The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-09-14
whs. I Know About County Fairs.
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Eds Republican:
As kind words never 60 amiss. II yoI
will kindly allow me space will en-
deayor to write d few kind words II
support OF the ''embryo" county fair.
Horace Greeley in the early days o.
the New York Tribune wrote "What
! Know about Farming" This matter
was not only instructive 10 some re-
Ispccts, but very amusing, to say the
least Now, what know about county
fairs may be OF some benefit 10 the Ia.
ney county fair organization.
As COUNTY fair your organization
just 10 the embryo stage, and may be
compared 70 rose. Last year your ex.
position represented the bud just form.
ing; this year it should represent the
bud, beginning to open, and next year 6
exhibit should represent the full-blown
rose in all It's lOveliness.
The exhibits made last year were q
great credit to the county, and to the
citizens Of Forsyth, by whose energy
the fair was worked up and carried out.
Ii will be impossible for me TO give n
full outline Of the Dodus operandi OF a
successfully conducted county fair, as
they are in Iowa, Illinois and the north
part OF this state. In as brief an article
as this must be, but without fear of con.
tradiction assert that nothing can be
instituted In the county that will prove
as good school for the same time for
our agricultural interests, and for all
our citizens, as we'll organized and
properly conducted county fair.
There are citizens living In the ex.
treme corners OF tho county who do not
come into contact with each other once
In ten or twelve years. II is now and
has been for many. years the practice
To hold so-c,llled ''Old Settlers" and
"Old Soldiers reunions In different
parts OF the county, In order to have
gala day and good time. Now, why
not combine the old settlers, old sold.
iers, and all the rsst OF the old
and young citizens, In county fair Or
ganization combining instruction with
pleasure, and providing a true reunion
for everybody at the county fair. But
in order that this may be 1t is necessary
that every citizen take hold, and give
the enterprise his undivided support,
not only by grudgiugly donating few
dollars, but by advocating the benefits
70 be gained. One great incentive to
good lies In the rivalry 1t will create to
show the best vegetables, grains,fruits,
live stock, fowls, etcetcra; and who OF
the merchants can make the best show.
ing Of their wares. The fair wives and
daughters will be present with their
handiwork Ia dairy products, with the
needle and loom, in canned fruits, Ia
bread and pastry Let the millers On.
ter into o contest TO see who eau make
the most and best -four to the bushel OF
wheat; and 70 on.
Such fair, 50 supported, will bring
every farmer, with his wife, Sons and
daughters, together once a year, as no
other organization will or can, TO talk
over methods and compare results and
and gain from each other knowledge
born Of experience.
ln my time | have attended many
fairs: county fairs, state fairs, a worlds
fair at Chicago in 1893, and the Corn
Palace" fair at Sioux City, Iowa, in
1888. This was grand affair from the
fact that the whole building, two sto-
ries high and covering almost II not
quite the whole block, inside and Out,
was decorated with the different grains
arranged TO form flowers, landscapes,
miniature farms with fields, animals,
even the we'll With It's old.fashIoned
sweep and ''old oaken bucket" all
wrought by hand and chiefly with
grains Of corn Of different colors. You
can imagine this required the work Of
a great number Of hands and high art
istic skill.
Now let everybody take hold, and sec
what we denizens Of the "Ozark Hills"
can do in the way Of a county fair.