The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1922-10-12
ANOTHER GOOD
FAIR PASSES
Even Rain Does Not Deter Crowds for
Last Day.

| The third annual community fair has
passed and from what we can learn of
its success it served the purpose Of fur
nishing "a splendid reason for another
one next year.
The first day was a good one, from
all standpoints- weather. crowd and
| exhibits. Prospects of the second day
were marred by lowering clouds which
| threaten continually, but never made
good on their threats until after supper
when quit a dOwnpOur occurred Sat
urday was moist atmospherically. but
had not the frigidity of the last day of
the previous year.
4 casual onlOoker could not accurate
| Iy gauge the magnitude of this fair.
/ One who took the time to visit all the
| exhibits. which We're scattered over
quite a large territory, found that there
was really lots to see and all of it worth
! seeing.
The onlOoker starting on the north
| side of Clinton street would have
| found a fine agricultural exhibit. The
| schools of surrounding territory went
/ to great pains 10 make "A commendable
| showing with group exhibits.
! Graves school house had pretty and
J substantial display, as did also Cayce,
( BOndurant, Stubbs. Beech Grove, Blue
/ Pond and Sylvan Shade. In this block
was also the very meritorious Mengel
Company's display.
! And the display in the woman's
-building, One might as well omit Ham
let i'm the play by that name as TO omit
worthy mention of that. Everything
dear TO the heart of the sex was on dis
pIay-many things we wot not Of
/ thingambobs, whosis and whatsis, bric-
a-brac; things in the culinary depart
ment dear also to Mister Man and his
appetite.
Il on the south side Of the street, for
nearly a blck, from Cumberland TO I'm
ion. was continuous display of poul-
try Nearly all breeds were represented,
the mammoth White Rocks the gorge
ousIy marked Black Minorcas. Lang
shans, beautifully barred Plymouth
Rocks, Brown and White Leghorns
Games-and many more that the mem
ory may not have elasticity TO retain
all were there. kings and queens oi
| their species. Turkeys, ducks and gees
| rounded out the big display
We always thought there were sever
al varieties of grasses, hay and thos'
| kind of things, but never knew ther'
were SO many until we beheld them b!
| the bale on the south side of the street
Cotton mammoth stalks magnificen
| bearers, multitudinous of boil. They
| too, were TO prove, along with the grass
| es, ur soil and climatic superiority.
\ Apples as fine as ever showed lus
| cious red to the Ozark sun and as larg
l as are famed by the warm Pacih
breezes of Washington and Oregon.
Il And hogs, Oh. boy Mountains of liv
II ing pork chops, lard and spare ribs
II Thoroughbred hogs, that for latitud
|! and longitude beat any hogs that any
body can raise anywhere.
The cattle display, like everything
else, was thorough. Clean looking cow
and calves, pedigreed bulls. were to b
seen on Jackson street from The Courl
er office to the Price house.
The sheep display was also in ev
i dence, and the peaceable and WOOL
II animals that furnish our winter
Il warmth were represented by some c
III the finest of their species.
II One hundred and ninety-f1ve exhibi
ors placed their wares in this year
III fair, and that is an earnest that grei
IL interest is taken in it, and that ii is. o
we inferred at the beginning. a splel
III did reason for the continuance of Il
III same.