The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-05
COUNTY APPROPRIATES q. :.
$1,000 TOWARD
EXHIBIT FOR
SOUTH FLA. FAIR

I All apPfOpi ldtlOH VI Sl ,UUU Hidue
by the commissioners at their regu-
Lar meeting in Barlow yesterday
means that Polk county will partici-
pate in the South Florida fair to be
held in Tampa next February.
The committee appointed by the
Membership Council of the CHAM Der
OF Commerce at their meeting just
two weeks ago today to present a
petition on behalf of the county gem
orally asking the commissioners to
make this appropriation, so thor
oughly convinced that body of the
worthiness of the cause they repre-
| sented and the great benefits which
would accrue to Polk county by hav-
ing a worthy exhibit of our products
at the big fair, that after Senator
prane and Secretary Holworthy,
backed up by c. A. Cole, got through
with their arguments motion was
made, and carried unanimously, that
the amount mentioned be appropriate
ed for the fair out of funds provided
by levy of one-half of one mill on
the assessed value of the county for
agricultural purposes, and Polk
county stepped into line as one of
the fifteen South Florida counties
invited by the Fair Association to
join in this big enterprise.
The object of this big South Flor
iaa fair is two-fold. First, it will
have tremendous advertising or
publicity value, showing to the ,75,-
600 or 100000 visitors on that occa-
sion what Polk county actually can
and does raise in the way of farm
products, causing many who see
these results in concrete shape to
settle in our midst and help to re-
duce our thousands of acres of wild
but valuable and otherwise fertile
lands into "A state of cultivation and
thus by developing our farming
community at the same time build
up and solidify our growing towns.
Second, it will stimulate our pres
ent farmers, who will have all OPP
portunity of seeing what their neigh
bCrs can do to go after similar or
better results and instead of being
as so often is now the case,
with merely mediocre results, to get
10 work and prove that Polk county
can raise the best crops in the State
and that they themselves can JOHN
in furnishing the proof Just as the
boys of the corn clubs have put their
daddies on their mettle by producing
one hundred bushels of corn on IA
single acre which the old man mad
lever been able to get more than
forty bushels from, and the girls of
the canning clubs have sold $3.50
worth of tomatoes from a half acre
which would have been big returns
Tor father coming from two acres,
So this fair will stir up our present
of farmers in the effort
10 work their acres to a point of
splendid efficiency.
The South Florida Fair Associa-
ton Is incorporated and is to be a
institution 1t is starting
With capital stock of $4,000 di-
'ided into 200 shares of the par
alue of $40 to be fully paid up and
ION assessable; $4,000 of this
AMOUNT will be distributed amon2
ampa citizens. for the purpose of
hOwing their faith in the enterprise
md the remaining $15 900 offered to
fifteen of the counties in South Flor
da, most Of whom have already TAX
n action in the matter The officers
re men of splendid ability and the
highest integrity and each county
VIII be represented on the board of
irectors. The object is the promo
ion. announcement and develop
lent of South, Florida, for the
together of all South Flor
ia resources and intelligently pre-