The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-26
THE COUNTY FAIR
Directors Hold Important
Meeting Friday Morning

rectors OF the Sumter County Fair
Association held at Sumter Cham
Der of Commerce Friday morning
it was decided to call mass
meeting of the men and women of
Sumter and Sumter county at $3.50
next Friday evening. July 2Sth at
the Court House in Sumter to dis
cuss plans for greater Game
cock County Fai, and to expand
the facilities and activities of the
association.
The Sumter Chamber Of Com
merce, the Kiwanis club and the
Rotary club of Sumter were re-
quested to cooperate in advertis-
ing and getting the citizens of
this city and county to attend the
meeting.
The directors have decided that
the time has arrived for Sumter
county to either secure a bigger
and better place in which to hold
our coming fairs, and to make our
annual fairs the kind Of fairs they
ought to be or get out of the fair
business. In order to give Sumter
county the kind of a fair that a
county which Sumter county's en-
terprise, Intelligence and public
spirit warrants the directors feel
that they must have the loyal,
wholehearted and enthusiastic sup
port of the. farmers and business
and professional men and women Of
this city and county, and the in
terest Of every other man and wo-
man in Sumter county. Therefore
next Friday evenings meeting is
going to largely decide the issue Of
whether Sumter and Sumter county
want county fair that will be worth
while and credit to Sumter county
or not.
The city of Sumter. the, county
seat Of Sumter county, is largely in
terested in the maintenance Of an
annual county fair. Sumter derives
more direct financial benefit from
a county fair than all the rest Of
the county put together. Whatever
benefits the rest Of Sumter county
and adjoining counties from which
Sumter's business and professional
Establishments and banks draw
trade and other business benefits
the city of Sumter.
Secretary Reardon has agreed
to keep the public Informed about
next Friday evenings meeting and
about the advantages Of "a first
class county fair to Sumter and
Sumter county. The Kiwanis and
RStary clubs can also be depended
upon as can be the Young Mems
Business League of Sumter to help
make next Friday evenings ses-
sion the kind of get up and get
together. d o-it-now meeting That
Sumter and Sumter county can pull
off and with results that will mean
"a bigger. better and more inter
esting and educational. event in the
shape of a county fair that Sum-
ter county can put on equal to
any and second to none.
Temporary hard times and the.
boil weevi1 ought not to frazzle the
Sumter spirit OF cooperation and
getting there. Sumter and Sumter
county have never before surren-
dered to adversity or temporary
business. depression and agricultu-
raj stagnation, and there is no rea-
son why they should give up the
ghost ana lie down now or in the
future. Most of US are inevita bly,
bound to Sumter and Sumter coun-
ty by many and various ties OF
love and business and sentiment.
We don't want to and don't intend
to leave or desert our old home
county or home city. We believe
in Sumter and Sumter countys fu-
ture as we believed in its past. That
we can and will pull out of the hole
of temporary adyersity by all pull
ing together and not by separate
methods of working out our destiny
practically all e. us believe. Or
ganization in compact form and
confidence in our county..s and our
city's advantages and future VIII
sooner or later put our city and
county back into a normal conda-
ton. Pessimism and lack of con-
fidence. knocking and growing will
never get us anywhere.
Most of us have made mistakes
in business judgment or, have met
unavoidable set backs in business.
But worrying about past losses will
ncs get us anywhere. The county