REGULATIONS (Continued)
19. All stock must be owned by the exhibitor at least 30 days prior
to date of entry.
20. Any article or animal fraudulently entered or shown, that wins
a premium, if satisfactory proof is shown the Board of Directors,
the premium shall not be paid.
21. All exhibits must be Holt county products.
22. All 4-H club premiums will be paid in full. All other premiums
will be paid in full unless by unavoidable cause, the receipts
shall not be sufficient, in which case they will be prorated and
paid accordingly.
23. A blue ribbon denotes 1st premium; a red ribbon, 2nd pre
mium; and a purple ribbon, sweepstakes. Superintendents will
attach premium tags as soon as awards are made.
24. All protests must be filed in writing with the Secretary during
the Fair, and same will be acted upon at the first meeting of
the Board of Directors.
25. All animals must be exhibited at such time and place as the
superintendent may direct. •
26. The annual meeting will be the first Saturday after the 1st day
of November.
SUPERINTENDENTS
The Superintendents are required to take charge of all articles
belonging to their department, on their arrival on the grounds and
see that they are in the proper places.
Superintendents must be on the grounds early in the morning
of each day of the Fair to assist exhibitors in ticketing and arrang
ing the articles, and shall appoint the awarding committees in the
respective classes under the direction and consent of the Board of
Directors and report them at once and not later than Wednesday
to the Secretary.
POLICE REGULATIONS
The President shall have charge of the grounds and it shall be
his duty to assign the police force, provided by the Village of Cham
bers, their respective duties, including gate keepers. All persons
employed shall be sworn conservators of the peace, and it shall be
their duty to arrest any person creating any disturbance or violating
any rules of the Society.
Anyone entering the grounds clandestinely shall be arrested.
No intoxicating drinks shall be sold or drunk on the grounds.
Any person found intoxicated will be dealt with according to law.
Open Class
LIVESTOCK
HENRY WOOD, Superintendent
All exhibits must be entered and on grounds by 5:00 p.m.,
Wednesday, August 17, 1955
CATTLE
Class A — Registered Shorthorns
1st 2nd 3rd
3-years-old or over .$5.00 $3.75 $2.50
2-years-old and under 3 . 3.50 2.50 1.25
January 1, 1954, to April 30, 1954 . 3.50 2.50 1.25
May 1, 1954 to August 30, 1954 .3.50 2.50 1.25
September 1, 1954, to January 1, 1955 . 3.00 2.00 1.25
January 1, 1955, to April 30, 1955 . 3.00 2.00 1.25
May 1, 1955, to August 31, 1955 . 3.00 2.00 1.25
Class B — Other Breeds
Class B premiums same as Class A for all other breeds of cattle.
Class C — Sweepstakes
Best Herd, Bull and 3 Females .Ribbon
Senior Champion Bull, 2 years and over .Ribbon
Junior Champion Bull, under 2 years .Ribbon
Senior Champion Female, 2 years and over .Ribbon
Junior Champion Female, under 2 years ..Ribbon
Grand Champion Bull .Ribbon
(Continued on page 8.)
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Nudging Through Nebraska
Robert (“Bob”) Fish, former
ly an Ivy league professor in
one of New England’s big uni
versities and now a world-rov
ing reporter for the Tucson
(Ariz.) Daily Citizen, recently
visited Holt county. He made
a guest appearance on the
“Voice of The Frontier” radio
program. The following copy
righted story, filed from O’
Neill, appeared in The Citizen
and is reproduced below with
special permission.
By ROBERT FISH
O’NEILL, NEBR. — Toughest
test of the time-worn slogan “See
America First” is motoring
through one of the seemingly end
less prairie states. In July, at
least, it’s a test that Nebraska
passes with flying colors. That
is the sort of state that supports
the statement that if Hitler and
Tojo had taken a good look at the
U.S.A., they would never have
tangled with us. For here you get
not only a firm feel of the size of
this country but of its funda
mental strength.
Scenically, Nebraska has no
spots or sections so significant as
to become a Mecca for tourists.
Nevertheless, the notion that Ne
braska is flat and uninteresting is
no more than a well-distributed
fable. Its 415-mile width has am
ple variety—from foothills of the
Rockies in the west, through high
tablelands and grassy hills, fol
lowed by a vast expanse of roll
ing prairie delightfully dotted
with clumps of woodland, to the
bounding Missouri river on the
east.
Not a single bit of it is spec
tacular and yet the combination
of blowing fields of grain reach
ing for the sun, lifting with the
contours of the land, and following
the summer wind; the immaculate
ranchlands, rich pastures, and
flourishing livestock (Nebraska,
last year, raised more than 5,000,
000 head of cattle worth over
$600 million); the clean, white
homes, the well-built barns, the
profusion of farm equipment; all
these make for a special kind of
awe and awareness that we are
not only a great country but a
tremendous continent.
Historically, the state has its
full share of memories and me
mentos. Coronado came this far
as long ago as 1541. Via the Mis
souri river, French fur traders
dealt precariously with the mighty
Sioux Indians during the 1700’s.
Nebraska, of course, is just a small
part of the Louisana Purchase of
1803—the most fabulous real es
tate transaction ever consummat
ed; Nebraska’s share of the total
price of $15 million would prob
ably buy one, or maybe two, cor
ners in today’s downtown Tucson.
Every locality has its own spe
cial lore, and O’Neill, where we
spent the night, is far from an
exception. Though it has all of
3,027 people, like you, I had never
heard of the place before. With
that curiosity that supposedly kills
cats but is an essential element
in acquiring an education, I found
that the town was named for Gen.
John C. O’Neill, “inspector-gen
eral of the Irish - Republican
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army." That was the military
branch of the Irish-American rev
olutionary society commonly
known as the Fenian Brotherhood,
which in 1866 and twice thereafter
invaded Canada. Each time, ac
cording to Canadian accounts, the
invaders were routed “by a bat
talion of volunteers” and “dispers
ed with a single volley.” But
these military threats were a de
cisive influence in the formation
of the Dominion of Canada in
1867. Since then our two countries
have really lived as peaceful
neighbors. Not every small town
can boast so high a distinction
for its founder, who in the early
1870’s induced Fenians from the
coal mines of Pennsylvania and
the copper mines of Michigan to
resettle on his Nebraska townsite.
Economically and politically,
Nebraska has the normal quota of
prosperity and problems. Too
much of its prosperity, to be sure,
is buried in the CCC (Commodity
Credit corporation) bins that dot
the farm states at a taxpayers’
storage cost of over $1,000,000 per
day. This, however, Is a problem
for some later-day Solomon. Also,
Nebraskans are beginning to say:
“The future of our state depends
on water.” Though this has a fa
miliar sound in Arizona, in Ne
braska it still carries the ring of
discovery. This alternation of
rambunctious floods and dreadful
droughts is bringing many around
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to the idea of restraining and re
taining reservoirs as well as a
more compassionate undertand
ing of the needs of a state such as
our own.
Though generally “safely” re
publican, Nebraska is the only
state in the union where all elec
tric power facilities are owned
by public agencies. It is also
alone in having a unicameral
(one-house) legislature with but
47 members instead of the former
133 representatives and senators.
On paper, this should make a
great deal of sense, especially
since the “senators" in the single
chamber are elected on a non
partisan ballot. But only within
recent weeks, a Nebraska senator
has been exposed for offering to
propose a bill for $1,000 in cash
and $1,500 in advertising in his
newspaper, and has been “pun
ished” with a slap-on-the-wrist
censure.
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Congratulations!
to the
1955 Holt County Fair!