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NORTH VERNON FALL FESTIVAL jBRINGING LARGE CROWD 8.1■ ■ - !Good Program of Shows and Music.MANY SINE EXHIBITSOF FRUIT AND VEGETABLESIIHigh Class Free Acts Entertain Everybody.The North Wrnun Fail Festival, which is given Tor the Jennings County Mentor : £, ial Hospital benefit, started Monday and; - \ largo crowds have been in attendance!* 1 every day and nigirt. Ail thfc shows have■ opened and Ihose who have visited I hem I* pronounce them first rlase.. Metre’s Fam- : ous Band is rendering excellent music \ both afternoon and evening- and the boys \ have not been stingy. but kept the \ reostc going and their work has not fail- !e ed each day in inoculating “pep” into the 1 y- \yu anu bringing about a spirit of entthusiasm and pleasure. The vaudeville at the Jennings Theatre has been visited by crowds each day and the show is pro-Y nounced as good as is seen in the vaudc-■ villc houses in the city. There will be anentire change of program on Thursday, sos that those who have attended the first orj the week can go again and enjoy another good show. The merry-go-round is run-|b ning to enieriaiu the lit He folks. and ■S taken as a whole the Fall Festival is fur-y nishing entertainment and pleasure for young and old. a The exhibits in fruit, vegetables am*. grain are not as large as was hoped for ; by the merchants but each exhibit cop-tains many very fine speciments. Thejudge, J. S. Helms, or Richmond, Ind., who J «su -grower of yottow dent seou corn ana .. an excellent judge of grain, fruit and vege _ tables on account or experience in thisline in the agricultural department at PurV due University, visited all the fruit, vege-e table and grain exhibits on Wednesday,_ Judged the produce and took* the numberv of the winners. He did not announce the , s winner*, even to the merchant who hadthe exhibit, but he will visit exhibit Thurs and tie I he ribbons on the winners. In this way. each exhibit was judged while the entries were fresh and thus suffered nothing from having been standing before being judged. When the ribbons are placed on the, entries, the premium winners \vi be announced. The live stock exhibit will take place on Fifth Street, this (Thursday)afternoon.Tilt* sinre stands, which are under the big canvas tent on Madison Avenue, are attrading large crowds each day and each stand is furnishing amusing pastime and ts also distributing goods that make things interesting for visitors. Flour, sugar, small chairs, dishes, sewing baskets, wool bhmkets, boxes of candy and dolls of every description have been circulated among the Fall Festival patrons, who are. show'- | ins* their appreciation by' tbeir enthusiastic support.Seventeen or the purchasers of the Fall Festival tickets were made happy Wednes day night when the cash distributions were made.. These distributions will con tinue to take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, at 9.30 a'cloqk, and every purchaser of Fall Festival tickets wdll have a share in the' excitement.aI1D19eQileegnXeoo►«.i*
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North Vernon Plain Dealer
North Vernon, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 30, 1920
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