All Farmers, Businessmen Should Attend County Fair, Says J.R. Sams, County Agent, October, 1919

From the Polk County News and the Tryon Bee, Tryon, N.C., Oct. 3, 1919

Last Word Before the Fair

By J.R. Sams, County Agent

Before this issue reaches the farmers, all the community fairs will be over. Saluda is already over and Columbus, Mill Spring and Sunny View will be a matter of history this week.

Next week, Wednesday the 8^th, Thursday the 9^th and Friday the 10^th will be the Polk County Fair at Columbus. Mr. Swann and Miss Flentye of Lynn may be seen at any time from now till the Fair is on relative to registration of exhibits. They will be at Columbus the first day of the Fair especially to register all exhibits. Mr. Ed. D. Weaver, Buncombe county’s efficient County Agent, will judge the Fair on the 9^th, as he must judge another fair on the 10^th.

Now the Polk County Fair is what Polk county farmers and business men make it; therefore it behooves every farmer to come and bring something that has been produced on his farm, whether it possesses high quality or not. Bring it along and show your willingness to co-operate with your neighbors in a good work. There is nothing quite so helpful in developing a community as the community fair. Then in order to develop the county, let all these communities, and the people from all sections of the county attend the county fair and bring something to help make it a success. 

It is a “sorry” fellow who will come to the fair and hang around and say of exhibits, “Well, I left much better stuff than that at home.” If you think you have the best stuff in the county, have the courage to bring it and set it right up by the other fellow’s and see which is best. If you are in doubt as to whether yours is best, then bring it along and help out by showing the best you have. 

The business men of the county should attend the Fair in order that they may become better acquainted with the farmer and “vice versa” so that better business relations may be cultivated.