The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-10-19
The County Fair.

Forsyth last week was fairly we'll attend
ed considering the weather, but the
exhibits OF farm produce was consider
ably below what they should have been.
As usual in most cases of the kind the
women had much the best showing,
and their exhibit of household work
and products was as good as you will
see anywhere. The people of Forsyth
did their part in preparing for the fair,
and arrangements were made to take
care of good showing of all kinds of
stuff Produced in this county. A county
fair must have time to awaken an inter
est in such matters before it can be
made much of a success, and the fact
that all of the men who undertook to
promote this enterprise were without
previous experience in such matters
made it all the harder work for them.
Next year they hope to be able to make
better showing, and it is the intention
now to try and hold a county fair early
enough in the season to send the best
of the exhibits from here to the State
Fair at Sedalia as county exhibit.
The local committee on arrange
ments who are all deserving of great
deal of credit for the able manner in
which they condected the affair are
A. J. Brazeal, S. w. Boswell, R. G.
Ford Jesse Nance. Robt. Adams,
George Root, Mrs. L. L. Parrish, Miss
Virginia Boswell and Miss Bessie Parrish.
The committee enlisted the services of
Hon. D. B. Wood, who is power in
in himself in matters of this kind. This
fair is no exception to the general rule
of such things and of course ran be-
! hind in the matter Of expense, there
being something like seventy-fve dol
lars more spent in preparing for the
event than was collected from all sour
ces. We do not make the claim that
We had the best fair ever held, but We
/ believe that if you will give us time we
will have as good fair as will be found
in the state in any county with about
the same population. We will admit
that we were little disappointed in
the agricultural exhibits, but we are a
long way from being discouraged yet,
and will try every way we can to have
more successful meeting next year.
Following we give a list of those
who were awarded premiums. We are
sorry that we have not the time nor
space to give complete list of the
exhibitors, but we can not:
In the live stock division Sam Holdt
of Protein took first for the best stallion
and the Forsyth Horse Co., second.
T. L. Love was awarded first for the
best mare.
H. T. Wilson took first for best horse
colt, and G. S. Summerton second. r
Barchman got fist on mule colt, and
w. V. Jennings, second. There were
a number of other good colts exhibited
and next time we hope to be able to
offer more than one cash prize in this
class.
In the Agricultural pavilion the
following premiums were awarded: W..
J. Johnson took first on pumpkin, j..
H. Soutee first on apples, and also on
pears. White corn, raised on bottom
land went to 0. Barcman, best white
corn raised on ridge land, Sherman
Knox. Best exhibit of cane A. l..
Weatherman. Sweet potatoes D. G..
Kirshner Irish potatoes, L. Betschar.
Best stalk of cotton. Ed Baker. Best
yellow corn raised on ridge land, Man
fred Hull.
Among the chickens exhibited were
coops of Partridge Wyandottes. by E.
A. McCann; Rhode Island Reds by
Mrs. ]. N. Ray; Leghorns by A. Barch-
man, and White Wyandottes by L. V.
Gibson. The Judges could not decide
which was the best pen shown and
divided the five dollar premium between
the White Wyandottes and the Par
fridge Wyandottes.
In the household department the
following premiums were awarded