The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-06-10
OUR NEXT FAIR.


ISOLATION, organized over one year
ago by the best, staunchest and most
honored of our people, and which
made its first appearance before the
public last October, under apparent
ly the most unfavorable auspices of
hard times and dreadful epidemic,
and then proved a decided and CRATE
full success, is once more to be launch
ed to the breeze of the same public
favors, and again early in the action
we demand respectful hearing in
behalf of its management. During
the last ten months much work and
many improvements have had the
working attention of the Directors
and no pains or money have been
spared to make the Fair Grounds,
what its originators and friends have
always contemplated, complete, beau
tiful and entertaining to the public,
and particularly for the material en-
hancement Of the true and long suf-
fering interests Of the agricultural
lists Of the Parish; and we know and
assert that the new Board of Direc-
tors have taken up the good work, as
handed over to them by their prede-
cessors and are pushing it to final
and compact completion.
The Board, on last Saturday, had
a long, arduous and harmonious fam
lily gathering, and completed the fine,
long and valuable programme of va
ried entertainments for their next
grand meeting and exposition. The
entertainment will last and continue
for five days, commencing on the
10Th day of October next, and ending
on the 23d. The premiums to be
awarded and given amount to the
sum total of one Thousand dollars,
which includes a large and variedly
selected list of all sorts of machine
ry, blood stock, agricultural pro
ducts, curiosities, notions, etc., and
a Grand Tournament, for which a
purse of one hundred dollars will be
awarded the victor. There will be
also races on each day, at all dis
tances, for which purses amounting
to eight hundred and fifty dollars
have been set aside and appropria-
ted. A distinguished and highly
gifted gentleman and orator of a ma
tional reputation, has been invited to
deliver the annual address, and due
and extra attention has been given
to the police of the Fair Grounds,
and such plans deliberately deter
mined upon, as will secure quiet,
peace and protection to all. This
has been made speciality with the
Directors, and the public may rest
content and safe on that score, as
they are determined that their Fair
Grounds shall be the abode and re-
sort of all that is good, useful, en-
pertaining. peaceful, sociable.
Now, we have full and confident
reasons, that from this very second
start the gentlemen, who are at the
head and running the Association,
will receive from the entire public,
all the moral and material support,
their generous and noble efforts de-
mand, and that no one will stand
back or throw one thorn in their
path. Emphatically for the good of
the people and the enhancement of
their many interests, true and libe-
raj smile of appreciation and hearty
good will should beam forth from
them, from now out, and greet the
good work with an honest will and
hearty encouragement. In short
time full and complete programmes
will be printed and distributed to the
public, giving infinitely all the par
and until then we bespeak
for the Association a good and re-
ceptive start.