Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-10-22
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered by Or Special
Correspondent at JACKSON.
JACKSON

JACKSON
Program for Mississippi State Fair.
The State fair management has issued
the following program of interesting
events, arranged for the pleasure of the
great throng of visitors due during the
season:
There viii be, on the Midway, every
afternoon and evening, any number of
free attractions, and, of course, all of
the exhibits will be displayed through
out the entire season; but the special
events will come off as follows:
Tuesday, Oct. &c, opening day, with
opening ceremonies. Wednesday, Oct.
81, the races begin. Thursday, the spe-
cial event has not been decided on. Fri
day, school children's day and field
sports will fill up the entire day. Sat
urday, Oct. 30, drummers' day. Sun
day should be a day of rest to all who
are either visiting or working at the
fair. Monday, Nov /, flag day, with the
visit of the president as its special fea-
ture. Tuesday, Nov. 2, live stock show.
Wednesday, Nov. 3, agricultural day,
with everything going. Thursday, Nov.
4, special attraction to be named later.
Friday, derby day. Of course, as time
goes on and exhibits and attractions ar
rive, many interesting features will be
added, and the days filled with things
worthy the attention of every visitor
to the grounds and buildings of the
State fair.
A Plea to the Ladies.
Every department is filing up better
than that belonging to the housekeep-
ers, and that should rightfully be the
best in the whole fair We are there
fore requested by the management to
send out the following request to our
Mississippi ladies, and to urge them to
contribute something to the whole, even
though it be but glass OF jelly or
jar of preserves. The impression is
abroad that if ore makes small con-
tribution the same is not returned, but
retained at the fair, and the owner is
the loser. This is not the case.
The premium lists in the departments
reserved to our famous housekeepers,
cooks and needlewomen are as liberal
as we could make them, with the limited
means at our command. Comparison
with the lists of the Tri-State fair, the
Nashville fair, the Louisiana fair, will
easily prove that Mississippi is quite as
liberal as are any of these, though her
list is not so long.
We Feel Certain of Getting What We
Ask
1t is not necessary that you be a IA
nous cook, or an expert needlewoman,
or a leader in any of the lines of house
hold work 1t is only needful for you
to have made some one specially good
or pretty article and to send that to
the fair, as a candidate for premiums. 1t
may be that you have hundreds of eX-
cellent jars of fruit, put up for home
use, and not one of these is quite good
enough for a premium.
Your goods will be as carefully cared
for as if you had them in your own
possession, and they are insured against
loss and returned to you promptly when
the fair is over. Thus you see it is
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out, and it may be very material help
to you if you do it.
Surely there will be many and liberal
responses to the above plea Every
housekeeper, after reading it ought to
turn to her pantry shelves and Gull
therefrom the best and prettiest of her
summer cookery and send it to the fair.
Premium lists will be gladly sent to all
who inquire for them, even at this late
day.
Dan Patch Is Coming.
The biggest attraction of the fair,
next to the president of the United
States, who will be with us Nov. 1, is
to be the famous PAGER, Dan Patch,
whose record is worldwide, and to see
whom the horse lovers will gather in
goodly clans from every part of this and
nearby States.
1t has taken no small amount of eff
fort and influence to get this great at
traction for the fair, and our people
should show their appreciation by com
ing to see the wonderful races, which
are to be run on the afternoon of the
27th, a splendid introduction to the rae
ing which promises to be good all the
way through.
With Dan Patch is the new favorite
Minor Heir, whose record is fine, so that
we will have a double attraction.