The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-09-13
THE COUNTY FAIR.

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THE COUNTY FAIR.
General Herman Stump, president
of the Hartford County Agricultural
Society states that the Directors will
allow no gambling at the comingex
hibition. A force of constables will
police the Fair and there will be a
committing magistrate On the
grounds and the law will be strictly
and speedily enforced.
A pleasing feature of the Fair will
be the encampment of companies G
and NJ, of Annapolis, H of Carroll
county and D of Bel Air. This will
be an aggregation of upwards of16O
men and the Governor and Adjutant
General will probably be present one
day to make an official inspection.
The military display will be augment
ed by troop A, the crack cavalry Of
Baltimore county. This organiza-
ton acted as an escort to Governor
Smith in the inaugural parade last
spring in Washington and it is said
to be composed of the finest looking
men and horses that there is in this
part of the country. Their drilling
is excellent and the military spectacle
will doubtless prove one of the big
drawing cards of the Fair.
Wednesday of the Fair will be
Farmers Day. The Fallston Farm
ers' Club will have Mr.. R. E. Duvall
as its orator and Mr.. W. Beatty Har-
Ian will represent the Deer Greek
Farmers Club. President r. W..
Sylvester of the Maryland Agricul-
tural College will deliver speech on
interesting topi:s for the farmers.
The exercises will take place in a
large tent.
The Directors have offered a special
premium of SIS for the best pack of
hounds. The contest will be decided
by drag hunt. 1t is the intention
of the Directors to make this Fair an
agricultural event and only such
amusements as are of a harmless
nature will be allowed.
1t is to be hoped that with these
assurances coming from the response
BILE source that they do will set at
rest the silly talk which has been
lately going the round about the
Society running the Fair "wide
open" Such talk as this simply dis
plays ignorance in those who indulge
in it and we wish any one who is not
perfectly satisfied with the sincerity
of this statement to investigate the
matter to its fullest extent.
EVERYTHING IS COMING OUR WAY.
Our friends, the Republicans, hav-
ing gone over the political grounds
in thorough manner, held caucus
to round up events and compare
notes on Monday. From the in
formation that we CLEAN from inside
sources it was mutually agreed that
it was a case of "Whistle boys to
keep your couragetrom oozing, some
thing may yet turn up" The report
of the "Illiteracy Committee" while
informal, was anything but en-
couraging. The necessary campaign
literature is not being as intelligently
digested by the colored brother as
had been expected and many of
them have so far made utter failures
in learning the first rudiments of per-
forming their duties of citizenship
in an intelligent manner. The night
schools, however, will be continued
and it has been suggested that the
committee adopt the system of Civ
ing premiums for the best marked
ticket. We understand, that so far,
it has been a case of ten failures to
one success. All this coupled with
the small amount of kicking" that
is being done by the Democrats is
having a wearing effect on thenerves
of the political managers. They ex'
pected whoop and hurrah when
they nailed the Baker" banner to
their flag pole; but it has so far failed
to awaken the slightest enthusiasm,
and many of them are now frank
enough to admit that their chances
for success would have been far
greater, if they had chosen some one
who had not been a chronic office
seeker, whenever anything easy