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yearscountyheld atthe pig and started on my way. To reach the fair grounds itMi essariM^H^fllM^^Mwas told the same thing. Finally on the third day Iwas allowed to take my pigganaport. I remember it waa wLd down on Second Mar-1bnd®. ?,hlch ^^U_llLUPubJAh *°T'■?* a pr«“. *ward°*staged down on Second Market streets where the St. Joseph school now* standsJohnson used to have a hotel there then and his old barn lot was used for the fair grounds.boats half a dollar. It looked as bigpuocpii i J ,, .Izzard 10 Pass unc*er- ” ell, the pig as an automobile wheel to me‘ ^ 1 --------*- -----I- ----i ----1 T 1 . . ________1___i______ Tlookednd and I don’t remember how Ihe’d stay right on his ever did spend it.own side and in spite of all my IUpon thinking over the mat.dayefforts during the forenoon liter since though I had mying Mayor Ben Smith who was president of the fair associationat that time asked me if I was going to make an entry.acrossid ubts as to my pig really win-I had to go back home so ning the prize. I decided thathelpedeither dad or the mayor had^ J® reached the given them the money to giveu,6 W umnv wu viiv* j iYou've got a e pig, why ridge this time he just picked me. Afterwards I asked the don’t you fetch it down to the UP *n arms and set mayor if my pig actually earnedKfi . am m. ^,1 ^ ^ 2 -I * T f 1 ^ ^ ___^ _fair,ftinquiredhim down on the other side. He the premium.I was only a lad of about 6 at that time and we lived at the corner of Eighth and Broadway this side of thethen followed me without anv“You got your premium andyou ought to be sati fied,” waBURL BOOTHid grains, ho*E.church.......Jll| i JPHMMmayor referred to, followed me everywhere just iike a lamb.So the next morning I tookI had him put in a pen at the i all he would sav. grounds but when evening came which the I wanted him back home but races at the first county fair however.the Mayor naid no, not until it lasted three days and wasI cattle and hors* There wen Although there were no s no fruit or canning exhibitionsThis was my first fair and Ithe fair was over. The next quite an affair. As I remem-at tendedday upon calling for my pig I her it, there were exhibitions held in Cass County.
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Logansport Morning Press
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sun, Jul 03, 1921
Page 9
Full Page
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Roberta H.
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