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Show I 1941 Beaver County Fair Is Set for Sept. 567, at Milford Decision Reached Monday; Plans Already Underway For Biggest Fair Ever Held Despite the late decision and some other disadvantages, Beaver county's 1941 county fair is going; to be staged at Milford and what is more it is going to be the best ever held in the county, if the united and enthusiastic efforts of t newly-awakened community are born out. Friday, Saturday and Sundny, September 5-6-7, are the days selected for the fair and there is every assurance that it will be a big success, both from the standpoint of what Beaver county can produce and also from the entertainment point of view. Purses aggregating $1525 are being set up for the horse races, eight of which will be featured each day, and various other forms of entertainment are being planned, with the assurance that there will not be a single dull moment throughout the three days. Scores of letters, telegrams and other inquiries have been accumulating, accumu-lating, pending the decision on the fair question, indicating a great amount of interest in the event from all parts of the western west-ern United States. Milford established estab-lished an excellent reputation with its handling of the fair here two years ago as well as the spring race meet in 1940, and a decision as to continuing the event has been awaited with keen interest. The election of D. E. Kirk, local realtor, to head the committee having the 1941 fair in charge, is just recognition of his untiring efforts to put over the previous two big events, and he is again up to his neck in plans for a bigger big-ger and better fair than ever before. be-fore. In this he has the hearty support of the entire community, wth everyone seemingly determined deter-mined that Milford shall rfetarn its reputation for doing up in good shape any project the people peo-ple undertake. Decision to go ahead with the fair, which comes to Milford jn odd-numbered years by agreement with Beaver, was reached Monday evening at a massmeeting sponsored spon-sored by the Milford town board of trustees and held in the L. D. S. recreation hall. The meeting was attended by some 40 men and women; wo-men; reprtsferfting a comprehensive comprehen-sive cross-section of the people of the community. Only a few farmers from South Milford were present, but several who were in a position to know, stated that there was no doubt of their interest inter-est in the project, the number including in-cluding Jean Fugal, high school agricultural teacher, who has a suinhner program underway and promised his hearty support of the fair. Walter E. Martin, president of the town board, presided at the meeting and ample opportunity for discussion was afforded. Numerous Nu-merous questions with regard to various phases of the fair were asked and answered and minor misunderstandings cleared u p . The final decision to hold the fair was by rising vote and left no doubt of the feeling of the representative rep-resentative citizens, present in the matter of "carrying-on" in the good old Milford way. When it came to the selection there was a unanimous demand for of a man to head this year's fair, Mr. Kirk to again act as chairman. chair-man. He pleaded for a few hours time in which to consider the matter, but by the time Milford business houses were open Tuesday Tues-day morning, Gene Kirk was "on the job", with the beginning of a thousand and one details necessary neces-sary to stage a successful event of this kind. And he has been "c the go" e?r since. In order that the financial deficit defi-cit from the 1940 race meet should not interfere in any way with the fair, it was voted at the meeting to invite contributions from .the public to pay off the $455 debt still remaining and this matter now rests in the hands of a committee composed of Willis . Whitbeck, Al Kirk and John Moore Williams. Several persons had already made promises of paying off this indebtedness and many others have been added since the meeting. In addition to Mr. Martin, there were three other members of the town board present at Monday evening's massmeeting, Trustees L. B. Wladdingham, Willis Whitbeck Whit-beck and Theodore Kronholm. M |