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Entered April 28, 1908 at Piokens, S. 0., Is second a matter, under act of Congress of March 8, 1879. VOL. Tils 110C1311, aisfT I 10 I IDAT 81?TDlK 3190 Pickens C We arc going to have a great -Fair, and one which our people can be proud of. There will be a magnificent array of stock and farm products and amuse - ments of all kinds and descrip tions and description. A brass band with twenty-two men playing vill open up things early on the morning of Sept. 15th, and keep on playing until the night of the 17th inst. Everybody in the county in vited to come and. requested to be on hand every day of the Fair. Let us all get together and make merry and have one grand good time for three days without a let-up. The programme for the first day will be racing of every kind and description, and at night the finest vocal and instrument - al concert ever, given in the county will take place at the schoolhouse. A small admis sion fee will be charged at this concert, in order to help pay the expenses .f the Fair. Every thing else, however, will be free - and open to everybody. Splendid prizes will be award ed to all who compete in the different contests, and also for stock and farm produce ex hibits. It costs nothing to enter thes contests and show your stock and farm pVroducts-and you may get a prize. However, if you think you can't take the prize and yet have something in the line of stock or farm pro duce worth seeing, show it, anyhow. Everybody wants to see it, and you should have pride enough in your county to want to help make this Fair a suc cess, and by showing some thing you are helping the Fair along. SECOND DAY will be set aside for showing of all classes of stock and farm pro'duce and awarding of prizes for same. THIRD DAY will be given up entirely to amusements, such as horse tournament, automobile tour nament, fiddling contest, etc. The following is a complefe list of awards and prizes: STOCK EXHIBIT. Best stallion, handsome horse blanket; Best family horse or mare, fine - . buggy whip; Best fsaddle horse, riding bridle; Best driving horse or mare, pretty lap robe; Best draft horse or mare, fine collar; Best pair mules, superb pair check lines; Best single mule., splendid pair single lines: Best horse or mare colt, under 2 yrs, nice leather halter, to fit; Best horse or mare colt, under 1 yr, nice leather halter, to fit; Best brood mare with colt, water proof storm-apron. Best mule enlt, under 2 years, handsome pi steel scissor * shears: Best mule colt under 1 year, same;. Best yoke oxen, best ax made Best single ox, fine qality plow~ lunty Fair. stock; Best nailch cow, a handsome . churn; Best bull, any age, fine pitch fork; Best bull under 2 years, magnifi cent pocketknife; Best heifer, under 2 years, nice porcelain milk bucket; Best brood sow, latest style meat chopper and grinder; Best -brood sow with pigs, same; Best pig under 6 mos, handsome steel butcher knife; Best pig over 6 and under 12 months, largest size sack salt; Best boar, pair finest quality wool blankets; Best ram, fine pair best quaI4ty steel shears; Best ewe, same; Best goat, handsome bottle best German cologne; FARM PRODUCTS. Ten best stalks of corn selected from 1 acre, fine rock'g chair; Two best stalks cotton, pr steel yards; * bu best wheat, any variety, I handsome picture, gilt frame; 4 bu oats, fine parlor rug; Best bundle oats, pretty linen tablecloth; * bu field peas, best quality steel shovel;, 4 5 best stalks cane, 1 bush blade; Best qt sirup, nice molas pitcher: Largest watermelon, best qual ity steel hammer; Large tpumpkin,handsome pic ture in gilt frame; 1 doz best apples, china bowl and pitcher; 1 peck best sweet potatoes, larg est size fine quality agate pan; Largest sweet potato, same; " 6 turnip, best quality gar den hoe; Largest beet, best quality gar den rake; Largest cabbage, 1 fine agate boiler. The following prizes will be given in the contests named: Fiddling contest, 100 lbs. best flour; Dancing contest, 1 gold dollar; Horse tournament, 1 