The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-01
WHAT THE FAIRS TO[D.U!s;
L.E!ss'ohslEFT by THEWAY
Great State Exposition, District and
County Fairs Have Done
Good Work.
THINGS PEOPLE LEARNED
Fairs OF All Kinds Are Great Insti.
tutions, Especially tho County and
District Expeditions - Neighbors
Meet and Talk a BIT.


Meet and Taik- n rit.
With the week JUG, closed. all OF
the Virginia fairs have made their rec
ord. and right ood record, II is. taken
az whole. il is true that the opening,
cf the agricultural year with a drought
that lasted away up into the summer
! months-and greatly discouraged rho
farmers in'many parts of Virginia. es.
pecialiy the Southsidc section. kent
srea. many farmers and their sisters
ana their cousins and their aunts away
from the fairs, local and otherwise
ana Kept them from making exhibits
that they had intended to make. hut all
the same the big state Fair, the dis.
trict fairs and the very many county
t =, % nase proven TO be great successes.
! " IS very evident that the people In
! tho back country arc getting more and
more interested every year In doing
GENE exhibiting. They are gcttine.
proud or the thugs they are doing at
| home and they are beginning to want
other people to find out what thev are
really doing. and, IL their doings will
heip and encourage tho slower broth
crs and sisters. they arc all the proud
! ef Oh having made show at fair.
M 5,t 81 be Tho great state Fair. the
district fair or just the county fair. or.
smaller stiil, the school layout In :,
| e;rcumscrIbed district OF a spcci,.I
county.
HARD TINES AND SHORT
ChoPS HAD THEIR EFFECT
! doubt very much II any Of the fairI
nnh In Virginia this year, taking then1
, ~, from TIE state Exposition in Ric,l3
inond Ill along down the limo TO fi,.i
smallest OF the county fairs. paid outt
tnis year, so far as the gate rcceIpts 10
9Aset the expenses were concerned, but
ia another and better way, all or
mem nave paid and paid handsomely.
pie together. and from the oxhibit,
made one b. the other, they hay.
rear ncd great deal about what their
heiEnpo's are doing, and one neiRhbor
mas .e.i rncd from another what all can
90 IL they will Just try Then. arain.
the foreign exhibitors at the larcer
iaIrs have not failed TO give the Wiz.
gina people great deal of knovledua
az 70 how to make things better. II,
ms connection II may he nentioned.
VIA inc cattle ana hog exhibits az the
great State Fair were moro than nan,
"iS educational TO the thousands. M
Virginia farmers who came tn Ne. ~,
uia sec. These cattle and rwinc AZ
n.bits OF themselves were worth AZ,
.ns. mo state Fair cost. in that, they
we're educational to an cxtent that ~ =,
" .oId ABOUT In the results for year,
RAILWAYS THAT ARE
COMING TO THE REsClE
nhother great feature OF Nh. s,.,.
! .ar ana Or several OF the lurner di.-
tIiet iaira was the railway comn,n,.
sxhinits. II ~ something new in ,bs
n ,.'t,'. certainly In Virginia for the
; railways 20 get largely ipter.stnd
! younger men than the wr,ter 20. ,,,Ii
! ememoeT the time when the oniy in.
we railways took In a fair was
10 sec how many tickets they conid
n 10 people desiring TO VISIT the
H. mugs have changed within
sne past Ecu years. The railways
naHn commenced to look right az hom,,
Tor results, and no, depend so muc,
as they used TO on through travel an,
! .nroush trctshts for their income. The
NJ Iodds mat made big exhibits at
~ ~ state fair were the Southern. tire
chesapeake and Ohio and tho NorfoI,.
ana western These roads had exra,,
s'Fe booths OF their own I'm tn. grea,
Industrial Building, and had ,hose
'oo.ns hiied With agricultural and
ho' ticui.ural and all other Kind. ~
exhibits OF thlnss grown and nro.
uuced along the lines of their ROAD.
of course. the Chesapeake and ohin
and the Sorfolit and Western mad an
run. nay and cattle exhibits, and Of
course thcS gave 81 great deal of at
tc'tion % coal and mineral exhibIts
and tie Southern made a great featurs
OF cotton, but IL was notIceabIe M,
All three OF these roads made a snc
cinity OF fruits All three OF the ROAD,
penetrate fine fruit-srowing lands Of
virsih.a ana North Carolina. and fruit
~ getting to be a tremendous THING
IN these States. am told that these
roads aid not spend all OF their en-
efsE at the big state Fair, but had
nooths and fine exhibits Of the kind
!naicased at all Of the county and dis
a hal
The railways are not combining them.
selves 70 local expeditions. but, as has
been set forth from time 70 time I'm
; the news columns OF the Industrial
Section. the roads above mentioned
are constantly making. exhibits OF Viz
ginia and Southern products through.
out the country, especially the west
ern country. II Is good thing for
the country when the railways
and the country people are working
hand in hand for tho upbuilding and
greater advancement OF the agricui-
tural and industrial interests OF the
great South.
COUNTY, DISTRICT AND SCHOOL,
EXHIBITS AT THE FAIRS
But the point that calls for cspe-,
cial emphasis Is the growing interest
Of the people or Virginia and the Car.
oinas in the local fairs the district
fairs, the county cSpositions and the
township OF school eSpositions That
these are growing in size from year
TO year, and that the interest Of the /,
people in them is becoming greater
and greater from year TO year. is
something that ought to cause re
joiclng on the part OF ali OF the peo-
pie OF the country, especially of the
merchants. bankers and business men
OF the great commercial centres like ,
! Richmond for instance. The time is
perhaps near at hand when there will
be d county fair In every one Of the
100 counties OF this good old Common
wealth. and whom that becomes a real
fact there will be something doing In
industrial and agricultural ways In the
old State--something that has here
tofore only been dreamed OF I'm far