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Show PLAN HARVEST FESTIVAL FOR UTAHCOUNTY Provo and Utah county is to have one of the most unique aud elaborate elab-orate county fairs and harvest festivals festi-vals the latter part of September if present plans of the agricultural committee of the Provo Chamber of Commerce mature: According to J. P. Welch, chairman chair-man of the committee, the county commission will be asked to officially official-ly adopt the fair as a county function. func-tion. The committee has signified its willingness to carry out all the plans and supervise ahe entire fair with no expense to the commission should it put its official seal on the affair. Letters have been mailed to the various industrial concerns of the county asking for co-operation. The county farm bureau federation has already agreed to co-operate in every way possible, according to Mr. Welch. Among the things to he exhibited will be all kinds of fruits grown in the county, farm products, dairy cattle and products, manufactured products such as flour, candy, bricks pigiron, foundry products, domestic arts and fine arts. The various poultry associations of the county will be invited to exhibit ex-hibit their poultry products. The present plans call for the holding of the county fair and harvest har-vest festival during the last week in September so that the best parts of the exhibiti may be transferred to the state fair to be held during the first week in October in Salt Lake City. The civic organizations in the respective re-spective cities of the county will he invited to furnish programs for the different entertainments to be made part of the celebration. The program pro-gram is now under preparation by the agricultural committee of the Provd Chamber of Commerce. The personnel nf the committee is as follows! J. P. Welch, county farm agent, chairman; Prof Laval Morris, Dr. Thomas A. Martin, Dean H. V. Hoyt and Prof. Clawson Y. Cannon of the Young university ; L. B. Harmon, principal Provo high school; A. O. Smoot, member Utah county commission ; Andrew Knud-sen, Knud-sen, prominent farmer ; Frank, Spencer, Spen-cer, prominent fruit grower. "There is no rMsaii why the Utah county harvEt' festival should not be one f tSVe leading county fairs in ta6 Vhtermountain states," said Mfi YYelch. "We are favored above &iy other section of the territory with the best of everything, climate, products, business concerns and farmers. "With the best farm pro-lucts pro-lucts to be found anywhere in the vest and with the largest and best lairy herd in the state, Utah county lhould be able to put on a first uass county fair. |