The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-31
To Insure Successful
County Fair for Escambta.


On Monday morning the Escambia
County Fair win throw open its gates
to the public and one of the best fairs
ever held in this section viii begin, to
last for several days, and to draw to
1t from all over the county those who
are interested not only in agriculture,
but in many other progressive lines.
This is Pensacola's fourth annual
fair, since the old Td-County Fair
was so successfully launched. These
fairs have done more than advertise
Escambia county and West Florida,
as having great agricultural posi-
bilities, though they have done this
in very large measure. But to adj
vertise this section and its POSSIBLE
tiles is not the main purpose of the
fair. Of far more Importance than
this is the stimulus the fair is each
year to the various lines represented
through the exhibits made at the fair
ground.
The man who visits the fair with
his eyes open is going to find much
to repay him. If he is farmer, the
success of other farmers will be to
him a spur and an incentive to fur
Their and better effort, else he Is a
poor representative of the progress
sive agriculturist.
If he is business man he should
be no less keenly alive to the impor-
lance of the products exhibited at the
fair, for agriculture is the backbone
Of any community, and unless the
farming interests are quickened the
community must suffer from the
sloth.
There is no better way to quicken
these activities, than to take an in
telligent interest in the fair. There
is no better way to assure good
fair next year than to take real
interest in the fair this year. &C
out to the fair grounds, not once but
just as often as possible. Go to the
agricultural building and talk to and
get acquainted with the farmers-get
really acquainted with them, find out
something about this backbone or
which you are depending to make
your community q prosperous one.
When you go, keep your eyes oper
to what is good, and say a word fol
it to others.
The merchants of Pensacola are
greatly dependent upon the farmer
1t behooves them, then, to interest
themselves in a real way with the
fair, which is particularly representa-.
tive of the farm and its products.
Do not go in a captious frame Of
mind, watchful for every fault, but
with mind open to appraise thai
which is good and to do part K
make it possible to continue the fan
as a permanent and growing institu
ton, getting bigger and more pros
porous every year.
The directors and the manager:
cannot make the fair success. They
can only do their part. It is an i'm
portant part, but it is not the onl,
part. Every man, every woman, ant
every child has a part.
It is their fair-the county fair
Let every one of US go, not once bu
as often as possible and by taking
real interest in the fair, encourag
those who have given their efforts t
its success, and thus assure its per
manency.
This we can do if we will.
1t is our fair, representative o
our county's interests. Its failure o
its success depend upon the peopl
themselves, who make up the popula
ton of the county and the count
seat.
Let US rally together and max
the attendance at the county fair un
precedented in the history of Pensa
cola and West Florida.
Emperor Francis Joseph has mad
DR.. Dumba member of the nobility
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