The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-03-30
SPLENDID Success of the Under
taking Already Assured.
list OF PREMIUMS ANNOUNCED

tINE OE ! ENINlvOOINO1O
Resources of the Field and Products
of the Home Will Be Displayed in
Dawson Next Fall, While Special
Features Will Add to the Interest
of the Fair and to the Amusement
of the People.
The women of the Dawson Library
Association have taken hold of their
movement for a county fair in Daw-
son next fall in earnest, and it's sue
eess is already assured, as all of their
undertakings are.
The finance committee, Mrs. l..
Lamar and Mrs. F. M. McNulty, have
made a partial canvass of the bust
ness and professional men of the city,
and so liberal have been the re-
sponses that $500 is already in hand
and list of premiums to be given
is announced in The News today.
It was impossible for the committee
TO see every one in so short a time,
and therefore an invitation is ex-
contribute to communicate with Mrs.
McNulty or Mrs. Lamar.
The premium list is broad in it's
scope, and embraces prizes under the
several heads of agricultural prod
ucts, live stock, poultry, kitchen
products, floral exhibits, needle
work and education.
There are a number of special
prizes of interest, such as a box of
candy for the prettiest girl in the
county, $3.50 for the biggest man,
$3.50 for the ugliest man, $3.50
for the best old-time fiddler, $3.50
for the best singing class, $3.50 for
the largest family attending the fair
in a body, and $3.50 for the best
band of music in one family.
The ladies, in their laudable I'M
dertaking, deserve the aid and en-
couragement of every man, woman
and child in the county.
Below is the list of premiums that
has so far been decided upon 1t
will very likely be added to soon,
and printed copies mailed throughout
the county:
Agricultural Products.
Best general exhibit of farm prod
ucts, $40 suit of clothes from Her.
mann's.
Best bale of cotton, sample drawn
from bale by judges, $500.
Best exhibit of cotton products,
$500.
Best stalk of cotton, $500
Best. 10 ears of corn, $1.00.
Best bushel Of shelled corn, $100.
Best IL stalks red cane, $1.00.
Best II stalks green cane, $1.0O.
Best bushel rust proof oats, $1.00.
Best bushel field peas, $1.00.
Best bushel ground peas, $1.OO.
Best bushel pecans, $1.0O.
Best bushe1 sweet potatoes, $1.00.
Largest potato, $1.00.
Best sample of Georgia cane syr-
up, put up in glass, $1OO.
Best peck underground meal.
S1,00.
Best bale peavine hay, $1.00.
Best bale any other hay, $1.00.
Best exhibit of fall vegetables,
$500.
Live Stock.
Best conditioned delivery horse,
having been in service since jan
uary, 1910, $3.50.
Best conditioned pair of mules.
that made crop in 1910, $500.
Best conditioned single mule that
made a crop in 1910, $3.50.
Best stallion owned by Terrell
county man, $3.50.
Best Terrell county colt, under
two years old, $3.50.
Best mule, owned by Terrell coun-
ty man, $3.50.
Best thoroughbred horse, owned
by Terrell county man, $3.50.
Best mare, owned by Terrell COun-
=. ty man, $3.50.
Best pen of pigs, from 8 to II
months old, pigs to be from one lit
j ter, $500.
Best boar, $500.
Best SOW, $500.
Largest hog, $500.
Best pair of sheep, $500.
Best pair of goats, $500.
Best bull, $500.
Best mich cow (from appearanee)
q 5000.
Best yoke of oxen, $500.
The committee thinks best to re-
quest that live stock be on exhibit
uon only on Agricultural Day, the
cate to be announced later. All 9th
ef entrances will be on exhibit dur
ing the entire session of the fair.
Poultry.
Best general exhibit of fowls of
ali kinds, not to exceed two of each
Kind, $500.
Best game cock, $500.
Best pair ducks, $3.50.
Best trio of chickens, $500.
Best pair geese, $3.50.
Best pair turkeys, $3.50.
Inc fowls are to be housed by own
er IN coops of regulation size-3
Ieet high, feet long and 2 feet
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