The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-01
SELMA FAIR DISPUTES
 LOTIONS ABSOLUTE REIGN

of visitors from rh.. the Black }1sm Ssls sne tss counties of Dallae. Perry. Autauga. Ma rengo. Clarke, Montgomery, Lowndcs, Monroe and north of selma; they hey seale oome coming in great" numbers as they did last year. The crowds today left no room to doubt The officials were fearful that because of the Mointsonf cry Fair which drew some portions or it's great crowds from the territory from which selma draws It's people. the attendance would not this year ne su large They were reassured today and are confidently looking for a dupll- cation of the success of last fall.
 Grounds We'll Located.
 The greunds psrs srs north rheS of fne have e''y midst of one of the very finest farming fields of the state: The saburban the grounds The two main buildings. the exhibit hall and the grandstand are wide and spacious-sufficient for all the purposes for which they were de- signed and built.
 Tshe Selma track was famous before the Fair. All horsemen knew It. Sucn horsemen as Ed Geers. Ben Renick ana the proper place to winter and train those race horses in which they have thousands and thousands of collars am5 m no surprise was felt when ::lG va: hung out for the mile done by Red Bud on the first days racing. The racing, and which is perhaps the pest sinsIe card of all for drawing crowds. Is prac- tically the same as 1t was in Montgom- cry. For selma. like Montgomery, Is on the Southern Fair circuit and the speedis;,t tn horses rts follow the circuit
 The horses at the fair. the racers and the show animals include such strings as those of Geers. Gus Castle: Csci or Pafayetse, pany1taa hy ind J. R. M 0S willisms. the Hermitage Stud of Nashville, and a number of others. In addition to these: has a number of famous horses on the grounds. and Dr. Smith of PrattviIle: another well-known Alabama lover of horse flesh i; reRresennasa nnrss hsEs sssh M Srs shown shown by two Dallas County planter: and stockmen. Clifton Kirkpatrick and l Burwell Boykin.
 Horse show Feature.
 Altogether, the Fair has paid special | tribute to the lovers of horse nesn Each night is devoted to a horse show; l A gravelled stretch has been laid on in front of & the granassand Hsrs tba ano uobiiity smanr wth ars the gn, egaaines dispert and proudly show off their fine points: , There are three features oi the Fa,s Ss T people of Selma take a special inter est. They are proud, hrst. or the nve i stock exhibit. especially Of the t,s regis and of the splendid agricultural exhip- 1t gathered from the black counties and which is under. the direct super. vision 2s Hsn Of oe Alabama. They are particularly proud of the Woman's Department. under the spperyis9n of Mrs opd Me M cas's aeservsa ssa | For the third thing they are proud @ or the machjrtry exhibit which has for them a special local interest. .,. play daws attention to one anomaly of the commercial life of Selma. Re l ing a distinctly agricultural city Seini, neyesthsless has two af aknr ahs plsnss | of the State. the plant of Peacock Iron Works and the plant Of the union iron Works. The special features or these are several engines of Alabama origin | and Alabama make. From mine to | consumer these engines are or Aiaosina' screw and every bolt was made in sel- ma. The machinery display. which has national Harvester Com many, the Oli- yer Chilled Flow Company and sev- | eral other well known manufacturerss at the Montgomery Fair is of special Lesson of Exhibit.
 l If this exhibit shows something more
 than # h1ws the and ral Implements by the farmers of Ala bama who in other years knew not and Ths seima n9a .hfss Fa afn ike tas cry Fair, has. a poultry exhibit which alone IS worth the price of admission
 Which h "sst %ere Of ahsst from ern farms and shown at the Mont gorhery Fair have been carried over to Selma where they are again the cen and Dallas County have put up some of the very best chickens to be seen In the poultry. building. These chick ems are already prize winners. These local exhibits are indicative of. first that no section of the country is bet ter adapted to chicken raising than more attention is paid each year to poultry raising in Middle Alabama.
 The local exhibits are proof, too. that commercial importance in Dallas coun- ty. Some of the finest White Ply mouth Rocks ever s1lnx shown in "n Als- Ayeock . Of selma; An n & exceptionally Riverside Poultry Farm at orrvllle. J. %tb inc nrIs in the Rhode Island Reds class. The prize winners were owned by pr. J. II Haley or Marion. C. II DoZier, who had charve Of these chickens. also won some prizes with h!s "arren Plv- mouth Rocks A. D. Perry of Marion Junction was another local exhibitor whose poultry display took ribbons. Sherry of Stonybrook, N. Y. showing 800 birds; George Burns of Tilsonbury. N Y. with 75o birds: W. A. Smith of Whitney's Point, \. Y, 500 chickens nings of Marathon N. Y.. 26o specimens of poultry and pet stock.
 Interest for Women.
 Tho, woman, visitor to the Selma fa'r will find perhaps more things to her special interest than any other class of visitors Of this department only complimentary things have heen said. There have been brought from some of the old black belt homa specimens of the beautiful fancy wo:k of more than half century ag,. that In the older days fancy work had attained at least as high degree of excellence az 1t has Tn this day
 Perhaps the, most interesting. feat. ure of the exhibit is a cover for a plano and a smaller cover for piano stool done In crewel work more than
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