THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
THE SANDHILL FAIR
A Unique Country Festival and Exhi
bition Held at Pinelurst
in Ulntorical Pageant and (Scotch
Dancing: II j Children Enliven
the Scene
FUN IN this neighbor
hood is not entirely
monopolized by Northern
tourists. The greatest
joy -making event of the
whole year takes place
long before the earli
est traveller fixes up
his affairs and starts
South. Five thousand people came to the
Sandhill Community Fair which was held
in and about the Country Club October
8th. They came in autos, buggies, car
riages, wagons, on foot, and by special
trains on all roads.
THE EXHIBITS
They brought exhibits of all kinds of
products grains, fruits, hand-made tools,
fancy needle work, pine-needle baskets,
curios and relics, factory products, dis
plays of all that the section affords. The
country club and school house and the
moving picture theatre could not hold all
the fair nor accommodate half of the
crowd.
SCOTTISH DANCES
It was not the ordinary country fair
with balloon ascensions, fakirs and cheap
side shows. Nothing was imported. It
was all produced in the Sandhill Com
munity. For example, the community en
tertained itself. Fifteen young ladies
from the Carthage school danced the pret
tiest group dance on the golf green that
the writer has ever seen. At the other
extreme of taste was the "Swat 'Em"
booth conducted by seven feet of
Eoosevelt and six feet of Page. Here
the young men and boys had a
glorious time throwing baseballs at
wooden dummies which resembled and
which bore the names of the governors of
r
Christmas
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COATS-EVENING WRAPS
STOLES and MUFFS
the Sandhill Board of Trade. By the
names of 'Tufts," "Roger" "Pom
py," "Doodle," "Old Man Henry,"
etc., one recognized the effigies of the
most noted and respected men in this
community set up in this ridiculous
pillory "to make a Roman holiday."
HISTORICAL PAGEANT
The people of this section are Highland
Scotch who came here after the Battle of
Culloden with the famous Flora Mac
donald. So in the great pageant parade
which sketched the history of the State
from Raleigh, Virginia Dare and Queen
Elizabeth down to the present the Scotch
were much in evidence. Alexander Mac
Rae, bagpiper, was there in costume. A
model of Robert Burns' cottage was one
of the floats. In another Flora Macdon
ald as natural as life. The Klu Klux
Klan, the Pioneer Mothers with their
spinning wheels, Cornwallis again en
camped at Carthage, the winter resorts,
lines of agricultural floats, fine stock and
exhibits made up the rest of the long,
dignified and impressive procession.
The long day passed quickly. The
weather was perfect. The stands did a
heavy business all day. The Roberdell
Band warbled its native wood notes wild
in the pine grove. Prizes of various sorts
were awarded the happiest winner of all
being the little girl who won a five dollar
sewing set for making the best cotton
dress. The goods that she had used cost
her seventy-eight cents in all, she said.
The babies were all taken care of by
nurses at the improvised rest room while
the mothers enjoyed the sights and the
companionship that the day afforded.
CANNING CLUB REVOLUTION
The most striking thing in the whole
performance was Miss Bradford's can
ning club exhibit. Exhibit is the wrong
word. It was the foundation for a
liberal rural education. S. S. Pierce or
Park and Tilford would have been proud
to have owned it. Good workmanship and
good taste, an eye to beauty and tho
roughness in detail are not a characteris
tic of the American countryman. And it
is only recently that we have heard at all
from the country girl, unless it was.
in timely articles upon the "Forgotten
Woman." But this exhibit was typical,
of the product of the school girls
of the neighborhood. It marks the rising
of the tide which will emancipate the
farmer.
A little discussion with practical tillers
of the soil who gathered there before the
display would have been a delight to Dr..
Soaman A. Knapp, who invented the can-
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