Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-05-13
TO THE PEOPLE OF
BEN HILL COUNTY,

ourselves and the Fitzgerald Fair
Association.
To begin with, we wish to state
that our organization was perfected
with no selfish motive whatever and
with a view altogether of promoting
Fitzgerald and Ben Hill county We
had just enough civic pride in us
to want to see Fitzgerald keep pace
with our sister cities and have an
annual fair. We talked the matter
over with number of business men
of the City and met with no encour-
agement whatever in financial way.
They ALL came back at us with the
proposition that they had recollec-
ton of having lost on previous
Fair Association and that they alb
solutely would not invest another
cent BUT that if we personally
would undertake to hold Fair that
they would give us their moral sup
port in every sense of the word.
THIS THEY HAVE DONE and
for which we feel grateful fer with
out the support of our friends and
the community in general we would
have lost lots more money than we
did in pulling the last two fairs.
In organizing our Fair Associa-
ton, we were ambitious enough to
want to go further than just have
county fair. We felt that Fitzger-
aid deserved more than just a county
fair. We made it SIX COUNTY
FAIR and we personally and at
OUR OWN expense visited the
towns adjacent to Fitzgerald and
succeeded in interesting the follow
ing influential and prominent cit
liens in becoming Honorary men,
bers of our Board of Directors; w.
G. Whitehurst, Abbeville, Ga, Rob
ert R. Reid, Rochelle, Ga, DR.. John
Story and J. S. Shingler, Ashburn,
Ga, L. C. Green, Sycamore, Ga,
w. L. Harmon and Briggs Carson,
Triton, Ga, w. G. O'Berry, Villa
coochee, Ga, ]. A. J. Henderson,
Ocilla, Ga, George Tanner, Douglas,
Ga, John Kirkland, Nichols, Ga, O.
| J. McCrarie, Townsville, Ga, W..
w. Webb, Hahara, Ga.
Ali of these gentlemen were will
inc and ready to join in with Fitz-
gerald in boosting this OUR sec
ton of Georgia, and unsel6sh enough
to help boost it at Fitzgerald, which
is naturally the HUB of this section
They are doing this whilst others
in our own midst were throwing
cold water and didn't give a happy
whether the fair was success or
not
| Well, everybody remembers that
our first Fair was success with the
exception of the Carnival or Amuse-
ment part. We had very poor car
nival. We were censored for the
poor carnival and we were ashamed
of it but we were new in the bust
ness and just fell down on getting
a good carnival Last year, our sec
ond Fair had a good carnival. This
was admitted not only by ourselves
but by the public in general and HIS
MAJESTY, Mr.. &C." Pryor. Mr..
Pryor whilst riding, he and his
family, on a FREE TRAIN through
the Fair both day and night, stated
to Mr.. Jones that 1--WE HAD THE
CLEANEST CARNIVAL H E
HAD EVER SEEN and one with
mo OBJECTIONABLE FEAT
URES."
If Mr.. Pryor thought that way
then he must think the same way
now. Yes, we did have a good clean
carnival We personally looked af-
ter it and tried to keep it clean. We
did have three or four Objectionable
features bob up but just ask the
/ Police and the Sheriff how quickly
we had them closed.
Now while we are on the Carni-
val proposition, just right here let
us state that we cannot successfully
have Fair without good Carnival.
When we state good, We mean it
in every sense. We can have a good
carnival and if we have a Fair this
fall we will have one. If we can't
have one, then we will not have a
Fair. OUR OWN STATE FAIR,
the one that Mr.. Owens will urge
his Pig Club and Corn Club Boys
and Mrs. Witchard will urge her
Canning Club Girls to send to, will
have the famous Johnnie Jones, the
biggest carnival in the world, this
fall. They will urge all the boys
and girls to send exhibits to Macon
and go themselves BUT here at
Fitzgerald where we have guy
trying to run newspaper that
should be ripping slabs, we must not
have carnival. It's all wrong for
Fitzgerald to have one but ali right
for every other town and city in
Georgia to have them in connection
with their Fairs Honest folks, did
you ever know of successful Fair
without a good carnival?
Now as to the profits that we are
making on holding these Fairs. if