The Neshoba Democrat., 1909-10-07
JACKSON
The State Fair.

these busy October days.
And the result of this splendid chorus
may be seen on every hand, SO great is
the improvement in every section of the
grounds and buildings.
The management has put every part of
the place in order and now there remains
only the finishing up and the painting
whitewashing and other incidentals, and
the whole will be in readiness for the
Fair, Oct. 24-Nov. 5. The first exhibit to
catch the eye and hold the interest of
the visitor will be the great poultry
show, the house being on the crown of
the hill. This show is strictly home
institution, no foreigners being encour-
aged to come in with their giant stocks,
and take the premium from our own fine
home raised fowls, and then sell out to
ignorant buyers. Instead of anything
of this sort we have Mississippi, Louis
lana and Alabama fowls, and they are
the finest ever 1t is simply beyond the
power of the best fancier to estimate the
financial benefit these fairs have been to
our people; especially to the small farm
ers, who have been thereby encouraged to
add to their yards, or to go into the bust
ness as a business.
Last year saw every pen filled. This
year so many are the entries that every
pen is filed, and many new ones are
being put in place for the later entries.
And we are going to have all kinds of
fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, birds and,
mayhap, the beautiful pheasants; the
latter just for show, along with the pea.
fowls.
Near the poultry house are the dog
kennels, and these promise to make a
better show than has ever been the case
before.
Along the board walk the spaces have
been taken by various concessions, and it
will present an unusually brilliant scene
down it's full length. Within the great
coliseum, up and downstairs alike, the
space will be entirely filled with exhib-
its and booths, in which exhibiting mer-
chants will display their wares.
But it is the Agricultural Building that
draws the daytime crowds. There are all
the entries for premiums, the home farm
displays, the fruits, the vegetables, the
dairy products, the A. & M. College dis
plays, and various other educational ex-
hibits. There, likewise, is the wonder
full Corn Club exhibit, and there will
foregather the young farmer boys of the
State; the men upon whose broad shoul-
ders the States future depends.
The housckeepers, the cooks, the nee.
dlewomen, and the artists of every kind,
both household and fine arts, will there
make their displays, and in consequence
the place will be very popular with all
the visitors.
Outside the space is we'll taken up with
the usual variety of exhibits, but the
display of machinery, or fencing, or bug
gics, and similar necessities on farm,
are much larger than usual, or so the re-
quircments for space Indicate.
And then there is great place left open
for the amusement companies, and these
are great The secretaries had time
securing these people; but once accom-
plished, they have right to be proud of
their job.
Last year circumstances made them
fall down on this feature of the fair, and
the resultant exhibitions on the Midway
were "no great shakes" as the small boy
says. This year they will be something
really fine, and the people can have some
thing worth while every evening on the
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mated pike.
Nor is the fair the only place where
the visitor may find entertainment. The
whole city has taken greater interest
this year in the success of the fair than
has ever been the case before this, and
as a result they are throwing open their
homes, and preparing to entertain on
much more extensive scale than ever be-
fore. The theaters will have good at
fractions on that week, and the place
and people generally are making ready
for the biggest time they have ever
known; even in fair week.
As for our guests, we hope to have
them with us, from every city, village,
hamlet and rural neighborhood in the
State; and once here, we hope to hold
them until they and theirs have seen all
that is ours to show; and enjoyed all the
pleasures incident to the greatest fair in
the gulf coast States.
Next week we shall give our readers a
program of events, so that each one may
know just what to expect on each day,
and may regulate his visits accordingly.
l. l. and C. Crowded.
President II. L. Whitfield, of the In
dustrial Institute and College, says:
"All the dormitory room of the college
is filled, and no new students should cor
respond with the president. | want
this information known all over Missis-
sippi"
County Schools the Best.
State Superintendent of Education
Powers has received very encouraging
letter from DIR. S. A. Knapp, special
agent of the bureau of plant industry of
the national department of agriculture,
in which he states in very decided terms
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