Campbellsport News, September 8, 1910

1910 CO. FAIR
BIG SUCCESS
IN ATTENDANCE AND EXHIBITS IT BEATS ALL OTHERS

  The most successful fair in the history of Fond du Lac county closed last Friday. Not only were the exhibits more numerous but the patronage was far in excess of any previous event of that character. Wednesday the attendance was larger than on any other individual day at a fair held at the county seat, not excepting the state events held there many years ago. The total attendance likewise shatters that of any previous event.
   The weather could not have been better, and the attendance reached 19,000, breaking the record of last year by a margin of 2,000. Thursday the attendance was about 12,000, and though Friday, "Children's Day" there was a slight falling off, it was still more flattering than could have been expected. The gate receipts Wednesday were $3,000, and for Thursday, $2,300. The grand stand receipts averaged about $330 daily after Tuesday when the races had to be postponed owing to the weather.
   But not onlu in number of entries and in point of attendance was the fair a success. What is more important from the influence it will exert unpon future events, is the fact that it gave implicit satisfaction to those in attendance. Complaints were few and far between and the management had a comparatively good time. Those who attended this year will in consequence look forward with the livliest anticipation to the fair of 1911.
   President Beirne of the Fair association stated that while the management had every reason to believe that the fair would be a success, the results surpassed their most sanguine expectations. He said that the fair opened under the most unauspicious conditions, as the patronage on the opening day was the lightest of which there is any record. Had there been no change, he asserted, the fair would have been such a failure as to threaten its very existence as a Fond du Lac County institution. The change in the weather changed apparant failure into assured success.
   About 300 from this village and vicinity were in attendance.