The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-30
The Farmers Are KeenlyI
u ..:ll8.lnl3ste.re n s.t5esd in the n
Pending 81 4: 4 9 Campaign.
NEARLY $4,000 ATT
THE EXHIBITION
Even Better Things for Next
Year Glimpse Of Political
~ Conditions inthe South ~
West-Judge Lewis
and That Libel t#
Suit.

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Especial From a Staff correspon dent ) l3s
| 5 ROANOKE. VA, September %. Thu 4
total number OF visitors to the Roanoke
fair. which closed to-day, Is estimated az
between 40 900 and $1,000. This IS oon-$
siderably larger than the admissions for I
any previous year. When the fact that
the fair association Is only three years
old Is considered, the number is phe- L
nomenal. It indicates the deep interest
people are taking In agrlculture-a res /
newed interest, for It had Jagged greatly 4
Probably there was never. a time when
agriculture was m ore popular OF pay
ling. It has certainly paid Roanoke mer-S8s
chants this week. They have reaped 4
rich harvest. And they deserved it.#
Every; one Of them Is said to have worked 4
with wonderfud vigor and Industry N sto$
make the fair q success. 8Ss
The Men at the Helm.
James P. Woods, tho president OF the d
fair &asso ciation !: K this scholz brothers. 4
Henry a nd Lewis a.; r.. III. 3Ange1l,i for
several years a member Of the House
OF Delegates from r Roanoke y AL. L. 81 bert S
and J. wv. 4 Hancock K gen eral mana gerSof5
the street railway company, Il, are the men
who have achieved the most In making
the fair such a wonderful success. as3 az
These men constitute the executive
committee. They have a way Of getting
together and deciding things and Revising
things that has proven perfectly antis-
factory to the y stockholders. And what
they say goes without question: The
association apparently has no desire to-
adopt the method OF other organlEationss
of$this kind and place the control IN the
a 40 uFfrf
dire ctors. 81, 3s VI
Ranks With the First.
General Mana ger Fox II ffat atrly entitled
70 2mucl, ofS thescredlt due for he success
of the fair. III Q ;is a. Pennayl van la news
pa per man, who comes d own every year
and takes the reins as 4 thes saot I've mi IN,
7 the chief executive. ms cerlt troll HI at the
/ fair grounds. 81 He does his work excel
lcntly we'll, {S SSts ; S4t 3SSS l{g8
e feel that the Roanoke fair is al-a
ready d enti tiled II to rank with the great
said Mr. Henry Scholz to-day q S..Th he Al.
toona and the Hagerstown fairs have
been institutions for years. q n Bit ours ISL
almost as good now. both In point. Of e;:ss-E
hlbits and a n 8s numbers Of visitors 81 m
q year or two 1t will be, Wholly as goed,, IA
| |1f not BETTER" IA 5F5
AS An Educator.
a number OF farmers have expressed y
this week he highest opinion s Of & tho
value OF the fair:5a MS an 4 eellcat tor. " Tho
farmers get new ideas. They learn tia
methods used a In producing the q grain
that takes the prize. They llsc cover tho
feed used to mako a hree-year %bul#
weigh 4 800 pounds. And they go ba ok%
nome and apply the lsnowledge8 obtained
| While mlnglng With their brethren 1T
| tho fair i5 s.l8iE aS5 5T1 4 3'ssS
Z. a REPRESENTATIVE OF a firm which IA anu
lacturcs agricultural machinery, told me-
his house always received large re turns
from tho advertising accon, panylnc an 4
exhibit at a country fair. liz .i booked M q -
valuable order in Southern VirEtnta this
week which he got through his exhIbItatai
the 4 Roanoke fair last year, The ad-9
| va need ideas Which the farmer gets al
the fair makes him want improved ma,
ohinery with which to$carry them out:
y r Mckinley said international exposi- &
LIONS n1arked the progress OF 81 the na-
tlons. Agricultural fairs Just as surely
| Indicate the progress Of agriculture: IA i3s
roanoke is going to have another one Il
l''eeAt 'eAt year and u The $Iext and so on for u.
more years than we can see. The wish &
ttlat every one In the future may be IA
sood as the one OF this yenr would, ne
| realized. mean 5llnbrokell success. But
tine ne men at the helm express determina-
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lt can scarcely be doubted that they viii Il
achieve their purpose, IL g3a Sg
The Race Results.
IN. the ladies' riding match today the
prizes We're awarded as follows: GSY5l
First, Mrs. Charles Hayden. OF thI.
city; second Miss Louise Price, OF Bote-
tourt third Mrs. r, !, Roop, OF Chris-
tiansburg; fourth. Miss Francis i. TTenrv
OF Natural Bridge. s 35 n Is H.,
IN tho gentleman $ riding match, Prof
Conner. won first, and Robert Jones of
this city, second, The races we're as
follows:
Running -Three-elghth mile, $50
Cablr Boy, first; Gunston. second calu-
dula, third. Time, LOS.
2:22 trot, s4o0-Jlm Rayard, first; Mon L
tana Guard second; !; Kenneth Mac. third
Billy Day, fourth, Time, gel l-9
Kenneth Mac was fined $aa for LAYING
up heat. 3t . n
2:l6 pace, sioo-,Elie. first, Minnie
Thompson. second; John r.. third. Time,
ZIG Ii, lsl lS
Drifting Into Politics.
IT Isn't such a far cry from discussion
OF an agricultural falrEand the topics 1t
suggests to n discussion 'of politics as
might be Imagined. have found tha
farmers always willing to talk politics.
and they discuss It ntellgently, There
are lots OF Republicans In Roanoke thtss
week, The great majority ot them have
come out OF the Ninth Distrlol tho Re-
publican stronghold OF the State Az a
rule, these Republicans are ilrmly tixed
In the faith The Slemps, father and;
son. work ON them from year end ia
years end, and keen then, stead IA sit, Re.
publcans from the / III fth, slnth and
Tenth Districts. With whom haye