The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-11-20
FIXING FOR THE FAIR
Outlook for the Biggest and Best
Attended of Our County Ex-
positions is Encouraging

pUSAbiUIS lS encouraging
President earn and Secretary
Tweedy of the Marion Fair Associa-
tion have been quietly but steadily
and efficiently working for months on
the preparations for our coming fair,
and they are now confident that we
are going to have the best county ex-
position vet held in Ocala.
The exhibits and the attendance are
the main things to consider. The ex-
hibits are going to be full and good.
The farmers and stockraisers have
already notified the secretary of their
intention to be on hand with the first
fruits of their fields and the fatlings
of their focks," and everything to
prove that Marion, like Palestine of
old, is a country filed from Dan to
Beersheba, or rather from Evinston
to WeirsdAle, with the fat of the land
and the abundance thereof, or as the
revised version would. say. a plenty
and then some.
AS for the attendance there. is every
reason to believe it will be good
probably a record breaker. Many of
the farmers have personally told the
secretary they have stayed at home
and worked hard for many months
they have made money and can afford
a rest, so they are coming to the. fair
to see each other and see what has
been done in the last twelve months.
The fair opens a week from today.
Mr.. D. u Fletcher. our senior senator,
Congressman Frank Clark, our repre-
sentative, Commissioner of Agricul
ture w. "A. McRae, and probably some
other distinguished men, will be here
and it is to be hoped that thousands
will be present to meet them. SEN
ator Fletcher and Congressman Clark
have high places in the government.
and it is to the interest of all to see
and hear them speak on the great
task that our nation has undertaken.
Work has been going on at the
grounds and they will be spick and
span for the opening. There has been
some re-arrangement. The reception
committee will have its headquarters
in the well-known restroom. In one
corner of this restroom will be an in
formation bureau presided over by
Mr.. Johnson of the Metropolitan In
surance Company. This bureau will
have a telephone, and next to it will
fbe a cloakroom, where wraps, satch-
els, parcels, ETC., can be left In safety.
The secretary informs the Star
that it is a certainty that the agricul-
tural building and the pens for stock,
the two principal features of the fair,
will be well filed. Ocala business
men are taking more interest in the
fair than for several years, and
most of the space in the mechanical
and industrial department is taken.
A feature of the. greatest interest
to the farmers and stockmen will be
the dipping vat, which under the di-
rection of Dr. Chipman has been
built in the northwest corner of the
grounds.
Another new feature is a park for
autoes to the north of the grand
stand This is an enclosure of about
an acre alongside the racetrack,
where people who prefer to view the
races from their cars can line their
autoes with the radiators against the
fence and have the best sort of a view
without quitting the cushions.
You can't have fair without good
amusement features, and these are to
be furnished by the same good car
niyal that was here last year and
gave the people plenty of fun for
their money.
The people will be well cared for
ir the eating line, as the home eco
nomics committee of the Woman's
Club has secured the privilege of fur
nishing lunches and square meals.
The ladies will have their cooking
apparatus and tables in the usual cor
ner of the agricultural building, and
viii also have lunch counter against
the wall of the industrial building op-
posite. On the opening day of the
fair, they are going to have an all
Marion county dinner, Including tur-
key, and every day after they are
going to serve specially good dinners,