The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-10-11
OF COMMERCE. NOTES.
A 1916 County Fair Will be Held in
Sumtei-Mcn, Women, Boys and
Girls, City and Country, Must
Work Together for The County
Fair.

A "Simon Pure, Gamecock Fair"
Plenty of Good Attractions, and Ev-
erybOdy There"
With a little of everything that
goes to make county fair. Some
fun and varied line of attractions,
some educational, some amusing, all
wholesome, clean and instructive but
a county fair pure and simple, some
thing to interest the old, middle
aged, and the young, that is the kind
of county fair Sumter county is
going to pull off somewhere along
about the third week in November,
regardless of whether cotton sells fer
fifteen or fifty cents per pound.
Several Of the committee members
have put their heads together, and
all agreed unanimously upon the
above remarks which represent The
sentiment of the committee, boiled
down, because it would require
ord and report all that each and ev-
cry one of the committee agreed up
on and said.
1t wasn't regular committee
meeting either. just a kind Of infor-
NAL conference before the general
committee Ms called together next
Tuesday to arrange for the county
fair.
The meeting of the committee was
put off yesterday on account of the
death Of the late lamented Mr.. Will
liam B. Boyle, former chairman of
the County Fair Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, and a men,
ber of the special committee to ar
range for the 1916 Sumter County
fair.
On next Tuesday afternoon, October
10th, there will be a general meeting
Of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce,
and Of the Retail Dealers Associa-
tion
Several matters of Importance will
be up for consideration. the chief
topic of discussion being the 1916
county fair.
Sumter county can put up first
class exhibition Of agricultural prod
ucts. live stock. poultry, homemade
fruits, vegetables, and other kinds of
home demonstration articles from
about thirty-five rural and city school
domestic science clubs and women's
home demonstration clubs, boys pig
and corn clubs, and from hundreds
OF up.to-date farms. -.
The manufacturing plants Of SUM
ter county can put. on an exhibit that
will pleasantly surprise the natives as
we'll as the thousands of visitors we
expect to have here during fair week.
When Sumter county and Sumter
,ity bunch together the made In
sumter county commodities that are
raised, grown, manufactured with
the limits of the Greater Game-
cock City and County, it will be
worth travelling many miles to see.
All that is needed for this city and
county to put up one Of the most in
teresting and educational demonstra-
tions Is for the men, women, boys
and girls Of Sumter city and Sumter
county to make up their minds to
have q 1916 fall county fair. And Mr..
II. L. Tisdale phoned "E. 1. r." the
other day, as the Irishman said: :
Said he, "We are going to have a
county fair, if there is no one there
but you and l." But they will not be
the only two Sumter county Came
cocks or thoroughbred hens either,
for that matter, at the coming fair.
IL Sumter's business men will
awaken before they fall out of bed
and go out to the meeting next Tues
lay afternoon. there will be something
doing in the county fair line.
Every progressive county in this
Sttae except Sumter county has some
Kind Of a fall festival or county fair
every year. Sumter is no more OF a
religious or highly moral crowd than
any other South Carolina county. and
the people Of those counties which
nave annual recreative festivals and
fairs are just as religious and as good
rs sumter county people.
Hrmter county people are just like
other people i'm other counties. They
are going to have some recreation and
some fun every year. and give their
families an outing. If sumter doesn't
provide the amusements, Columbia,
Orangeburg, Darlington, Florence,
Charleston and other progressive cities
will.