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bleachers, while more than twice that number swarmed about the 

 track and upon the hill east of the track, to watch the 3,600 swing 

 past the governor's stand. It was an unusual sight for staid old 

 Iowa, so long unaccustomed to the call of trumpet and beat of 

 drum for war. It was a splendid exhibition of young HaAvkeye 

 manhood. Most of the boys still wore the tan and bronze painted 

 by the winds of Texas a year ago while they patrolled the border 

 line between Uncle Sam's country and a condition approaching 

 chaos. They looked fresh and fit and fine and as tough and hardy 

 as an army of bull moose; and down in his heart every spectator 

 knew that afternoon that, go where they will, Iowa will never have 

 reason to be anything but proud of the Third Iowa, now listed as 

 the 168th U. S. Infantry. 



On other days of the fair the ammunition train, under the com- 

 mand of Col. Fred L. Holsteen, and Battery F, under the com- 

 mand of Capt. G. W. Dulany, Jr., added a military touch to the 

 program in front of the grandstand. The drills and maneuvers 

 put on by these two organizations reflected great credit upon the 

 officers and men. They executed the commands and drills like 

 seasoned men, regardless of the fact that most of them had been in 

 training less than thirty days. 



IOWA'S OWN SYMBOL OP PROSPERITY 



As the leading corn growing state of the Union, Iowa is entitled 

 to a distinctive and appropriate symbol peculiarly her own. It 

 was a happy thought that found consummation in the giant ' ' Horn 

 of Plenty" that made the Iowa exhibit one of the cardinal centers 

 of attraction at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. In that 

 giant "Horn" Iowa found a fitting and tangible expression telling 

 of the chief industry of the state and clinching the claim that 

 "corn is king." 



This splendid exhibit was reproduced for the fair last year, 

 down to the smallest detail, exactly as it appeared at San Fran- 

 cisco. It was by all odds the most striking and popular exhibit on 

 the grounds, and was plainly so productive of satisfaction that the 

 management decided it would be an error not to present it again 

 this year: 



The same constituency that enjoyed it in 1916 viewed it again 

 this year — with a good many thousands added. Their satisfaction 

 was so plainly unabated mth the passing of a year that one is led 

 to the conclusion that it might be a good idea to continue it in- 



