The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-09
FLAGS ARE FLYING

II you were among the Nl6lSJIS W
Richmond on Friday forenoon, you
would have noted that overnight the
old town had blossomed out in g |
blaze of color. And why, SEE you?
Because of the Fair, SEE we, this tell
ing the whole story Of the gala attire
in which the buildings are now robed.
You see, few trained decorators,
men who can climb ladders and tele-
graph poles, arrived in town early on
Wednesday afternoon, with carload
or so of flags, streamers, bunting, etc,
duly prepared to ornament and beau
tify in honor of the coming great
occasion.
The more you think of it the more
will you be impressed that this indeed
| is an occasion Warranting a bit OF
identifying of staid, old business thor
oughfares; also of residence streets
and private homes. And you may be
sure that every flag in Richmond will
be flying from Monday morning until
after the fair has passed into local his
| tory. And the coming fair promises to
be historic in this, it will matk the
beginning of series of fairs and fall
festivals in Wayne, the fame of which
is to spread abroad in the land until
Richmond, ''the beautiful and wealthy
little home city on the Whitewater,
shall become the Mecca toward which
thousands will journey in September
days.
A Permanent Institution
The central and logical idea animal
ing the promoters of the Wayne coun-
ty fair, is the establishment of a fair
in Richmond which shall become sat
| isfying, creditable and permanent in
| stitution. A fair having adequate
! space, spacious buildings, attractive
| surroundings and every needed item of
| equipment. Such enterprises a e not
! to be built in a day, nor in single
| year, but are never created at az until
! once we'll started. The fair of 1922 is
meant to be the inception of the COM
| ing continuous enterprise. Now, then,
| let's all pull together to put it across.
If We knew of any buster place right
now than the headquarters office OF
| the fair, or of any buster man than
| Secretary Hodge, we'd be glad TO say
so. But we Don't, fellow citizens, We
| don't. We had intended telling you
| that Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Smith call
ed on Secretary Hodge on Friday to
enter their prize chickens, and that
Miss Gray and Miss Black had filed
intentions to show pies and canned
goods and bread, while Grandma Clio
yer is intent on showing some of
| the finest patchwork quilts and fine
needle work But we throw up our
hands; the list is too long. And, any
/ way, you are to see for yourselves,
next week.
Country Banks Efficient
Agricultural communities are doing
their own financing, that is to say:
are moving their own crops with their
own money, this autumn, in a larger
way than in several years. In the lat
est federal reserve statement there
is no indication that the reserve banks
are being called on, preparatory to
financing the crop movement, although
prior to the war September usually
saw large shipments of currency from
the east. 1t is also a fact that during
the war the reserve banks financed the
harvest movement, straight through.
1t would appear, then, that farmers
are not now standing, hat in hand, ask
ing for help. They have credited facil-
ties in an enlarged measure near
home. Our own Richmond and Wayne
county banks are supplying all the cur
rency locally required by the farmer,
and the Wayne county banks, in gener-
al, are doing their full share in this
= respect. National and state banks are
: now abundantly supplied with credit
facilities
, Loans of the reserve system total
; less than one third of the aggregate a
year ago and the reserve position has
, risen from 66A to rs 1-3 per cent.
! For these reasons the financial mark
! cts are taking for granted an abund-
ance of credit and easy money to the
end of the year This expectations is
one Of the large factors in the support
OF prices in the securities markets.
Pigs Going to Market.
The competition between the various
departments of the Ohio college of ag-
riculture to make a good showing at
: the state fair, resulted in some very
: fine displays. One that attracted con-
: siderable attention was a wooden pig
that went to market. This was a run
ming, climbing and diving pig that
travelled over hills, built of sod and
to a scale which accurately showed all
> the ups and downs of the hog market
in the past ten years. Every time the
pig reached a crest and plunged il
meant bad break in the market, and
5 there were road signs to show the
: cause. The signs almost invariably
/ indicated that the break was caused
by everybody trying TO sell at the same
] time
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