The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-10-11
ONE-DAY FAIR
A GREAT SUCCESS
Parade-HOgs and Produce
Babies and NeedlewOrk-
Some Prize Winners.

The Annual One-Day Fair and
Harvest Day Parade for Lincoln
County held in Brookhaven yester-
day. October 10th, can be said, in
truth and in fact, to have been a
great success, and to have measured
UP in every respect to any Of the
previous fairs that have been held.
The keys Of the city were turned ov-
er to the visitors, who began to as
semble early to take part in this in
teresting annual celebration. By 10
o'clock the streets were crowded with
people from all over the county.
At about 1900 o'clock the parade
began at the Baptist Church on E.
Cherokee Street, headed by mounted
marshalS, many of whom were ex-
officers in the late war, and wore
their uniforms. Following the mar
shals came the Brookhaven nre truck
appropriately decorated for the occa-
sion, followed by the automobile rep
resenting the local order of the Red
Cross. A float literally crowded with
children, and representing Pine
Grove school, with the Pine Grove
Band making merry with its music,
came next in order; and this float
was followed by others filled with
children and representing other
schools of the county. All of these
floats were decorated and the chill
dren sang songs as they passed.
Then came the Brookhaven colored
band followed by the floats of Brook
haven merchants typifying the va
rious styles and demands of the sea-
son. These were beautifully decora-
ted,
One of the unique features of the
parade was the float of the B. e.
James Transportation Company, be-
ing truck upon which was loaded
IL bales of cotton, representing
thousands of dollars, at the present
price of that staple. All the floats
entered by the business men of the
city were appropriately decorated,
and added vivid interest and in
some instances amusement to the
long line of the parade.
Then in order came the school
children of the Brookhaven High
School with their teachers heading
each class. This long line of chill
dren showed one thing very clearly,
and that was that race suicide is
not in order in Lincoln county, at
any rate. Hundreds of children of
all sizes and grades were represent
ed in this line of march, and SEEM
ed to enjoy it as much as the spec
tators. The floats of the country
schools were also filled with children
and one could but wonder where they
all came from and how they could
subsist with the present high cost of
living.
The Bogue Chitto School float was
especially admired.
Automobiles decorated for the oc-
casion and representing the various
automobile companies doing business
here followed in the line of march,
and came after the exhibits of live
stock, showing the graded cattle and
stock owned by Lincoln county's
progressive farmers. There were
hogs and horses, bulls and jacks, and
other live stock in the parade, fol-
lowed by the heavy trucks of the
county loaded with gravel and rep
resenting the Good Roads movement
now under way throughout the
county, these trucks of gravel being
Immediately followed by the large
road working machines, drawn by
teams of from four to six mules, each.
This was an admirable and striking
feature of the parade.
After the noon hour dinner the
managers in charge of the various
exhibits began the work of awarding
the prizes in each case. Ii the Ford
Service Building, kindly donated for
tn occasion by Mr.. Troy McGehee,
were to be found exhibits of various
agricultural products of the farm,
culinary articles, preserves, sewing
and fancy work. There were big po-
tatoes, and small potatoes, long po-
tatoes and short potatoes, sweet po-
tatoes and Irish potatoes; red corn
and white corn, yellow corn and all
kinds of corn; pumpkin and ker-
shaw; peavine hay and lespedeza
hay, sorghum molasses and cane sy-
rup, and everything else that can be
grown on the farm. There were
peach preserves, pear preserves, fig
preserves and all other kinds of pre-
serves. Drawn work, needle work,
fancy work, knitting, embroidery,
lace work, and other kinds of fancy
and needle work. Then there were
big babies, little babies, but all of
them pretty babies.
In the courthouse yard were to be
found exhibits of poultry, hogs, cat
tie and live stock of all kinds. The
big red hogs seemed to predominant.
From the exhibits Lincoln county
bids fair to soon become a market
for fancy priced pork. The live stock
exhibits were well worth looking ov-
er. The county is going in for fne
graded cattle, and these exhibits
showed what strides in this direction
the county has taken in the past few
years. .
WINNERS IN SCHOOL ATHLETICS.
1OO-Yard Dash. 1st - Houston
Smith, Love School; 2nd-Achilles
Summers, Brookhayen.
Double Race. 1st-Prentiss Max
well, Holly Springs; 2nd-Billy
Netherland, Pleasant Hill.
Centipede Race. 1st-Gum Grove