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OKHJ1N OF COT NT Y FA IKK | American Fairs Traces Ancestry t?> Middle of Klghteehth Century JL*?. .... -u ? [ In J 810, one fair; in W-ft, tvv> j thousand fair*. In 1810, an attendance of about, five thousand; in 1925 &n estimated ' attendance ? of a pprox imately twenty five million. These figure*, in a nutshell, te^l ; ?the story jjf the mar 've!"Us. growth the American fair from the humblest j beginning to its present day status j a* an important factor in agricultural j t (location. They are of especial in- j terest here in view of the approach- j ing Kprshaw county fair which will bo held November IK, 1<>, 20. While the fair has been taken hold of tremendously in the United States, it is not native* to this country. Fairs run back to ancient days, but in the olden times they were more after the manner of a bazaar or market, only held with less frequency, very much like the fairs in vogue in Germany and other Kuropean countries today, The American fair traces its ancestry back only to about the middle of the IHth century, when a group of pro gressive farmers in the Teen River valley in northeastern liritain joined to bring their livestock together for comparison. It has been termed the first agricultural fair and was the model after which were patterned the hundreds of country fairs both here anil in England. Klkanah Watson of New York has j been credited with being the father | of the American fair. In 1815 Wat- j son organized ,tWo agricultural so- I ciety of Albany, N. Y., and proceed- | ed to establish fairs and cattle shows ' in the neighboring counties. In 181'.), due mainly to his influence the New York legislature appropriated ten thousand dollars a year for nix years for premiums on agricultural and home manufactured product". In 1832 the state agricultural society was -founded and work started in east ern states. Hut while Watson was busy converting farmers and legisla tors to the value of fairs, the Colum- , bia Agricultural Society held what is believed to be the first exhibition of its kind in Washington. P. in 1810. Pittsfield, Mass., shortly thereafter: inaugurated regular agricultural ex hibits and from these fir^t small ef forts grew up our system of com munity, bounty, state, district, na tional and international fairs which cover practically every section of the country. The development <>f the fairs in the United States has been one of normal growth and expansion, according to I S. K. (luard, director of the Sears- , Roebuck Agricultural Foundation and j one of the leading exponent- of agn- ; cultural exhibits in America. The sue i ressful contestants in a local fair naturally wished to compare his prod ucts with those of winners in other local fairs. That was how the county fair came to be. The state fair with >ts wider appeal was the next logical j step, and these eountv wmnei s went' * 1 to settle disputes <>n the relative j merits of their prixluet.-. Kventually j this led to competition between states. I culminating first in the interstate! fair, iatei in the national --how and, f i r a 1 ! \ ;n the intei ; iUt t ional exhibit-.' Mary a rational champion grain j j?rowe' or ;ve.-to<k bteeder today can ';an -uecess to Millie little lioilOl j * aptui ed at 'he county fair year- ago. i Th. ippealif.j; thirg about the j \ fa;r the ? pportunif \ ;t of ft:- tie fatmer ?ompaie hi> own ?jkerk with that ot h.- r.eighboi- and - . ::.-p:ie- in him a healthy ambition *. j . :iip:?\f him-eif and h - work, -t.it< ?- M . tiuard Within 'a-> dis ?an. i ..f h;- home, he i an i\am.n ? Dc (><-'. animal-, gtain-. Hint- and' \ a h'.i poultry and hop.e\ at;d ?? \ r, i wht rr hr mark'. L:kcw:sp h:* wife ran pit ht*? ! need'ework. hei baking and pastry,' her tunned fruits and vegetables ] :.g.?::.-t '.hat of other ! .? m women and >n/;, th? " hr:'l a* 1 : ? ward that ( ,n-.< - ' \ !?*;.. \ 1 t.-get he 1 the jur'.'r . ? ,n j .i*<- friendly com et. t : ? :..r. : .s b> ? : < .