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HISTORICAL SKE CHESTERFIEI f It might be said that the Chesterfield County Fair had is origin in the annual Boys' Corn Club exhibition at Chesterfield, that was first held in the fall of 1911 under the supervision and direction of Major W. J. Tiller, 'County Demonstration agent. So successful was the first exhibit by the boys' Corn Clubs that the fol' lowing year the then Mayor of the town of Chesterfield, L. H. Trotti, called a mass meeting of the citizens for the purpose of enlarging the corn i club exhibit. At the meeting it was I decided to hold a one-day stock, farm 6 and poultry show in connection with A' the Corn exhibit of the boys' clubs. JV This was done under the supervision 7 of such public-spirited men as L. H. Trotti, W. J. Tiller, C. L. Hunley and st ' ( B. J. Douglass. The show was a success, a large number of exhibits being brought out and many people were in attendance. Encouraged by the progress here xoiorc maae nna Deueving mm a County Fair would promote the agricultural interests of Chesterfield County, L. H. Trotti issued a call for a meeting to organize The Chesterfield County Fair Association. The meeting was a success and about three hundred and fifty dollars was paid in for stock. A charter was secured for the Fair Association, the stock being divided into shares of the par value of one dollar each. A unique feature of the Fair Association as incorporated is that no dividends ever earned were to be payable to stockholders but were to be held as a surplus and be expended from year to year to improve the County Fair. At the initial meeting after organization the following officers were elected, and have served ever since: President, L. H. Trotti; Vice-Presi' dent, W. J. Tiller; Secreary-Treasurer, C. L. Hunley. These officers at once assumed their duties and shortly thereafter the following Executive [ Committee was elected: L. H. Trotti, ^ J. A. Welsh and Emsley Armfield. These three to have entire charge of the County Fair. A suitable lease on a level sevenacre tract of land near the depot was secured and under the direction of President Trotti the grounds wer* enclosed with a substantial fence and the required exhibit buildings were erected. Secretary Hunley directed the advertising feature of the Fair and the publication of a handsome piemium list. The gates to the first Chesterfield County Fair were thrown open Wednesday, November 14, 1913, and for | three days the people of Chesterfield . county flocked to their first County Fair. To say that the people were pleased would be putting it mildly. Everyone came away praising the Fair and complimenting the officers in charge. The Jefferson brass band was present during the Fair and dispensed inspiring music. Before an immense crowd within the Fair Grounds on Thursday, Nov. 15th, the Hon. W. F. Stevenson dei liveri'H fln nil/lrncu tUat oawo?>o/1 Vw* 1 industrial development of Chesterfield County during the past 30 years. The speaker pointed with pride to the progress that has been made and predicted great achievements for the future. The inauguration of the Chesterfield County Fair was a landmark in the progress of the County. The first County Fair was a complete success from every standpoint. Along the financial end the Executive Coming mittee was able to pay off debts of j over seven hundred dollars that had ? been contracted in arranging for the 1 Fair. I The second annual Chesterfield { County Fair was held in November, 1 1914. When the clarion call to a ^Wworld in arms sounded in August of year and the sudden plunging into the greatest conflict in all history I by the nations of Europe and a world cataclysm seemed inevitable, when the entire financial structure of the nation seemed to be tottering, with the price of the South's great staple, "King Cotton," toppling downward far below the cost of production, f with panic everywhere, a large number of Fair organizations of South ! Carolina and other Southern States I cancelled their Fairs. It was the 1 j concensus of opinion in Chesterfield B'' County that our Fair would have to be cancelled for that year like the one over in Bennettsville. But the VI ofllcers of The Chesterfield County Fair determined that the County Fail should be held and in spite of many I adverse circumstances