Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-08-20
AIR ASSOCIATION
DOWN TO BUSINESS
Every Member Of. the Association
Working for the County.
WlLL HAvE A FIME exHIsIT

World what AiachUa County is Ca.
pabIs Of Producing.
The Alachua County Fair AssociS-
lIop, which was organized q isw days
70 ~ 90 adjunct TO the Florida Mid
Winter State Fair Association, IL now
M1HlnR EXCELLENT progress. with the in
Ieation that Alschua county will have
~ she State Fair. which is to be held
'n Tampa from November 18th TO Both,
81 exhibit which will be second to none
md which may capture the big 5000
prize for the best general county eX-
hIbit. There will be six prizes for
eonnty exhibits, ranging from $1,000
down 10 800, but Alachua county 10
nlsar the fret prize and is determined
- oaptpre IL II hard work and a good
dlspDsy will get It,
Mention OF the organization Of the
AiaehuG County Association has al
feadg been made. At this meeting q
great deal OF enthusiasm was mani
Tested by the numerous business and
pRpfesaional men present and a foil
eohnplement OF officers we're elected
which will insure the success OF the I'M
dertaking. The meeting was chsrac-
Verified for its enthusiasm AZ d those
presont made assurances that the
fnrmeT and trucker would lend every
aid towards making the association and
the exhibit a success. II 10 from the
farmer and trucker and horticulturist
largely that the county must depend,
although there will be exhibits OF the
shining and manufacturing interests OF
the county, Taken altogether. no coun'
~ In Florida, or In the South, can pro-
duee q more diversiiled or better va
rlely, and AlachuA county will show up
well at the Fair
The board Of directors of the Alachus
County Fair Association, which Was 'e-
aecIod ~ the meeting Of the association
upon Ice organization, convened in the
clilee OF Secretary W W Colsun and
Appointed the Fair commissioners, who
HsFs notified, aud many OF them have
Already written of their interest in the
nastteF and have gone TO work. These
commissioners, all OF whom are gentle
men OF influence Ia their respective
0ornmunities, are determined not to bc
aatdone, with the result that the Ala
nhua couhty exhibit At the Fair will
enne hrst, not only from al alphabet.
cal standpoint, but in point OF merit
Mslor Teneh'S Letter.
Major w. Tench, who has been
Appointed by the board of directors ~
soliectoF and manager Of the exhibits,
has addressed an interesting circular
letter TO the people OF AlAchuA county
which 10 sa follows:
-'To che Progressive CiIIens of Ala
ohua County;
Having been appointed by the d..
rectoFS OF the AlAchuA County Fair A..
aoclation ~ collector aud manager OF
Che county exhibit at the Florida Mid
Winter Exposition, TO be held ~ Tam
Pc beginning on the 18th OF November
and ending on the Both OF November,
ICES. I take this method, for the pres
snt. OF calling your attention TO the
many advantages 20 be- derived from
theae annual fairs, alike 90 the State,
counties and individuals thereof,
later, IN ten days, perhaps, will try
and SEE every farmer aud housewife in
abe county personally, and talk the
matter over IN eKtenso.
The directors, commissioners aud
officers oi the AlachuA County Fair As.
sociat,0n are all men Of Affairs aud
have the confidence ~ the entire eiti-
sensh,p uf the county aud IL 10 their
tntent'On ~ sf,ue back the 1900 pre-
raaum Offered for the best county ex-
hibit aud u the commissioners will
eid me ~ hope they will, by using
eheir unceasing efforts To induce the
people totcnd the beet oi everything
prod need on IA, farm, " wrouRh, by
che nimble hands ~ the household. We
will succeed, cannot tell an Tie
sheet all that - wanted Tor exhibition.
bus will send OF bring you printed lt.t
Within the next two Wccks. suffice d,
90 SAP here that nothing should I've
oterlookeA. What would not nethara