The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-12
GREAT STATE FAIR
IS CLOSE At HAND
All North Carolina Should
Enjoy Splendid Event.
VISIT OF PRESIDENT

Soldiers in Line, Fair Marshals, Poop e
by Tens OF Thousands at the Great
State Gathering With Its Wonder.
full Exhibits and Magnificent
Attractions.
There's bacon in the smoke house,
There's cotton and corn to spare;
Whip up the OK team, Billy
We're goin' to the Fair!
An Sue-put on your meetin' dress,
With ribbons in yer hair,
An pitch the little towheads in
We're goin' to the Fair.
The Fair will be formally opened on
TUESDAY OCTOBER THE SEVEN
TENTH. 1905
At twelve O'Clock noon,
His Excellency. ROBERT Ii. GLENN.
Governor of North Carolina.
Assisted by
The President and Ex-Presidents of
the Society.
And the Fair. the Great State Fair
that brings the folks of North Carroll
ma from the country and from the
towns and from the cities to Raleigh
is close at hand. Here in Raleigh
we're fixing for it with a mighty rush.
and getting gay with flags and bunt-
ing.
You've heard of the dates before,
but just to remind you, it is repeated
that these are from october sixteen
to October twenty-one being Monday
and Saturday of the week that have
hid in 1t waiting for us great stacks
of enjoyment. fun, and pleasure, great
heaps of instruction and knowledge
and the greetings of people from all
parts of North Carolina whom we
nave not seen since last year at the
Fair.
Raleigh has contracted a habit of
heiving great State Fairs, but this
time the management say that it is
going to be the greatest fair ever
and that the hundred thousand or
more people who reckoning to take
in it's joys are going to have d feast
of good things spread out before
them. such that never before in the
history of the Fair has been present
ed. these in the splendid exhibits in
the buildings and on the grounds, i'm
the daring and dazzling free-for-ali
performances, and in the live-wire at
fractions that will line up along the
midway-pike. where the SaWduSt
makes the roadway.
Bands of music are to make mel
ody in the halls and on the grounds,
wonderful things are to be exhibited
on every side. many pianos will> be
making music and the merry go
round will ring out it's jumpety- Jump
notes. Military will be marching and
the small boy will occupy every point
of vantage the beauteous maids of
North Carolina will be seen in new
and fetching gowns, while matrons
and men will ramble around in the
kaleidoscope picture made up of the
throngs of those who are doing the
Fair
For a Great Big Time.
If you've attended this great State
event in Raleigh then you know the
rush and the stir of the big days at
the Fair. but this year this is to be
multiplied by startling ngures, for
the visit of the President of the United
States TO Raleigh and the State Fair
Is going to add enormously to the at
tendance. He is going to be here
Thursday, the 18th of October when
at IL o'clock he is to make an adj
dress at the Fair Grounds, and he
states that this is to contain some i'm
portant utterances that will be heard
With interest. The unique perSOnall-
ty of the President, his varied expert
ences as rancher in the West where
he was comrade with cowboys, his
record as Police Commissioner Of
New York, Civil Service Commission
er, Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
Colonel of the Rough Riders. Cover
Dr. S.id don RI
President. with all that these mean
VIII cause thousands to want to sec
and hear the man who brought peace
To Russia and Japan, and there is -ex-
pected congestion Of people i'm the
city anu at the Fair Grounds on
Thursday of Fair Week. That his
wife. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. will
accompany him. will add much in
terest to. his visit.
Raleigh is preparing to take prom
er care of the great crowds that are
expected, and in doing so has arrang-
ed bureau of information, the head
quarters being in the Capital Climb
building, first floor. where the visitor
who wants lodging place or a place
to take his meals will be given dire
tiOnS as to these and a messenger sent
with him to guide him to the spot.
Cots by the thousands are being put
in hotels. and boarding houses, pr-
Nate residences. halls ana vacant
rooms. and strenuous effort will be
made to care for every man. woman
and child who honors Raleigh with
his presence during the Fair. In the
way OF meals the hotels. boarding
houses, cafes, restaurants and private
homes will be ably supplemented by
innumerable stands and places fixed
especially for Fair Week in various
parts of the business section. while
on the Fair grounds itself and in tha
halls of the Fair Buildings there will
be other places where the hungry
may find food and drink. The sand
witch will be here i'm all its glory