The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-20
PUTNAM At THE FAIR.
N0gnifCent Exhibit Commend
cd Apparently Unwilling
Recognition.
BUT THE FORCE E PUBLIC OPINION
Prevailed and 1t Takes Second Pre-
mum. After Which the Coun-
ty Receives Its Quota of
Bouquets.


The second Florida State Fair was
a SUCCESS.
1t had magnificent exhibits, and
thousands of people saw them.
1t was big Improvement on the
first fair.
But Lake City is too small town
with inadequate hotel accommOda.
tiOns, for such an enterprise.
knowledge of that fact kept
thousands of people away.
Putnam energies from the honorable
contest for agricultural supremacy
among the counties of the state, sat.
isfied with its showing, and with a
feeling of thankfulness to it's hust-
ling special commissioner, Mr.. F.
H. Hafer, and to Maj. Glessner and
Charles Francis who rendered
him such valuable assistance. TO
them in largest measure is due our
success.
The judges in that contest have
awarded Putnam county the second
prize of 500, for having "the second
best collective exhibit"
But this is not all. The press of
our leading city-JacksOnville-
which saw fit to ignore our exhibit,
or what is worse, damn it with faint
praise during the early days of the
fair, were forced by the wave of pop
ular feeling to do our county justice
-tardy justice to be sure, but justice
all the same-free, frank and full
after the awards had heen made.
Hear what the Times-Union and
Citizen had to say the morning after
the awards had been made:
at was nip and tuck between Ma
rion and Putnam for first prize on
general county exhibit, and the
judges had no easy task deciding be-
tween the two. 1t became neces-
sary, before deciding, for them to
call for an itemized statement of the
exhibits of each county, and they
finally gave the first prize to Marion
because her live stock exhibit was
more complete and gave her more
points in the count. Putnam carried
off the second prize.
commissioner Hafer has been
ably assisted by Charles Francis of
Interlachen, and their talks to the
people have aroused great interest in
Putnam County.
"Mr. Hafer has been in the real
estate business in Florida for twenty
years, and he knew just what to
bring to the fair. He and Major
Glessner of the Georgia Southern
and Florida Railroad worked hard
to arouse the people to contribute
exhibits, and they deserve great
credit for what they accomplished.
"When Mr.. Hafer reached Lake
City and found that no provision had
been made to supply the people at
the fair with ice water, he took two
large cypress tanks from his exhibit
and contracted to have them filled
with ice water every day for public
use. These tanks furnished the peO-
pie with an average of 1900 pints of
ice water day, and some days they
had to be filed twice. The tanks
were made by g. NJ. Davis d Son of
Palatka.
"AmOng the notable exhibits from
this county were a display of egg
plants, peppers, velvet beans and
other vegetables by r. S. Mcintyre
of FlorahOme.
u. A. Crosby of San Mateo had
an extra fine display of citrus fruits.
~. w. Miller of Crescent City
showed an extra fine box each of ma
wells, tangerines and grapefruit.
IS. w. Rowley of San Mateo dis
played fine cigars and smoking TO-
bacco, also an exhibit of Florida
wrappers and filters.
"Chas. Francis, Jr., of Interlachen
had a fine exhibit of preserves, iell-
les, poultry and pit stock. He toe K
eighteen first prizes.
"B. J. Butler of Putnam Hall, fine
display of moss.
MRS. R. S. Mcintyre of Florahome
showed 81 l-2 pounds of sweet pota-
toes from one hill.
1.-The MyrtiewoOd Vineyard Com
pany, M. ]. Murphy of Palatka,
wine.
~. H. Wylie of Interlachen, pott-
ed nursery trees, caSsava, etc.
"A. d. Tucker of FlorahOme, Jap
anese sugar cane.
''Francis Fiber Company of Palat-
ka, display of fiber, mattresses, etc.
''Seldon Cypress Door Company of
Palatka, display of their products.
"Maull and Miller, orange sizing
machinery.
IL. G. CanOva, fruits, fish and
flowers frozen in blocks of ice."
OF course there were other exhibits
from the county and it would take
columns of this paper to do them
Justice. The manner of display was
also one showing excellent taste.
Putnam county and Palatka peo-
pie have felt that there was more
taste displayed in the arrangement
of our exhibit than was shown by
other counties. They did not take
into consideration our failure in the
stock line, the one thing that stood
in the way of securing the first prize.
In the failure to secure the stock
display Mr.. Hafer exhibited great
disappointment. He had the stock
promised but it failed to materialize.
We have the stock In the county.
THE PREMIUMS.
The award of premiums for Put