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Maj. Chrisman Wants All Inter ests to Get Together. Editor Daily News: I am very glad to see the mer chants of Harrisonburg thinking about a fair next fall. They are the men to get it up and make a success of it. They are more directly interested in it than any other class of men. Every big day, a lot of money is left with them. They, too, are largely benefited by a fair for the more pros perous the people, the more business they do, and, of course, the more money goes to the merchants. They, too, can meet together much more conveniently than farmers, scattered about all over the county, to attend to business of the organization and they are accustomed to working to gether better than the farmers are. We have had last year the fair, the fruit show, the Boys Corn Club and Girls Tomato Club, and the School and Poultry shows all well attended and all great successes. If all these shows would combine and make a grand fair, it would prove of great benefit to the whole people of the county. If all these organiza tions will combine, they can afford to buy or lease for a term of years, the old Horne Show Grounds, put up all necessary buildings to house the exhibits and make it the finest fair in the state, save the State Fair at Richmond. Rockingham has the livestock and other products sufficient to do it. But the people must know in time in order to prepare their exhibits and it is high time the thing was settled and the people know there will be a fair. The more time you have, the cheaper and better you can prepare the grounds for an exhibition and the more you can get the people interested in it. There is no doubt in my mind, if you will fill your offices with all sensible and energetic, good business men, it will be a grand success of great value to the county and a source of great pride for its people. But you must go at it now with courage and industry. It takes work and persistent efforts to make a good fair and everybody interested must take hold and help and not leave it all to one or two others to do, I have had much to do with faira, and none of the hardest parte about me of the fair is to get all hands to attend promptly to the business of the fair. Vary respectfully, George Chrisman,
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Harrisonburg Daily News
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Feb 21, 1913
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