Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-10-13
The Noxubee County Fair.

Next Tuesday the Fifth Annual Fair
OF the Noxubce County Fair Associa-
ton will open and continue four days.
Ne desire TO call special attention to
this institution, end emphasize its inn
portance TO the people of our county
and the adjacent country. Ii is strict
ly an Agricultural Fair, representing
the products of Il farmerF, and tos-
tering every interest in which they
are most concerned. 1t brings on:
people together in social converse and
friendly competition, encouraging all
to better agricultural methods and
higher achievements in their honora.
bic calling.
The coming Fair has called forth
the best energies, much time and care.
ful attention of the management
They have labored hard TO make ii 4
success, and without compensation or
hope of reward, except the general
advantage to the community that may
follow their efforts. They have ill.,
Cured considerable expense, and look
to the success of the Fair to meet it.
The management having done their
part, they now expec. the people to
do theirs. Let everybody attend and
bring all of his relatives, friends and
neigl.bors, Send in everything you
have, for exhibition, that possesses a
modicum of excellence or Interest,"
Help the Fair in every way you can,
by talking it up, writing to friends in
adjoining counties to attend, and
~whooping for it on all OCCASIONS
There is no "job-work in This enter
prise, no individual interest TO sub
serve, no axes to grind. 1t is a coun.
ty movemcnt-it is of the people. h
the people, for the people, and our
people must sustain il, We are dcci.
dcdly proud Of .his Fair, proud Of its
past success, proud of the pcrccpliblc
impulse it has given to stock-raising
and improved agriculture, and proud
of the character it has made through
out the state.
We append what II kind neigh.
Dor, the Meridian News, has to say of
our Fair:
The News acknowledges, with pleas.
ure. q complimentary invitation TO
the Noxubce County Fair, which be-
| gins on the 10th and running to the
10Th inclusive.
Mr.. j l.. Griggs is the president
of this crcditable association, and
Mr.. j. a. Tyson its courteous secc-
tary.
The Noxubec county Fair has been
a success from the start, and this
is largely due to the diversified agri.
cultural interests which have been in.
crcasing for several years past in that
rich county.
No county in the state is better
adapted to the. new order of things
which has. proven of so much
value to ..all the farmers. who
have except up wih the procession"
than Noxubce, and to-day her cattle,
her mules, her horses and, in short,
her stock OF all varieties, stand second
to none in the South.
While her prairics are especially
adapted to growing almost all the va
rites of valuable acclimatcd aud for
eign grasses, they are siugulary for
tunatc in having for their owners Il
class OF progressive farmers who now
exhibit nj every meeting of the NoX-
ubce County Fair the nn1cniable tact
tina, the South ram and does produce
MS fine stock, as rich butter. and rs
rich grasses as.any other portion OF the
United States,
All honor to those progressive gen.
tlemcn, who are indeed the true prin-
ccs of the land, and The NewS be-
speaks for them n large attendance,
feeling assured that, weather permit
ting, the management of the Noxnbce
County Fair Association will entertain
all visitors who may desire 20 visit
Macon during this inter resting occa-
sion.-Mcridian News.