The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-22
FAIR FLORIDA
AND HER FAIR
Should be Handsomely Supported
and Largely Attended.
WHAT WE GROW HERE
The Products OF the Farm, the Forest.
The Sea, the Mines, the Groves and the
Garden Will be Seen at Tampa

Florida, the most written about and
the least understood State in the Union
the prettiest, wierdest, most wonderful,
unique conglomeration of paradise,
poetry and politics; Florida where the
ROSTERS crow by night and its people
crow by day; Florida, with its legend
and landscape - this Florida is to nave
another State Fair .-- February 3 to ~,
1909, writes Editor w B. Powell, anent
the coming State Fair.
II is TO be held at Tampa, the Peer
less Princess of the Peninsula, the home
of the clear Havana cigar and the un-
conquered Peter o,
1t is right that the Legislature should
dig up fifteen thousand plunks for each
years show, and it should make it fifty
thousand, for Florida stands supreme
as the greatest State in the Union.
You can build Chinese wall around its
borders and look every other doggoned
state in the face and tell it to go to
Kalamazack. OF course, we would
have to leave ladder standing out
side so the tourists could get over. We
need the tourist.
In this state we raise tifty-seven va
rieties of citrus fruits, and so many
others of such strange names that the
list looks like the names of guests at
Slav wedding feast. We raise all man
ner of vegetables, grains, forage Stuffs;
we raise corn, hogs and hominy; horses,
horse radish and horseless carriages:
we have every animal from the gopher
to the hydraulic ram.
Our mineral resources range from
phosphate to gold bricks; the waters
TEEN with fish and the shores are alive
with oysters, clans, shell gathers and
peachy-cheeked nymphs playing in the
surf; and the air is sweet tuned by the
Joyous notes of the bright plumed birds.
Why shouldn't we have the biggest,
best, rip-roaring old fair that ever
came down the pike?
Old CrOesus, to whom the shallow
river Pactolus yielded unmeasured gold
was no more magician than the hardy
pioneers and sick Yankees who made
Florida what it is, aided, of course, by
a few touches nature put onto her be-
fore the time that Ponce de Leon came
down on Sunday excursion.
This old State has crOesus nailed to
the mast, but it takes State Fair to
let the gyrating gawks know it. They
know we have a climate, and the skies
are blossomed over with the biggest.
ripest, goldenest stars, such stars as
hang like fruits in our sun-fed groves,
such stars as raise track of fire in the
sea, such stars as rise and set like
young moons and they 60 daily over
But it takes a State Fair to show
Item that we do things and raise things
Florida, and even unto the cracker
lustry we point with pride.
We know our summers and our win
RS are fragrant and perpetual, and
r people pleasant and progressive,
t it takes State Fair to show them
at Florida is the only State in the
nion.
And that is why State Fair is a
wing necessity just like a baby.
And that is why we have State Fair.
IND you should attend it.
fter seeing the range (Which most
.ybody does first, and if you have
oh coin or energy left, you will
Is cents and gOinto the State Fair.
a ire il where your eyes begin to
.Ds. Each county is trying to Guido
- other with it's exhibits of fruits,
cables, minerals, wood, etc. You
ee fish weighing up to 400 pounds
p.4n in ice - you can see them in sea
r. tanks. You can see the work OF
so, children of the best schools IN the
n. You can see the pick OF the
The work of our painters, our
ors, the lady with the needle, the
~ nth the hoe and the housewife
.r jam and jelly conceptions.
~ low every moment of the Fair. |
O visit the Columbia county ex-
and have chat with Thomas
Appleyard, who is chief cook of
,sS.s IS like Tom. Our affection
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s' Sr. | borrow of Tom
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