The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-22
THE FAIR,

Secretary McNair returned from m east
ern trip yesterday and reports fair matters
as booming. The horsenen are coming
sure, for he has already secured the entries
of some fine stables. He thinks the time
never was, when so much good feeling ex-
! listed towards Wichita, or so many people
looking this way for our annual fair. The
cattle men are looking for one of the finest
exhibits ever witnessed in the state. 1t is
thought that Missouri will send some of
her best herds to compete against those OF
| Kansas. Last year was the first time that
any Missourians had ever taken part in
our cattle display, and the treatment they
| received at that time. has caused much
favorab bic tcomment and will undoubtedly
bear good fruit this year. The high water
at St. Louis and Kansas City interfered
materially with Mr.. McNair's work, and
he was obliged to leave some of it undone
because of inability to make the points he
wished to.
The correspondence in the secretary's
office is of a very varied nature, and comes
from almost all over the United States.
The most interesting letter found in the
great mass of accumulated matter upon
his return, was the following from a friend
of the fair residing in the extreme south
west part of the county, showing the feel
ing in his section and which is thought to
be the feeling existing all over the district
included by the Southern Kansas Fair as
sociation:
ANNEss, Kan, May 16, '92.
W. P. McNair.
DEAR SIR-How is the Southern Kansas
Fair association? If you could only see
the fruits of our exhibit last fall you
would feel encouraged. / know of some
twenty-five families who have come in and
secured farms in this part of the county
on account of that exhibit of products.
Then if you could see the teams turning
over every available rod Of prairie there is
throughout this entire country and men
coming in and buying it up until there is
none to rent, you would be still more en-
couraged especially if you had the expe-
rience that l did in asking one man if he
was not afraid of starving out in drouthy
Kansas. He replied, mot as long as they
can raise such corn rs | saw at the fair
last fall; and such pumpkins, why a man
could almost make house of one" And
so the good work goes on in the country,
bringing more trade to the towns as we'll
as producers to the country; no vacant
farms and new houses in town. So cheer
up and work on and be sure and give us
one more such fair as you had for exhibits
last fall and they will have to tack on
several strips to hold the people who will
come in and make Wichita truly the
Queen of the West"
A. j. BENNETT, Sr.
We can assure our friend that every
effort will be made to thave the 1892 fair
the best of them all, and hope he will so
inform his friends. When such letters
come in, it must be apparent to all that
the fair is not failure as an advertising
medium. and when 1t is considered that
each succeeding fair has been better than
its predecessor, it must be admitted that
every business man should see the necess-
ty of doing his part towards the perpetuity
of the orgaization. AS has been said be-
fore in these columns, the association is
ready to receive and act upon suggestions
that may be offered by any citizen and it
is hoped that all will feel that freedom to
call upon the secretary which would ne
used were they the officers of the associa-
tiou.