pair gold cuff-buttons; Automobile tournament, crown, (to be made by ladies' com.); Hammer throwing contest, gents leather belt. One large greased pig will also be turned loose and given to the man or boy who catches him. A greased pole will be erected, and numerous pretty prizes will be placed at the top of the pole for the climbers who reach the top successfully. Only one prize can be taken at a time, how ever. There will also be peanut grabbing, apple-eating contest, etc., etc. RACING. The following prizes will be awarded in the races named: Pacing 'in harness, fine buggy bridle; Pacing under saddle, si lendid saddle blanket; Trotting in .single harness to buggy, fine <qual. buggy'whip; Gentlemaen's driving race, a pretty lap-robe;* Mule trotting race, single to buggy, blind bridle; Mule ru~nning race, fine quality currycomb and brush; Saddle horse running racehan . some riding bridle; Sfule in har'nes0' against bicycle, .splendid pock6t-knife; Elorse against a man, handsome silk cravat; Foot Race, pr. gold cuff buttons. 3ack Race, gold scarf pin; )x race in harness, best quality wagon whip; )x race under saddle, one nice chair;. Mitomobile rice, (multiple cyl inder), badge; utomobile race, (single cylin der), badge; automobile against bicycle, badge; automobile against motor-cycle, badge; 3icycle race, tool kit with com plete set of tools; There will also be a race to liscover the best fox hound in ?ickens county. A fox skin will be drafted and the dogs will be held ..in leash in a in?, and turned loose at a given ignal. No prize will be offered or this, but if you have a dog md have been bragging about irm, come into this race and )rove to your neighbor that you were telling the truth, or else ceep quiet. Since the list of prizes were nade up two phosphate compa iles have offered prizes. One )ffers half ton of best fertilizer :or three best stalks of -cotton grown with its brand of phos phate, and the other offers one bon of fertilizer, v#Iue $25. for fhree best stalks of cotton grown wkth its make of phosphate. Full particulars will be publish .d in next issue. Get your chickens ready for ;he fair. The poultry exhibit will be for show. The birds will not be judged for points, At all. Notice. All parties having stock to on ;er for the fair will please meet #he stock committee not later ;han 9 o'clock on the morning >f the 16th at the County Super irisor's office in the court house. A. complete programme as to lace and hour for showing ;tock will be printed and distrib ited among exhibitors. John B. Robinson, Chairman Committee on Horses and Mules;. M. M. Holder, Chairman Com mittee on Colts; R. L. Hames, Chairman Com mittee on Cattle: B. A. Allgood, Chairman Com mittee on Hogs; W. L. Jenkins, Gen. Ch'n. MEgR E 00IN ION. Sympathy never moitped a Verch pd throat. The man who waits fOC just the right time to start never gets any where. It every woman could trace her de scent from a king sorrow would never again find lodgment in a feminine breast. Most men who claim to have strong convictions would have little left If they were to be deprived of their prejudices. The meanest man is one who will call on a young lady and spend the evening talking about the loveliness of some other girl. There Is something uncanny about the mother who adipits tipat her boy may have been just a uguh' to blame as her natghbos ahn LIBERTY L00ALS Quillian Hester was the guest of Leland Cartee, Saturday night and Sunday. There will be an all-day sing ing at Rock Springs, near Eas ley, next Sunday. Sept. 6. Miss Florence Davis, a charm ing young lady of Liberty, has been iq North Carolina for five weeks. She first went to Bre vard to the Teachers' Institute, then to Balsam Grove, N. C., and began a - school of four months. Prof. Weams, Leland Cartee and Quillian Hester will soon leave for Dayton, Va. Miss Ernestine Rankin re turned home last week from a 7-weeks' stay in Georgia. The Piedmont Union meeting will be held at Liberty Baptist church, Nov. 29. MAMA's BABY. The young people of our city were honored by