Some of the more interesting entertainment over the years has included

The Girl in Red, a member of Professor Carver’s High Diving Girls, jumping her diving horse from a platform into a pool below and Baxter Adams with his airplane stunts and motorcycle racing.

Premium list advertisers in the early days included DeLaval Cream Separators, MicaAxle Grease and Chloro-Naptholeum Dip and Disinfectant.

Speaking of the first state fair in 1905, M.C. Barrow, early day publisher of “Bill Barlow”s Budget,” said: “…There was plenty doing each day, uptown, on the grounds each afternoon and at night a half dozen attractions served to keep everybody amused and entertained according to his or her inclination.”