The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
HUNTSVILLE FAIR
 ID OPEN TUESDAY Will Be Most Ambitious Att
 tempt of Association SPEAKERS ARE ASSAUL FEB
Amendment Speakers Are Bespatterec With Stale Eggs at Country Place in Madison County-Cotton
 Comes to Market Rapidly.

Huntsville, October 9.-(Special.) )-The most ambitious attempt that the Ten nesee Valley Fair association has yet made in the way of holding big fair will be pulled off next week, beginning Tues day. Every day is a special one, the weeks programme being as follows:
 Tuesday, October 12. Candidates Day; Wednesday, Good roads and National Boulevard Day; Thursday. Tennessee and Woodmen of the World Day; Friday Ala bama and Huntsville; Saturday, Mills and Manufacturers Day.
 Barbecue dinners will be prepared for 6O00 people on the opening day and every person who enters the grounds will be given dinner free. On Wednesday Senator John H. Bankhead, Congressman William Richardson and John H. Wallace, Jr, state game and fish commissioner, will deliver addresses and a good roads con vention will be held. Charles w. Thatch- CT, the National Boulevard apostle, will also be present to address the people on the lakes to the gulf boulevard. Wood men from all north Alabama and middle Tennessee will gather here on Thurs day
 The racing feature will be particularly strong this fair and the purses, rang ing in value from $1O0 to $500 per race, nave been large enough to attract the owners of some of the best horses in tha country. The amusement feature also will be strong. All concessions in this line have been sold to the Great Hatch Amusement company Horse shows will be held each night.
 This will be the third fair of the Ten nessee Valley association and if the
 weather is good it is believed that the daily attendance will be larger than ever before.
 Representative A. D. Kirby and F T. Petty, speakers for the constitutional amendment, were attacked with a shower of eggs at one of their engagements in the county during the week. They spoke in the Toney school house in favor of the amendment and during the speaking some eggs were thrown against the build ing. As they emerged after the speaking large number of eggs were thrown and both men were badly bespattered. This is the first disorder of any kind that has occurred in Madison county at any of the amendment campaign debates
 SnerlH Mitchell and his deputies ratded | the home of Jim Derrick, a negro and in his coal house found large number of bottles of whisky Derrick is in jail, charged with violating the prohibition law
 Mrs. J. H. Bryant widow of a we'll known Confederate veteran, died last night at her home on Walker street after
 an illness of several weeks. She was 57 years old. Four sons, Humphrey, Will ! and Lowry Bryant of Memphis and Ava 1 Bryant of Huntsville, survive her l While driving horse to a racing sulky on the track of the fair grounds yesterday, | Smith Fuller, young business man, was thrown into a ditch and two of his ribs broken. MT. Fuller was to have ridden in one of the gentleman's races next week.
 The fire department has received a quantity of new hose, which has been subjected to test of 300 pounds. The new hose added to the equipment of the department recently provided make 1t aI- most as efficient as Is possible for a town of this size to have.
 Cotton is rolling into this market now at the rate of over 200 bales each day The Huntsville buyers, owing to competi- ton and home consumption in the mills are obtainable at other nearby towns and neighboring counties are contributing quite a few bales to local receipts here.