The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-07
TROTWOOO ON
THE FAIR

A Herald reporter met Mr.. Johr
Trotwood Moore Friday and asked fol
Fair news.
L have never seen such a unanimity
OF effort, so much enthusiasm ant
plans so well laid and in operation
We have profted by past experience
We are moving things out there now
putting up scores of new stalls, beauti
flying and white washing. We have of
fered better premiums than ever be-
fore. In the horse show premiums
nearly as good as Nashville, and sew.
eral times better than last year. We
have arranged to have it well lighted
lights in the center-and we are
going to make it a great social fea.
ture as it should be. Do you know the
feature / enjoy better than any other
at our fair. 1t is Kopp's Band. Why
l could hardly attend to my duties
last year for listening to the dreamy,
beautiful music of that band. When
they went into those old sweet, faint
and far off melodies of Southern child
hood memories, the ring and the horses
vanished, and / saw three hundred
miles:
Way down South where the sun
shines hot
Way down where the sugar cane
grows"
It's going to be artistic and more
beautiful this year. We've got our
local talent of ladies at work, they are
arranging some beautiful, uplifting and
artistically new things that will be a
surprise to music lovers and a lesson
and inspiration to all. This, in itself,
will almost be worth a season ticket
by the way, before l go want to
say that l have induced our friend,
Walter Woodbridge to take charge of
the musical ride Nashville night, at
our Fair. You know what a success
this feature was last year, sending for
them to go to other states, so well
they did it. AS everybody knows Mr..
Woodbridge was very sick last win
ter, and is not yet entirely recovered,
but neither Maury county nor friends
ever called on big-hearted Walter VOL
bridge when he did't respond. He's
going to have that musical ride again
this year, but 1 must ask the young
men and women in town and county
who propose to participate to report
to him promptly at once, to find out
his plans for practices. And that
they see to their own saddles and
brides and put as little on him this
year as possible. Now don't forget to
put that down."
How about the baby show?"
Mr.. Moore r9ised his hands in hor-
ror. Say, there will be one, but just
say to the mothers that | am not
chairman of that Exhibit of Animated
any longer. seen my duty
and | done it, as the orators say, last
year, but Pete Howard was foolish
enough in. his spirit of generosity to
offer $40 for the biggest and latest
baby. 1t brought candidate up from
Alabama that made all the rest of them
look like bald headed china dolls pitted
against Durham bull calf. This baby
was six months old and weighed about |
a hundred and sixty-eight pounds, II
| am not mistaken. Anyway, it took |
Jim Goodrum, who is the champion |
baby litter, and the Chief of Police |
to lift him up on the platform. He
beat every thing of course; but do !
you know after the show was over
some disgruntled daddy almost took
my scalp, claiming that l stacked the
Judges on the bull calf baby just be-
cause he came from Alabama, and hint
ed that he was kin to me, or maybe
ny baby, or something very distaste-
'ul to the poetic principle. No-you
lave heard the Latin phrase-ne ultra
,udor crepidam-it's not cuss word
Is you might think, but means in plain
English, Let the shoemaker stick to
lis last and l am going to stick to
ny lass, after this, and attend only
o my own baby. / have appointed
sam Harlan, Pete Howard and Judge
ohm Brown to run the baby show.