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Troup County’s
Wednesday
Great Fair Will Open On Next
Morning with Everything in Readiness
PREPARATIONS GOING
FORWARD WITH A VIM
PROMISING FINE RESULTS
RACE TRACK COMPLETED
All the Important Buildings Practically
Completed; Installation of Exhibits
Monday and Tuesday. Great Midway.
DESERVES SUPPORT FOR ITS MERIT AND
FOR WHAT ITS PERPETUATION WILL MEAN
The transformation of an isolated 30 acres of land from an ordinary
otton field to a settlement of hustling workmen, exhibition buildings, a
magnificent race track and grandstands, is the first part of the work
«f the Troup County Fair Associatioon, which is going to stir up such an
interest in agricultural activity as to spread great benefits to the country
in this section for miles around.
Up to the present writing, the Association has been a success from
athe very start, and only a series of rainy days can blight the fair, which
5s going to be the biggest thing that Troup county has ever had in this
line.
Although there remains a good deal of work to be done yet on the
grounds, the agricultural building, the poultry building, the grand stand,
the stables, the judges stands and ticket office have been completed and
it only remains to put a good surface on the track to make it one of the
PRES. WILSON PASSED
THROUGH LAGRANGE
LAST SUNDAY NIGHT
finest race courses in the state.-
HAS BEEN WELL ADVERTISED.
People for miles and miles around
:are going to come to the Troup Coun
ty Fair. They are coming because
never before has a project launched
in this section had such a tremendous
volume of good advertising.
Not only has the Reporter given
columns and columns of space to the
undertaking, but automobiles decorat
ed with flying colors have traversed
miles of territory boosting the fair
and telling everyone of the wonder
ful possibilities of this county.
Thousands of pamphlets and circu
lar letters have been mailed out by
the Fair Association within the last
few weeks and fifteen thousands 8
page newspapers were printed and
papers, in Newnan, Carrollton, Man
chester, Roanoke, LaFayette and
West Point have sent these out as
supplements to their regular editions,
thus placing the paper in 15,000
homes, where it was read by twice as
many people.
Undoubtedly there will be the
largest crowd in LaGrange during the
fair ever before seen in this city.
ATTRACTIONS WELL WORTH
SEEING.
The people in the near vacinity of
LaGrange can well afford to spend
the money necessary to take in the
fair for the attractions here will be
practically the same as seen at the
State Fairs and larger exhibitions.
The Fair Association has gone to a
great expense to book the very best
attractions for LaGrange and there
are going to'be things here worth
while.
The flying machine, baloon, horse
races' and midway shows are sure
to bfc great attractions.
MANY EXHIBITS.
Exhibits are pouring from every
direction and it is evident that at
this early stage there will be dif
ficulty in securing-accomodations for
all the exhibits.
‘ The poultry department has ac-
cbmodit’iori-"for -li.'fe'ihundi'je.d chickens'
i
and Superintendent Key, of the
poultry department, says he will have
difficulty in accomodating all of the
entries in his iine.
Besides the poultry, there will be
horses, colts, hogs, cows and every
kind of domestic farm animal on ex
hibition. Agricultural machinery
will be shown and the products of
the farm will be representative of
Troup soil.
PROBLEM OF HANDLING
CROWDS.
The most obstinate problem, that
the Troup County Association has in
ti, vred in the staging of the big event,
is the handling of the enormous
crowds that vill swarm in during the
days of the fail’. On account of a
lack of proper hotel accon odations,
it has been a serious problem for
consideration. However everything
possible will be done to take care of
the crowds and the LaGrange spirit,
which was so much in evidence dur
ing the Press Convention here, will
not permit any visitors to be turned
into the streets.
Automobiles, hacks, buggies, wa
gons and every servicable vehicle will
be hired for the conveyance of the
crowds to and from the grounds and
only a reasonable charge will be made
for the service.
TICKETS ON SALE.
Season and single entrance tickets
are on sale in LaGrange, beginning
with Saturday at the Bradfield Drug
Company, Dozier’s Pharmacy, Clark’s
Book Store and the City Drug Com
pany.
These are the only four places in
town where the tickets can be bought,
but it is going to be advisable for all
who can, to buy their tickets in town
before they go out to the fair grounds.
Single admission tickets will be
50 cents each. Children’s half tick
ets 25 cents each, and season tickets
(not transferable and carrying name
of purchaser on ticket) will be sold
for $1.50 and entitle holder to en
trance for the four days. If the sea
son ticket is presented for use by
anyone save the one w hose name ap
pears on the ticket, it will be taken
up and destroyed by the gate keeper.
MAGNIFICENT
ENDORSEMENT
Letters and Telegrams Come From
All Parts of the Territory Of-
,ferring Help and Praising
Proposition. ... , .
Since the announcement through
the columns of the Reporter of last
week telling of the plans for the
Panama Highway Development As
sociation, which it is proposed to or
ganize on the night of November the
6th, at a banquet to be held at the
Elmrose hotel, Secretary Clarke has
been flooded with letters of endorse
ment of the proposition, and the
stenographic force of the office of
the Chamber of Commerce, already
heavily taxed, has been swamped with
the work of handling the correspon
dence incident to the matter.
