The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1912-10-03
18th ANNUAL FAIR TO
Be HELD NEXT WEEK
FINE PROGRAM IS ARRANGED
Twelfth Annual Exhibition Of
Mississippi and West Alabama
Fair Association Occurs
Next Week

October. the month of fairs
throughout the South. is already
upon US. and next Monday will
witness the opening of the local
fair, the twelfth annual exhibi.
ton of the Mississippi and West
Alabama Fair Association being
scheduled to begin that day and
continue throughout the week.
The directors promise to give US
this year the best fair we have
ever had and the attractions will
be many and varied.
A new and novel feature this
year will be the fireworks display.
A contract has been closed with
Messrs. Norman & Duffield of
Chicago, and they promise to
give US the most dazzleingly bril-
liant pyrotechnical display ever
seen in this part of the state.
The display will include the fa-
nous Battle in the Clouds, ;"
which is created by elevated
aerial batteries 100 feet in length,
fired by electricity, each battery
discharging a mammoth aerial
gun and f1ashlight effects. The
display also includes an illuminat-
ed picture Of Niagara Falls.
This picture, which is seventy
five feet in length, is roaring
mass of shimmering splendor.
The exhibition will close Friday
night, and on this occasion the
display will be unusually brilliant,
including the Columbus Bouquet,
consisting of fifty specially pre-
pared rockets which will be fired
simultaneously, furnishing a dis
play which will be unique in the
extreme.
The music, which has been a
special feature of all fairs held
in the past, will be better this
year than ever before. Instead
of one band there will be two.
The German Hungarian Military
Band of Cincinnati has been
specially engaged to play
throughout the progress of the
fair and the band accompanying
the Greater Sheesler Shows,
which are to appear on the Mid
way, will also be heard in a rep
ertoire of up-to-date selections.
The German-Hungarian Military
Band is generally recognized as
one of the best organizations of
its kind in the country and the
band accompanying the Sheesler
aggregation is also there with
the goods, especially in playing
rag time music.
Special trains will be run over
both railroads entering Columbus
on several days during the pro-
gress of the fair. Tuesday, Oc-
tober 9th, has been officially
designated as North Mississippi
Day, and on that date the Mobile
and Ohio will run special trains
from Okolona and Scooba. We'd
nesday will be Alabama Day
when both the Southern anc
Mobile and Ohio will run specia
trains, the former from Fayett,
and the latter from Reform. Tit
management of the fair associa
tion is to be congratulated upol
having arranged for these trains
as they will undoubtedly brini
hundreds of visitors to the city
Unusual interest is being mani
fest this year in the horse show
which is to take place on Tues
day and Wednesday nights. Dr
Oliver, the secretary of the as
sociation, takes special pride i
the horse show, and he, together
with the members of the commit
tee having direct control of tn
exhibition, are doing everythin
in their power to make it sut
cess.
The officers of the associatio
believe that in the Greater Shee,
Ter Shows they have the be-
carnival company that has eve
appeared. The numerous diffel
ent attractions included in tt
aggregation are not only pleasin
but thoroughly innoucucus ar
can be witnessed with impunil