The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-22
FAIR MEETING
IS ADJOURNED
FOR TWO WEEKS AND ANOTHER
MEETING WILL BE HELD
MARCH 2ND
WILL GIVE OUTS|O KS A CHANCE
The Claim that Brookings Tries to
Run the Fair Will not Be Avail
able in Future Years

About forty stockholders of the
~Brookings county fair association re-
sponded to the notice of the secretary
to attend the annual meeting of the
association last Saturday afternoon.
The meeting was held in the assembly
of the new city hall. No bust
ness was transacted, as there were
but few stockholders present from
outside the city of Brookings and the
give the people Of the county in gen.
eral an opportunity to participate in
the annual meeting. Therefore it was
decided to postpone the business Of
the meeting for two weeks, to Satur-
day, March 2, when a board Of di-
rectors and other officers will be cleo
ted.
At the coming meeting the Com
mercial Club of Bookings will be the
host TO the fair stockholders and an
effort will he made to Secure a good
representation from out of town. A
luncheon will be served by the club
and the visitors will be entertained in
the club rooms, which are in the
same building as the assembly room,
where the meeting will be held
Every stakeholder or other person in
terested in the fair from outside OF
Brookings as we'll as in the city is
urgently requested to be present.
Local stockholders do not believe that
it is fair for the outside people to
leave the work Of the organization
10 them and then complain thai
"Brookings wants to run the fair"
The local people are not d~isgruntled
by the attitude of the rest of the
county, but wish to be perfectly fair
in the matter. The opportunity is
given the outside people to assist in
the management of the association
and if they do not, they a hardly
blame Brookings for going ahead with
the work as if has done in past years.
It is hoped that every citizen of
Brookings county interested in the
fair will be present at the meeting.
Brookings county needs cO-opera-
ton among ali of her people and the
fair is too important an institution
to suffer for the want Of united sup
port. Last year there was a loyal
and united support given to the men
in charge Of the Brookings county
excursion to Huron and the county
exhibit and what was the result? We
won first prize for the best county
exhibit at both Huron and Mitchell
and we sent a booster bunch to the
state fair that excited the wonder and
admiration of the rest of the state.
The county fair deserves the same
support.
Saturdays meeting was turned into
a general talkfest in the interest Of
the fair and many good points were
brought out. One of the best talks
was by Martin Stumley Of Volga, who,
among other things, said: 1T seems
to me that there Is no occasion for
putting off the business of the annual
meeting for two weeks, except that
| know you wish to be perfectly fair
with the rest of the county, which is
~commendable. But the people of
Brookings city have always had to
carry the burden Of the work OF the
county fair and it will Always be thus,
in my opinion. The only thing you
people can do is to go ahead and
run the fair to the best of your abil-
ity, as you have in the past, and let
the knockers CO."
One idea brought out at the meet
ing and which will likely be adopted
to have a vi~ce-president from each
township in the county. With one
good man in each township boosting
for the fair it is thought that there
will be renewed interest in every part
Of the county.