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3MPSON. MONTANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1910.T\01KE\SPOKANE INTERSTATE FAIREverything Ready for Opening Day October 3—Dry Farming Congress Also.The ptfwer of ^.be press in disseminating information regarding the Dry ^Arming congress and the Spokane Interstate fair or any other great enterprise is to‘be acknowledged by the management of these enterprises in something more than a perfunctory “I Thank Yon this year.Committees representative of the newspapers of Spokane are already at work on plans for the entertaA*uneut oi the editors from all parts of the United States and Canada who will come to this city during the week 6f October 3 to 9. Monday afternoon the moulders of public opiniqp will be guests of the Interstate fair. Special cars will take the scribes to and from the faif grounds and a special committee will see to -it that the newspaper men are given every possible facility for enjoying the fourth greatest fair in the United States. Tuesday night the Interstate fair will again be host, whon the visting shapers of national destinies will again be taken to the big exposition by special cars to see the big vaudeville night show, the military Indian battle spectacle, “Chief Joseph and the Battle of the Clearwater, ami Gregory’s sensational fireworks display with which the evening’s great program of entertainment will bo rounded out.VrlThe Chief Event.¥•v The chief event of the entertainment to be provided for the publishers, tovegetable exhibits will be eye openers, even to the case hardened fuirgoer. Ben Borgunder, the veteran, roper-in of everything in a horticultural or agricultural line that’s worth while, says thqre will be no comparison between this year's showing and past performances. lie ought to know, for he’s arranged all previous exhibits (in these divisions.Great. Collection of Live Stock.John L. Smith, president of the fair, gives his word for it—and he’s a big stockman himself—that in every way the finest collection of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs ever seen in the Pacific northwest, will answer the roll call Monday morning.Splendid Amusement Program.So it is with regard to the amus»-‘ ment program. In addition tOj ten of the biggest American and European vaudeville acts to be staged afternoon and evening in front of the grandstand, fair visitors will see the greatest open air melodrama ever produced in the west, ‘‘Chief Joseph and the Battle of the Clearwater,” which will be put on every night. It will occupy the entire infield of the race track. -Several hundred Indians and soldiers will participate.!Then there la the flying machine demonstrations of J, C, Mars, one of the hMClAXgttttUftt t«iUtU***tvUo wiU nm.k£ four sensatiofial daily flights from in front of the grandstand.tnan of Idaho; first vice president of the organisation, will have charge ofthe convention.The program, to be arranged this week by the board of governors, headed by Alfred Atkinson of Montana, contains the names of 80 of the world’s foremost advocates of modern tillage. Many of these are from the west, but there ure speakers from dll parts of tho world, thus giving the congress an international aspect. This is also true _«f the exposition of dry farmed products, which is declared by experts to be the most complete aud comprehensive ever gathered together any where in this or other countries.Speakers named on the formal program at the congress will deul with many problems of dry farming, not only in this oountry, but in all parts ol the world. Among the distinguished visitors will be Colonel M. Malcor, representative of the French government, etzrftdaed in Algeria; Dr. Elwood Meui of Australia, representatives of Great Britain, Hungary, Germany and other foreign countries, officers of the United States department of agriculture, farmers aud members of oommereial organizations. Besides the formal program there will be a series of institute meetings, addressed by prominent men, at which questions will be answered.Every Day a Special
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Thompson Falls Sanders County Ledger
Thompson Falls, Montana, US
Fri, Sep 30, 1910
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