Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-11-25
PIG CLUB BOY WRITES
OF TRIP TO FAIR
Club Boy Writes Interestingly. Of
Trip To Jackson And State Fair.
Boys Have Good Time.


Early Mitchell, one of Lafayette
County's Pig Club Boys who, one
year ago won a handsome gift from
James Scissors Duroc Farm, this fall
won, along with ten other boys and
several girls, free trip, all ex-
penses paid to the State Fair at Jack
son, writes the following account of
his trip.
Dear Editor Eagle: With ten other
boys and several girls won trip
to Jackson to the state fair. The
Farm Demonstration, Mr.. Turner, and
Mr.. Smith the county superintendent
took US boys to the State Fair and
cared for us, seeing that we had
great time. .'..-
This was my first trip to Jackson,
and we enjoyed ourselves very much
on the way-passing the towns on the
route, and passing through the sew
eral counties, observing the differen-
ce between the lands and crops ami
livestock we saw from the train along.
the roadside. We made the trip in
daytime, changed cars at Grenada
and rode on the fast train, which ran
over and killed a very fine hog down
hear Canton, but this hog could not
wreck our train. .
We arrived 1T jackson just tefo"o
o'clock an.l went to ne Bon Ton
| Cafe for 81 ,are me ii ',s we Old not
have dinner going down. SeVera ot
our boys had never ridden on a train
or eaten at restaurant. One of the
boys in looking at the menu card to
select his dinner noticed that one of
the dishes served was oysters; so he
asked the waiter the price of oysters
and got the reply "fifey cents doz-
en-, whereupon the boy said "Tll
Just take one OYSTER. He had never
seen an oyster before | suppose and
wanted to see what it looked like.
After dinner we went to the Fair
grounds and registered at the Club
Boys Building, put our baggage
away, and each boy was branded
| by Mr.. Kerlin who had charge of the
building, and our brand admitted US
| to the fair grounds and to many of
| the attractions free of cost. We
then went to the Agricultural Build
ing and saw the exhibits of the boys
and girls from many counties over
the State.
This large building was a wonder,
but it made us proud to see while
looking over the exhibits from the
fields of Mississippi, so many eXhi-
bits tagged with blue ribbons and
red ribbons and on close eXaminat-
ion we saw many of the exhibits
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cite, especially was this true in the
department of canned goods, poul-
try, sewing, and other things sent
there by Miss DOME our lady agent.
The corn show, potatoes, hay, veg
etables, all looked good. A Lafay-
cite county boy won nice cash
prize for having the best exhibit of
corn from our Congressional District
This boy was Howard Patton of the
Paris School. We saw almost all
kinds of livestock. The pest hogs,
cattle, sheep the State could produce
was there.
We rode on the merry -goromd,
walked down the midway seeing
Grand stand to see Hawaii by
Moonlight" which was magnificent
display of fireworks, electrical seen
cry, acting, vaudeville stunts, etc.
The show ended with fireworks
scene representing the American
flag, while the band played the Nat
ional Anthem and of course then we
stood up with hats off.
Then we were ready to go to our
"bunks" to go to sleep at about mid
night. Most of the boys were tired
and soon went to sleep. One of the
BOYS from the Oxford School slept
so hard that he had "nightmare'
and fell out of his third story bunk
on the ground and didn't even wake
up. 1t was Early Metts who drives
the transfer school wagon six miles
to the Oxford school.
After breakfast next morning one
of the boys wanted to go to the Asy-
Ilum, but Mr.. Smith did not think he
was qualified, so he and MY. Turner
took us to the Legislature. In the
Legislative Hall we were organized
as a legislative body, the boys elect
ing me speaker of the house" and
we had speeches by some of the boys
Mr.. Turner and Mr. Smith, and Aub-
PERMITTED to speak because he was
ruled out of order for not addressing
"the chair he would say was
'1adies and fellow citizens" when
there were no ladies present.
After adjourning our Legislature
we went to another room in the
, great million dollar Capitol known
as the department of Archives ane
History the "Hall of Fame, and We
visited the State Treasurer's office
) and met the Treasurer DR.. Murray
We also called on Governor Lee Rus
,, sell at his office in the Capitol build
ing, who was glad to see US. W.
! also visited the "Old Capitol" ant
called at the State superintendent!
, Office where we were met by Prof
Jim Broome the assistant Superin
tendent of Education who had t.
shake hands with all the boys.
This great trip will never be for
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