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TS MIMMl "P" r' f T n ' "H !JSiWiHkJI'if 'lULi-tityVM ii'i i ti Ai- r i "Tyv;i VF,.T'"St t1 " ' V f '" wyw t -?' , ,- r ,, -....,, WEDNESDAY, ATOIIi 12, !! THE HARTFORD HERALD rage 2 oclraxxxxxoooocooocoooooocooooooo 53oy3oo3o3coe Owensboro Owes You a Good Time Come and Collect It J li ol I; rw c o T 1 8 8 3 o o o : o c o o o ri a o o I) :s 8 e o 'J o CJ h i r i c i r ii' i Great Spq Festival 8 1 April 1 Oth to 1 5th fe 3 5? O O H p There is strength in union. All of Owensboro's merchants invite you to be present on Festival Week, April 10th to 15th. This week is devoted to the I 1 entertainment of the farmers and their families. You can meet your friends in V W I Owensboro that week if they live within a radius of 50 miles. Write to them I O 52 I to meet you here on mule day, automobile day, or on the day when the largest i families will have a wagon parade. Perhaps they would rather come to the fiddlers' contest, or be here for the school girls' parade on Friday, or the boys' ! parade and baby show on Saturday. At any rate, every farmer and his wife and family will be here, and the girl making the best loat or bread or the best cake i I or the prettiest needlework will get $5.00 and lots of fun in the contest. Every I morning at 9:00 o'clock is the band concert that's going to play that old ragtime i that will make your feet shuffle. Monday, April 10th Band concert 9 to 10. Mule parade 10 to 10:30. , Moving pictures free to farmers. Voting in Popularity Contest. Tuesday, April 11th Band concert 9 to 10. Automobile parade. Voting contest. .-A Wednesday, April 12 th Baud concert 9 to 10. Parade of largest families. Lecture on farming. Thursday, April 13th Band concert 9 to 10. Parade old timers. Fiddlers' contest. Voting. V ' fc; t;' Friday, April 14th Band concert 9 to 10. School girl parade $20 to most girls from one sohool district. Theatre party. Best cake baked by sohool girl, $5.00. Best loaf of bread, $5.00. Best needlework, $5.00. Voting contest. Saturday, April 15th Band concert 9 to 10. Boys' parade $5.00 each for largest or shortest, fattest or most comically dressed, Athletics. U .,'- Baby show. Voting. 4 't- X ft cocoocKX)ccxyxQCoococoocKxxooooo 3CXyXO(XWO000OWa0CO0OOWOO0OO0 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOt?OOOOOOOOOOOCK?OOOOOOjOOOOOOCXX)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOiO (. 1. -.11. P.1 ItVJUU IJI1 8 o 8 o 8 o u o o H ? 8