The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-30
WEST SPRINGS
FAIR WAS. A +.
GRAND SUCCESS


On = beautiful day, speeding over
"a good road, in a car full Of good
lookine ladies, on the way to West
springs, that beautiful story J. p
kennedv wrote many years ago. call.
z ed Horse Shoe Robinson, came to INV
y mindi and it occurred to me that
many people would mingle with, to-
Gay we're OF the identical stock Of
y those Ia revolutionary heroes.
h-sthere is anything this section
; should sfeel proud Of, it certainly is
Y our genuine American stock; speak
wing goodaold United States language.
: and believing in our country and her
y institutions.
1t was a wonderful day, an excel,
: lent fair and fine crowd of people
= who assembled at West Springs
y school, house for community fair.
y but is,1was, more like a county fair.
y judging by the quantity and excellenI
Scy Of the sexhibits.
Those. people came together with
Sthe samesspirit Of unanimity and de.
= Termination Of purpose that their
y anceStors displayed on revolutionary
y battle fields; and have ever since on
y every occasion rallied to the colors of
&their country; they all came on COM
8 mon,s9ropnd, with no room for biz
rs and little us, but came determined
sito make every one have a good time
"and they, did; there were no stranp.
y ers there, bu- all one people, just like
"a great big family about a county in
s'.e ~
There were many pleasant faced
5, ,grandrnothers there, with indulgent
Ssons land daughters hanging around,
sand multitude Of grand children
sSscampering everywhere; there were
Sgrandfathers, too, with a broad smile
sand afsincere handshake for every.
Sbody. !,
And young folks, well, can't say
aso much for the young men, except
sthey were a good type of animal,
swell dressed, with good wholesome
manners, and willing to do anything
&needful to make the occasion pleas
rSant.
- But the young ladies; they were
Ejust beautiful, and in my eye they
were the whole show; good looking
handsomely gowned, accomplished
workers, modest and correct man.
a'ners, and intellectually refined, can
Nyou think Of anything else to make a
aman wish he was 81?
The program was opened BY Prof.
'.Counts, who acted as master of cere-
>monies, and called on the multitude
to sing our national hymn. He then
scslled on Rev. Blackman to ask for
divine blessings, after which some
time was spent in music.
Next was very amusing and edu-
cational play presented by the young
folks, which represented tho poultry
---afneac1a Ana asxEas gsunostlys What dif,
\ ferent hFssdi from the yards OF vari-
ous neiehborss had to say about their
condition In life, when visiting one Of
their neighbors- the young folks TAX
ing q part il this sleit showed con-
siderable knowledge of chickendom
and much ability in presenting that
knowledge to the people.
Soon after this play there went fly
ing through the assemblage, glorious
news, "Dinner", bountiful enough for
Coxy's Army and good enough for the
most select; good old home raised
home-cooked, and full of Dixie sun
shine; It was passed around by every
body, and'when they found that I, like
Paul, ute no meat, they looked at me
right good and saw why; I had a
pie mouth and every one felt it was
up to them to fill it, and they did by