The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-01
Selma's Big Fair, Which
 Will Be Held in October

ness. although the money put in 1t was not near so much as was expended by other States at that exposition.
 The PrsI,,,%inary prs,,nsry Work Begun; a;,srtra, Fair Associatlon is already well uHder way. The advance details have been ana ana are rss,, carefully being looked after; and Is ready for publication. Prospec- i've exhibitors have been informed Of the offers and work has been inaugu:. rated towards securing a big line Of exhibits as well as an attractive one.
 Hon. Ebert Starr. a member of the Alabama Legislature from Dallas Coun- ty, who Is associated with those who are working for the success of the fair, talked most hopefully of the enterprise. We propose. said Mir. Starr. ito give here in Selma the best agricultural fair this work under the conviction that the time was propitious for such a fair. Our section of the State is more pros since the war. With all the advance the State has made along other indus trial lines we believe that in agricul- ture the most remarkable advance has been made. Our people are better sat- isfied and they have more money in the country than ever before. It appear ed to us that there couuld be no better time to give an agricultural fair, one which would have the best features of the old-fashioned fairs of the past and which would be brought up to modern luedS m keeping with the aQVdnceS III that line of entertainment"
 Tn the old fair grounds within the city limits we will erect additional buildings that will at once be modern ready been inaugurated. Our company has been organized, part of the capital stock paid in, and some of 1t expended and the fine list of premiums has been
 selma will this year be part of the Southern Fair Circuit. The attractions which belong to that circuit will make during dur s' the early W fSii. fSMA' The last fair that viii be given will be the fair here at Selma. With our fair. which will Southern Fair Circuit will close It is our hope that a good number of the horses which will make the Southern | Fair Circuit will be left to winter In fered the owners of these horses to have them keen their horses here dur know, Selma already has almost na. for thoroughbred and race horses. Many of the great prize winners of the past ten years have spent the winter In horseman, brought his fast horses here and every winter Bud Fennick, horse man almost equally as well known. brings down his string of horses to spend early winter at our fair grounds. | "Horsemen agree that the city. Is all ideal place for the wintering of blood | ed racing stock. The climate is all center of grass country, The best Of horse food may be had at the cheapest cost. and as for the winter climate there is none finer in the whole country fair will not only directly benefit the city of Selma, while 1t Is in progress both in drawing hundreds of visitors to the city, but that 1t will indirectly | hnnnHf rifV hV having the many race horses which will make the South city.
 The Expected Attendance.
 We are close enough to the fair te confidently look for a record breaking attendance at the fair for Selma The general prosperity of the section have already alluded to. There will be more
 people who will have the money, tC come to the fair than ever before wher Selma had fairs in previous years. w are confident. too. that the exhibits VII
 take a wider scope than ever before riculturai features of the fair. In . general way l may say we will have
 exhibits of agricultural and farm prod
 ucts of every sort. agricultural machin' cry. horses. stock and cattle Of every
 kind. garden products. kitchen science
 dairy work. needlework, poultry. Hori. culture. merchants display. native other mineral products of the State For each department of the fair. ant already the fair has been divided into
 different departments, for every de
 partment special .superintendents vii
 be appointed to have charge of anc
 look after that particular department
 we will give the best and largest
 exhibition ever seen In central Ala
 In the display of the fair 1t Is expect
 ed that there will be two feature:
 which in past years were not so i'm
 portant as they now are, the exhlplt o
 t ana hay and SdtS the w sThis Gf
 cial interest as showing a rapid anC
 remarkable development in Middle Ala
 bama in the growing of grasses ant
 grain. and of the wonderful growth O the stock and cattle interests of tha
 section. In these two particulars, least, the fair will greatly excel thos' late, years that Middle Alabama ha
 come to be regarded as one Of th'
 greatest grass producing sections O the entire country and being m naturally a fine country for the raising
 of stock
 Ten years ago the stock interests O the State was slight and inconsequen
 tal when eompaFsSd to the Ssars ysoGs nre
 dollar was invested in fine cattle, Here ford Angus and other registered stock
 ten dollars is now invested.
 The big land owners are becomlnt
 big cattle owners. At Ackerville. tn, . place of B. l.. Boykin, at Crampton oi the property of the Dunnaway Mercan , tile Company, at Craig on the planta , tion of Treasurer J. Craig smith, tn ! place of the Alabama Live Stock Com pany at Martin, there are splendl' droves of Angus. Hereford. Short Horl
 and other breeds of fine cattle. as wei as droves of Shropshire sheep an' . Berkshire and Poland China hogs , Thousands and thousands of dollars ar ;; invested now in fine cattle in the Blacl Belt around Selma, and those who ar | exhibited at the forthcoming show o f the Central Alabama Fair Association , to be a revelation.