The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1915-04-07
A SUCCESSFUL DAY
is EXPECTED FRIDAY
Annual School Fair to At
tract Thousands.
MANY EXHIBITS
ALREADY PLACED
Judging from the Exhibits Already
Placed In the Court House, the En-
hibits will be Better and More Plcn-
tiful than Last Years Exhibition.

Everything IS in readiness for the
annual school fair which is to be
held Friday. Should the beautiful
weather Of the past few days continue
q huge crowd Of scholars, teachers,
trustees and patrons will be here to
enjoy tht day together. Preparations
are almost completed for the day and
everything points to successful eX-
hibition in all departments. The eX-
hibts in the court house have already
been placed and have been pronounced
more beautiful and more varied than
last year. The judges will pass on
these tomorrow night and the ribbons
placed upon them for inspection Fri
day. Entries for both the literary and
athletic contests have been pouring in
and the Indications arc that they will
far exceed last years lists. In fact,
they have already exceeded last years
entries by a large majority.
Considerable interest is ccntercd in
the high school oratorical contest
which is to be held in the graded
SShooi t"uiNoi lINuS 'NS
is already we'll known, the winner Of
this contest is awarded the Mintcr
Medal, provided for in the will OF the
late Capt. j. r.. Mintcr and donated ac-
cordingly each year by his heirs. The
winner Of second place will be award
ed another gold medal by the associa-
ton. Both medals arc suitably in
scribcd. In addition to these the
firm OF Fleming Brothers gives a
,rophy cup each year to the high
school making most points in the ath-
lctic contests. This cup has been
held for two years by the Clinton
high school and pretty contest is
expected to develop this year for it's
retention in Clinton. These two medals
and the cup will be on display In
Fleming Brothers window during this
week until after the contest Friday
night.
The visitors to the city arc expect
ed to bear in mind that the literary
and athletic contests and viewing OF
exhibits in the court house will all be
In progress at the same time. Ath-
lctic contests will be open to the pub
lie, OF course. but entrance to the
school rooms where the literary con-
tests will be held will be by admission
card only. These will be given only
to those directly interested.
The following instructions have
been issued by Miss Gray and Supt.
Sullivan:
The program for The day will be as
follows:
10000 a. m.--Litcrary contests, graded
school building.
Defamation contest, graded school
auditorium.
Elementary athletic contests, grad
cd school campus.
1880 a. m.-Grand Parade.
1915 p. Exercises on the graded
school campus, as follows:
a-Song, Carolina.
b-Tableau, representing seven
cras in history Of South Caro-
lima women.
'---ottli vi dlltSluHNt " y. ,. IistS.
d-Song "Columbia".
Awarding of ribbons.
| p. m.-Dnncr.
2:15 p. m.-Mccting Of Laurcns coun-
ty school trustees, graded school
auditorium.
800 p. m,---IIigh School athletic meet.
10 a. m. to 3 p. m.-Vicwing of cX-
hibits In the court house.
500 p. m.-lligh School oratorical
contest, graded school audi
torium.
Athletic Department.
The elementary athletic program
has already been given due publicity
through other mediums, but the high
school program has not, so is given as
follows:
100 yard dash.
220 yard run.
Standing high jump.
Standing broad jump.
Running high jump
Running broad jump.
Shot put.
Pole vault.
220 hurdle go inch).