Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-11-08
EXHIBITS POUR IN AT FAIR:
HELPERS WORK OVERTIME
FOR OPENING TOMORROW
Big County Shows Gate To Swing Open At 10
Oclock-Mule Pa rade To Usher In
Eye mt. EX

Exhibits poured in at the Sumter
county fair grounds today in such
quantities that the officials and help
ers, the latter present in large num-
bers, were absolutely swamped. Start
ing early this morning they kept
/ coming with increasing volume all
| through the day, and this afternoon
| Secretary Perkins stated that it prob
ably would be necessary for all hands
/ to work all night to get the show in
/ anything like shape for the reception
! Of visitors at the opening of the gates
of the big show at 10 o'clock Tues
| day morning.
The displays were coming in all
| departments, but the early volume
was heaviest in the woman's work de-
! partment--needle work, fine art, etc.
| There were also numerous agricultu-
raj exhibits among the early arrivals,
however, as well as poultry, live
stock and machinery, some of them
| from other counties. School dis
| plays from the city and from the
county were being placed in the va
| rious allotted spaces in the canning
club girls choice work of the year
was being arranged on the specially
I prepared shelves in room all to it.
self.
| On the grounds everywhere was
the greatest activity. The Metropoli-
tan Shows, which will furnish the
midway, were being erected through
out the day, the equipment being
| hauled bv motor truck from the Cen
tral tracks near the station. The
various buildings which will hold
the displays had been handsomely
decorated by professional decorat-
ors with flags and buntings, and
from the fiagstaffs on each flew the
national colors.
ALTHOUGH the gates will open for
the reception of fair visitors at 10
o'clock Tuesday, the show will really
open with the gigantic horse and mule
parade, one of the really big events
of the week, and probably the most
spectacular. Forming in line down
town at the Turpin stables at that
hour, under the direction of Will
Green Turpin, more than 200 of
the finest animals in the South will
parade through the streets and to the
grounds, where many of them have
been entered and where they will be
on displa during the week. Head
ing the parade, according to plans
| will be Chas. L. Ansley's Grand Cir
cult PAGER Lecco Grattan.
The midway will be in operation
during the day, the exhibits win be in
place and the fair will be on in full
blast At 4:30 o'clock The Great
Calvert will be seen in his free high
/, wire act, declared to be real thriller.
AT O'Clock free moving pictures,
educational. amusing and generally
entertaining, will be shown in the
auditorium of the administration
building of the Agricultural college.
where manv of the exhibits have been
! placed. At\ 8 o'clock the Chrysan-
themum show. in itself magnificent
event, will be opened, and at 8
O'Clock The Style Show, staged by
Americus merchants, will take place
Ample arrangements have been
made this year for the accommoda-
tlon of large crowds and for their
comfort. Motor buses will carry the
crowds between the city and grounds
each day.
1 Hundreds of automobiles passed
through the grounds of the Agricul-
tural school Sunday afternoon and
were greeted with a house in per-
feet order. All the week the NOW
ers and rakes have been going to set
and example of cleanliness and or
derlinnes, and nothing has been left
, undone to create an atmosphere of
| attractiveness at the school.
The new and handsome administra-
ton building is in readiness for the
the thousands of visitors who will
attend the Sumter county fair this
week, all in apple pie order from
front to back, beautifully fitted with
handsome electric light fixtures. The
ground floor has been thrown open
: for the registration of the visitors,
, and receiving line will be ready
) at all hours of the day to give a most
cordial welcome to the greatest and
best of all county fairs in this sec
. ton of the country.
; A visit to the building alone is
, worth a visit to Americus, and the
j faculty and student body stand ready
to show visitors throughout the we'll
kept dormitories, kitchens, dining
: rooms and class rooms. It is for this
purpose that school has been dis
missed after today, so that visitors
may meet the members of the facul-
ty and student body, thus coming in
close personal touch with the great
est institution of which Sumter coun-
tv can boast and should exhibit with
pride. Sumter county and Ameri-
cus is waking IN raui1lv TO the fact
of what this agricultural and me-
chanical school means to the youth
of the county and city, and parents
from every section of the county will
visit the fair to see how their chill
dren are cared for under the direc-
tion of the faculty.
The Chrsyanthemum show Tues
day evening will be the largest social