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2016 LOGAN COUNTY FAIR
LINCOLN DAILY NEWS July 29 - August 6, 2016 Page 7
In the 1913 Horse Show,
there were 450 entries &
the show was considered
the best in the State of
Illinois, not only because of
the great number of horses
shown but also because of
the fine quality, especially
in the heavy class of horses.
Well-known American Shire
Association Judge, Edwin
Hobson of Clifton, IL., said:
“The heavy horses at this
show are better than I ever
saw at any such gathering.
There are plenty here good
enough to go to the state fair
and many mares that should
go. There are pure-bred Shire
colts here that are the best
that I ever judged”.
Both colts were stallions; the first prize was owned by Jake Stoll and
the second by George J. Stoll. Following the end of the Mount Pulaski
Horse Shows, several of the Mount Pulaski Horse Show Committee
Members & Judges went on to work for many years at the annual
Logan County Fair Horse Shows in nearby Lincoln, Illinois — which
started there in 1937, the first year of the Logan County Fair.
Credits
1) H. J. Wible: Mount
Pulaski Times News:
125 Yesteryears –
1936-1961, p. 105
2) IBED, p. 110.
Following the 1935
Mount Pulaski Horse
Show, two champion
Shire mares were sold
by George J. Stoll &
Elmer
Schaffenacker to
George Deane of Long
Beach, CA. They were
loaded onto an Illinois
Central Train cattle
car in Chestnut for
shipment to CA., accompanied by Everett Stoll as caretaker and protector (“shot-gun”).
The photos provided here are from the collection of H. J. Wible, former publisher of the Mount
Pulaski Times-News, with permission of Mrs. Jean Wible Martin. Many more photos and much more
information can be found in the Mount Pulaski Township Historical Museum on south side of square.