The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1879-07-10

vention assembled in Okolona, ON Thurs
day last, as per adjournment in this cit,
on the 18th of May, continuing in session
until Friday evening, and was attended
by larger number ofdelegates than an.
former meeting. AS the principal bust
ness of the convention was to locate it
Fair Grounds, after the election of quite
a number Of applicants for membership
among them about thirty from Meridian
and vicinity, and twenty from Clay
county, the subject OF the Exposition
was introduced and occu pied most of thu
remaining hours of the session. AS wal
expected, the contest was hard-fough
one, and Okolona, Aberdeen and Meri
dian entered the list, each one seeming
determined to have it located in its town
, it finally narrowed down toAberdeen ant
Meridian, and the convention would have
been in session until now, had not 6
compromise been effected. The body
was in session until one o'clock Thursday
night, without being able to decide the
question, and on Friday morning, a mem
Der from Monroe introduced resolution
providing for the establishment of two
annual State Fairs, one to be held IN
| Aberdeen and the other in Meridian,
which was adopted, as the only alternative.
This was the very best that our delegation
could do. 1t gives general satisfaction,
and when the fact is taken into consider.
alton that the planters and farmers of oul
county, especially in the prairie region
with few exceptions-have not evinced
the interest in the matter that should
have been accorded, influencing them tc
become members of an organization, and
thus contribute to the success of meas.
ure that is destined to work material
benefits to the agricultural interests OF
the country, and the further fact that nc
effort was made in our city and county
towards obtaining a subscription list to
be presented to the Convention until O
few days prior to its meeting, our rep
resentatives are to be congratulated up
on the success that attended their per-
sistent efforts in behalf of Aberdeen.
As said above the Convention provided
for two annual State Fairs these are to
be permanent institutions; they will be
held under the auspices of the Stock
Breeders Association as long as it is in
existence. The one to be held in Aber-
deem, during the last week in October,
this year, and the other in Meridian dur
ing the succeeding week in November.
The scope of country is sufficiently
extensive to admit of two exhibitions,
which may do full credit at both points,
although, as the Association is State
institution it would have been much bet
ter to have provided for but one, if the
circumstances had been different. Aber-
deem will have all the northern portion
of the State, including almost all of the
most fertile section, as well as the ad-
joining counties of Alabama, to draw
upon, and the first week of the Fair; and
Meridian will have the Southern section
of the State and the bordering counties of
Alabama, with which she possesses rail
road communication and the real truth
in the matter is that Alabama will fur
nish a large part of Meridian's exhibition.
The rapid growth of the Association
and the large attendance at Okolona,
furnish conclusive evidence that the
intelligent land owners of Mississippi
are becoming thoroughly impressed that
with the present system of labor there
can never be any prosperity while their
attention, time and means are devoted
entirely to the culture of cotton, and the
establishment of the two Annual Fairs
will be considered the most efficient and
important step that has been taken
since the war towards promtoing the pros
perity OF the country.