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them a certain place in the hall where they can bring in the certain 

 exhibits. We do not name to them what the premiums are ; we 

 designate that all school work shall be book premiums. The mer- 

 chants contributed a certain amount. This year they said, We 

 Avill contribute t|<20 in goods. When the premiums were given 

 out I would write out an order, and if you win a premium of 

 such and such an amount you are entitled to goods valued at so 

 much at such and such a store. It makes a great deal less work 

 for the secretary, and you do not have to designate what each 

 article is. In the children 's departments, graded and rural schools, 

 one is on one side and the other on the other, and the junior 

 department has one space in the hall. They are separate from each 

 other, but still they work in unison all the way through, and the 

 superintendent of schools has charge of one and the lady takes 

 charge of the other. We furnish the children the bulbs, etc., free 

 of charge. We have never had a separate and distinct colt show. 

 While we have extended our premiums in our colt show out to 

 ten premiums, still we have never made a specialty of the colt show, 

 only extending the premiums out. 



The same way in the corn department. We made a specialty 

 of corn. We extend the premiums out so that each one will get 

 something in the corn department, on account of the corn being 

 staple or otherwise. 



A Delegate : What is the nature of your night attractions ? 



Mr. Lauer : This year we had three : A trained horse, two 

 people that put on an acrobatic stunt, and another thing. Our 

 board was in favor of changing the attractions if we could. Of 

 course we have fire works three nights. Of course we have band 

 concerts. We have our own bands. We imported one for two 

 nights, and had the other for two nights outside of our own. We 

 have the fire works three nights, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, for the simple reason that if it shouhl happen to be a rainy 

 night we should have one night to fall back on. 1 think that the 

 fire works would be one of our leading numbers and would draw 

 people in the day time with the expectation of staying nights. 

 They have come as far as from Winthrop, forty miles and stayed 

 at our town for the fire works at night. Perhaps you noticed the 

 picture taken at niglit. 



We charge twenty-five cents after four o'clock. This year we 

 only charged fifteen cents, but it wan an error on our part because 

 we passed a rcsolutioji last year, and a few of us didn't know 



