The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-11-13
FAIR OPENS WITH
BIG ATTENDANCE
The big fair is on!

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crowds began buying tickets.
The first days receipts were fa,
away ahead of any previous exh;bi-
ton and that, of course, means that
[ the attendance of the balance of the
week will break all records.
The fair itself is in every sense 81
record breaker. More and better ex-
hibits than have ever heretofore been
entered together with the best enter
tainment features ever seen here are
providing the crowds with solid and
continuous enjoyment.
The agricultural display proves
Chesterfield County's right to contest
Tor supremacy with other localities
throughout the United States in the
matter of stock and poultry raising
ana 1t does not take a prophet to
loreteli that stock raising will at no
very distant period be the big indus.
try in this county. 1t is indeed :.
pleasure to note the large number of
olooded chickens and swine that in
the last few years have taken the
places of the old scrub stock. that
was to be seen on Chesterfield Conn
ty farms.
Ihe display of modern improv-
cd forage crops shows that our lands
VIII produce this sort of crop as well
as the lands which many of these pro-
ducts have made famous. The corn
exhibit is especially fine.
The big pumpkin and the big no.
tato, both sweet and Irish, are in
their accustomed places and are be-
ing admired by those who are inter-
ested IN their production, as well as
by those concerned in their consumn-
ton.
The work of the ladies is displaved
IN many attractive ways. In cact q
visit to the fair will convince ;he
most skeptica that the fair Sc; viii
not have to take back seat for =, .ra
man when it comes making an a,.bi-
oi', whether they show piece of
tancy lace, jar of preserved fruit
pound cake, a mince pie or whe her
they serve hungry male with ham
sandwich and cup of stcan,inp cof-
fee.
And then there are the Far,ous
Broadway Shows.
The Fair Association w.s fort,n
ate IL securing this mammoth or-
ganiZatlon as the entertaining factor.
Inc tented booths, galleries and the
atres of this aggregation completc-
~ pll all the available space within
the grounds and every attraction !,
one OF merit. There are some old
friends among them, such as the Fer
ris wheel and the Mcrry-go-round.
but what fair would be complet.
without them?
The wild animal menageries. train
ed animal exhibitions, illusions
plantation singers and the fortune
telling queens are all the best of their
class. Everything about the shows
has clean and respectable appear-
ance. The band is one of the hest
and furnishes no small part of the
general amusement. 1t is q band of
musicians and not the usual "ballv
moo noise making wind TANNERS cm-
pioyed by carnival companies.
vi the free shows, the educated
horse, Carolina King, attracts the
major part Of the attention. This
beautiful animal, which was educated
and trained by DR.. J. J. Pollard, Of
Wlnnsboro, created a furore of ey-
citement when he entered the arena
and bowed to the audience with as
much grace and apparent under
standing as the average human actor
FROM that time until his closing bow
'he attention was rapt and the APP
plause generous. Among other things
Carolina King kneels for his rider
Dr. Pollard, to mount and di,mount.
He sea-saws, impersonatcs an orien-
tai dancer, does the "cOrk screw"
lies down and plays sick, MARKS time
to music, dances the fov trot and
seems to comprehend any command
his master wishes to give him
Carolina King was born and rails
ed in Winnsboro and is owned by the
Pollard Medicine Company, of ;ha.
place
There was so much to see on We'd
ncSday that the crowd kept moving,
each minute being attracted by some
new contrivan ."s or exhibition dcsiy.
ned Tor amusement purposes only.
For instance there is a new / ind of
whlrligig contraption called "Thc
Whip" that furnishes no end Of
amusement to those who ride and to
those who watch those who ride. The
writer stood for sometime watching
the expressions of wonder, fright and
mirth, all trying to break through at
once, on the countenances of those
| who for the first tin,o ware boIl