Almost before the Reporter had
reached all its subscribers, Editor
Perry had received a telegram from
the Industrial Index, of Columbus,
asking for the cut used in last week’s
issue of the Reporter, showing the
Panama Highway Development As
sociation territory, and in a letter
which followed, Editor Walter J.
Woodall stated he expected this week
to make a feature article of the plans
of the proposed development work. He
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WORK BEGUN
ON GAS PLANT
LaGrange People Will Burn Gas the
Early Part of February, Ac
cording to the Construc
tion Engineers.
That LaGrange will soon realize
the benefits of an efficient gas plant
service, is encouragingly indicated by
the vigorous manner in which, the
workmen who have already arrived
in LaGrange are pushing the con-
construction of the buildings deter
mined to carry out their plans of
having the plant completed within
three months from now.
The buildings and the gas reser
voir will be located on a lot adjoining
the electric light plant and much of
the excavation work has been done.
The main building will have a
I dimension of 30 by 28 by 30, will be
rectangular in shape and will be con
structed entirely of concrete and
steel.
The manufacturing aparatus, which
will be furnished by the Gas En
gineering Company, of Trenton, N.
J., will be modern in every way and
will have a capacity of 150,000 cubic
feet of gas per 24 hours.
The reservoir, which will be located
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$10,000 Given
Southern College
In the will of the late Miss Sarah
Render, provision is .made for an en
dowment of a third of her estate ti
the Southern Female college of this
city.
Although it is as yet not known
the exact amount of the will, it is
conservatively estimated that her
estate is worth at least thirty thous
and dollars.
This will mean that the Southern
college is to have an endowment fund
of $10,000.
Miss Render’s will is characteris
tic of her long and noble life. She
was a consistent member of the first
Baptist church of this city for many
years and almost until the day of her
death she took great interest in the
work of the church and of the college,
which is a Baptist institution.
Her life is a noble example of the
citizenship of LaGrange, and no
doubt it will remain a great influence
for the good among those who knew
her and who were associated with her
in her church work.
AUTOMOBILE WRECK LAST
SUNDAY.
The Train Passes through
Without Stopping and
Patriotic Citizens
Badly Disap
pointed.
A group of patriotic citizens were
sorely disappointed last Sunday
night, when after gathering at the
A. & W. P. depot with the expecta
tion of seeing President Wilson and
his distinguished attendants, who
were on their way to Mobile, Ala., the
special train on which the party was
traveling sailed through the city with
only an impudent whistle to greet the
well meaning crowd.
The train was dimly lighted and the
blurred mass of passing windows
made it impossible to distinguish any
of the distinguished.
However there was some satisfac
tion in the knowledge that “We
mighty near saw him!” and some
even gave way to their imagination
enough to believe they saw the presi
dent. But the only animate object
on the passing vision was the bald
cranium of a negro porter, who must
have anticipated the crowd and had
thrust his head out to be included
among the list of celebrities.
President and Mrs. Wilson were on
their way to Mobile, Ala., where they
are to be present at the meeting of
The Southern Commercial Congress.
They were accompanied by several
distinguished white house officials
and a delegation of prominent news
paper men from Alabama and Louis-
ianna met the party in Atlanta and
traveled with them to their destina-
PUBLIC MEETING ON SALOON QUESTION
MON. NIGHT, 8 O’CLOCK, AT COURT HOUSE
A public meeting of citizens will be held Monday night, No
vember 3, at 8 o’clock at the court house, for discussion of the
subject of licensing beer saloons in LaGrange.
Every citizen is cordially invited to attend. This invitation
includes the women of LaGrange who feel an interest and re
sponsibility in this matter, as well as the men.
There will be no frantic urging or special pleading upon peo
ple to come out. Neither will there be any extraneous enter
tainment as an added inducement—just the one and only burning
issue, in which every citizen has a vital and direct interest, wheth
er it is realized as yet or not.
Each person will decide the matter for himself. The move
ment will stand or fall—not upon its merits, which are un
questionable—but upon our merits as a people, upon our manner
of meeting this very real responsibility
President’s Cup
Given by Hudson
Announcement is herewith made
that the president cup, to be given to
the one individual having the largest
number of single entries at the fair is
to be given by Mr. J. D. Hudson, of
the Hudson Hardware Company. The
cup will be on exhibition at the
store of the company on Main street
after Monday.
The action of Mr. Hudson is taken
on account of the illness of Mr. E.
B. Clark, who has been too sick to
give the fair any attention, and who
will be confined to his bed during
the progress of the fair.
The cup will be a very handsome
affair and shows how liberal is this
enterprising hardware company,
whose head is vice president of the
fair company.
The cup has been ordered from an
eastern house and is expected every
day.
The offering of the cup will stimu
late many to enter small things which
they have not intended or which they
did not consider worth while to en
ter.
