The Fourth Annual Community Fair of Jackson Springs was held in the schoolhouse at that place on Friday 26th of October.
According to Mr. L.T. Graham, who gave us the information about the fair, the quality of the exhibits was very good with a fine variety. The display as very creditable, though small, and was beautifully arranged with the very humblest citizen to the highest helping to make the Annual Fair a success, which showed the splendid cooperation of the community.
The high school classes held their field events in the morning, and much friendly rivalry and spirit was shown. The senior class won the most points in their track meet with the other classes with Sam McDuffie the greatest individual point scorer for his class. Tracy Thomas of the junior class and Marvin Poole of the Sophomore class were high point scorers in the meet, showing they were real at athletes as well as worthy students.
In the afternoon the boys basket ball team won from the Sand Hill Farm Life School. The girls team was a surprise and only lost their game by two points. Both games were clean with some spectacular playing.
Mr. Graham says that Eagle Springs held their first Community Fair on Thursday, and it was a creditable event and will be made an annual one. The western part of the county is very much alive and never drops anything that means progress. Next year those two communities will probably put on farm and home exhibits.
Crops are good out that way and the farmers, in spite of the boll weevil, are finding trouble in getting cotton ginned, he says, and have to store much of their cotton crop in out houses until such time as the ginneries can catch up.
Guy Stuart has another gin running after fire destroyed his outfit about two weeks ago. In this fire more than 20 bales of cotton were burned up and damaged along with about a car load of seed. Their tobacco, corn and other crops are also good this year, Mr. Graham says.
From the front page of The Moore County News, Carthage, Nov. 1, 1923
No comments:
Post a Comment