they went I ahead and prepared and pulled off a [l greater Fair than the exhibition tht V year before. A grent appeal was made to the people to forget thcil IJ . troubles, and they wore many, lor c I / few days and attend their Count> II < Fair, to mingle in social intereourst HJ with their friends and cheer up. Tht I County Fair in the fall of 1911 die B more than anything else to help tht II people to cast gloom behind them an< I! to have confidence in a bright futurt 1 that wus bound to be theirs and onlj v. awaited confidence on their part. || The only feature to mar the 191< ? County Fair was the tragic death o: I; aviator Frank J. Terrill. The offlceri i of the Fair brought an aeroplane foi the first time to Chesterfield Counts and daily flights were made by Avi ^Bilor Terrill! t<> the delight of tht U^H&bousands of people who for the firs V \ime had an opportunity to view i bh J-;r.an. The lust day of the Fair ITCH OF LD COUNTY FAI Friday, November 13, Neg^o Di was fatal to Mr. Terrell. While 1 ing directly south of the grounds c of the wings of his machine collapf and his by-plane dropped with a sit ening thud to theg round. Death v instantaneous. The aviator's you wife, a bride of only a few mont witnessed her husband's fall. j that loving hands could do was do for the bereaved and the good peo] of Chesterfield accompanied the s funeral party as tehy departed 1 Mrs. Terrell's home in Worcest Mass. The third Chesterfield County F was held in November, 1915. Pr perity had returned to the peop Cotton was bringing good prices or more, and the people were eager 1 the County Fair to be held. To s Ivcrtise the County Fair, among otl ways, Secretary Hunley conduct around the county on a 90-mile t; sixteen motor cars with 64 live-w boosters aboard. Short stops wt made at Ruby, Mt. Croghan, Paj land, Jefferson, McBee, Patrick a Cheraw. Billie Collin's band acco panied the "Boosters" and speed were made at every stop by memb< of the party, inviting the people Chesterfield County to attend t County Fair. In response to a wide demand t officers of the County Fair brou^ aviator Bud Cary to Chesterfield a he made beautiful, dare-devil fligl pvery day during the Fair. The Fi this year was the best held yet a the financial end was O. K. Afl the Fair, announcement was made Secretary Hunley that the Fair i not owe a dollar to anyone and tl there was a cash balance in t treasury. The fourth annual Chesterfu County Fair will be held Novemt 8, 9, 10 and 11, of this year. I? tensive preparations are being ma for this year's Fair to eclipse those held heretofore. Among t free attractions will be a woman w will make a descent from a hallo one mile in the air. The best car val company ever touring the Sot has been contracted with to furn the amusements which are of a hi order. No gambling will be allowi All premiums in the exhibit depa ment will be increased in numbi and amounts. All prizes will be payable in ca COURT APPROVES TORRENS LAW FOR1V The Supreme Court has una mously approved the form draft by the office of Attorney Gene Peeples for filing land under the cently enacted Torren's system iand tenue. The various blanks j bound in a pamphlet which compri: some .10 or more pages. They ! now with ttfe printers in Columl and Charle^ttn. KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL Health Is Worth Saving and So Chesterfield People Know How to Save It. Many Chesterfield people ta their lives in their hands by n< lectins the kidneys when they kn -hese organs need help. Weak k neys are responsible for a v amount of suffering and ill heal but there is no need to suffer nor remain in danger. Use Doan's K ney Pills?a remedy that has helj thounsands of kidney sufferers. The following statement leaves ground for doubt. Mrs. E. J. Wicker, King St., R nettsville, S. C., says: "1 had pa in my back all the time and in morning I was so lame and sore tl I could hardly get out of bed. 1 kidney secretions were irregular passage and I had other kidney < orders. Doan's Kidney Pills hel| me in eevry way." Price 50c, at all dealers. Do 3imply ask for a kidney remedy? Doan's Kidney Pills?the same t Mrs. Wicker had. Foster-Milbi Co., Ruffalo, N. Y. "I want Sheriff Earnhardt and (Intra '' aoi/1 n ~ n n?, uuiu n mini iu ruuceman ney at 2 o'clock yesterday morni "What's the trouble?" asked