The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-03-13
GREATEST STATE
FAIR EVER HELD
Aim of President {. |.
Daughtridge.
PURGED OF ~iNDECENCY
Gambling and Shows OF Lo" MoTaIit,
Will Not be Tolerated. Fair TO
be a Great Object Lesson TO
the Citizenry of the
State.

State.
The new Executive Committee of
the North Carolina Agricultural 500
ciety held its first meeting yesterday.
President +. /. Daughtridge. Of Rocky
Mount, presiding. II was decided to
make permanent improvements ON the
state Fair grounds, and $1,000 viii
he expended in his work. Hon. VII
liam Jennings Bryan and President
Earvie Jordan were invited To speak
at the Fair ON Wednesday u Thurs
day. ana a special committee. con-
s:stine Of MessrS. &. j. Hunter, George
T. Winston and f.. 3. Parker, was APP
pointed to secure and disseminate
statistics and literature relative to tile
agricultural, manufacturing and min
ing Industries OF the state. with q
view to establishing q permanent de-
partnent 10 collect these data.
Secretary Joseph L. Pogue submit
ted his report, in which he recon-
mended that permanent improvements
be made on the fair grounds. il that
arrangements be made for adequate
water supply. The space for stock
and agricultural product exhibits
should be increased, ne said. To ac-
COMMEMORATE inc lilcI SiSIiI5 utIlldlld.
He will seek the cooperation of the
counties and. if practicable. urge
them to make appropriations TO pro
vide for a better representation of
their products and industries at the
Fair. He said the attendance. gate
receipts Mi exhibits a increased
from - to 80 per cent during the past
five years. He reported the largest
surplus in the history Of the Society.
Free scholarships.
Ten scholarships in the agricultural
course OF instruction at the 4. and NJ.
College We're presented to the EXecu-
tive Committee of the State a by
President Winston on behalf of the
college. These scholarships are in
tended to encourage agricultural in
struction in the public schools. one
scholarship will go to each Congress
sional district. and will be awarded to
that public school in the district which
makes the best exhibit at the next
State Fair along the lines Of agricul-
turaI education. Methods of inStruc-
ton and samples Of work in seed selcc-
ton. plant breeding, soil study. insect
pests. plant diseases, fetilizerS, etc.
viii be considered at the Fair. and one
scholarship will go to a pupil in the
school doing the best work in each
Congressional district.
Col. Robert Huff, Of Maryland. was
employed as starter and manager of
the races.
No persons on the Fair grounds this
year Will be permitted to carry whips,
ana those found with them win be
arrested and expelled from the
grounds.
The Fair this year will be clean and
free from any element OF immortality.
President Daughlridge expressed the
sentiment of the people of the State
when he said that gambling games
and indecent shows would not be toll
Grated. In his speech before the
committee President Daughtridge
said:
4 am very much gratifcd to have
Q gentlemen meet with Us today,
and | want to say to you, that in ask
ing you TO serve on this committee.
1t was my purpose to get good bus1-
ness men who had been successful il.
their own affairs, and upon whose
sound judgment and business ex-
%perience | could rely to aid us IN
making the Fair this year a success
from every standpoint.
: You can aid us materially in your
wise suggestions, as to how to cor
duct the Fair successfully. You can
aid in shaping its policies, that VIII
lay q foundation upon which to buffd
a great and permanent institution.
and in making it meet the demands
of the people. You can aid the Far
in your several localities by urging
your people to make competitive Elk
hibits i'll the different departments,
and by speaking a good word for it.
You can aid in advertising it and ask
ing the people to attend, You can
aid it by using your influence with
the railroads, to furnish proper and
adequate transportation to handle
the great crowds that viii at
tend, and in a thousand other ways
that will present themselves to YOU.
Nv want to make this the greatest
Fair from every standpoint that has
even been held in the state. and White
we want it to be a great reunion Of
the people and an occasion Of much
merfiment and great JOY, We want i
also to be an object lesson and Il
school for the farmer, the stoc.
raiser, the merchant. the y
turer. the artist and for the great Ia
boring classes Of the State. and w.
Sant 10 80 purge it Of gambling and
indCcCncS II that we can taxi e.;f.
wives, our daughters. II o,r bows 10
ia" FaIF without fear ct lowering tiletr
Standard Of morals and refinement.
Let us make ii SO clean thai it viii
help 10 uplift the moral standard Of
our people. and create within them
higher ideals ana 9 determination t.
accomplish greater things. and t. put
our good old state on a higher level
from every point of view"
Those present at the meeting We're:
u. j. Daueatridge. Rocky Mount:
Joseph T.. Pogue and Claude = Den
son, Raleigh: J. d. Cdom ana r T..
Davis, Rocky Mount: T.. &. Porter. I.
{. J.. Harris, re. Strong. Dr. George
= Ninston. r. Il. Battle, George Al
len. y. II, Greea. julius Lewis. f. T
Ward, {. J. Hunter. ". 9. NlcNackfn.
:. l.. Patterson. g.. n. Eusbea. " \.
Jones and 3. ~Broughton. Of RAJ
eish; G w. Johnson. Chapel Hill: J..
Bern; ]. Nan Lindlcy. Greensboro
and Col. J. s. Cunningham. Cuniag-
nam.
The forty-sizth annual state Fair
Wiihopen on Monday, October II
and continue throughout the week.
preparation. are being made fcf ~