Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-04-21

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leagues in office throughout the district for
active cooperation, nevertheless the inter-
est is a great one, and every citizen should
be induced to give it helping hand, be-
cause the fields of industry are open to all,
and development brings its rewards to all.
The officers are selected from among the
people, and upon them the duty of arousng
an interest especially rests, and in no feat
ure should they be more concerned to see
successfully carried out than to have at the
exhibition every product, and some in all
the departments, that may be worthy OF
note and that will attract attention. Thus
the resources of the country in natural and
cultivated wealth-in skill and labor-will
find new and substantial growth and devel-
opment. Let these things be realized,
whether they be the result of the humber
or the greater efforts of all our people, or
both combined, and if the latter, SO much
the BETTER The Fair is an Institution for
great good to all the people. Popularize it,
and where there were heretofore hundreds
of visitors, let the crowds be numbered in
the future by thousands, each person feel
ing an individual interest in the general
prosperity diffused through its agency
With new encouragements will come larger
enjoyment of the Autumnal holidays
Whilst it is the appropriate time to display
the evidences of the fruitfulness of the land,
it is also the happy occasion for mirth and
innocent pastimes, in which the young de-
light to take partial, of course, consistent
with the gravity of the more solid objects
in view, and that are paramount to all in
value
Much depends on the success of the first
Fair under the new auspices. We cannot
afford to allow it to be anything else than
successful. To that end, officers, and ev-
cry person who is in the least interested,
should be up and at work in time TO win it.
The Lynchburg Fair, to which large
section of the State is tributary, will this
year celebrate the centennial of the estab-
lishment of that city. Ample preparations
have been made for the occasion. Presi-
dent Cleveland has been invited by a del
egation who waited on him in person, and
he will probably attend. The Baldwin Dis
trict Fair can go on and achieve similar
success. The one hundred and fftieth
year of the existence of Staunton, accord
ing to history, is near at hand. 1t should
be the pride, especially of our city and Au-
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to large proportions, anticipating such an
occasion in the future here. With success
now and an assured permanency Of this in
stitution, not only the counties interested,
but all the country far and near will most
cordially unite in the celebration of the
century and half existence, which the old
est town in the Valley can claim.
The Fair is an institution receiving pro-
miscuous support, and is widely advan-
tageous in its annual associations. 1t has
been the time for the mingling together Of
surviving Confederate soldiers. and for well
coming to our hospitality those who wore
the blue. Thus let it be. There are
memorable events and scores of battles,
any of which could be selected in an ami
versary return for celebration, and the
Fair week, crowded with every pleasant as
ISOLATION of such time, is appropriate,
too, for the gradually-decreasing numbers
of the ''old veterans" to clasp hands. After
awhile the Fair will come and 60, and the
events of 1S61-'65 will no more be related
by the living of those who passed through
them, for like the leaves of Autumn under
the effect of Wintry winds, the last will
have fallen to rise no more.
An article which has for its object the
expansion and perpetuity of an institution
established as was the one under consider
alton, would fail of its purposes did it not
look to the past in gathering words of en-
couragement and searching for incentives
for future effort. Its founder possessed
great public spirit and remarkable powers
of leadership, sustained by wonderful ge-
MUS and ability. The success Of his scheme
was joyous to his heart. Then let it con-
tinue to rise and expand, leading the peo-
pie, as he would if among them, in the way
of great progress, and its permanency will
endure, blending its achievements with the
memory of the honored name it bears
At Dallas, Tex, Saturday, Judge Par