The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-15
TIE ROCKY MOUNT FAIR.
A Large Crowd in Attendance.-.POii
tics and Prosperity.
Editorial Correspondence. !

ltIulUOrlal correspondence.
Rocky MOUNT, N. c., Nov. 13.-In
all North Carolina there is not section
in which there are more educated, wide
awake and successful farmers than those
who live in the Rocky Mount section of
Edgecombe and Nash counties. And
nowhere is more delightful and ele-
CANT hospitality dispensed in all our
Southern country For more than a
hundred years this has been a favorite
farming section and not few fortunes
have been digged out of the ground by
the men who hav3 carried and adopted
the old maxim:
''He that by the plow would thrive
! Himself must either hold or drive
About ten years ago number of the
| public spirited farmers here resolved to
organize an Agricultural Fair in order to
promote a generous rivalry particularly
between the younger farmers of the COM
munity. They secured an eligible site
on the suburbs of Rocky Mount, opened
subscription books, and went energet-
ically to work to make the fair good in
dex to the farming Of the section. Tney
put practical and successful men in
charge of all departments, excluded all
| building schemes and encouraged in
every possible way the exhibition of the
best OF everything grown in Eastern
North Carolina. From the first the fair
was success. | look back upon the
occasions of the first two or three fairs
as weeks of rare pleasure and profit, and
to day it did me good after an absence
of several years to again greet familiar
faces ard rejoice with the true and tried
friends upon what had been accomplish
ed here.
There is a big crowd here. At 10
o'clock Sam'l L. Arlington, Secretary,
told me that over 4, ZOO people had paid
their way into the Fair, and trains arriv-
ing afterwards brought large crowds. 1t
was big crowd of as clever people as
the sun ever shone upon. They were
happy and smiling because of the boun-
tiful crops and the glorious political vic
tory. | hardly know which made them
, happiest. Hon. B. Ii BUM is the push
ing president of this Fair and was all
smiles. | could hardly tell whether he
! was prouder because he had received
over 5000 majority for Congress or be
cause nearly 5000 people had paid then
: way into the fair grounds.
4 Among the leading spirits Of this t all
I is Mr. JESSE BRAKE, who is now one oi
Edgecombe'S representatives elected tC
: the Legislature. he is successful anC
intelligent Allianceman, and if there i!
| or nr n m lrn
!. of VANCE in North Carolina than Mr.
q BRAKE, | do not know him. | hear tha
q DR.. r. H. SPEIGHT, Edgecombe'S Sana
!. tor-a man of large Information anC
broad views is an earnest VANCE man
) 1t is supposed that Mr.. AARON BRiDGERs
!. the other House member from Edge
:. combe, is for VANCE. | also had TIL
e pleasure of meeting here Mr.. } B. Phil
"a LIPS who has won q glorious victory Il
! Nash. He is not instructed, but Is
% strong friend to Senator VANCE and vii
y. support him. There are four uninstruC
: ted votes for VANCE which were not II
ir cluded in my calculation. Vance Is sat
n with the people, both in and out of tn
to Alliance.
y. Rocky Mount is doing a larger bus
20 ness than it has done in 20 years. Ih
J. merchants are selling goods and the pee
70 pie one and all are getting prosperor
after the drought of the last three year
a There are two large tobacco ware house
20 here and this is becoming fiourishin
be tobacco market. The Rocky Moul
ID Mills have been enlarged and are givir
al employment to many men, women ar
at children, and succeeding wonderful
n. we'll There are few, if any, mills
az the State which have more compete
no management.
)r. Recently the Argonaut, edited
il REV. B F. LONG, has been removed fro
,aI Nashville to Rocky Mount and is is ia
ing deep root here. The Phoenix is
m permanent institution and both the
Sc papers are deeply interested in advert
nd ing tt e prosperity and growtl OF Roci
ms Mount.
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