The Ocala evening star., 1922-11-29
OF CERES EMP
TIED ON MARION COUNTY
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fruits, jams, preserves, jellies, pickles
and the like. The rear wall contains
The name of the exhibit. Five circles
made Of whole oranges and filled with
& center of orange leaves contain the
letters S-P-A-R-R fashioned from
plugs of peeled King oranges. Fes-
.yoned around the sign are bunches
u all varieties OF citrus fruits. the
.efE wall is more like a smokehouse.
Ill manner of smoked and dried
meats are hung there, together with
1anned meats, lard, sausage and even
canned Salt Springs mullet. Form
4ug the base for these wall decora-
tlcns can be found every kind of farm
product you want or need; hay of all
-inds, corn, potatoes, seed, sugar
cane, cotton, wool, grain of all kinds,
peanuts, etc. Sparr Is proud of her
display of pure bred eggs of which
there are six varieties, not counting
turkey eggs. Sparr also claims the
Cniy darso hay in the fair. There are
NUTS, honey, syrup, milk, butter and
product after product that cannot be
named. If the reporter tried to get
them all he would be sure to leave
out one and get shot at sunrise so it
is better to say that if it is grown
anywhere in Marion county, Sparr
! has it.
Fairfield
| And then the next booth is Fair
field. The name of this community
| is also designed in oranges, the name
being outlined with whole oranges
stuck on blackboard. The walls of
this booth are decorated in palmetto
and evergreen. Shelves contain jars
and glasses of all sorts of good
things that the good wives and house.
keepers of that community have put
up for their folks to eat. They have
quite a nice display of fresh vege-
tables, citrus fruits, milk products,
eggs, nuts, corn, taters, peanuts, vel
IVet beans, meats and regular farm
products. In addition to having near
ly everything shown at the other
booths Fairfield has a few extras
that no other community thought
worth while showing. One feature is
a nice jar of canned diamond back.
Some of the visitors of the fair did
not seem to prefer to eat canned rat
tlesnake, but there it was. Of course,
you were not supposed to know that
it was picked in alcohol. If you told
some of the local shine-hunters that
they could get their shine and snakes
in the same bottle, business at the
Fairfield booth would pick up at once.
Fairfield has a bale of dried moss,
one of Marion's products that is fast
coming into prominence in the up
holstery business.
Shady
Mrs. l.. A. Jones has so intimidated
the Star reporter in his report on the
Shady booth that he is almost afraid
TO say anything about it for fear he
won't say the right thing and will get
visited by the citizens of that commu-
nifty. Maybe it would be better to let
Mrs. Jones tell the story of Shady
and its exhibit. Pumpkins? Mrs.
Jones says they grow so big in Shady
that they don't need nigger houses.
They just give the niger a pumpkin
and tell him to hollow it out and
move in. Eggs? Mrs. Jones says that
there are so many eggs in Shady that
it is going to take a whole platoon
Of state troops to defend them fronl
hold-up men these days of high prices
on eggs. Now don't think that be-
cause Mrs. Jones has stressed pump
kins and eggs that that is all Shady
has to show the public. Mrs. Jones
says that it is the best and most di-
versitied community in the county and
the reported won't be the one to dis
pute her. At any rate, Mrs. Jones is
backed up in her statements by an
exhibit that proves Shady to be on the
map. Mrs. Jones also called at
tention to the fact that Shady will
grow one peck of corn to the stalk
and proves her statement by showing
a corn stalk with seven ears of well
fruited corn on it. She says there is
plenty more where that came from
Shady has on display fourteen va
rieties of hay and nine varieties of
field corn. Oh, well, as in the case
of the Sparr booth, there's no use
trying to tell all that is there. When
you look at it you feel certain that
nothing in the world is missing. We
will hand it to Shady on her fresh
vegetables, though. She sure has the
green goods. They are all there and
they look so good, too. People living
in that neighborhood need not fear
ptomaine poisoning. They have to
eat so little canned goods that the
risk is very slight. Shady has a
pretty display of resin cut in little
squares like caramels. Mrs. Jones
has hard time keeping the children
from eating it. Shady has hogs put
M in lars. The entire hog is there