The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-29
n CELEBRATE centennial OF IT. HAWKINS
Macon Is Preparing for One of the Greatest Live Stool
and Agricultural Fairs Ever Held in the South
Some of the Features
Some of the Features.

Macon mas CoIlpl0|Su "a a. 70AAiSAA' -
oo1nbrating the centennial of Fort
-,,,,l,ins this year with one of the
~ elaborate live stock and agricul-
yo1 fairs ever held in the South. The
,+to of the fair is, Meet me in the
r,no,o - in which will be found all man
of educational attractions and
t;ob.cIass amusement shows. Besides
49,, will he some of the most valuable
lire Of Indian life in America, and
- tho Revolutionary War. At the en-
,.orcn to the enclosure where the
roIics and curios will be found will be
miniature fort, representing Old Fort
rJowkins which was established in
12oe on the hilltop just beyond the Oc-
,,ulgee River, overlooking the valleys
Of six adjacent counties.
The live stock displays will be made
u . separate portion of that matchless
. ,orl, known as Central City Park, and
loiIv auction sales will occur in the
area encircled by the mile track, on
which horse races will occur every af-
+ornoon, To take advantage of the
orction sales, live stock breeders and
dealers will come from all directions,
and from far beyond the Georgia bor-
ders.
Dotted here and there over the
grounds will be perfect and complete
machinery, demonstrating how the
conius of man has increased the con-
ynniences and enhanced the pleasures
If living. Some of the largest manu-
facruring concerns in America have Sc
curnd space to show to the visitors to
the fair what has been accomplished
for cbeapening the cost of lights for
the homes and for the cities, and also
to show what progress has been made
in changing the products of the field
and the forest into building material
clothing and feedstuffs at minimum
cost.
Tn another portion of the grounds
will be found the most elaborate mer-
chants display ever shown at Geor-
gia fair. Twenty-Five of the leading
merchants of Macon, recognizing the
splendid opportunity for advertising
the bargains which they offer, have ar
ranged for miniature stores in the Cen
tennial Building, and here will be of
fered bargains in these things which
are new to the public, and for which
the public has long felt the need.
Visitors to the fair will also see the
result of improved methods of agricul-
tlre and horticulture A handsome
brick building, sixty feet wide and two
hundred feet long, has been set aside
exclusively for the displays of field and
garden products, and when the Macon
Fair Association offered 500 as pre-
MUM for the best two dozen stalks OF
corn raised in Georgia by any child
under is years old, and 500 for the
best half-dOZen stalks OF cOIJou, anu
$50 for theN best pig under twelve
months old, the property of a child
under IS years of age in the State of
Georgia, a spirit of rivalry was aroused
that has, caused exhibits of these pro-
ducts to be offered from nearly every
militia district in the state, and the
indications are that at least one thou
sand exhibitors in the various depart
ments, where handsome premiums
have been offered, will make the fair
one of the liveliest ever seen in the
agricultural section in the United
States. Some of the exhibits already
arranged for the agricultural hall will