policeman. The man said, "Why, while I ^ away from home at work some fel went to my house, pushed open a v dow and tickeled my wife in the f with a corn stalk and you know t is no way to treat folks." Policeman Laney readily agr that it was a very poor way to tr people nnd he did what he could find the disturber of the peace, I his efTorts were unavailing.?Mon Enquirer. j On a table in a public house the south<yn part of Ireland is a g j case. Inside is a brick, and resl en the brick is a withered rose. % An American, who was getting r freshment there, asked the prop tor what the relic meant. "Do you see this scar?" asked ^ Irishman, lifting bis cap and show B an ugly gash just above his ear. r "It was th&t brick that made f scar that you see on me head he "What does the rose represer a asked the American. ' "The rose? Sure that came f * the grave of the man that threw V I brick." ' CHEST! ay. fCOUNT \11 >ne P Chesterfield, Tor ' er, November 8 ile. ice The fourth annual Count S. C, Nov. 8, 9, 10, 11, lgl6^ rip made to insure this year's Fail 're Prepare now to make your exl ?ned" cash prizes. No charges mad placed at least one day before $55.00 cash paid to the fou m To ihe farmer who make "4 ducts $25 00 will be paid; so $15 00. $10 00 and $5 00 resp ;er z Carnival jld ;er One of the best carnival c jXde has been contracted with to fu he ty hair. Chester Held will have on (N. C.) State Fair, the Fayette ni; and Florence Fairs. Nothing ith is? Chesterfield County people. ed. 1 Woman Drop 1S yyy parachute re! & w^|I^hP jlfair to a tai: ;:f Htk are worth idast " th, . _ _ fi'r * * T i',0_ P \ / V Z 11 l||J^|p i the Ft?. V^^cWV- - X A? ' ^OR SMOI h?? IIW/, K PROCESS % \ /' J'4P ^&r MAKmS! in VK Memim. - proouci ,is" W^\ - 7K LIGHTFU >o<| W^AV jfeEfc dh'ktUTSsoMe It 11 'fiii '' HBp n*?X_y PROCE ?S liii;/' | / Jut urn 25BHS?f,f|; / j Rj.ftEYHOt ^ ^ ^ || WlKSTOM the iSliS "' ! I Cigarette mm* 1with Pri a n 11 f! I ^f"T"te,( to I PrinceA11 bl,t hi iiDM'G.BURIjllWGiPiM AMD jiJ enioymen J CiGARHTT^i^OEACCO, coolness 1 answers wi thcMt in ,a8S Introducti tinir Prince Albert It told eeerywharm .? in loppy red boat. Se; tidy red trlHn tO tint. 10c; handtome pound ond i ' half-pound tin hunuJort and lODclCCO d that clever vryttal.platt pound . 1?*?1 humidor with tponee-moittcner OUl ct lltll top that httpt the tobacco in tuch c 11 a eplendid condition. IlillCSt 1H\ rorn R. i. Reynold* Tobacco Co., Winston-Solom, the _ F.RFIF.I.n Y FAIR South Carolina , 9, 10, 11,1916 y Fair will be held at Chesterfiek Preparations have already bee * the best that has ever been helc dibits and corr.oete for handsom e for exhibits but same must b the Fair opens. r best farmers in Chesterfield Count :s the best exhibit of his farm pre cond, third and fourth prizes ( ectively Company ^nmnnniPQ in th Tlniforl All W LlllV^U vj IcXIC rnish the amusements at the Cour : the same Carnival as the Raleigl ville, (N. C.) Fair, the Bennettsvill ; but the cleanest and the best fc No gambling allowed. s Out of Balloon man aeronaut will make a doubl drop out of a balloon one mile i 'his will be a thiiler. A man wf e high dive ninety-six feet in th ik of water. The free acts alon the price of admission to the rai hich is 25 cents for adults; chi twelve 15 cents; children unde jrmation address L. Hunley, Secretery. riipciprfioiJ 5 r VllVUiVI tiviu^ U v* PHI P. A. puts new joy ) is preparep | into the sport of <ersunderthe jj 1*1 . discovered in smoking I experiments to E the most,ide- X/OU may live to LToS be 110 and never id pipe smokers. I feel old enough to :ss patented vote, but it's cerv 30Tr i907i|;:|j tain-sure you'll not dsTobaccoCompamy know the joy and saum.nc.usa j contentment of a bite the tongue friendly old jimmy 77. 