Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-22
WEsT-sIDE FAIR.
Highly Creditable Exhibits. List
Of Awards. Several Excel
lent Addresses. Hurrah
for Park:ville.

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side fair association has passed into
history without an untoward Incl
dent and the concensus of opinion
by disinterested visitors is, that it
was q decided success.
The people on Tuesday, who are
interested in this enterprise suffered
intense uneasiness on account of In
clenant weather. but Thursday
morning, the first day, the sun came
ont, and old Sol shined out in his
yesplendent glory, shedding his ra-
diant pleasure toward the eastern
horizon and by ten o'clock the clans
began to come in from Greenwood,
Mccormick, Plum Branch, Modoc
and Augusta, and by IL o'clock the
grounds were we'll covered with
happy people, intent upon having a
good time, and adding their pres
ence and encouragement to an enter
prise which in my Judgment if en-
tered into in the proper way and
spirit, means more for the west-side
than anything ever put on foot.
At IL o'clock speaking was an
nounced at the stand, the program
being in the hands of the writer,
who introduced Col. w. ]. Talbert,
the president of the association, who
in . few happy and we'll chosen
words welcomed the visitors to our
fair, to our homes, and our hearts.
We have nothing too good for you,
and if you fail to get what you
want when among us,it is because we
haven't got it. He spoke of the
great good accomplished by such
exhibitions, and urged our people
to persevers in this enterprise, and
in this add to the sum total of the
great material improvement of this
great commonwealth of which the
south had always been the foremost
promoter. The craftsmanship, the
happiness of the United States has
always depended, and must forever
depend upon the energy, the enter
prize snd tia patriotism of the
southern people.
Col. G. d. Minis, of Falfa, who
10 . candidate fo. the state senate,
was then introduced, who in his
happy yien spoke 40 follows:
It is with inexpressible pride
from 9 heart full to overhowing
with gratitude, that I desire to re-
turn thanks for the cherished and
coveted privilege of being your
guest, and to occupy your rostrum
in . public way as speaker.
I am aware that ] am not only
addressing you, but through the
agents and facilities of conveying
information my words will be heard
by countless hundreds.
The early years of my maturity
were here with you, where the rose
of my youth blushed with pride
and pleasure never, never to be for
COTTON. 1t was here tlat / began
the tolls of life, homeless and pen
nyless stranger. 1t was here that I
met the good men and the noble wo.
men, who were ever ready to minis
ter to my needs in sickness as we'll
as in health. 1t was here that l be-
gun real life with my welded COM
panion who is to-day the idol of my
heart and the Queen of my no ome.
These fond memories of the past,
enter into the weave of a cloth of
gold, whose jeweled borders have
trailed down the path of life ever
beautiful to me, and to the glory l
hope of those who follow in my
foot prints. And l had rather be a
citizen of this grand old county SO
dear to me and to you, surrounded
BY my friends enjoying their conf
dence and good will, than to wear
the costliest crown that ever sat
upon the head of . king. I am
proud that ! was born in this grand
southland of ours, the garden of the
world.
1t is here that the sun ripens the
golden grain in its bearded sheaf,
and where the cotton bleeches be-
meath the stars, and where the lilies
of the valley raise their white faces
in search of the dawn of day.
Oh! I rejoice with you in the
glory of these old red hills. where
aowers bloom and the crops grow
with which we feed our people and
clotbs the world. Therefore the
southern farmer is told and persua-
ded to believe that he is cock of the
walk and bull of the woous, the
master of the situation. We start.
cd this spring with our negroes and
mules, the plows and the hoe, and
By the aid of the sunshine and lit
tie rain Mother Earth has made fair
response TO the touch of the hand of
man.
We have harvested Cur cotton as
fast as busy fingers could pick it.
We have ginned it as fast as whirl-
ing saws could separate the lint
from the seed. We have carried it
70 market as fast as mules and wag-
ons, engines and cars could haul it.
And then we are told that we aim
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