Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-12-23
A County Fair For Meade.

negotiating for the purchase of the
property Of the Hutchinson Fair as
sociation. Other counties are plan
ming to make their county fair next
year better than the one last fall.
Counties which have not held fairs
in the past are takil-g steps to hold
one next fall. Now is the time to
begin work for a fair next fall in
Meade county. Form an associo-
ton, look up suitable site. Plan
the business end of it now and take
time to work out the details That
Meade has the products to show
which will make one of the best ex-
hib1tions in the state there is no
doubt. The stock which was shown
in the Kansas state fair last fall from
this county were all winners, and
winners we'll at the head of their
class, some at the head. Other
stock owners, who carried their stock
on to Wichita and the Oklahoma
fair won over prize winners from
far and near.
Competitors would come from
far southwest and south and from
northwest and north, Men who
had fine stock to show in any class
would sieze the opportunity to show
their stock iu new territory, the
same would be true of machiner y
and seed exhibits. That Meade
has the money to be come good
customer for any kind of stock or
farm machinery is we'll known.
The recent advertising venture to
Chicago has convinced persons as
far away as London that Meade is
on the map, that she is alive and a
valuable friend in many undertak-
ings where Cuatomers are deslrab Bile.
1t is also brought to the attention of
! a host of good people that Meade is
a fine place to live and incidentally
to get wealthy in. All these things
make the establishment of a county
fair here prime necessity. There
is no lack of capital with which to
make the fair proposition go.
The only hinderance is some per-
son to take the lead in the organi-
cation of the forces ready at hand
to place the proposition on sue
cessful basis. The good results of
a county fair where there is the
great amount of fine stock and farm
products to show which are and
have been in this county for years
is incalculable.
The News could name many farm
ers any half dozen of which could
furnish the capital to put the enter
prize on foot. A few men here in
town, centrally located can take
time now and carefully select the
business men and farmers, who
could best care for and develop the
plans which would result in the best
county fair in the state. That last
assertion means that one would
travel far out aide of the state to
find better one. Why put our
stock breeders, farmers and pro-
ducers to the great expense of ship
ing their stock hundreds of miles
to show them, and advertise the fact
that in this county is the place to
buy such stock or other products.
Why not bring the persons search
ing for such things here to see them,
where they can best and cheapest
be shown. While here the same
persons would have an opportunity
to see that where such things could
be produced is good place to set
tie and enter the list of producers.
There would be no necessity to in
vest at this particular time any
money in the fair that could for
months be earning dividends wlefe
it is now but the early organization
would place the managers in posi-.
ton to use the money at the time
and place where it would do the
most good.
Wake upl Demonstrations is the
thief of time, is an old saying and
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