The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-06-21
rOhio State Journal.l
THE COUNTIES MOVE.
General Hurst's Visit and What
They are Going to Do at the
Ohio Centennial.

General S. H. Hurst, Director Gen
eral of the Ohio Centennial, has re.
turned from his trip to Northeastern
Ohio, and reports having met with
the heartiest cooperation and the
warmest enthusiasm for the Ohio
Centennial Exposition, to be held at
Columbus, September 4-October 49,
Gen. Hurst's first visiting point was
Wellington, where he consulted with
the Commissioners of Lorain County
and found them enthusiastic and en-
ergetic. Lorain County will compete
for both the agricultural and horti-
cultural county exhibits prizes, and
are making strenuous efforts to come
to the front with a strong showing.
They will also try to have an exhibi-
ton Of the products Of their stone
quarries in the department of mining
and metallurgy. The county pro-
duces fine varieties of fine building
stone.
From Wellington the General went
to Cleveland and had consultation
with Mr.. Bayne Of the department of
mining and metallurgy. The people
of Cleveland are going to make as fine
display of the exposition as any city
in the country. The ladies are work.
ing hard for the woman's department.,
and are meeting with great success
and the merchants and manufacturers
Of the city will enter heartily into the
plans for the success Of the exposition.
The Summit County Centennial
Commissioners Gen. Hurst met at
Akron. Summit County will make
competitive displays in both horticul-
ture and agriculture, and the people
of that part of the State will make
fine displays generally. Mr.. Shoema-
ker, the oat meal man, and Colonel
Conger, the machinist, both Of Akron,
will make entries in their depart
ments. The Centennial Commission
ers of Medina County met the Direc-
tor General at Akron and gave the
information that their county will
compete with an agricultural display.
The Trumbull County workers who
were visited at Warren have been un-
able to secure from the County Com
missioners any financial aid, although
the Legislature authorized them to
appropriate money for that purpose,
but the people of the county have de-
cided to raise the money by private
subscription and will make exhibits
and compete for the county prizes in
both the agricultural and hor&icultu-
raj departments,
In Stark County the interest in the
Ohio Centennial is red hot. The gen.
eral says he found things fairly boil
ing and everybody booming the CEN
tennial. On the day of his visit Gen.
Hurst found a meeting of the centen-
nial society. The house in which the
meeting was held was full and the
audience was as full of enthusiasm as
if it were a political meeting in the
midst Of heated campaign, Stark
County will make exhibits in both ag-
moulture and horticulture, and will
compete for both the county prizes.
The people up there say their only
difficulty is the settlement Of the
question as to wha5 they will do with
the money after they have won the
prizes. The machinery and oil depart
ments Of industry of Stark County
will be fully represented at the expo
sition.
The Mahoning County people are
also thoroughly alive to the situation
and are hustling with might and main
to be in the swim as deep az anybody
when the doors Of the peoples expo
sition swing open on September 4th
next. There will, in addition to the
horticultural and agricultural displays
be fine individual exhibitions of stock
and the limestone, iron and coal in
dustries Of the Mahoning Valley will
be represented.
In Wayne County the people are
talking up and booming the oenten-
NAL in a most patriotic spirit. In
fact the whole section is finely worked
up on the subject. The county will
enter agricultural and horticultural
collections for the big prizes offered for
the best displays made by counties in
those departments, and the private
enterprises and business interests of
town and country will have represent
tatives OF haad when the wheels be-
gin to move.
The last place visited by Gen. Hurst
before his return home was the village
Of Norton, in Delaware County, where
he, en Saturday, addressed an audience
Of about 5000 people on the subject
Of the centennial.
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