The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-10-28
OUR PARISH FAIR.
What the Banners Local Editor
Saw There Tuesday.
Big Crowd, a SURFING Crowd. q Happy,
Pleasure-SeekinR crowd--Parades.
Speech Making, Basket Ball,
Races, Fun and FroItc.

Tuesday we took day off and visited
the big "Blue Ribbon Fair" We
reached the grounds in the forenoon and
at once got busy and became unit in
happy crowd given over to frolic.
Soon after reaching the grounds we
met three old friends - Messrs. J. A.
Lowe, ]. T. Many and E. M. Carstar-
phen-all of whom have the interest of
the fair at heart. Mr.. Lowe, director
and one of the superintendent of the
Cattle, Sheep and Swine Department,
reported that even then there were only
two vacant stalls in that department.
The other two gentlemen had been over
the grounds and were we'll pleased with
the exhibit as whole. Mr.. Many was
very enthusiastic, and he has always
been a hard worker for the success of
the fair, as most of our readers know.
AS usual, interest centered around the
Agricultural Hall and the Women's De-
partment in the forenoon and in the
races in the afternoon.
We first visited the Women's Depart
ment. Here we found an array OF pretty
needlework, cakes, candies, preserves,
jellies, fresh fruit, the school children's
exhibit and several relics. Some lady,
No. 1913, had an exceptionally pretty dis
play Of needlework. There were several
center pieces and lunch cloths and still
others. All showed much skill in the
making. OF course We do not know
whose they were, but as the judges will
have given their decisions before this !
appears in print, there can be no harm
in saying that young lady friend whis-
pered to us that she thought they were
the work of Mrs. J. B. Wilmington of
Ivan. No. 142 also had an exhibit that
was worthy of special mention. In fact,
everything in this department. was pretty
to look upon, and We'll give you to
understand that we mean to include both
maid and matron.
In the Agricultural Hall there were
number of exhibits that were splendid.
We would not fancy the place of judge
for fear we could not decide which was
best. One exhibit looked so nice and
was arranged with so much system that
we stopped to enumerate its many prod
ucts of field, garden and orchard. 1t
embraced six varieties of corn and this
included corn ON the stalk and on to the
finished product, seven varieties of hay,
three of cotton, two of cane, fresh fruit,
dried fruit, preserved fruit, two varieties
of peanuts, two OF native nuts (walnuts
and hickory nuts) honey and wax, home
cured tobacco, oats, millet and hay,
three varieties of peas, pea chops and
pea meal, sweet and Irish potatoes,
pecans and chinquapins, catsup, grape
juice and wine, pumpkins, cashaws,
radishes, tomatoes, turnips, egg plants,
string beans, okra, musk melons and
sunflowers in the seed. The pears and
alberta and Mamie Ross peaches in this
exhibit, preserved in salicilic acid,
looked particularly inviting. Over this
exhibit was the word "Bossier," each
letter made of corn of different variety
and on cotton background in a sugar
cane frame.
Another exhibit that was good and
; we'll arranged included two. varieties OF
, wheat, five of oats, two of barley, one Of
flax, one of broom corn, two of clover
several of grasses, one of German mil
let, thirty-five of vegetables, more than
one hundred varieties of seeds and a
; creditable display of the products OF the
) apiary, including a hive of bees ano
. honey seventeen years old. This OK
hibitor, who we think must have beer
Mr.. w. J. Dawson of this place, was nj
doubt trying for premium offered by
; one of the seed houses for vegetables
; grown from their seeds, as well as othel
, premiums. It goes without saying tina
he will get something.
There were three competitors for tn
Berkshire pig offered by Mr.. Laughlil
; for the best display of agricultural prod
. ucts produced and exhibited by DO,
. under eighteen years of age. All o
them were good.
There was display Of butter tina
looked very inviting, indeed. We wer
then hungry Gas usually and right ther
:. we wished for stack of hot wheats an
. pitcher of the ribbon cane syrup fo
which our old friend Mr.. A. r. Thomp
son is famous. The butter display was
] we think made by Mrs. E. F. Kirtley {
: Plain Dealing.
: There were pumpkins that we're bump
!. ers, home-cured meat that looked goo
. enough to eat just as it was and stall
: of corn long enough for fish pole
. Other things on the same scale, sir.
s There were five exhibits in the Ayr
cultural Hall that were exceptional
Z good, and full. To venture guess
. would say they were made by Messr
: G. T. Mays, Leon Sanders, N. w. Sci
= tell. w. J. Dawson and N. w. Stewart
s five "mighty' good citizens.
Later on we met Hon. w. B. Bog
= and Mr.. w. J. Dawson, the Secretar
. Knowing that Mr.. Boggs had visited t
: Webster Parish Fair, we asked what
2 thought of them as rivals for the 81
s ribbon at the State Fair. He repli