1 $ pipe or a hand rolled s unless you get on talking-terms nee Albert tobacco! es to you with a real reason for all the and satisfaction it offers. It is made by 1 process that removes bite and parch! smoke it long and hard without a come ince Albert has always been sold without >r premiums. We prefer to give quality! bert affords the keenest pipe and cigarette t! And that flavor and fragrance and is as good as that sounds. P. a. just + iiniV^p.QA/ r1t*mf*nr1 frtr bite, parch or kick-back! ion to Prince Albert isn't any harder walk into the nearest place that sells nd ask for "a supply of P. A." You pay le change, to be sure, but it's the cheer/estment you ever made 1 irALBERT N. C. Copyright 1916 by R. J. Reynold* Tobacco Co. We Are Still at The Old Stan< Paying The Top o Cotton a You remember when th ton yard, they would nc you drove first to us. still driving to us, for tl most for what they havi you goods, quality cons house in town?Dry Go ons, anything kept in a A CAR LOAD OF J> cheap as you can buy tl as long as you will. ' HURST-STREAT e PRESIDENT EXPECTS I SUFFRAGE TO WIN. | y Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 8.?Triumph for the woman suffrage cause "in a little while" was predicted by President Wilson here to-night in a )f speech before the National American Woman Suffrage association. The President in his address said* "Madame President, Ladies of the Association: "The astonishing thing about the movement which you represent is not tnai it has grown so slowly, but that it has grown so rapidly. Two generations ago, no doubt Madame PresiJS dent will agree with me in saying it, it was a handful of women who were 1- lighting this cause. Now it is a great multitude of women who are lighting it. And there are some interestp ing historical connections which I would like to ? tempt to point out to )j- you. One of he most striking facts about the history of the United States is that it was a lawyer's his tory. Almost all of the questions to which America addressed itself, say i a hundred years ago, were legal ques- , tions, were questions of method, not j questions of what you were going to , do with your government, but ques- j ^ tions of how you were going to . constitute your government ? how < you were going to balance the powers ] j | of the States and the federal govern- , ment, how you were going to balance , the claims of property against the , processes of liberty, how you were | C going to make your government up j ' so as to balance the parts against each other so that the legislature | would check the executive, and the ( executive the legislature, and the ; courts both of them put together. | The whole conception of government j which underlay it was the Newton- j ian thory of the universe. If you | pick up The Federalist, some parts , of it read like a treatise on astronomy | instead of a treatise on government. . They speak of the centrifugal and the centripetal forces, and locate the president somewhere in a rotating system. And the whole thing is a calculation of power and an adjustment of parts. _ "There was a time when nobody but a lawyer could know enough to rule the government of the United States, and a distinguished English publicist once remarked, speaking of the complexity of the American government, that it was no proof of the excellence of the American constitution that it had been successfully operated, because the American could run any constitution. But there have been a great many technical difficulties in running it. When Women Took a Hand. "And then something happened. A great question arose inthis country which, though complicated with legal elements, was at bottom a human question, and nothing but a question of humanity. That was th slavery question, and is it not significant that it was then, and then for the first time that women became prominent in politics in America? Not many women. Those prominent in that day are so few that you can almost name them in a brief catalogue, but nevertheless they began to play a part in writing, not only, but in public speech, which was a very novel part for women to play in America; and after the Civil War had settled some of what seemed to be th most difTi i cult questions of our system, the j life of the na on began not only to ' unfold, but to accumulate, j "Life in the United States was a ! I comparatively simple matter at the j lime of the Civil War. There was | none of that underground struggle I which is now so manifest to those who i I look only a little way beneath the I j surface. Stories such as Dr. Davis , has told to-night were uncommon in ' those simpler days. The pressure of j low wages, the agony of obscure and 1 unremunerated toil, did not exist in ' America in anything the same proportion that they exist now. And as ' our life has unfolded and accumu. lated, as the contacts of it have be| come hot, as the populations have I assembled in the cities andthe cool spaces of the country have been suppiemnted by the feverish urban areas, the whole nature of our political questions has been altcre^. They h ve ceased to be legal questions. 