The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-09-16
|, RoYs AND GIRLS.

r-=e BOYS AND GIRLS,
T1ieY rotary of Stark County Agricultural
spclety Writes a Letter to You.
To TH5 BOYS AND GIRLS OF STARK:
Those of you who were at the county
fair last year on
oHI1DREN's DAY
have not forgotten the pleasant time you
had. Well, the directors of the fair, see
ing that you enjoyed yourselves so well,
decided to again give you day this year,
and we hope you will all be on hand and
bring as many more with you as you can,
for it would please us best if every child
in the county could be there. Wouldn't
that be a jolly crowd, though? l tell
you.
You may be very thankful that you
live in Stark county for there are very
few fairs that give Children's Day,
when all under fifteen years are admitted
free, and day set apart solely for chill
dren's exercises; and we trust you will all
take part in it and show the fair direc-
tors that you appreciate their kindness.
thought would write this letter just
for the boys and girls, and tell them a
few things to think over, and the big
folks don't need to read this.
Now must tell the boys and girls what
stranger wrote me some time ago. IL
you remember there was bird show on
the fair grounds last year. Well, he
wants to come again, and in writing for
the place he said he wants to come to the
Stark County Fair again because he
thought we had the
BEST BEHAVED
children he found any where. And he
for five cents, and no poor boy or girl
should be deprived Of seeing his birds
because they did not happen to have the
five cents.
Then there will be wonderful painting
300 feet long and about sixteen feet high;
a painting showing the Union and Rebel
armies as they we're engaged in fighting
the biggest battle Of the late war-the
battle of Gettysburg, which commenced
on the 1st of July and ended on the 4th
in 1863
The worst of the battle was during
the afternoon Of the third day
and the painting shows the position of the
armies at the time, and it seems 80 natur-
al that when you stand on the platform
around the center pole OF the big tent,
you can hardlybelieve that you are looking
at a painting, for it seems as though you,
could see away off in the distance Is or 20
miles to the horizon in every direction,
north east, south and west. And shall 1
tell you what you may expect to see here?
Well you will see beautiful hills, and val
leys, forests and waving grain, orchards,
houses and barns, beautiful farms in each
direction. So far all is beautiful, but
but then you know battles can't be fought
without men. In this battle the rebels
had one hundred and four thousand men
and our army had ninety four thousand as
! brave men as ever entered a fieldof bat
tie. And here you can see them
tF SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER
with cannons, and muskets, many of them
being killed and many wounded. Here
you see a poor soldier with his leg shot
off, there one with his head gone, here
crawls poor fellow behind tree with a
bullet in his body, there behind the stone
fence you can see one tying his band
from bleeding to death. A little further
on you can see two soldiers carrying
wounded officer from the field, when
along comes cannon ball and takes off
the front soldiers head, and the officer
tumbles out Of the stretcher to the
ground. Near them are some soldiers
with mule with two chairs on him.
They are placing
WOUNDED OFFICER
into one Of the chairs, while soldier
gets into the other to hold him. Oh, l
can't tell you half. There you can see
General Hayes, who afterwards became
president, aud General Doubleday riding
his horse as fast as he can 60, aud over
yonder is General Hancock on big black
horse, with his arm pointing toward the
rebel army. There are six horses
HIToHED TO CANNON
running through field Of ripe, wheat, q
man on each horse. A bombshell from
the rebels falls close to the horses, and
one of them an his rider are killed.
Now have just told you the little oc.
currences you will see.
Besides this you will see the big bat
tie fought with thousands of men on each
side, but many more rebels than Union
men, because after 150 cannon on each
side had been firing for two hours at each
other our General Doubleday gave orders
to slack firing, as he was afraid our am
munitlon would give out, when the rebels
thought they had silenced our guns; and
General Lee sent Pickett's division for
ward to break our lines. Then they
soon found out our guns had not been
silenced, but they kept on coming, aud
our boys just killed thousands OF them.
Their General Garnett was killed here
just as they had taken one of our cannon.
His horse is raising up on the cannon and
just then the general is shot by one Of our
boys.
In this battle the rebels had $500 killed,
21,000 wounded, 1900 taken prisoners
and missing. Our army lost 1884 killed,
14,709 wounded and 6,643 missing.
We want you all to come to the fair,
and if you come don't forget to 60 and see
this great painting, as no fair within fifty
miles will have this this year. They al
ways charged children fifteen cents to see
it, but promised to let them in on chill
dren's day for ten cents; those over fifteen
years, twenty-five cents. There will be
soldier there to explain everything on the
painting or cyclorama
J. F, NIEsz, Sec'y.