Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
ESTABLISHED 1856
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az believe" said Rock Hill man
who was discussing the value OF falrs
the other day, that the York county
fair at Rock Hill has done more to aid
diversified farming in York county than
any other influence. Il have noticed
year after year that the diversity OF
exhibits of agricultural products at the
fair has been increasing and l believe
that the fair has done most to open
the eyes of the farmers to the posi-
bilities of diversified farming in this
section"
Trials of a Fair Secretary.
'eThe work of secretary Of coun-
ty fair association is not the easiest
position imaginable" remarked the
other day Miss Marie Fewell, secretary
Of the York County Fair association
who has held that position most ac-
ceptably since the fair was instituted
several years ago. There are hum
dreds and hundreds of things to be
looked after and in the matter Of
pleasing everybody, of course it is i'm
possible to do it at a county fair just
as it is impossible in any other line OF
endeavor. What I had particularly in
mind though, was the trouble that we
had at the gate in regard to people who
sought admissions without paying. II
you should have stood at the front
gate with some of us and listened to
the. pleas of some people who sought
entrance free Of charge you would have
been able to have obtained material for
a real interesting human interest story.
Fog instance, one day a lady came up
and said that she had small exhibit
at the fair and that she thought she
should be allowed to pass the gate
free Of charge because Of her exhibit.
Another explained on school day last
Friday that she had come along to
take care of her children and since they
didn't have to pay and it was necessary
for her to be along with them, why she
thought she should be admitted free
also. We encountered two grown men
one day who had school children's
tickets. and who insisted that they
should be allowed admission on these
tickets since their children were un-
able to come. There were numbers of
people who explained that they just
wanted inside the gates for moment
to look around for friends. If we had
admitted 1ree everybody who sought
free admission why it would have been
just as we'll to open the gates to all.
Really, though" concluded Secretary
Fewell, I'VE are we'll pleased with the
attendance and the exhibits at the fair
this year and we feel that taken all in
all it was most successful"
Still in the Flying Game.
Ran into Aviator Lester e. Shealy Of
Charlotte at the county fair in Rock
Hill. Shealy is the birdman who was
in Yorkville with his plane July 4, a
year ago and who by the way, is one
Of the best Of the commercial flyers in
this country. He h ID his aeroplane at
the fair for the purpose Of taking to
ride such passengers as wanted to ride
although the horse races interfered
with his business somewhat because Of
the fact that both attractions couldn't
use the track at the same time. 1--WE
been in the flying game right along
ever since / was in Yorkville," said
Shealy. 81 am not getting rich at it;
because the average person in this
country is as dubious today about fly
ing as was he who ventured to ride
in a one lung Cadillac or Ford fifteen
or twenty years ago. They don't seem
safer than riding on train or in a
high powered automobile. Fifteen
years from now airships will be almost
as plentiful as Fords in this section.
Was down at the government aerial
station at Columbus, Ca, a few weeks
ago." the aviator went on to say, land
while there ] flew one of Uncle Sans
planes from Columbus to New York
city. 1t was a splendid trip, made
without accident an1 one that enjoy
ed greatly. On my Tay to New York
/ dropped down at Little Mountain in
Newberry county, my lo1e town, in
order to say howdy to my folks and
to get some gasoline and OIL" Asked
what he thought of the trip that Lieu
tenant Walter E. Hinton was now en-
gagged in making from New York City
to South America under the auspices
of the New York World, Shealy said:
81 doubt if Hinton will make it. II
you recall, he has already smashed the
plane he started in originally off the
Florida coast and he is now down II
Hayti, believe. When l was an aero
instructor during the World War, Hin
ton was one of my pupils and l wa'
never much impressed with him.
wish him luck, but I have my doubts
if this airman flying for the New Yorl
newspaper will have the honor of be
ing first TO fly from one continent t