Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-04-20
Fair

Last fall the County agricultural Sc
cieiy determined TO purchase fair grounds
and fit them up in such order that our
County Fair might be greatly improved
in character and usefulness. The man.
ayers Of the society set about the work of
obtaining subscriptions on a plan which
looked 10 a repayment within ten years
Of the money subscribed and a lien uTon
he grounds themselves meanwhile, as
security. lnasmuch as the society had
resolved that The location should be in
the vicinity of The County seat, il,
was determined 10 see what could be
done in Warren and Rowland before so.
Letting subscriptions in the county al
Urge.
Six thousand dollars il was thought,
wonld be needed 10 purchase and fit up
grounds Of sufficient size for a first class
fair, and in a very short time, consider
I uUlS ONeI Itll ludl dfilOuilL wa idiSCu III
the two townships We have named.
1t seemed certain hat when two town.
ships had done so liberality. the remain
der of The needed sum would be raised
without trouble in the twenty three town.
ships which had not been canvassed, and
the Board entered into preliminary nego
~tiaiions for The purchase Of a most desira-
bic tract of fifty acres near the northern
line of the incorporation of Warren, in
tending TO use about thirty acres for fair
grounds, and sell the balance in small
outiols TO help dietary the cost Of build
ings &c uron the first part.
This was the state of things at the
beginning of the year, and no n doubt
ed that the comirg summer would find
the Trumbull agricultural society in pos
session of one of the most extensive and
thoroughly fitted fairgrounds in the State.
The merchants, lawyers, and doctors, me
chanics, tradrsmen, and business men had
subscribed literally, and it could not
be imagined that the farmers, for whose
special benefit fairs are held, could lack
the intelligence TO appreciate or The lib
erality 10 carry out a plan in which they
above all others were interested.
But precisely here, when everything
was regarded certain, the managers mel
with the most chilling disappointment.-
Wealthy farmers in every township were
solicited for subscriptions, but the off
GERS mel with nothing but evasions or
downright ~refusals, and the whole mum
Der of individuals outside of the two
towns of Warren and Rowland who could
be induced to subscribe has been so
small that the total amount subscribed in
the tuenty three towns does moi equal one
sixth of the sum pledged by the tro
alone!
The Managers are therefore forced 10
conclude tina. The farmers Of Trumbull
have not interest enough in a
county fair TO invest anything to make it
an honor to the county, and are now con-
sidering the propriety of ~abandoninI all
attempt TO complete The work so well ec-
gun. A few weeks must decide the ques
Either the farmers Of the different
townships must themselves take held,
and not suffer the shame OF being entire
ly behi=d the age in sagaciiy and liberal
or the society will have TO announce
10 the State that the rich agricn ltural
Of Trumbull, for the improve
.ent of whose stock and farming imple-
ments, fairs have done more than for al
most any county in the country, has,
Except in two DIV ships) lost all public
spirit, and cannot have a fair unless the
TO buy and improve the grounds
IS given them, and the burden which be-
10 the whole is borne by two towns
I!
Farmers of this County, shall this be
80, or shall the Mauasers receive sub
;criptions within ten days which will
oroye that you esly need to be aroused
o complete The work with a zeal and
spirit which is everywhere expected of
you? ID.