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ntyoningr.stm.'NO FAIR’1P-ow15-es-or-onlio?e.DECISION OFFAIR BOARDOfficials Vote 19 to 0 toin* Eliminate 107th Annual[S| Event Because of PolioBy a vote of 19 to 0, directors of , | the Medina County Agricultural so-1 e ciety decided at a special meeting Wednesday night to call off this year’s county fair because of the prevalence of polio.ed MAPES SAID interest againstan, diein-ib- .3j ; Little was said in favor of hoid-| ing the fair, most of the discussion is_ | centering around reasons why the I 107th annual exposition should noten be held. This is the first year thena! chain of fair-holding has beenct broken since it was organized in ' 1842.Harold Loomis of Granger, fair | board president, ‘opened the meet-in I ng by having Secretary Charles p. Mapes read a letter from Walter byjJ- Buss, secretary of the Wooster J-| le. fair board, in which reasons wereits £iv*‘n for bis board cancelling the | p1-. .ts 103rd annual Wayne County fair I last Friday night.T.holding the local fair was strong, I ththe that more than a dozen members of $lf'di the society had called his home j mad- Monday and Tuesday asking wheth- she -4, er, as members, they could vote I lar(f- for cancelling the fair., enlStating he was in favor of drop- wa ping the fair Mapes told directors sor that considerable money had al- coin- j.. i________
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Fri, Aug 08, 1952
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