The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-09-23
CORN CLUB BOYS
WILL TnRONC FAIR
THEY WILL COME IN A BODY

| The Farmers Of Tomorrow 70 March
Upon Memphis Arrayed in Unique
Uniforms-A Monster Parade ID
Pianed.
Nearly 1000 members Of the West
Tennessee Boys Corn Clubs win ut.
tend the Tri1State Fair in q body on
Corn Club Day, Friday, September 80.
This announcement was made by
Frank d. Fuller, secretary Of the Tri.
State Fair Association, upon his re
turn from a trip through West Ten
nessee in company with Prof. w. w.
Campbell of Jackson, United States
government demonstration agent, who
organized the clubs.
MI. Fuller is o ready to organize
Arkansas and Mississippi Corn Club
boys, and he will give them every pos
slbie assistance in selecting the corn
they will put on exhibition. It is safe
to say that Of Young Americas corr
enthusiasts there will be from 1900 to
1000 present at the big attraction on
Corn Club Day.
From the various county exhibits
The prize-winning corn will be sent to
the Tri-State Fair at Memphis 10 COM
pete for the many large prizes offered
by the fair association for corr club
exhibits.
Last spring Prof. Campbell, assisted
by the various county superintendents
OF education, started 1900 West Ten
nessee boys to growing corn. During
the summer some of the boys for one
or another, have fallen by the
wayside, but fully 1000 boys have
stuck to their work and have to show
for their efforts a prize acre Of corn,
in most instances a better acre than
their fathers ever grew.
Prof. Campbell proposes to have
each county organization bring its
members to the Tri-State Fair in a
body. Each Corn Club boy will be
dressed in a corn club uniform, con-
sisting Of blue overalls, blue denim
shirt. a straw hat and a red bandana
handkerchief, and will carry q stalk
OF corn as an emblem Of the work he
has accomplished. On arriving at the
fair grounds the boys will be vel
coined by Prot. Campbell, then formed
into companies, each company in
charge of the county superintendent
OF education, and will parade around
the grounds, winding up In front Of
the srandstand, where they will be ad.
dressed by President Nicely OF the fair
association and presented with the
keys to the grounds and given permits
sion to enjoy themselves to the fullest
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the club having the most members In
line.
1t is proposed to bring the boys to
Memphis free of charge to the indi-
vtdual members, and the county u.
perintendents are now at work rails.
ing funds to defray the expense Of the
trip. The fair association is cooper
attng in the movement and will grant
a special admission fee of 10 cents to
all boys in uniform. The railways en-
tering Memphis will also be asked to
do their part in the movement by run
ming special trains to Memphis on this
day, SO that the boys may spend the
entire day at the fair and witness the
night performance, which will be ar
ranged especially for their entertain
ment.
At the fair the boys will have the
opportunity of inspecting the largest
and best agricultural display W. as
sembled south of the Ohio river, II
not in the United States, and the day
should prove a memorable one, not
only in the lives Of the boys, but in
the history OF Southern agricultural
development.