The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-22

The News and Observer promised the
weather yesterday that If it would be
reasonable generous, we would nave
a big day at the Fair. The weather be-
haved nicely, the sun took sides with the
thousands who wanted to take in the
great attraction-and drove the clouds,
away, and the News and Observer kept
its promise. Yesterday at the Fair was
one of our biggest Thursdays These North
Carolina folks are not much afraid Of
threatening clouds, any way, especially
when it comes to meeting each other
at their annual festive Fair.
They come every year. When
they are eight years old. the
old folks bring them to the
Fair, and when they get eighteen
they bring the old folks to the Fair, then
when they get eighty years old other
young folks bring them to the Fair, and
50 they are always at the Fair.
They were there yesterday ten thou
sand strong, and no management OF any
attraction ever looked on more comely
crowd, they came from the east and the
west, from north Of US and south OF us.
The old veterans came, the venerable
sages came, the beautiful girls were there,
4 great army OF them and the handsome
young men were there, the brides ana
grooms were as sweet on the Fair as
they were on each other and
the children, oh, yes, hum
Sreds OF the pretty buds Of promise,
they all saw the great Fair, they saw
the midway and its attractions, they
viewed the handsome stock, they chat
ted with each other and they all had
grand and glorious time. The Governor
and nearly, or quite all OF the State
officers, and their families, the judges
many Of them and their families, the
lawyers and doctors and their families,
the merchants and farmers and their
sons and daughters and sisters and
a,Ints The mechanics, the clerks, the
scholars and teachers land the preach.
ers. the rich and those that are not rich,
handsome and those that are-stiH
more handsome-they were all at the
Fair yesterday mingling together in 4
moving sea Of chaste and charming
North Carolina folk. &
There were somewhere about five hun
dred Smiths on the grounds yesterday,
and two hundred and fifty Of them Were
pretty girls, there We're some SIX or eight
hundred Jones's and about the same per-
centage of them We're handsome women
and pretty girls, there We're some three
or four hundred Johnsons, and all OF
them except a few We're good looking,
and the Browns, there We're several hun
dred Of them, the most of them as hand
some as Mr.. Jos. G.. Brown, OF the Citi
zen's Bank. There were a hundred or
more of Harris's, a like number Of
Greens and Jenkins's, including John
w. Jenkins, of the Charlotte News.
There were perhaps a hundred each OF
Kings and Thompsons and Edwards's,
and Whites and Thomas's and Taylors,
and there were pretty girls and hand
come fellows among all of these.
Then there were the Battles, the
Bachelors, the Upchurchs, the Whita-
the Biakes, the Hendersons, the Whta-
kers, the Buffalos, the Dunns, the
Bunns. the Jacksons, the Adams, the
Badgers, the Mahlers, the Brewers, the
Lattas, the Mornings, the Wy
att, the Myatts, the Macys, the
Weirs, the Briggses, the LeWises,
the Lumsdens, the Carrs, and
the Carriers, the Cheeks, the Chamblees,
the Coles, the Blacks, and the Baileys;
there were the Vests, and the Higgs,
the Andrews, and the Andersons, the
Matthews, and the Matthewsons, the
Tucks, and the fuckers, the Broughtons,
and the Binghams, they were all there
seeing eacQ OUneF, anu SeciHS Juc Il ar.
Mr.. J. P. Gulley and his family, the
McPheeterss, the Flemings, OF Roles
vile, the Lynns, Of Kelvin Grove, the
Jorians and Yates's, of Cary, the
Weathers, and the Rogers and Temples,
OF Milburnie. Eagle Rock sent its Rich
ards, and its Richardson's, its Honeycutts
and its Debnams, Morrisyille sent down
Pages and Pughs and Merritts and Nor
ris's. Durham sent a regiment, headed
by it's Carrs, it's Lyons and its Parishs,
and Riggsbees, Franklinton came up
with McGhees and Ballards, and a hun
dred others; Louisburg sent its Pleas
ants, it's Yarboroughs, and its Persons,
and hundred other persons; Wake
Forest came with teachers and preach
ers and students and citizens. In the
vast crowd stroling about were
Judge and Mrs. Shepperd, Mr. and Mrs.
Simmons, of Raleigh, Mr. w. G. Thomas
and his family, of Louisburg, Capt. Ken
drick, Mayor Russ and his family, Mr..
and Mrs. Hal Bobbitt, the Blakes and
Leaches and Aliens, of Raleigh; Messrs.
J. s.. Wynne and w. w. Wynne and
their families, Mr.. Alfred Johnson, who
was attending his thirty-ffth Fair, the
Barbees and Lees, Mrs. A. B. Stronach
and her charming daughters. Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. III. Wainwright, Mrs. Geo. 7.
Stronach, Mrs. Nadal, ex-Congressman