VOL. XXII, NO. 2
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1918
FIVE CENTS
THAT WONDERFUL FAIR
Pageant and Victory Parade Celebrate
Before Thousands
Governor JBIckett Addrciifn Boik
blre Convention Holding:
Memorable Hog- Show
AND NOW WE KNOW
and will tell all that
will hearken what makes
a fair. It is the boys
and girls primarily the
country girls that lend
the charm and color and
the action and the de
voted work that ac
counts for the thousand jitneys that
streamed down the roads of Moore
County all last Thursday' morning, and
taxed the brave array of the Reserve
Militia to its utmost in endeavor to mar
shal them single file into the parking
ground .
Probably next to these same girls
themselves, garlanded and arrayed in the
brilliant regalia of the coming dances,
the automobiles made the single most as
tonishing exhibit. Lined up for a third
of a mile, three or four deep across the
arena, they afforded a spectacle that no
man would have believed could be pro
duced out of the sticks.
j n n;cy circus
Vtm tl'i, whoJ- cantonment turns ou
:!' In. ling every grandmother and every
tottling within riding distance, and flood
forty acres of ground; when the track is
humming with the rush of horses, and
the air full of bursting hickory nuts by
which one can tell that Annie Oakley is
again at her favorite pursuit and the
offing is full of $10,000 hogs, and the
hot-dog man is working overtime, and
the outlying buildings are popping with
the myriad harvests of the fertile fields;
when the band is playing and the babies
are yelling and the companies maneuver
ing, and the tractors a-plowing for dear
life, and the school boys turning hand
springs to the fierce barking of the drill
sargeant it's a pretty howdy do to write
a consecutive narrative. Your reporter
felt like a special correspondent at the
front in the midst of a counter attack in
a thunderstorm . And so will go at it in
the same spirit.
So, let us begin at the top, and hail
the performance as a great victory of the
plateau and the fellowship of, the happy
people. The grand prize we allot with
out hesitation to the field marshal and
propogandist, starter, barker, and pro
fessional goat, Charlie Picquet, who mo
bilized the host. And thereafter the
forces went into action at his command
in something of the following order.
FAST COMPANY FROM EUKEKA
The drum major threw a fit, the little
drummer knocked a hole in the bass
drum, and Captain Plane led the husky
platoon of his Farm Life School boys
into the ring on the run. Ensued an ex
hibition of military gymnastics that
constituted a complete and final argu
ment for universal service. The young
sters showed the stamina and the bound
less energy of monkeys on the loose,
turning handsprings, somersaults, double
dips and tumbling acts with, the abandon
of Japanese acrobats. From this they
proceeded to hold a field day of track
against while the ammunition lasted . The
consensus of opinion upon this perform
ance was expressed by an old turkey
hunter who asked Frank Butler if it
was true she was his wife. Frank said
it was. "Well," said the veteran, "you
sure have got a piece of shooting ma
chinery. ' '
Now everybody knows that a prevail
ing feature of any Southern gathering
lies in the burning question which horse
can beat another. And it was thoroughly
demonstrated this day in tearing chariot
; races and running bouts, over the hur
dles and under the wire. The races are
a subject in themselves, and will have to
be treated elsewhere by a follower of the
turf. Suffice to say that they constituted
a major event on the program each day,
and held the eye and strained the voice
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SEEN AT THE FAIR
athletics. If I am any judge of these
performances, they would have given any
school league in the Union a hard run.
When Thomas of Sandorf covers 100
yards on a dirt track in a pair of sneak
ers in 10 ( seconds, and pole vaults 9
feet with a hickory branch in the sand he
wouldn't have to ask any odds at Sol
diers' Field or the Cherry Diamond.
Dwight Sykes cleared five and a half
feet high jump, and Hurdler Lobdelia
Seagrove led the way over, the timber
for 220 yards in 30 seconds.
A SHOOTING PIECE OF MACHINERY
Annie Oakley the Annie Oakley was
then ordered to advance on the flank,
which she did, armed to the teeth with
about ten rifles. Each rifle held six
shots. Which accounts for the heavy
casualty list among flying walnuts, mar
bles and ' pin heads, mashed potatoes,
punctured discs, and in all exactly sixty
various revolving, running, and infinites
imal objects that she took a fancy
of the multitude.
THE LATE LAMENTED U"23
By Wednesday noon the landscape was
ablaze with the myriad costumes of the
arriving pageantry. The Sandhills was
flooding in gala array, to parade for its
own benefit, and for the glory of Foch,
and the joy of victory. As the blazing
sun passed the meridian the order for
the advance came down the line, and
Captain Cross, of the Sandford company,
rang out his commands for the khaki
clad militia to shoulder arms. With
martial tread the ranks fell in behind
the band and the advance guard, which
consisted of a crestfallen replica of the
late lamented U-23, pursued by the bat
tle plane of Jim McConnel. Behind the
soldiers the community floats slowly
passed in review down the densely
crowded track. The most striking tab
leau was entitled ' ' Victory . ' ' Like
herself, glorious to behold on a dias of
((Continued on page eight)
THE OPENING MATCH
1 1
Hall and Smith Beat Bogey and
the Host
Tin Wblstle Club CbrUtens a New
Champion on Golf Course
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THE ANCIENT and
honorable, the advance
guard of the Tin Whis
tle battalions opened
their campaign on the
Pinehurst links last Sat
urday. The contest was
a line-up for a raid on
Bogey with twenty-three
entries on the virgin No. 2 course, and
under a smiling heaven.
In spite of a formidable reserve in the
shape of well-guaged handicaps, Bogey
got the best of it, as is his custom.
Nevertheless, eight of the old-time
champions led him home to the locker,
and a very close finish for the day's tro
phy developed. W. B. Hall, of Youngs
town, wielding an allowance of 25 came
packing home with a hundred and five, a
net medal of 79, and three holes to the
good. C. L. Becker was close at hi3
heels, piling into the last cup with a
gross 84, the best of the day 's play, and
a medal net of 76. But neither availed
him. He was only 2 up at that, and
tied with H. W. Ormsbee, whose even
hundred thus brought him into the cal
cium ray.
"THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST."
Thus the matter stood until the last
man packed his putters. But that last
man was Colonel J. Ernest Smith, and
he had a contribution to make. In spite
of a poor start, due to a refractory
driver, he had made hash of his two part
ners, combined against him, nd recorded
a net of 79 which he so thoughtfully dis-.
tributed that he also was 3 up on the
card. This left him tied with Hall, and
put Ormsbee and Becker into the dis
card .
Youngstown was not to be denied,
however. On the playoff Hall held his
pristine lead, and was awarded the first
prize. The Colonel, of course, got the
second.
Dr. J. S. Brown and John Stan
baugh were in the immediate vicinity at
the finish, one up each, and T. A.
Cheatham held his own, these constitut
ing the survivors of Colonel Bogey's in
evitable score.
Summary Played on No. 2 Course.
(Concluded on page three)