Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-27 | Page 2 | Idaho at World's Fair Section

IDAHO AT FAIR st louia stay 7 the people of idaho have recently manifested the keenest appreciation of the value 0 a state exhibit at the woolda fair in 1004 A temporary woolda fair commission was appointed by the governor to prosecute the preliminary work of collecting atu exhibit in advance of the meeting of the legislature in 1003 sent out to the business men of the state a call for voluntary subscriptions to a fund to carry on the work the call was for only the response was instantaneous and generous the first day after the call went out checks and cash for 2000 came through the mails to the secretary of the mrs U W mansfeld Mansu eld the following day a contribution trib ution of came from larson greenough of the morning mino at mullan other subscriptions kept coming in until the was obliged to notify tho people that owing to the of the exposition until 1004 no more subscriptions would be necessary for organizing the campaign for idaho exhibit