being the guests of Miss Calla Chapman on last Friday evening at an informal reception. It was in tended to be a porch party, but on account of the weather it was converted into a parlor re ception. They played games familiar to some and unfamiliar to others, and this made the evening interesting throughout. The guests were made to feel perfectly at home, and they had one of the most enjoyable even ings of the season, due greatly to Miss Chapman's charming disposition. Those present were: Misses Otis O'Dell, Ina Calla han, Hattie and Ethel Boggs, Lois and Pearl Smith, Jessie Glenn, Pearl and Olga Richard son, - Chapman, Winnifred Kinard of Ninety-Six, and Allie Blackman of Atlanta, and Messrs. Frank Glnn, Parker and Eugene Brown, Lang Clay ton, Frank Smith, Dennis Oraig, Pinck Taylor and Almo and Harry Chapman. Miss Belle Roe is spending a feW days in Atlanta, getting fa miliar with the fall styles in millinery. ' We beg to say that T. R. O'Dell's name was omitted from the mountain party last week by some oversight. Mr. O'Dell was one of the "main stays." The many friends of Mrs. C. H. Parkins will be glad to hear that she is home again and recovering rapidly. Miss Irene Clarke returned last Saturday to resume her work as music teacher. J. F. Banister left Friday for New York City to buy. his fall and winter goods. He was ac comnpanied by W. P. Black, who is sight-seeing. Miss Ciarrie Hutchens returned last week from a visit to numer ous Georgia cities. Frank Smith returned sto Da vidson College, Wednesday, to again talke up his studies. Mrs. PeIgher has openeda study over Robinson's store, and is ready to make anything from penny pictures to five per. Ralph Burroughs is stayinag with his sister,Mrs. T. I. O'Delt, and attending the MIfgh 9enfl, Mrs. Maggie tarrision Reidville, Is visiting Mrs . O. Bailey. . Julian Wertz has SWDpd position with the G( eenila News. Mrs. A. F. McCord is friends for a few weeks in pa tanburg. Mr. Lyles, of Tocoa, is4 fillig W. P. Black's position .paeo6nd trick operator while thif*tteI away. Miss Lois Smith Is v10il friends in Greer this week. Tom Watkins, of Nashville,. renn., spent a few days with Y. P. Smith' and- family i week. W. B. Glenn and sister, M3ss Fessie, are visiting friends'' Westminster. T. S. and F. M. Glenn return xd last week from Henderson ril'e, Asheville and other places n North Carolina. ICHABOD. WIT THU AGES A noble mind disdains not te -Homer. Love is felliowservic. Rugh Clough. We gain streng of the 1$itS" re resist.---Dnerson. We are shaped and fa1h6ned what we love.-Goethe. Without frugajity none easbe ud with it very few yuld bepoo Dr. Jobnsoa.; Let us use our past viteke. m41 rfailures as buildA*(mterW. for ien Lure success.-Robrtson. - Work faithfully, and yoU will yourself in possession of a" glor and enlarging happiness.-Ruski The truly excellent . haracter 1 t made up of strictness towards ono self and mildness towards others. Bchiller. It may not be possible for' a man to measure life; but it Ii.. ble to say, I am resolved to, put lif to its noblest and best us.-T. 1 Munger. There never was a day tbat di not' bring its own oppQrtunity .Jow doiy 4' good that never could Mie been do31 before, and never can be n.09" Wllu( Hiam Burleigh. Let every man be occupied, and cupied in the highest employment 0 which his nature Is capable, and dW with the consciousness that ho done his best.-loethe. ' , To reach port on the sea 'of life w must sail sometimes with eitP and scometimes against itbI must sail and not drift or lie WORDS OP WI~bOM. Method will teach you to win tI*( '--oethe. The ignorant are courageouw-e ern Greek. .N No man Is a thousand 4ss6enteso Adam.-Hooher. Where might (p master, #utt I~ aervant.-GOerman. Aspiring minds Iut som tl l tain loss-Plato. A singp day stante wh 4 0 year den es-italian. . No ill befalls us but. wth1~~ for our good.--Italian. .He w150 relies on anote N1bl apt to dine late.-Italian. ' What reason could not aveW oftenr been cured by delay.-'4es Labor rids us of three tediousness, yide and *- j~a a