Fair Days 1920-1929

FAIR DAYS 1920-1929 Many Attractions Are Planned For The County Fair

Aug. 20, 1926 — Many prominent state and church authorities have accepted the invitation to attend the Sanpete County Fair and State Black Hawk Reunion to be held at Manti, September 1-2-3-4. Among those who will be present to greet the vast crowds are Governor George H. Dern, Senator Reed Smoot, and Congressman Don B. Colton. These men will address the crowds on subjects that are of interest to everyone. Several other dignitaries are expected to be in attendance whose presence will ring cheer to the Indian War Veterans and their friends.

Each city in the country is preparing special parts of the program to be given and these entertainments will be very interesting and educational.

Prospects for the exhibits at the Fair are very promising. Several carloads of dairy cattle will be shown and competition in this department is very keen.

Requests have come from the county sheepmen for nearly one hundred pens. The sheep show will be double the size it has been in previous years.

The agricultural display is well under way and a unique and pleasing exhibit is expected.

The domestic art and science departments have applied for additional space in the exposition building because of the interest shown in the different parts of the county. The lady representatives throughout the county are working hard with women clubs and with individual displays until this department is becoming one of the biggest at the Fair.

The $1.00 season ticket campaign in the county is going over in good shape and apparently is very popular with the people.

The race program is one of the best the county ever had, which is shown by the entry of more than thirty county horses. The special foot races, team pulling matches, mounted wrestling matches, mounted tug of war, bucking contest, of interest will greatly please the

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big crowds.

Ample camp grounds have been provided where light, shade, good water and other campers conveniences are sufficient to care for the needs of thousands of visitors. Pack up your tent. We invite you to come and join in the fun, see the races, visit your old time friends swap yarns. Have a good time.

County Fair Premium List Is Out

Aug. 13, 1926 — The Premium list for the Sanpete County Fair is now off the Press and has been distributed throughout the county.

In many respects it is by far the best, or at least the most interesting premium list that the County has ever put out. It is different than anything that has gone before.

The Fair will likewise be different. It will be more educational and the recreational features will likewise surpass any past performance of the kind. This statement is made advisedly because the sports program will all be furnished by County talent, and where there is local participation the human element enters to a greater extent and as such heightens interest from the spectators’ standpoint.

Six Horse Races each day; automobile novelty races; chariot races; four man relay foot races; 100 yard dash; team pulling match; mounted tug o war; bicycle races; special bucking contest; horse polo game; band parade; evening performance; dance every night on the big new open-air dance floor on the Fair Grounds.

The exhibits in Cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, crops, women work, boys and girls club work, etc., promise to be bigger and better than ever before. The premiums throughout have been increased considerably due to the many special prizes given by patriotic citizens of the county.

Every day will be the big day this year. There is no special day designated for any certain portion of the County. The Fair will e so different, so interesting, and so full of worthwhile features that the people of the entire county will be sure to attend the entire three day period. The season tickets are so reasonable no one can afford to do otherwise.

FAIR DAYS 1920-1929 Better Exhibits Are Planned At The Fair

Aug. 27, 1926 — Sanpete’s greatest County Fair is only five days away. With beautiful ideal fall weather with the complete assurance that every department will be filled to overflowing with choice products, with an entertaining program superior in quality, quantity and variety to anything attempted before and with the assurance of the greatest crowds in attendance as indicated by the advance sale of tickets and the interest manifest both within and without the county of those seeking information, it appears that the County Fair and Blackhawk encampment will register the greatest industrial and social triumph and will bring together the largest crowds every attended in one place in Sanpete County.

For several weeks the county Fair and State Blackhawk encampment which opens to the public in Manti next Wednesday, September 1st. and holds forth for four days has been the absorbing topic in local centers and has gradually widened until it has spread sufficiently to cover a good big part of the state. There appears to be a tremendous interest in the coming event as is manifest in inquiries coming from the south, east, west and north part of the state.

Not only members who are anxious to attend but exhibitors and entertainers are keen for the event and the opportunity to show their particular products. Every department gives promise of being crowded. In the live stock department the fair management has been compelled to build additional show pens.

Sept. 15, 1922 — The schools of North Sanpete had an exhibit of last year’s school work at the County Fair in Many this week, and succeeded in walking off with $20.00 out of the $25.00 given in prizes.

Sanpete County Fair Board Holds Monthly Meeting

April 16, 1926 — The regular monthly meeting of the Sanpete County Fair Board was held at the office of Manager W. D. Bently, last Saturday. Board members were in attendance from Axtell on the South to Fairview on the north. Not all communities were represented, however. Much routine business was transacted and some correspondence read.

Sanpete County Fair is and will be an educational institution in every sense of the word this year. The people of the county are going to see the fair this year ion greater numbers than they have ever done in past years. To this end a new feature was voted upon in the recent board meeting.

The “Boy Scouts” and “Bee Hive Girls” of the county are going to be permitted to sell season tickets for the fair this year. Every boy and girl who sells three dollars worth of tickets will be given a free pass for the three days. Adult season tickets will cost $1.00 each, children’s 50 cents each. A family season ticket can be had for $5.00 no matter how large the family.

Some new features of the fair this year are, purely a county fair; using only county talent and products throughout; no gambling concessions of any kind on the grounds; Chariot races, novelty car races, community float parade, agricultural and political speakers of renown through amplifiers, larger cash premiums throughout for all products exhibited, many improvements on the fair grounds and buildings will be some of the attractions this year.

What Sanpete Makes, Makes Sanpete, and it will be seen at the County Fair this fall by at least one-third of the population of the county, the largest number that has ever witnessed a county fair here. “It is going

North Sanpete Schools Win Many Prizes At County Fair

to be something different.”

In addition to this, the Mt. Pleasant school secured the grand prize for being the school which secured the greatest number of prizes. Mt. Pleasant public school children secured 35 prizes.