The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-01
FAIR
PUBLICITY
Committee on Floats and Dec
Grated Cars Address Bus
ness Concerns

Grated cars Ad0feSS BUS.
ness Concerns
The following is an appeal from
the committee on securing partici-
patton by Sumter's business and
professional adjustments in the
big and spectacular Pageant of
Progress Parade on Sumter Coun-
/ Ity School Day Of the county fair,
Friday. November oath:
To the Business and Professional
/ Establishments and all Organic
ed Bodies of Men and Women of
Sumter.
| Greeting: We. the undersign-
ed, have been appointed a commit.
! tee to interest every mercantile,
manufacturing. banking and all
business and professional concerns
and organizations in having a float
or decorated car in the mammoth
Pageant of Progress Parade on
tSumter County School Day, Of the
Sumter County Fair, Friday, No
lyember oath, 1922, or in marching
in this parade. See information
as to cash prizes for floats and dec.
| Grated cars.
AS a matter OF city and county
pride, having in view the object OF
uniting the city, town and rural
districts in cooperative and diver
sifed progressiyeness and educa--
tionai advancement, we are ap-
peaIng to our fellow citizens to
participate in the countrywide
event.
! Think this over and be prepared
to help put the Sumter Spirit on
dress parade and show what Sum
ter and Sumter County are and
that Sumter is. a good place to
visit, a, better place to live, the best
place for you. .
Cordially yours,
Miss Hannah Kristiansen, chair
man; P. NJ Parrot. w. A. Bryan.
Patrick j., Gallagher, S. L. Kras7
noff, John Buck, Mrs. E. ]. Kar-
rick. committee on Floats and Dec
Grated Cars
E. /. Reardon, Supt. Dept. Pub
licity Amusements, Sumter County
Fair Association.
Commercial or Advertising Diyis-
ion-Best Float or Car.
First Prize ---- $500
iSecond Prize 1900
| Third Prize --- i0.U0
/ Non Commercial, Non-Advcrising
Division.
First Prize --S25.00
Second Prize 1900
Third Prize 1000
AT Sumter Chamber of Commerce
are "a few thousand large enve-
Hopes with information printed
thereon advertising the Greater
1892 Sumter Counyt Fair, which
! the fair officers would like for
business concerns in Sumter to
use, and which will be furnished
free by Secretary Reardon if any
concern will phone for same.
Promiscuous distribution of these
envelopes which cost money, with
Eout any assurance of the envelopes
being used is poor business. Hence
any Sumter firms desiring to help
advertise the Sumter county fair
can secure envelopes, delivered di-
rect to their places Of business on
application. Phone. No. 200.
Mrs. W. n. .Lenoir. Jr., and Mrs.
James Simmons, teachers of State
burg No. 10 school. near Horatio,
have written that. they are indig-
Inant over the report. that their
school will not be in the spectacu-
lar Pageant of Progress Parade
on Sumter County School Day, Fri
day, November 24th. These en-
terprising ladies say that all you
thave to do to see rural school that
| believes in cooperation between
city town and Country. is to watch
! out for Stateburg No: .18 on Sum-
tier County School Day. in the big
parade. You will see something.
Hurrah for Mrs. Lenoir. Mrs. Sim
mons and the pupils of Stafeburg
/ No. 10 school. And hurrah for
1.-THE school trustees and school pa
| irons also while we are at it.
This school is twenty-four miles
from Sumter. yet it will come to
Sumter to cooperate and help the
county fair.
/ Mr.. John j. Brennan has some
thing up his sleeve about the pag-
eant Of progress parade or partici-
patton in the ..Made in Sumter or
Buy it in Sumter" division, or
rather those hoped for and much to
be desired divisions of the Sumter
County Fair. whichever it is going
to turn out to be. no man knoweth
until the fair opens. which John
will not release for publication un-
til next Monday. so he says. He
was to tell the hot air artist about
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