The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1910-09-05
FAIR BOOSTED
BY LIVE WIRE
GREATEST ENTHUSIASM
is MANIFESTED EVERYWHERE
OVER FAULKNER'S BIG
COUNTY FAIR.
Written for the Log Cabin Demo
crat by A. Booster.)


Quite a difference attends the ap-
proach of the fair this fall to that
of last year. Organized late in the
season and, as in the case of all new
enterprises, surrounded by skeptics
and the usual knocker, it bade fair
to be a failure. Crops were the worst
in years, being in the midst of
drouth of unusual length, the nten-
tion and good to be derived unknown,
to our loyal citizens, they are excused
for being for a short time disloyal.
However, the people as general rule
were hungry for some such institu-
ton, place where they could meet
once year for few days and find
out what their neighbor was doing
and what was being raised in the
county. A place where lot of good
amusement, absolutely without
gambling feature, had been prepar-
ed. Lots of people who make up our
best citizenship having come from the
older states where they had been used
to a county fair every year, gala
week of festivities of value, entered
| into the cheme and to the surprise
of every one, the management as
well, we had a fair that was pro-
nounced in every way a genuine sue
cess.
| This year the knocker has given
place to the booster. Every one has
a good word to say for the fair The
town as we'll as country merchants
are talking it and asking their Gus
toners to attend. The association has
not spent less than $500 in advertis-
| ing this year. Three men have been
out for over week, covering not
only this but all adjacent counties
with some of the most conspicuous
literature ever seen. They are try
ing to put one of our handsomely
bound 13S-page catalogues in every
, home All the barns, gins, ETC., are
posted with large fashy posters.
These men took fair postal cards
along to write the manager from
each postoffice of the sentiment of the
people and what they are going to
bring as an exhibit. Space forbids
the full list of cards and what they
write, but suffice it to say, they re-
port that everywhere they go people
are anxious to know all about the
rules and regulations and what the
entertainment in general will be and
all express the belief that ''most ev-
cry one" in the neighborhood is 60
ing. They state they met no knock
ers and that the people are all agreed
that the fair will do more to adver-
tse the county and stimulate the peo-
pie than anything else that could
have been started.
The agricultural hall will be
doubled in size to accommodate the
exhibits in that department. AS to
what can be done to accommodate the
textile, culinary and art departments,
is still problem to be solved. The
association has let contracts to treble
the capacity for livestock, and the
midway will be twice as long as last
year. Manager Owen daily receives
requests for space on the midway.
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al Harvester Company, Singer Sew
ing Machine Company and others are
going to put on a display that will be
a show within itself. The local mer-
chants are going to outdo by far the
exhibits displayed in booths last year.
The association has propositions
under consideration from three
bands. We will certainly have one
of the best in the state and have
considered seriously having two
bands. The association has contract
ed for several free acts-acts that
take place out in the open and are
free to ALL "Rollo the Limit" is the
headiner of this class. Rollo dashes
down a seventy-foot incline on roller
skates, turns an air somersault
through twenty feet of space, lights
on another sharp incline and skates
to safety. This is called "fiirt with
death" He advertises that anyone
who desires to do the stunt can do so
and receive the regular price the as
sociation pays him of $3.50
Every day from 2 until 5 o'clock,
we will have plenty of good horses
and automobiles to entertain the