Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-09-29
CHILDRENSDAY
AT THE FAIR
DRAVSCROWDS
Additional Prizes Are Awarded
-Beautiful Cake Sold
For $500
gx La VERNE THOMAS.

loQay was SCnopl CHtl0feh uaE
at. the Sumter county fair.
This morning about 500 children
from different communities gathered
at the court house and after giving
cheers and singing school songs, went
to the fair grounds .on jackson St.
in the school trucks with banners
ard streamers flying.
Visitors at the fair have been inn
pressed with the fine agricultural
and community exhibits on display
there. A survey Of the exhibits re-
veals in the main tent in the first
booth to the right, The products Of
Pleasant Grove community A door
way is made Of an arch Of sugar
cane and cotton Sorghum, pumpkins,
canned goods, potted plants, water
melons, garden products and small
bales of cotton are attractively dis
played. An imitation electric sign
is made of letters spelling Pleasant
Grove pasted on silver paper with
rounds Of cane applied which re-
,semble electric bulbs.
Thafean.
This community will walk away
Saturday with check for 500 for
the best community exhibit. Thalesn
is spelled in letters Of cotton placed
on wooden background which, is
painted black, not with imported
paint, but with the home products Of
smoot and butter milk. In the cen
ter Of this booth is a pyramid Of
canned tomatoes, the property. Of
Mrs. T. VI. A. Finch. Fine smoked
hams, and other meats, canned goods
among which is corn canned on the
cobb, laundry soap, made by Mrs. j.
L. Glawson, peavine hay, flawerimg
plants, six varieties Of pasture
grasses, flour, graham an d
white, meal, grits, a whistbroom
made of knit weed, bales Of alfalfa
hay, oats, cane and a small dining
table with pine needle baskets, mats,
rolls, milk, butter and hens nest
placed underneath, compose the con-
tents. In all there are. 108 farm
products and 195 different kinds of
canned products displayed by Tha-
lean, all of which were produced
within four miles Of Americas ..
Concord.
Concord is written in letters made
Of popcorn on a red background. At
tractively displayed here are candies,
cakes, meats, eggs, nuts, mayhaws,
flowers, gourds, canned products,
tiny birds nests, garden and field
seed, all uniquely arranged. A hand
made Shawl over 100 years. old be-
longing to Mrs. Fannie Jones, is on
display in this ltooth. .s
Shiloh
Shiloh community won first prize
on a stalk Of cotton, and proudly
shows the quality ofscane, oats, to-
bacco, Roneinade brooms, colnbread,
graham and white biscuits, cakes
and other things that may be produc-
ed within seven miles of the city.
We Fl. Emmett & Sons display of
butter, eggs and milk is placed I'M
der the slogan. how we beat the
boll weavil." Flowerine peppers are
umd as decorations here. @ 'a
Plains.
Plains tells the world and Sumter
county in particular that bunch of
bananas has been grown at the
nurses home of the Wise Santa
rum, The main features Of this dis
play are bungalow made of ear
corn rooted with velvet beans, ,awhich
is. made to look home-like at night
with shaded rose lights. A rag doll
stands guard at the door of this field
product home. A handmade mahog-
any spoon, long staple and wool cot
ton, a clock with face, figures and
hands made Of wheat, corn and but
ter beans, damned fruits and vegeta-
bles, chestnuts, melons, large sweet
potatoes, honey and sacks of garden
seed are exhibited.
Club Girls.
The club girls exhibt their 5andi-
work in showing OF dresses, aprons,
caps, underwear, baskets Of straw
and large and small bags.
Only General Descriptions.
This is only general description,
as it is impossible TO name every
article and go into detail of all the
splendid community exhibits. Other
booths which will be described in to-
morFow's paper are those of Ander
sonville, Cutoff, New Era, Hunting
ton, Leslie, Cobb DeSoto. etc.
Mrs. John Ralston Cargill won the
first prize with which ID undoubtedly
the most unusual and beautiful cake
ever seen IN Americas. II has been
sold to Geo. n. Tulpiu for So 90.
4s 44a4s