'I hey have more and more become f The Market for .nd Seed ' ere was a rented cot >t bid on your cotton if Well, the people are ^ hey know who pays e to sell, and will sell V idered, cheap as any ods, Groceries, Wag- 1 General Store. Have 1 CYPRESS SHINGLES ie pine, and they last ER COMPANY social questions, questions with regard to the relations of human beings to one another?not merely their legal relations, but their moral and spiritual relations to one another. Has Come With Power. ."And this has been most characteristic of American life of the last few decades and as these questions have assumed prater and greater prominence, the movement which this association represents has gathered cumulative force. So that, if anybody asks himself, 'What does this gathering force mean?' if he knows anything about the history of the country, he knows that it means that something has not only come to stay, but has come with conquering power. "I get a little impatient sometimes 41,.. .1: I ui/uut ciiv matuftaiuii ui ini' cnanneis and methods by which it is to prevail. It is goir.g to prevail, and that is a very superficial and ignorant view of it which attributes it to mere social unrest. It is not merely because the women are discontented. It is because the women have seen visions of duty and that is something which we not only cannot resist, but, if we be true Americans, we do not wish to resist. Because America took its origin in visions of the human spirit in aspirations for the deepest sort of liberty of the mind and of the mart and as visions of that sort come jp to the sight of those who are spiritually minded in America, America comes more and more into her birthright and into the perfection of ler development. "I have felt, as I sat here to-night the wholesome contagion of the occasion. Almost every other time that I t.Ver visited Atlantic City 1 came to light against somebody. 1 hardly know how to conduct myself when I lave not come to fight against anybody, but with somebody. 1 have rome to suggest, among other things, that when the forces of nature are steadily working and the tide is rising to meet the moon, you need not be afraid that it will not come to its llood. We feel the tide; we rejoice in the strength of it, and we shall not quarrel in the long run as to the method of it. Because, when you are working with masses of men and organized bodies of opinion, you have got to carry the organized body along. It is all vorv well t<> t-m? ahead and beckon but, after all, you have got to wait for them to follow. 1 have not come to ask you to be patient because you have been, but 1 have come to congratulate you that .here was a force behind you that will beyond any peradventurc be triumphant and for which you can afford a little while to wait." FAMILY AVOIDS SERIOUS SICKNESS By Being Constantly Supplied With Thedford's Black-Draught. McDuff, Va.?"I suffered for several years," says Mrs. J. B. Whittaker, ol this place, "with sick headache, and stomach trouble. Ton vnarc 1 rrrt O (rinn/1 4--. n II.V.IIU .UIU IMC IU \I V Thcdtord's Black-Draught, which 1 diet, and I found it to be the best family medicine for young and old. I keep Black-Draught on hand all the time now, and when my children feel a little bad, they ask me for a dose, and it does them more good than any medicine they ever tried. We never have a long spell of sickness in our family, since we commenced using Black-Draught." Thcdford's Black-Draught is purely vegetable, and has been found to regulate weak stomachs, aid digestion, relieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea, headache, sick stomach, and similar symptoms. It has been in constant use for more than 70 years, and has benefited more | than a million people. Your druggist sells and recommends mack-Draught. Price only 23c. Get a trackage to-day. N. c. 121 RUS-MY-TISNI Will cure your liheuipaf iwrn Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic, Sprains, bruises, Cuts and lurns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects ?5tc. Aniiseplie Anodyne, used internally and externally. Price 25c- A