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©ONNERSVIMjI’riendsformerttempt M r. office isessedin tax-ct areud the beforeTo Stand As a Friendly (jtiardiaii Over the Tenth Free Fair—f*en-erosity of Subscribers isFully Appreciated.issesa-it theThe Increasing motion in all parts of the complex Free Fair machinery has not Jailed to include some steady work on the part of a guarantee fund committee, which drew its labors to a close late yesterday. The committee consisted of T. C. Bryson, J. At. Heron, H. W. Tat man and At. M. Rrb. They sallied forth a day or two ago, and last night saw the Free Fair guarantee fund raised to the satisfactory sum of an even thousand dollars. This committee did well indeed—but that is nothing new for Free Fair workers. It is the rule. A rule, to be sure, which lessens the credit to individual workers, but personal credit is not the goal of their hopes. They are amply satisfied for the whole result to expend itself in the form of benefits to the annual four-day-long event of widen this city and county is so properly proud.it is by 110 means expected that any person who subscribed to the guarantee fund will ever lie called upon to pay one penny of the sum in* pledged. The thousand dollars acts rather as a sceptre in a king’s hand —not as an actual weapon or Implement, hut as a symbol of power, item oflapoliswere nh u rat in forin cor-fer i he Roh-oils, a elinHeDf the soon. 0 000 3 a re ussen, r andwill stand, like a friendly guardian, over the Tenth Free Fair, and the moral effect of it will perhaps be farther-reaching than anyone unfamiliar with the psychology of finance knows.Aside from all this, the generosity, the confidence and the prompt subscriptions of the men whose names make up the guarantee fund have merited the utmost thanks of the whole Free Fair staff. Such things are considered as new and welcome units in that series of happy omens that have already prefigured large success for the nearing fair.Also Oif Subje«vsidtTheir nor dtsiof the c fact tha
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Connersville Times
Connersville, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 24, 1912
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