-por.s.b'e f o: 'i ?. I . i ta r.". j >i olj: ?. ? - ? ' v' ' ? i v. r.tury. h ?- ? . i > - . ! r.e ? ? ? i vi ? .it oi i . \ .h!u>- r ' .? ??? .mp'.onu r.t ar 1 ? . pm<- .. .. v - '.rat are part, ef a.. I hr better f.iir - or.e of the nio-t t -mtr.endab >? fea ture-, a. ? .rding t Mr. (iua rd State ?? r.d f i*d era . ? r.nu : . vhibi* ? bi ng home *. ^r..w i r-k' h.- ;..k;vk'> n ?? , r ?i nv. t a . \ a ltd < ft' \. .i ? i - i , : fur - r. ? ng.- and .at* - i . ! ^ .J. . . . ,?i \ w o: k d ;<?< t ? f ? , ? ;' eountlj fe Four hundre : ? : < w ?.?. a. ? *.'.?> ? ffect ii ( aiifoi: a, .Jui\ 21. The oldest iooomoti\ e- : r>w ir. e\ i.-tence are "Puffing Bully" and "Urylan Dilly," built about 1 1 2 h\ Foster and Hackworth of Friglard A marrie<l woman of 21 in Southern Khodeaia may vot? if her husband can *ign his name and write fifty word* in the Enfliah language. MILITIA PROTECTS NK<;KO A*He>iHe IVople InmVied at Verdict of Not (luilty A-hevi?!e, N. C,, Nov, 7. Two | hours after a Huncombe county ; superior court jury had found lYeston Neelyv negro, n<(>i guilty of a chargo of criminally attacking a West A*he vilN- while woman, and troops who had been guarding him during the trial wen- diMujsKeji, the militia was again ordered to report to the arm ory. Thin action was caused when officials expressed a fear of race trouble here tonight. The troops are being held in readiness and it was raid would be placed on the streets with report of any impending clash. Authorities heard later in the after noon that threats had been made against Charles Moxley, eafe pro prietor, for whom Neely had been working and who was one of the de fendant's witnesses but who did not take the stand. Mrs. Moxley and several employes 6f the establishment went on the witness stand in the negro's behalf and it was claimed that principally through their evidence in which it was said an alibi for the negro was estab lished, thei negro was freed. Indignation with the verdict of the jury was expressed in many quarters tonight, officials learned, and it was decided that the troops who were called out for the trial should hi* kept on duty tonight in view of the heavy j pedestrian street traffic on. Satur- j days. 1 Special police officers and plain clothes men were stationed on every! [street car in the city tonight and , precautionary measures were being taken to keep crowds moving and foi ! strict street policing; Neely/ following the verdict, was surrounded by three squads of sol diers and carried to an automobile i while the hundreds of spectators in the court rooms were prevented from leaving the building until the negro and his guard were safely out of tru sty. i UcporL* tonight were that Neely j ! had crossed the South Carolina stat>* j I line and was safely on his way 'to hi - j former home in I. aniens, S. Solicitor J. Kd Swain announced this afternoon that ?!.'? members of a mob which stormed the Buncombj I county jail on September 19 in an j attempt to take Alvin Mansel, negro, I therefrom will be placed on trial I Monday. Mansel was convicted Wed I nesday on a charge of criminally at ; tacking a white wbnian and sentenced I to he electrocuted Januarv l'?, I SCRAPS AND FACTS Interesting Notes (lathered From ; Many S?iurce*. 1 I KaiM'i Wilhelm had a pa pel weight or: his desk in Berlin that had been made from a -ton** brdken from the very summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the h ig he> t peak in Afriea. Bumbh bet - 'aie the chief ngrcnts in ii oss pollinat ing rod clover, the honey bee- playing only a very small part. 1 Ahol.o, production from the sap of the|Nipa palm in North Borneo has possibilities of supplying the tropic-. | with a motor fuel. I One loaf of bread a week was the allowance of nine-year-old Michael Faraday, from the Government of Kngland at the time of the corn fam ine of 1 SOI The debtor in India i- so honest that he pays not only hi- own debts hut also those of his father, brother j ..nd uthui relatives. j Twe'\< \ear-o!d S\m-- fa:m lx>v- ! nui-t un .it fout the morning! to tut gias- with a -evthe :n the, orchard, fo: the.r anv-. Dr. Howard A Kel'y, ?f Bahsmore, prrdtct* That delicate rieetrie needles that part the tis-ues before they touch 'hem will soon replace many of thi -.