The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-10-03
THIS YEARS FAIR WILL
PROVIDE PLENTY OF FUN
Opens With Marshalls Ball Monday Night
and There'll Be Something Doing For
Rest of The Week '

The Albcmarlc District Fair
ut Elizabeth City will be in
auguratcd this year with a
MarShalls' Ball in the Shrine
Hall Monday night. Oct. g and
from then on there will be
something doing hourly for
five big days and five nights.
The Marshnlls' Ball IL new
thing with Elizabeth city fairs, hut
then there are u lot Of new things
To be sprung NJ the fair here next
week. For one thing. the Fair man.
ngrnrnt has looked well after
amusement features and will have
u real bnnd to furnish music on the
fair grounds aud give popular con.
ccrta down town twice daily, nt noon
and nt night. The band IL Higgins
band, which has played many of the
biggest aud best fairs IN the South.
east. The hand also carries q ten
piece orchestra and features two
good soloisis, Miss Eva Shaffer'
Powell. Lyric soprano and Harry de
Gray. baritone.
In addition to The Higgins Band.
| for which u band stand has been
! provided IN front Of the grand stand
there will bc six free acts for the
amusement Df spectators. One of
them IL u real thriller: two motor
cyclists racing in u botiOmlcss bowl
Suspended thirty feet In the air. It's
the old mptOr,lrOm trick. except
that the bOwl.like track, on which
the cyclists race at almost u mile
u minute speed. is swung In midnir
and there IL no bottom to the bowl:
the cyclists have Ia keep gpin: like
mad or they would drop to Ger.
tain death thru the h"t'Omlcss bowl
| to the ground - feet below them.
IInshi and Oshi, two clever Jap
nnr,r jugglcrs and acrobais: Ray
mond aud Mason. trick bicyclists:
The great Cahill with n hnir.raiSing
rope and ladder act Don ,Mimael
with thrilling irapczr pcrfor-
nance. and Rodman and Dean,
aerial gymnnSs, will furnish tho
other free acts IN front Of the grand
stand twirc daily.
The midway amllrmcntS will he
furnished by H." Lyle Exposition
Shows aud The directors Of the Fair
have aSSlIIanrn that ID IL the clean.
rst aggregation Of midway shows
ever brought to Elizabeth City.
There. will bc eight shows. four
ridins devices aud 10 or 10 con
rrssiunS. OIr of The riding devices
resembles n giant caterpillar and
Is called the Caterpillar Ride.
Agricultural and Live Stock
Exhibits
I,ut the umGSrmrnts are only to
add life and gnicty Ia the Fair and
willie amilspmcnis have not. been
neglected, the greatest efforts have
been concentrated On the serious
side Of the Fair, tli" purpose Of
which Is To create here at Elizabeth
Ciiy nn exposition Of the ugricul-
4 tural resources anh rural life pro.
grrSs of Northeastern North Caro-
lima. The agricultural and livk
stock exhibits nj this years Fair
will u" the biggest and best. ever
shown here. 10y far. declares Sccrc.
iary Grover W. Falls who has been
working mp these exhibits for
several weeks. Mr. Falls has ha,l
the hearty cooperation of farm and
home demonstration agents In
several nearby counties. The cOun-
~ exhibits, community exhibits and
individual farms exhibits will bc
worth the prir" of admission Ia the
Fair, says SIR. Falls. Every inch
"f spa"r In the agricultural exhibit
building. In the live stock building
and poultry section promises to bc
taken space In the merchants and
manufacturers exhibit building has
been sold out for weeks.
Strings OF Fast Horses
For those Ia whom the lively
sport of horse racing at the Fair
makes The strongest appeal, there
will j." plenty of sport. While the
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