The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-20
TO CELEBRATE ITS
SEM|-CENTE NN|AL
q 2.
A FestaI Week Begins at
Winston the 30th.
SALEM WILL TAKE PART
Piedmont Fair Will be Held. Tuesday
Opening Day.
SALEM WILL TAKE PART
WEDNESDAY, IS SEMLCENTENNlAL DAY
Thursday There viii be Carnival Which Will
Put Venice 10 Share. Friday Horse
Show and Tournamen, Saturday.
ChiIdren's DAY.

Especial to the News and Observer
Winston Salem, N. c., October 10
Winston, the Queen city of the great
Piedmont section, being proud of her bril-
liant past, and desiring to show to the
world something of her achievements,
will, during the week beginning October
30th, celebrate the 50th anniversary Of
her incorporation rs a town.
During the week of the celebration
there will be held the Annual Piedmont
Agricultural, Livestock and Industrial
Fair and Horse Show. The fair will be
held on the grounds of the company,
where there is located the finest race
tracks in the South One of the fea-
lures of the weeks festivities will be the
free street fair. The fair will be To-
ca1ed around the court house square
where merchants and manufacturers will
erect their booths and exhibits The
court house will be illuminated with
thousands OF incandescent colored cleo
trio lights, and hundreds of Japanese Ian
terms. These lights will be strung from
the street up to the tower of the build
ings as we'll as around the square, pre-
senting a scene of beauty that will be
worth coming hundreds of miles to see.
Tuesday will be the great opening day.
when one hundred mounted marshals and
fifty young lady honorary marshals, will
march at the head of the procession of
horse back riders. carriages, etc. 1t is
estimered that more than one thousand
people will be in the parade.
Wednesday will be the semi-centennial
day, when the splendid historical and in
dustrial parade will take place, and when
some distinguished man OF the country
will deliver an address.
On Thursday things will begin to warm
up, for this is to be carnival day. In the
evening the brownie and fantastic parade
will take place. This will be one of
the most interesting and amusing pa
rades that has ever been witnessed by
the people of this country. Several nun
dred boys will be dressed as brownies,
and two or three hundred ladies and gen
tlemen Will be dressed in fantastic Co.'S
tunes. At the conclusion of the parade
the confetti battle will begin in earnest,
and with music and brilliant lights the
unique costumes and MOSQUES, the fly
ing confetti. the shouts of the Snowman,
the rubber ball iends, one will imagine
ones self in the street of ancient We
nice during one of their carnival nights.
Friday is to be horse show day at the
park In the afternoon the old time
Southern tournament will take place.
and the queen of love and beauty will
be crowned.
Saturday will be childrens day. An
extra program will be arranged for the
children. and they will be charged only
an admission fee of five cents. On this
day ali teachers in the county will be
admitted into the grounds free.
In addition to the various attractions
already enumerated there will be many
midway and side shows. Jim Key the
educated horse will be on hand, as also
will the electric fountain, the museum,
the great snake eater, the crystal palace,
Lunetti. the aerial wonder the wild
Philippine woman, the animal show, the
merry GO rounds, the Ferris wheels and
many other things.
We must not forget the free attractions
that will be seen at the grounds, such
as the educated dog show, Charles and
Katie Bovnton, on horizontal revolving
ladder, Edytho La Velle, the great trick
bicycle rider, a wonderful performance
on a high wire, the funny cake walk and
many other free shows.
Now one word as to the social features.
The young gentlemen of the Social Club
will give a dance Monday, Wednesday
and Friday nights. The Friday night func-
tion will be the coronation and marshals'
ball. Music will be furnished by the ia
nous Hollowbush Orchestra.
In conclusion it is proper to state that
our old sister town, Salem which was
the metropolis of this section of North
Carolina long before Winston was thought
of, joins her younger sister in the cele-
bration of her seth birthday. And we
now extend to the world an invitation to
come and see us during our gala week.
Come. the city is yours, take what you
want, and welcome.