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Show NEW THINGS AT COUNTY FAIRS. Whit on earth would our preat grandfather have ald It someone had told thorn thn county fair would be tho all embracing 'holy show" It la to-day T When horse racing and high diving wero accounted regulation fcaturca of these gatberlnga It was natural that tho homely things which were tho corner stones of the exhlbl tlons should be lost to sight. Hut It oven twenty flvu yeara ago omo bold farmer had dared miggeat that the day would enruv when automobiles, vehicles not dependent iin llvo Block for their means of locomotion would constitute thn chief attraction at thu county'a rallying place he would hnvo been declared n traitor tn.hla calling. Still that Is Just what haa como to pasa In Connecticut where an nuto-mobllo nuto-mobllo parade has proved the pleco do reslatknco at one of thise fall fairs Iloston Transcript |