The Robesonian., 1917-09-20
BIG FAIR THIS FALL

County, Fair in Lumberton in No
yember Will be a Much Bigger
Event Than Ever BefOre-Splen-
did Exhibits Expected and a BIZ
Show
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
The fair at Lumberton promises
to far exceed all former fairs this
season, which will be November g,
2, 8 and 9. Indications point to the
exhibits doubling those of last Year.
The chicken people are striving to
cut-do themselves, ard everybody
knows that last fair the chickens,
ducks and turkeys had everybody
guessing where they all came from.
The managers now expect more
chickens than ever. The prizes OF
fered for poultry amount to about
$125. This is worth going after.
Not very many people know that
the association is giving away alone
for corn over hundred dollars, not
saying anything about the amounts
given for cotton, toabcco, Irish po-
tatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins,
hay, oats, beans, peas-in fact ev-
erything the farmer grows. Then,
too, there comes the domestic science
and of the fair that the ladies have
charge of. This department will be
Dverrun with fruits and fancy work
of all kinds. They know how to
make this class of goods and then
after it is made they know how to
arrange to c"tch the eye. This de-
partment will be the center of at
Traction this time. The community
booths will be worth going miles to
See, for we expect to have most ev-
cry section Of the county represent
ed with a booth, and the ladies will
all want theirs to look the best and
get the prize for their section. The
premiums are SIS for the best one
(and Lumberton cannot enter for
this prize either) then for the Sec
ond best one $40 and for the third
best SIS. Any section that wishes
to get in this contest and show the
people what they have and can do,
bad better write to Mrs. A. S. King,
chairman of this department, and
have the space reserved for them in
time, as the time is drawing near and
unless the space is reserved right
away we cannot guarantee space.
1t is has gotten into the minds Of
anybody that this is going to be a
little fair this time, they just as we'll
get it out of their minds, for the
managers have gone to considerable
expense, taking the risk that the
people want a fair and want to see
something. Well we will have it..
Ten of the best, cleanest, moral
shows that we could get, with a far
ais wheel and a merry-gd-round.
These shows are the best we could
get and they are clean and the same
class that play only fairs where
high-class shows are wanted. We
never would have gotten them if they
had not been caught with this week
untitled and they had to play Some
where as their payroll amounts to
over 5000 per week. The cost of
this show represents an outlay of
$35, 900, So you can See that it's no
cheap affair that we are going to
give you this time. You will see
everything you do at the largest
fairs in the State except horse rae
ing, which we don't have and don't
want.
The management honestly expects
this fair to bring $4,000 people here
during the week. We are going tc
have a "corker". Make arrange
ments to have something on exhi
bition this time. Look around now
and begin to pick it out.
Let everybody help and we will
exceed all former fairs, as We ex-
pect to do this time.