The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-08-23
PREPARING FOR
COUNTY FAIR
Home Demonstration Clubs Will
Have Booths at Fair

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1t is practically decided that the
progressive home demonstration clubs
Of Salem School,, the General Sumter
Memorial School. Bethel School. and
Providence School (Privateer Town
ship9 will have community booths
contesting for the two hundred and
fifty dollars offered by the Sumter
County Fair Association during the
big 1919 county fair November 18th
19th-20th, and 21st.
\ The prizes offered are: First prize
Sf00 cash: second prize, S75 cash;
third prize, $50 cash; fourth prize.
s25 cash.
Misses Alice and Nan Martin, the
home demonstration agents, and the
county fair directors are living in
great hopes that the equally progress
sive schools of Wedgefield, Concord,
Rembert. Dalzell, Shiloh, Mayesville,
the two Statesburg schools, Baker
School. in fact all Of the larger and
leading schools Of the county will line
up to show the progress and public
spirit of their respective communities,
and help to make the Sumter County
Fair typically representative Of Sum-
ter County.
There will be also an Individual
contest booth in which products en-
tered by individuals will be placed
with very attractive prizes Of which
full information has already been pub
lished in this paper. Products enter
ed in community booths can not COM
pete in individual booths, but this
should be no drawback, however, as
two jars or cans can be made up, one
for the community booth and one for
the individual booth contests.
Misses Alice and Nan Martin will
render any assistance desired by
schools, communities, or individuals
in getting up community booths. and
these two. enterprising ladies or Sec
rotary n. L. Tisdale, of the fair asso-
citation, County Agent J. Frank Will
liams, or E. L. Reardon,i- manager Of
publicity department will furnish any
information desired about any de-
partment Of the 1915 fair
Special efforts are being put forth
by the managers of the numerous
fair departments and the directors to
induce the men. women and boys and
girls of Sumter County to manifest
individual and collective interests and
county and community pride in our
county fair.
There is absolutely no reason why
the citizens. Of Sumter County should
not be enthusiastically interested in
their own county fair, and numerous
reasons why they should try to make
our county fair the kind Of fair it
ought to be.
Quite aside from reasons of county
pride. there should be in every section
Of this county considerable amount
of community, township. and local
school and individual interest and
pride in cooperating in the success
of our county fair. All Of the pro-
,gressive counties in the Southern
states have magnificent county OF tri-
county fairs. The people Of the rural
districts of this county ought to really
feel general and personal interest
in having their school communities
and clubs participate. 1t pays
school, community, or township to be
.creditably represented in a county
fair. Creditable representation in
county fairs shows what the people
Of every community are doing, what
can be done on the farms Of those re-
spective communities. the individual
school, township, and community ex-
hibits help greatly to advertise the
farm lands and productive possibili-
ties of lands, show the progressive
ness in educational affairs of each
community, and the desirability Of
living in such communities among in
telligent, progressive people. all Of
which greatly advertises the county,
the townships, the communities, and
the individuals also, and add to the
value of farm lands by creating a de-
sire among desirable prospective
housekeepers for homes in such de-
sirable communities.
Thousands Of people attend county
fairs many homeseeksrs among the
number, and every community booth,
farm exhibit or individual exhibit in
any Of the departments. is a big ad
vertisement for the farms, communi
ties, and townships.