The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-08-13
THE TaIRTY.FOuRTH
ANNUAL STATE FAIR.

Columbia, Aug. S.-The annual pre-
MUM list Of the thirty y-fouf annual
State fair, which is to be held in Co.
lumbia beginning On Tuesday morn
ing, Oct. 2s, and ending Friday even
ing, Oct. 81, has been issued and is
being distributed by Col. Thos. ".
Holloway, secretary Of the society.
This year the following announcement
is made as to commercial display:
"For the best installed and most
handsomely decorated commercial ex-
hibit permium of 500 will be paid.
Not less than Is to exhibit. Five dol
lars for floor space (15 feet front) from
every exhibitor. Score points: install
liation 40; decoration 60-100." This
is provided to induce the merchants Of
theYctiy to make displays.
All entries in all departments will
close Oct. 21.
The annual special announcement
reads as follows:
"The thirty-fouth annual South
Carolina State fair will be held in Co
lumbia, from Tuesday, October 18th,
TO Friday, October 31st, inclusive.
"Entries are absolutely free, except
where otherwise stated and all pre-
miums regularly awarded are paid In
full. No part of the premium money
is retained by the society on any ac-
count or pretext whatever.
'.The management seeks to encourge
the exhibition of only SUCH animals
and products as are really meritorious
and are of utility and profit to the peo-
pie of the State. This is the one great
object of the fair and the society is
imbued with an ambition to add new
zest and new dignity to agricultu-
raj and mechanical pursuits and secure
increased influence and greater remu-
neration to those engaged in them.
The premium list has been care
fully revised, and the society wishes
to call attention to the inducements
offered that will certainly attract the
best exhibits that can be shown In
every class.
The achievements Of the State agri-
cultural and mechanical society in
promoting the development of agricul-
ture and its allied industries have
never been fully appreciated by its
best friends; its possibilities for fu-
ture usefulness in suggesting and dis
seminating ideas that will materialize
in improved crops, live stock and farm
practice cannot be over-estimated.
"Not unmindful of the entertain
ment of its patrons, the management
is endeavoring to secure a number OF
new and novel attractions that will
both instruct and amuse. These will
be announced later. All immoral
shows and devices for gambling under
any form whatever will be excluded
from the grounds of the society; and
any person caught violating any law
ofssthe State, practicing any gambling
game or device will be Immediately
arrested.
Realizing how large part of the
successes of the past exhibitions has
been owing to the work of the fair
women of the State, the soceity ear
nestly requests exhibits in the several
departments.
SsThe large attendance at the fair
offers splendid inducement to mann
facturers to make elaborate displays of
their works. On all the leading rail
roads of the State entering Columbia
excursion rates will prevail during fair
week, thus extending facilities for
visiting the fair. to the people OF every
quarter of the State.
Visitors to Columbia will find much
to entertain them besides the fair.
Among the places of interest may be
mentioned: The State house, asylum,
penitentiary. cemetery, factories, col
ieges, graded schools, churches, etc.
Every effort is made by the city to
entertain her visitors, who are assured
that they will receive cordial recep-
tion and spend pleasant time. The
fair is conducted for the benefit of the
public at large, and their moral sup
port and active cooperation are re-
ouested in order to make the thirty
fourth annual fair the grandest in the
history of the agricultural and me-
chanical society,"