(']>? .- row used by surgeons. Thi hra\.e.?t -hurt shower on rec <?! ?i or: the Isthniu- of I'an ! a ma iVrto Hello. May 1, when J i7 ?? h? - >f rail. :: t h r^i ' in 1 nu t ? - TV i - :nj>< , ,?met. w huh ?n.ik. - p.. iiar.ee t\ five and ? ? * h . i . : \r.r-. - large y made up of a-b"'. nii'M'X'ilr .i 1 1 ? i t .Hrh?n, two of) :h? ma. i ? -titurnt- f ?ut "mobile j t \ ?).'( :i - ! n -aue:-kiaut day ' .?? Spring , M;r.:.i Mita. \ er.ti < :: ton- of j ?jt n" kraut wdc . on-umed h> the! ' -Vu-and- ? t p ? r - o r. - w - attended' ? ? ? ? abbag< f f st iva .. It w.t- \ robab!\ \\ Ji-ssnp.t builder of the f r-t author 7.ed public | lw ,iv .!.?? in I vol. who gave the ' wor d : he standard ra..road gauge of J 1 ? ? vi r feet eight and one-half inches.] Profe<-or F.llerman. of the I'ni ver^y of Copenhagen. recently died I- a result of anthrax contracted from a shaving brush made in China. The private acquarium of the Duke l of Bedford harbors a Kuropean cat fish, which though more than 50 year* oM show* n? sign of weakne**. I THE SCHOOL HONOR ROLL THom* Wh? Wmtp 1'roficient in Their Studies During October Grade 1 A Minnie Sue Hruce, Lil lian Davj*, Kuth Evans,' Albertus Shaler, Nancy Thompson Watt*, Joan Wilson, Hobby Mayre, I^ylcs Munn, Jack Mogulescu, Harold Smith, Andrew Whitakcr, Isaac Pitts, Sidney Kirkland. Grade 1 - 1? --Hi! He Nettles, Leo Sny Grade 2-A? Sarah Bissell, Sadie Frietag, Elizabeth Goodale, Alma Hunter, Emily Shannon, Emily Sheorn, Lena Stevenson, Thelma Stokes, Edna Strak, Helen Tinda!, Jack Hrown, Everett Goodale, Murray Graham, Jack Halsall, L. S: Mayer, Raymond Moore, McKain Richards, Robert Shaw. Grade 2-B ? Marion. Smith, Dorothy Ivowis, Vfda Shivar, Clyde Brown, Charlie McCaskill. Grade U-A ? Katherinc Brayshaw, Mary Burnet, Ruth DeLoache, Char lotte IJuBose, Annie Kelly, Ruth Moseley, Estelle Myers, Frances Me-. Leod, Dorothy VanLandingham, Mary Waters, George Brunson, Jerome Hoffcr, Doris Houser, Everett Mont gomery, Roland Moore, Billy Mose ley, J. A. Hast. Grade ii-B Eleanor Hopkins. Grade 4-A -James Clyburn, Harvey Davis, Cecil McCaskill, Fletcher Moon-, .Jr., William Moore, Hamilton Osborne, Alvin Sanders Luther Shaw, William Thompson, Mary Lee Blake i i i ney, Mary Ellen Kirkland, Go! da Shirley, Lorine Strak. Grade fi- A? -Sarah Kirkland, Reub en Pitts, Nancy Brown, Katherine Kennedy, Joseph Lang, Samuel Mc Caskill, Meta Mogulescu, Virginia Drawdy, Elizabeth Gardner, Jack Boyd. Grade 5- B ? Grace Love. Grade (5- A ? Grayson Shaw, Grace Robinson, Margaret Goodale, Alice DePass, Marie Haile, Emily Goodalo. Grade 7- A ? Emily Pitts, Elizabeth Zemp, Willie Haile, Elizabeth Mc I Caskill, Lenota Rhame, Pearl Welch, j Grade T- 15 ? Isla Mae Rhoden. i Grade 8-A ? Duncan Lang, Rochcllo I Sheorn, Robert Kennedy, Frederic Graham. Grade 8-B ? Betty Cureton, Caroline Richardson, Catherine Boykin. i Grade 'J-A?rMary Boykin, Elmer ! Watts. . Grade i>-B ? Evelyn Bruce, Ellen j Stewart, Virginia Haile, Molly Black I well, Dotty Zemp, George Jenkins. I Grade 10 ? Margaret Rast, Willie 1 Porter, Louise Jennings, Louis Lang, | Moultrie Burns, Gertrude Zemp, ' Aileen Fundenburk, Carolyn Heyman, Thomas Hrown, Robert Davis, i Grade 10-B ? John Richardson, j Grade 1 1 - A ? Carolyn Wooten, 1 Maud Dabney. Jenielle Rabon, Susie j Watkins, Fay Kirkland, Margaret De Loache. Grade 11-B- -Charles Lorick, Clark son Rhame, Margaret Billings, Mary Cureton, Sarah DePass, Jumelle Haile, Martha Singleton, Harriet Whitaker. Sandow, Strong Man, Is Dead I ^ast month, in London, England, Kugene Sandow over whom a prior n^t' wont mad and who became "Pro fessor of Scientific and Physical Ex ercise to King Cieorge," died from in juries received .sometime ago when he lifted an automobile from a ditch following ;? r-1 accident. Sandow v. ;ts world famous in his day and although he did not perform as spectacularly as the late Sigmund : Breithart who easily hit iron in two, ! Sandow was the synonym of abound ing physical strength. Some of his feats, as recalled h\ Klorenz Zeig field, who brought him to the United State.