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Show Plans Complete For Millard Fair, j August 29-30-31 With Millard county's greatest show only a week away, the subject sub-ject of discussion everywhere is the Millard County fair and Alfalfa Alfal-fa Seed celebration, set for Thursday, Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday of next week, August 29-30-31, a display: ad for which appears on another page of this issue of The News. Already from every section of the state come reports and reserva-1 tion requests for race horse accomodations. ac-comodations. Owners of some of the largest strings of horses in the state have visited the fairj grounds at Deseret and one of these owners, John Rodgerson, who follows all big race events, I stated that he knew of over 100 head of fast horses that would be present at Millard county's big celebration. The state livestock inspector and Layton Dewsnup, livestock in- ' spector for the fair, report indi-j cations favorable for one of the most comprehensive showings of livestock ever lined up for a Mil-. I lard county fair and the same en thusiastic report comes from ev-' ev-' ery other department. j : Eig-ht races will be run each day i with purses ranging from $35 to ' $120 each in the free-for-all events and aggregating more than ; $1300 for the three-day program,; whioh is culminated with the Al- falfa Day Derby, scheduled for the! final event on Saturday. i The entertainment setup promises prom-ises to be the most interesting and tlnillmg ever offered in Millard county with the C. C. McDermond I i Circus troupe furnishing spectacu- j i lar acts between every race and a j complete show at nig'ht. Thomas B. Allred, A. T. Black, J. A. Bennett, Max Eliason, Lincoln Lin-coln Cropper and Eldon A. Eliason, Elia-son, general supervisors of the fair and celebration, feel confident that this year's event will be one of the most far-reaching and sue- j 1 cessf ul to be held in southern i Utah, and Milf ord and western i Beaver county people extend ev-j ev-j ery good wish for its success. |