The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-11-02
County Fair Publicity
Schools Will Take Part IN
School Day Parade

DR.. s. H. Edmunds says he will
have thirteen hundred pupils from
the white schools Of Sumter and
the Boys high school military bat
talon in the Pageant of Progress
Parade on Friday, November 18th,
Sumter County School Day at the
Sumter County Fair. st. Joseph's S
Academy will no doubt also be in
the procession Of progress. From
what numbers Of rural school
teachers VINO were in Sumter last
Saturday said it is evident that
many hundreds of children from
the rural districts will be in
the parade and in the motion pic
ture film to be taken of the entire
parade and a special picture taken
Of all the schools besides for exhibi-
ton in motion picture theatres
throughout the United States and
Europe.
City Manager Samuel O'Quinn
has entered the entire fire depart
ment and police force.
Mr.. E. w. Dabbs, Jr., Of Salem
school district says he will have a
truck with one ton of Sumter>coun-
ty produced hay in the parade,
but that Mr.. r. 3. Belser and Mr..
E. I. Reardon will have to sell that
hay for him, or quit writing and
talking about marketing corpora
lions and diversifcation of field
crops.
Business establishments Of Sum-
ter, that do not care to go to a lot of
expense building elaborate floats
can. at the cost Of few dollars
and little trouble arrange their au-
tomobiles or delivery wagons Or
delivery trucks to make a good
show in this parade. Just few
yards of bunting, a few flags, and
big signs with the name of the
firm thereon will be a good ad-
vertisement Load your floats with
pretty women, girls, and children:
put your babies to the front. If
you have no babies or other chill
dren your neighbors will lend you
a few for this occasion.
Manufacturing establishments
can advertise their wares by placing
samples of same on their trucks or
delivery wagons in this parade with
little expense and trouble also.
Farmers can help out wonderfully
by putting in their trucks, wagons
autos and showing what kind Of ag-
ricultural products: Sumter county
produces.
There are numbers Of business
concerns in Sumter that are finan-
cially we'll able to put in elaborate
commercial floats. They should
do so. They owe this to Sumter
county from which they derive
their business and where they made
their money. We are advertising
Sumter and Sumter county by this
big moving picture film. Hundreds
of thousands will see this film.
The Sumter Chamber Of Com
merce. until committees are ap-
pointed VIII furnish information,
and will be headquarters for this
parade and for the Sumter county
fair
Sumter just might as we'll make
up its mind to have little fun
for our thousands Of customers
and friends who trade in Sumter
and do their banking here. Other
towns and cities are putting on spe-
cial gala events, backing up their
county fairs, furnishing amuse-
ments for their customers to keep
these customers from going to 9TH
er places for amusement. If
Sumter can stage big moving pic
ture film pageant of progress pa
rade this city will be immensely
benefited by good and widespread
publicity, and Sumter's business es-
adjustments, in the past have been
second to none in pubiic-spirited,
up-to-dateness, and in showing that
whenever Sumter entertains no
place has ever been able to beat
Sumter entertaining it's friends and
customers.
Suppose we all get together, for
get our troubles, forget our little
jealousies and rivalries, line up
with the thousands of school chill
dren and hundreds of teachers
from from city, town, and country
in a general festive mind and with
friendly ,co-opera1ive. get together
ideals and activities to make our
county fair the best possible, and
to show our thousands of school
children that we love them, want
to be with them and are proud Of
them. 1t won't be necessary for
the whole town and county to tell
the Sumter city and Sumter county
lady teachers that we love them be-
cause there are plenty Of young
men doing that already, and it
doesn't require a pageant of pro-
gress parade ito love any of our
city and county teachers, any how.