With less than three points separating them, Alamance won over Catawba in the county exhibits at the State Fair and carried off the $500 prize. Catawba was second and drew $300.
Alamance scored 85.70 per cent; Catawba 93.36; Haywood, 80.30; Guilford, 7?.29; Swain 75.13; Wayne 71.89; Moore 71.33; Pitt 69.34; Wake 65.05; Perquimans 64.03; and Craven 60.13. The third prize winner drew $200 and the fourth $125, the next three getting $100 each.
John Davis, tenant farmer of Goldsboro who with his wife had an exhibit that attracted much attention, won first prize among the individual farm exhibits, ranking 79.84. Others were as follows: Second, J.H. Sharpe, Greensboro, 75.64; third, E.J. Howell, Waynesville, 75.29; fourth, W.A. Simpkins, Raleigh, 74.74; fifth, W. Henry Sharpe, Greensboro, 74.65; sixth, R.W. Scott, Mebane, 73.17; seventh, J.L. Holliday, East Side Farm, Williamston; eighth, H.B. Bagwell, State College station, 62.15; ninth, R.L. Faucette, Varina; tenth, Thomas Nixon, Hertford, 68.36; eleventh, C.T. Goodwin, Apex, 41.10; twelfth; G.H. Purgerson, Youngsville, 25.48.
Prizes for individual farm exhibits were as follows: First, $300; second, $200; third, $140; and next five $75 each.
From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 22, 1921. No scores were reported for J.L. Holliday, H.B. Bagwell, or R.L. Faucette in the original article.
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Good Enough
In view of the fact that no special effort was made to bring together an exhibit from all of the county until just a few days before the State Fair, the winning of second place at the larger exposition was an achievement of which the entire county may be proud. Competition was keen.
If the county is to have an exhibit next year, plans for assembling it can be made in plenty of time and other counties which get into the game will have something to look at.
Although Catawba did not win first honors for its exhibit at Raleigh, its record with chickens at the Kinston fair and its showing of cattle at the Gason fair are enough honors for one year. We still are to hear from the poultry at Raleigh and Wilson.
From the editorial page of The Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 22, 1921
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