The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-10-29
SUCCESS OF FAIR
EXCEEDS EXPECTATION
Ladies' Department Better Babies
Contest, Live Stock, Poultry and
Races Create Great Interest

| This has been fair week in Grenada.
| The management have had many diff
| ficulties in getting ready for this oc-
casiOn. To begin with, the grounds
| had not been used for fair purposes
| for several years, hence it was neces-
Sary to almost start at the ground
and come along UP with the buildings.
Labor for that purpose, like labor for
everything else, was not plentiful, and
that which could be had was costly.
But nothing daunted those who had
Iset out to have fair. The chief actor
in carrying forward the program was
Mr.. II. b. Barbee, president Of the Fair
association, than whom could not be
found a more desirable and capable
man for any work that needs boosting
and pushing. But hardly had Mr. Bar
bee completed the work of rehabilita.
tion when the boil weevil began to eat
the cotton and in some quarters in
this locality, almost devoured the
stalks. People said the weevil was
short, but nobody thought that it
would be as short as it is. The de.
preston over the cotton crop very
properly and naturally struck every
business and everybody, with the re-
suit that every man began to think
how he was going to get out of the
wreck-these things crippled fair pros
poets, they hurt the fair. Neverthe-
less there was no stopping of fair
preparatiOns-retr at that stage
was out of the question. So, taken all
in all, the fair management is to be
doubly congratulated On what was ac-
complished.
1t took but a few minutes survey OF
the fair grounds TO realize Tuesday
that every department had many who
were interested in having their sex
hibits properly placed and who hoped
"fOr the award by the judges" The
premiums listed by the Fair manage
ment were enough TO quicken the zeal
and the energy of every exhibitor A
hurried trip from the ladies depart
ment to the poultry department, then
the swine, then the cattle and the
horses, and later TO the grand stand.
wAege~ --Sgeet .a2d Irish. potatoes.
the corn, the pumpkins and the vege-
tables. furnished the lesson that there
were many things right at the doors
VI tIiS pcOpit OI tIIS ScCllou
about which many would almost mar
vel if they saw them away from home.
The enchantment OF distance is a
trait in human nature that was com.
mented Oh by the Savior and the pass
ing of days does not seemed to have
abated in the least the propensity of
that the one somewhere else
"can do it better"
Outside Of the exhibits ON the mid
way appealed to great many and
furnished very desirable diversion
The foot ball game Wednesday
fired the enthusiasm OF the school
folks. The game was hotly contested.
From the very beginning, the crowd
saw that a sure enough ball scrap
was on and the American people, both
old and young, long ago evinced
very decided interest in scraps, even
it be chickens or CANNES.
Wednesdays dawn brought not
very assuring day While the wealth
er was cooler and the winds had got
ten around to the North, ever and
anon a mist of rain fell. But within
only a few hours, the sky came into
view, and the elements began TO smile
on the Fair. One Of the first fea-
lures of the morning was the horse
back riders, which consisted of both
ladies and gentlemen. These got in
line up town and made a very at
Sractive sight as they cantered to
the Fair grounds. Mr.. A. T. Inman
got two blue ribbons on his saddle
mare while the red ribbon went to
Mr. H. T. Calhoun and the white rib
bon to Mr.. r. w. Jones.
There were $50 babies entered in
he Better Babies Contest Wednes-
lay and the doctors and the nurses
we're kept busy indeed in grading the
title fellows. No official announce
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