The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-02-22
TELLS ABOUT CORN SHOW.
Champion Boy Corn Grower Of Red
River Parish Writes Interesting
" Of His Trip q Columbia and
What He Saw There and En-
Route.

Route.
Willie WardIaW, the champion corr
grower of the Red River parish boys
corn club, writes the following letter
| to his home paper, the Coushatta Cit
zen, telling of his trip to the nationa.
corn show at Columbia, IS.
'sI have just returned from my triI
to Columbia, where went as one
of the prize-Winning boys, corn club
members of our beloved state.
want to thank the good people of our
state for giving prizes at the fairs SC
as to help boys make these trips to
see and learn things they would per.
haps never have seen before. I es.
pecially want to- thank Mr.. e. S.
Richardson, Mr.. Kidder and Miss
Kelley for the kindness they have
shown me. And also thank the po-
lice jury and school board Of our par
ish for the help they rendered me.
| thank Supt John Teer very much
for his kindness, as he is always
ready and willing 70 help us. Now,
boys, the trip is worth working for,
SO get busy andSses Il you can not
make the trip this coming Iall.
4 now will endeaYor to tell a few
thingsI saw and learned on my trip.
When the train reached Baton Rouge,
Mr.. Richardson and Mr.. Bailey met
me at the depot. went home with
Mr. Richardson. and enjoyed very
much being with his family. We
went to New Orleans the night Of
the 2ath and took train next morn
ing for Columbia went over the
L. & n. Railroad passed through
Bay St. Louis. country is low
and does not lock like a very good
country The next place is Pass
Christian, Miss. nice little
town, has good roads and very
good looking eountrg The country
from Pass Christian 10 Mobile, Ala,
looks to be almost the same. The.
city Of Mobile Isl u beautiful level
country is pretty little city OF
about S., 900 inha Biz rlts II tgornery
being night but looaoked To be a
nice town from tue amount of lights
I could see. also did not get to-
see atlanta, Ga. either time, as it
was night We changed cars at Spar
tanburg fer Columbia. The country is
mountainous and very broken. We
arrived in Columbia about II o'clock
Sunday. The Clemson boys met us
and took us out to the fair grounds.
We then went to work making prep
arations for our next days duties.
On Monday we went to the audi
torium in companies. My company
was C. Mr. Dunking gave us a short
talk on rules and regulations On
Tuesday we had talks on corn rails
ing, and other subjects. IN the
evening we would examine all Of the
exhibits. We would spend a great
deal of our time looking at the beau
tiful corn and other things. en-
ioyed the parade uptown as much as
anything We did. a picture was ta-
ken of all the Louisiana boys. We
enjoyed going to the picture shows,
md our picture was taken by a NOV
ng picture show, 50 it may not be
ong before we will be shown in the
picture shows. Mr. Richardson, Mr..
ESidder and Miss Kelley gave all the
louisiana boys a big supper uptown.
The people OF the city seemed to be
liee people and manifested much in
crest in the exposition. The city
If Columbia is fine city of about
$1,000 people saw on my trip more
han can tell, as am afraid it
would take too much space.
T am going to do all I can to be
me Of the winners OF the trip next
all. With best wishes for prosper
JUS year, remain,
Yours respectfully,
WILLIE WARDLAW. !,