WEEK OF PRAYER.
November 3-10 is to be the season
of prayer and thanksgiving for the
Woman’s Missionary Societies this
year.
Remember (1) it is to be a united
observance of both Home and For
eign Departments.
Remember (2) the collections are
to go toward building the Lucinda
Helm Chapel, at London, Ky., and the
enlargement of Bruce Hall, at Ruth
Hargrove Institute, Key West, Fla.
Remember (3) the chapel at; Lon
don must be built at London because
there is no room or building where
the whole school can be gathered at
chapel service, also that we must turn
away students at Key West because
there is not classroom capacity for all
who come.
Remember (4) that God has given
you this opportunity to help him give
the life more abundant to the young
people of the mountains and lowlands.
An automobile wreck, in which the
occupants were only badly shaken, tion.
up, but greatly frightened, occurred Woman’s Auxiliary to Attend Meet-
near Hogansville last Sunday when
the cars belonging to Mr. W. P.
Burks, of this city and Mr. Ed John
son, of Hogansville, side swiped each
other while going at a lively clip.
The collision burst one of the
front tires on each of the cars and
the mud guard on one side of Mr.
Burks’ car was torn off.
Mr. Johnson’s car,which was going
faster than the other,threatened for a
moment to turn over after the col
lision, but its driver finally regained
control and got straight in the road.
Mr. Burks had with* him in his
roadster his sister, Miss Viola Burks.
Mr. Emmett Askew, Miss Inez John
son and Miss Jeanette Wilhoit were
in the other car.
With the organization of the Wo
man’s Auxiliai-y to the Southern Com
mercial Congress, prominent women
WHEN IS CENTRAL BUSIEST ?
YOU EVER THINK ABOUT IT ?
At what season of the year, or at
what time do you think that central
is busiest?
The writer had often pondered over
this question, wondering what regu
lated the flood of telephone calls, and
just when it was that this flood reach
ed the high water mark.
So a few days ago he gained an in
terview with one of the operators on
the local exchange and proceeded to
satisfy his couriosity.
“I suppose you all will be mighty
busy during the fair won’t you? he
asked.
“She laughed, ‘That is what most
people think—that we are busiest
when something big is going on in
town. The truth of the matter is,
that is our quietiest time. With
everybody gone out there is hardly
a thing to do.’ ”
“You must have some rush season,
though,” he insisted, “when is that?”
“Oh in the winter time telephone
calls are twice as numerous as they
are in the summer. We are kepi
pretty busy in the fall on account of
the buying and ‘selling,.of cotton, but
winter is the big season.
“Do you suppose,” he said, “this
is occasioned by the Christmas shop
ping?”
“That has little to do with it. Of
course it affects the volume of cPI-;
some, but the real cause is on ac
count of the bad weather.
“When it is cold and wet and the
wind is howling and everybody is
indoors by the fire, it seems to he
awfully dull and there is nothing
much doing anywhere, but right then
is the time we are strained to keep
up with the rush calls. People are
more inclined to be cross, too, in the
winter, for the ve>-y good reason Thar
It gets cold waiting for a party, who
is slow to answer.
“Women are especially conversant
with the phone, on such days and we
hear some mighty interesting con
versations sometimes, accidentally,—
the kind you. hear at the club meet
ings.”
So the question is. answered. It is
winter time, when,.the phone rings
most and,ij. is,,the time iyhen other
business js,.. 4ull^-t u - thajt - the phones
are most frequently used;?,- ”
all over the South were invited to at
tend the meeting at Mobile and or
ganizations were affected in many of
the counties of the Southern states,
composed of women, to represent
their section and assist in the for
mulation of plans for some definite
work for the body.
Troup County Women Appointed.
A few weeks ago Mrs. H. T. Wood-
yard received announcement that she
had been appointed president of the
Troup county organization and re
quested her to appoint as many as
fifty women from this county to go
with her in the delegation.
The names of the women appointed
were published in the Reporter some
time ago.
None of the women appointed by
Mrs. Woodward found it practical to
attend the meeting and only Mrs.
Wood.vard and Mrs. C. V. Truitt ex
pected to go.
However on account of the illness of
Mrs. Woodyard during the past week,
her physicians found it inadvisable
for her to attempt the trip and as
Mrs. Truitt did not care to make the
trip alone, Troup county failed to get
represented.
The Troup county organization will
be permanent nevertheless, and will
Undoubtedly be ntl‘ valuable assis
tance in the carrying out of plans
made for the Woman’s Auxiliary at
the meeting this week.
TO POULTRY LOVERS IN THIS
SECTION.
Mr. R. C. Key, superintendent of
the poultry department of the Troup
county fair, states that he has tried
to see all persons, who would be like
ly to want to exhibit poultry at the
fair, but for fear he has skipped
someone, he requests us to announce
that anyone, who has birds to exhibit;
get in communication with him for
he is anxious to have a large and
beautiful exhibition of .every kind of
poultry raised in this section.