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Show County Fair Officials Start Membership Drive At a meeting of the directors of the Sanpete County Fair association, held April 2, much business of viral importance, both to the officers and to the citizens of the county, was transacted, and according to the ""plans mapped out it is proposed to ell 100 life memberships, the price fceing placed at $15 each. All persons per-sons holding such memberships will be accorded special privileges, being admitted to all events given under the direction of the association during dur-ing 1921, free. If the directors so decree the same privileges will be extended for future years. Another important matter taken up was the decision of adding throe more directors-to the present board. Hereafter Gunnison, Ephraim and Mt. Pleasant will be represented. The association is asking the united unit-ed co-operation of Sanpete county in making the fair a success more so than any other year and to this end a campaign for membership will be started at once. With the membership member-ship of the board of directors scattered scat-tered throughout the county and with all citizens back of the movement it is believed that the fair this fall will be better and bigger than ever before. be-fore. Every community will be visited vis-ited and the goal of 100 members, it is thought, can be easily secured. Those who are desirous of joining the association can immediately write to the secretary, Glen Jensen, at ; Uanti. who will furnish all necessary information. This season's dates have been set for September 7, S and 9, two weeks earlier than in previous years. .This was decided in order to accommodate accommo-date race horse men in the inter-mountain inter-mountain circuit, and get ahead of our fall storms in this section of tho country. , Very liberal prizes are being allowed al-lowed in every department. People are urged to plan ahead, that each community may be represented in some display work. The schools are asked to save the' best material in composition, art, journals, woodwork, wood-work, domestic science and art, or anything done that comes under our educational system. Every school in the county has opportunity to win some prize money, and most of all use the fair as aN stimulus to encourage students to do better work. Space will be given in the exhibition building to any club for display purposes. Ladies throughout the entire county are asked to work to the success of the fair and it is hoped that ail the clubs will have representative booth. Get back of the association and let Sanpete county show the outside world that we are alive. |