Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-10-09
Arthur
Saws
BY BILLY Arthur

NOW come tne IdlrS-COunty
fairs and the State Fair-with
their spreads of needlepoint
and jams as well as carnivals
and hams.
The exhibits always promote
pride in county and in state,
and the blue ribbons as well
as the red encourage the ex-
hibitors rather than reward
them. However, over the years
Tar Heels have found humor
at our well-known annual
fairs.
There was the Salisbury
Herald editor who observed
the FOG pound hog of the
Wadesboro Messenger publish
er at the 1894 State Fai: and
said: If Mr.. Boylin is in the
habit of raising such hogs, he
had better stop the newspaper
business for that of a hog rails
err"
Al the Union COUNTY Fair
in 1900, the Monroe Enquirer
found Il milk COW which was
worked to the limit. The own
er "plowS the COW until about
noon, then bitches her up to
a wagon and carries a load of
wood to town, goes back home
and plows the old COW until
nearly night then drives her to
town with another load of
wood on which Is a bucket of
butter, the product OF yester-
days milking. AT night the COW
hustles for a living"
In 1886 the Wilson Mirror
editor complimcnted highly
accomplished yOung lady who
showed us a costly and most
beautifully embroidered skirt
which she assured us contain
cd +9,763 stitches
Then, he added: And her
neglected husband fastcnS his
SuSpcndCrs with piece OF
Irvine string, a long mai! and
enc regularly ordained but
ton"
The Raleigh Nc%s ard c..
server was moe concerned
with gambling on the midway
than anything else al the 1892
State Fair, and lad a rather
lengthy account of the court
actions when the hankypank
operators We're hailed in. One
defendant denied gyppIng a
patron in this manner:
He looked II me as If were
cheating. But looked right
back al him as 4: | wasn't"
ON down the midway are the
agricultural implement cxhib-
its accompanied by their testi-
monial literature The Ashe-
Vile Citizen founu such d bro
Churc in 1886. OF the Bum
ccmbc Clipper picw. MI. j. s.
says that a " G,GcTal thing he ,
can be heard blowing from ,
,nC-halt 10 thrcc-Cuartcr of a
mile. but since he bought a
Clipper he IS all right until
dinner time. and then he starts
home whistling AMI is anxious
TO get back to his pillow again"
And Merritt Sludcr honestly
rhymCd:
OF all the plowS ! ever tried.
The Clipper is .he best:
Tai! weeds beneath its wings
doth hide.
and briarS are iullcd TO rest. u
It's good for hill. It's good for II
plain; g.,
Or for the Doggy bottom. flat. :
And satisfaction gives the same -
No matter where it's at. 10 -
The Clipper outs ten inches
wide, 'd
From three to seven deep.
And leaves the turf not on its =
side.
But turns IT DER complete.
lis tightly strong and neatIyII
made
OF wood and castinks pure,
And is with varnish oyerlaid
To make il long endure.
The Dixie and tht Watt have1
gone
To every fertile lend:
But when The Clippers nameI
is known,
In Silence they will stand.
cannot peg, / do not steal;I
No one has taugh: me how:
But for this poem, | feel
That deserve a pIow."
He got it.
The next issue of the Citiz-
IN quoted Mr.. S.uder as say-
ng, The next time passed.
he Clipper foundry, Messrs
jirdwood and Mcclellan laidII
n my wagon ona of the bestlI
blows that ever scraped then
lbs of North Carolina"
Sometimes, however. testi-I
nonials backfire. A Henderson,
county exhibit extolling theII
mountain climate prompted al
Vag to write three letters to
he 1907 editor Of the Hender-
onville Hustler: