View of the last fair from the grandstand.
directed organizations of its kind in these parts, and was greatly enjoyed by lovers of band music. It was invited back several times. Spencer's Military Band of Peoria was another superb organization that played at the fair, and one year the famous Kilties Band of Canada was here.
The 1920 fair was a great one, with a fine new stock barn to house added entries of show cattle. The Canton P. & O. band played here under the direction of Carl D. Bethel, formerly with the Steel Pier Band of New York City. M. L. Mosher, Woodford County farm adviser, was again showing farmers his big soil map which drove home facts and figures with telling effect. Callahan's Dramatic Company, owned and operated by lovable Bill Callahan, was again making a six day stand in El Paso, thrilling young and old with plays bringing tears one minute and gales of laughter the next. Who can forget Bill's big tent, or his acting and between curtain entertainment? His sister was with him in the several seasons they played here, setting up on the lots just south from the St. Mary's Church, or those where the late Norris Kemp's bungalow now stands at 501 West Front Street. Callahan turned those lots into worlds of enchantment with a new play each of the six nights.
A number of local folks ran stands of one kind or another at many of the fairs. George Williamson operated a shooting gallery and lunch stand for several seasons and made a specialty called "Boston Cream Chewing Candy" which some kids now grown still remember.
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