg, Miuto. - was on the way to recovery, but the cancer. had progressed too far. Among those who went from ‘North Dakota to the: funeral services were the following, in addition . to many. others whose names were not obtalned. Mr. and st. A. M. Baker of ‘Fargo; F. B, Wood, vice president of the Nonpartisan Leaguc; Louis Noltimier, Valley-: City; Nels Magnuson, - Souris; ‘L. L. Stair, Newburg; H. C. Harty, Omemee; Wil- liam Olson and C: J.- Lee, Valley ‘City; Paul and Nick Schockman, “Berlin; P. M. Casey, Lisbon; M. P Johnson, Tolley;: A. W. Swanson, Driscoll;" ‘Ivor Thomson and Elmer Nfllson, Hati The picture shows ,the ' are: presldent, R