The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-25
BEAT ONE FAIR.
Annual Event at Florence Proves
Great Success.

Annual Event at Florence Prove
Great Success.
The Beat One Fair was pullet
off according to schedule on las
Thursday and Friday. The frs
day was warm and dusty. TIL.
next day was pleasant and thu
dust was settled by a shower ir
night previous. The crowd at.
tending both days was very
large, orderly, smiling happy
and much pleased with the va.
ried exhibits from the beat or
the ground. The denizens of
the beat were proud Of what
their section had accomplished
since the last fair was held here.
Every variety of exhibits from
the garden, fields. sewing circle
and from the canning depart.
ments, (the mechanical industry
only. was lacking) was on the
ground in good shape and very
excellent. The things both ami
mate and inanimate were good
to look at and to study, and
many a man, woman, boy and
girl received an incentive tc
equal or excel, in the next IL
months, which took his or her
fancy during the two days. It is
needless to specialize in any one
department. Every thing in
every line of display was simply
fine. Each and every exhibitor
deserves a prize for doing his and
her bit to reflect credit upon the
soil and homes of beat one.
However, some one in each class
of exhibits had to have the blue
ribbon but it was a tug for the
committees to decide the matter.
The animates were fine horses,
mules, colts, cattle of various
breeds, swine of different bloods,
and poultry. The inanimates
were the canning clubs exhibit
the fancy work and produce
from garden and field. No where
in the south Mississippi can
any of these be excelled as to
grade and quality. The con-
sensus of opinion is there must
be another beat fair in 1918. The
acting president of the Fair As
sociation, A. H. Martin, was a
live wire and a busy man during
the progress OF the fair, and
with the chief manager. Capt.
P. B. Berry, a good wheel horse
in any place you put him at his
side, the best of order and finest
arrangement Of all the material
on exhibit prevailed. Both OF
these officials carried their bright
est smiles for every one on the
grounds, and everybody, white
and colored, were happy all the
day long,
The basket ball teams (boys)
from Star and from Monterey,
played against each other, and
vast crowd of interested friends
of both sides were present to en-
JOY the fun. Monterey was win
ner.
The Florence Red Cross Aux
iliary had a large lunch tent up
and dispensed the good eatins''
to the hungry throughout the
two days; and they cleared some
cash for the Red Cross cause.
Senator Vardaman came over
late Friday afternoon and deliv.
cred a 20-minutes address to
crowd of about 60 mostly
his political friends. He made
no attempt to accuse, nor to ex-
cuse, himself as to his late course
| in the Senate Chamber at Wash.
ington-but only to give the
crowd to understand that he
fought against the government
entering the war as long as ht
conscientiously could, and ther
helped The government to pre-
pare for it. 1t is sorely to be re-
gretted that he omitted to urge
his hearers to buy Liberty Bonds
Whether Mr.. Vardaman pur
poseley omitted the mention ol
the bonds, or forgot about then
at the moment, we can't sur
mise. In his speech he praised
the farmers for their fair sue
cess this year in harvesting gooc
crops as was evidenced by wha
was shown at fairs held over the
state during this fall.