*, follows: Me supported thir ty two people on his hack, performed with dumb bei! ba?k?*ts, each con taming a man. bent backward and lifted a horse over his head, lifted large men on the palm of his hand to ;< table and could teni three packs >f card* :n two. The strong man was b?>! n in 1867 and the point in ail the recitals above ;* found in the -tati-mer.: that "as a child he was a weakling." At the iige of ten, his father took him to Home. The statue* of the perfect men which h?- saw these inspired him to make h > b??d\ pet fee:. In later life, he - s a* .1 model f ? ? r a noted K:vncn si u.ptor. I por. jeturning to (ic:man\ from Italy, with his father, he commenced th?> study of anatomy Hud devoted h.* time to the building up ( f hi* muscles by scientific meth od- Hi* father, intending him for the priesthood, was not pleaced at his rrmarkable success and cut off his! allowance, which cau?ed him to join! a emu-. Sandow. however, was an inspired murr. He had an ideal, and the will to follow it wherever it led. He made a success of his undertaking, bring ing to m frail body phenomenal strength. His achievement should inspire others to overcome obstacles wherever and whatever they may be. ? Monroe Rnquirer. CHAPMAN LOSES APPEAL NoloriouH Bandit and (iunmun Tu Die In Electric Chair Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 5.- -Gerald ('hupman, notorious bandit, lost hK fight for his life today when the staty supremo court in a decision handed down hero held that there was no error in the decision of the lower court convicting him of the murder | of a policeman in New Britain, Octo ber 12, 1U24. The date of Chapman's execution in the state's prison at Wether.sfield has been set for Decern- j ber 3. Chapman was a pal of "Dutch" Anderson, bandit, who was shot and killed in Muskegon, Mich., last Sat urday in a pistol duel with a detective. Chapman was convicted in superior court in Hartford last spring and wns sentenced to be hanged in June. An appeal was taken to the higher court and a reprieve was granted by Gov. John II. Trumbull pending action on the appeal. Arguments on the appeal were heard by the supreme court of errors at the October session in Hartford and the decision, written by Chief Justieo Wheeler, was filed today. Patrolman James Skelly of the New Britain police department was killed when he and two other officers sur prised Chapman attempting to Iblow a safe in a department store in that city. A nation-wide hunt for Jhe bandit followed and he was arrested in Mun.cie, Ind., last January 18. ? ' ' ? /, ' " i Death of Mr. Ray. Westville, S. C., Nov. 12.? H. J. Bay, aged 02, well known and re spected citizen and farmer of the Westville section, ddeihanb shrdlu m Westville section, died Monday after noon of last week after a lingering illness. He was a son of the late Neil Hay. In addition to his widow, Mrs. Kate Kay, he leaves surviving him six sons, Huey, Linder, Arthur, , Sammie, Er nest and Boykin Ray, and two girls, Lillie and Minnie Ray. He also leaves several brothers and sisters surviving him. After funeral services conducted by P. E. Blackmon and W. D. Williams he was laid to rest at Bethany church nit Westville. Mr. Ray was a member* of Pine Grove church. He leaves a host of friends to sympathize with the sorrowing family and to mourn with them in this sad hour. Cov. Death of Little Boy. Louie Kduerd, aged three years und seven months, son of Mr. und Mrs. L. M. King, died at their home on John son street, October 28, after only five days illness, and was bui itd in Laurel Hill cemetery the same afternoon. 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