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42 The Billboard September 15, 1917 FAIRS and EXPOSITIONS BIGGEST SUCCESS IN YEARS FOR INDIANA STATE FAIR Gate Receipts Set New Record-Ruth Law Thrills Large Crowds With Day and Night Flights in Her Biplane-Big Food Campaign Planned Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 8-Leonard B. Clore, president of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, state Thursday that with about 32,000 people on the grounds at noon and with 54,207 paid admission the day previous the exposition would show a substantial profit for the week. Not only have the gate receipts been heavy, but the fair has made money in numerous other ways. The rent from stalls and pens will be $800 more than last year and the income from concessions also will make a much better showing. The officials expect the final figures will show the greatest success yet attained by Indiana State Fair. Thursday about 8,000 persons were in the Coliseum before 10o'clock in the building to capacity and making the largest crowds at the morning cattle and horse shows of the week. Every building was crowded with sightseers and several thousand were watching the tractor and other heavy farm machinery near the main gates. The income from the gates for Wednesday was more than $27,000; the sale of seats for races yielded $3,289, making total of $32,683.50 that visitors paid to see the fair on that day. With the exception for a Wednesday about six years ago, when an exhibition mile by Dan Patch was the attraction and $60,000 person were on the grounds, the crowed present September 5 were the largest for the middle of the week in the history of the association. Ruth Law, aviatrix, thrilled the crowds with flights in her biplane Wednesday and yesterday and is on the program for the closing events of the exposition this afternoon. The day was perfect for the flight and from the time Miss Law spent in the air and stunts she gave to show her skill as an aerial pilot she evidently enjoyed the day as much as the spectators. A night flight with fireworks was also given Miss Law. Present and dormer students of Purdue University hold a reunion yesterday, when they started a new "more food" drive and proposed to enlist in it 15,000 young men and women who have attended the Lafayette institution and who are now on farms and agricultural school work in all countries of the State. The reunion opened with a parade over drives of the grounds, followed by a meeting of the State Councilor Defense at the large tent, where George L. Christie, State Food Director, explained plans that are already under way and new one that are to come to increase food production on Indiana farms. There are now farm agents in fifty counties and within a few weeks there will be agents in the remaining forty-two countries of the State. A fund of $17,000 from the United State Government is available for financing this feature of the big drive that is about to open. The Duttons, Society Equestrians, were on elf the feature attractions at both the day and night shows. ing his full and complete contract with the Erie Exposition, as it did some weeks back at Sanders, Ky. Daring Women Flyer [image] -Photo by W.W.White Miss Ruth Law, who is thrilling thousands at the fair grounds. the wash She Insists on flying for Uncle Sam Our dear girl aviator who sold bales of good Liberty Bonds, is now asking congress to change the army law for her [image] [image] (I say ruth when you com down would you mind bringing a peck of potatoes, a pound of streak, a loaf bread and a few other luxuries!?) The Ought to Be Easy for Miss Law June 9, 1917 THE WINGED PAUL REVERE [image] (To bonds! To bonds! For Liberty) Eager To Drop Bombs on German Trenches [image] RUTH LAW. RUTH LAW AWAITS
