The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., OCTOBER 28, 1948 ... .FALL FAIR TIME IN ONTARIO.... Ful-O-Pep Calf Champ Photo by Ful-O-Pep Photographer Prize-winning Ful-O-Pep heifer, in the calf club, shown above, is owned and shown by Paul Taylor of Grand Valley. This heifer also took the ribbon at the Orangeville Fall Fai*- Photo by Ful-O-Pep Photographer At the Markham Fair, one of the most interesting if not the best attended contests was the Blacksmith's shoe-making contest. Starting with two straight bars of iron the smithies, working in pairs, were allowed thirty-five minutes to fashion two horse shoes size seven-and-three-quarters- The teams shown above made their shoes without a word between the two men. Fair Time Highlights By the Ful-O-Pep Reporter not to others? This question has been aske< several fall fair executive be this year, when they totalled I attendance on the last night. S of them found that in spite of fact that they had put forth t effort 5 people who will go ti quality of the fair We were seccretary very r own fair and they talking to one fall fair whose fair by the way sful), who said he thought he knew how to get 1 "Be natural,'* what outsiders "Tha it Ik They ..^ all the way e to see something they could see at any other time of the :ar their own homes. I am Lire that they want to see us really are, in our natural "Don't spend the money on importing and imitating the C.N.E. A small midway for the local young folk and a certain amount of paid entertainment is essential, of course, but what the outsiders want to see is home-cooking, small boys and girls on their ponies, team tug-o-wars, and other typically rural "Sure we all know that the modern farmer, rides around in a car and does his farming by modern methods, but nevertheless there is a lot of fun in the old-fashioned events, and there is no doubt in my mind that they are what the outsiders expect to s when they come to a fall fair." The earliest watches had just c hand --' the minute hand was vented in 1687. Old Fashioned, But Still Exciting Photo by Ful-O-Pep Photographer The last anxious minute, of the horseshoe-making contest finds two of the contestants, L. Ross, Lansing, and F. Reid, Oriole, leaning ove.r the shoes they have fashioned, with sweat dripping from their brows. This is the final test. The two shoes are compared for shape and size, and then they'are bound together and tagged for the judges. Markham High Girls Open Fair Photo by Ful-O-Pep Photpgrapher The Markham High School Girls' Band paraded before the grand stand in their brief, attractive uniforms in spite of the cold drizzling rain that fell on Saturday afternoon. The high-stepping drum - majorette has just turned them about and they are going down the track for a second round, of applause. Photo by Ful-O-Pep Photographer At the reins of his single tandem pony rig, is young Bobby Leggett at the Oshawa Fall Fair. Following his outstanding success at pony racing last year, Bobby has turned to this type of fair showmanship this year. wTMsmmFOFmFPmi/0 (hie of a series of advertisements in tribute to those Canadians in the s e of the public