The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-10-10
BRYAN To ATTEND
KNOXVILLE EXPO.
Secretary of State Will Visit Nationai
Conservation Exposition On October
II and Will Deliver an Address.
DAY WILL BE CELE-
DRAFTED BY SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Horse Show Which Begins Tonight
Will Bring Out Number of the
Country's Best Animals.

KNOXVILLE, TENN, Oct. 9-Wm.
Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State.
! in the cabinet of President Woodrow
| Wilson, will visit Knoxville, and the
National Conversation Exposition on
! Saturday, October II. Mr.. Bryan's
acceptance of the invitation extended
, to him to Sc the first exposition in
history devoted to the cause of con-
versation and also the biggest expo
sition ever held in the south, has
been received. He will make an ad-
dress on the exposition grounds on
Saturday afternoon.
The day on which Mr.. Bryan will
come to the exposition will also be
celebrated as Sunday school day. A
monster procession with 10000 Sun
day school pupils from Knoxville,
East Tennessee and other parts of
the South is planned for that day.
Secretary Bryan will be greeted by
an immense audience and exposition
records as far as attendance is con-
cerned probably will be broken on
that day.
There are several other events of
prominence on the exposition calen-
dar of much interest for the coming
week, the chief among them being
the visit of the committees from the
United States Senate and House of
Representatives. Several weeks ago
the House by resolution voted to send
4 committee to the exposition to look
i the big national over and to see what
I had been done. Speaker Champ
RI ho 70 nf
u The Senate has also voted to send a
q committe to Knoxville and the two
8 committees will be at the exposition
on Monday next. A big program, in
\ Guiding speeches and entertainment
been arranged.
also the Live Stock Show, the Night
Horse Show and the Corn Show, A
number of big special days are sand
wiched in also.
The Night Horse Show, beginning
tonight, will be the society event
of the exposition as we'll as the big
gest and best horse show ever seen
in the South. The entry lists that
have now closed is the authority for
the latter statement. The list is long
and strings of thoroughbreds, both
saddle and harness, in the country.
One of the features of this show will
be the competition for the $1,000
stake offered for the best five-gaited
saddle horse to be shown under sad
die at the show.
! Miss Annette Hosford, of Cherokee
! Farms, Jackson, Miss, and Mrs. Rich
ard Lowndes, Jr.S of Danville, KY,
are two of the prominent women ex-
hibitors. Their strings of horses rank
with the best in the country and these
women will drive and ride their own
! exhibits.
Big delegations of society folk from
Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga,
| Nashville, Memphis, Lexington, Lou
isville, Washington and other cities
will add to the brilliancy of the
Night Horse Show.
For the Live Stock Show there are
over 1900 animals entered and this
number would have been largely in
creased had there been room in
which to house the animals. AS it
was, the exposition management was
compelled to build 200 new stalls and
a building 225 by 40 feet in order to
take care of all the entries. The fol-
lowing States are represented in the
entry list:
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky,
| South Carolina, North Carolina, Geor-
gia, Alambama, Mississippi and Tenn
esSee. Fourteen thousand dollars in
premiums is offered for the Live
Stock Show and $4,000 for the Night
Horse Show. The premium features
are one of $1,000 for the best five
gated saddle horse shown under sad
die at the Night Horse Show and one
of $1,000, known as the Merchants
and Manufacturers stake, for the best
pair of heavy brood mares under six
years of age, shown. There is also a
harness roadster class that is open to
country and this event has filled with
some of the best strings in the
country.
Governor Slaton, of Georgia, has
proclaimed Georgia Day at the expo
sition a holiday, and thousands of res
idents of Georgia and Atlanta-for it
is also Atlanta Day at the big fair
will come for that day. Homemakers'
and Farmers Day on Thursday will
bring into Knoxville practically ev-
cry farmer in East Tennessee and
also large numbers from neighboring
States. A feature of this day will be
the getting acquainted social" ten
dered the women of the rural districts
by the women of the city. This is a
feature new to any exposition and the
interchange of views between these
two classes of women is expected to
be of great benefit to both.
On October Is Cardinal Gibbons will
come to the National Conversation
Exposition and the day after his visit
Booker T. Washington will come for
Negro Day.