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Camden County County Fair News
Camden County's Fair
The Macon Telegraph October 14, 1899
Woodbine, Ga., Oct 13 – Camden county put on its
holiday clothes yesterday and held its second annual fair. From every nook and cranny, from every turpentine
still and steamboat landing they poured that by some reason the adjoining counties were under the impression that
it was a fair of many counties. Brunswick people charted the commodious steamer Passport and they came over
to help hurrah. Nearly all of the officers of the Southeastern Fair Association came over too, and brought
Deal's orchestra to furnish the muscle. And the exhibits were here in abundance. The wild muscadine made
over into jelly and preserves, to the ripening Japanese persimmon (that is now being successfully grown) were on
hand.
The exhibits were arranged in the forenoon and
at 12 o'clock the fair was officially announced as opened. At noon the long picnic table was piled up with an abundance
of tempting morsels, chicken, turkey, kid, lamb, pork, fish, game, desserts and in all a feast for kings.
After dinner the judges, consisting of Dr. J. A.
Butts, president of the Southeastern Fair association, and Mr. H. H. Harvey, its secretary, and Dr. W. B. Burroughs,
one of its directors. The lady judges were Mesdames J. A. Butts, Henry Cassil and William S. Irvine.
The prizes were given as follows: Best all around exhibits of farm products, Mr. T. M. Godley of Motts.
In the individual contest, the prizes were: best bread corn, to P. D. Lewis; best stock corn, Mr. H. Anderson;
best broom corn D. P. Rose; best kaffir corn, J. M. Thomas; best oats in sheaf, J. M. Thomas; best oats in sheaf,
Mr. H. Anderson; best field peas, Mr. J. M. Thomas; best five varieties of sweet potatoes, R. H. Frohock; best
bushel of sweet potatoes, Mr. J. M. Thomas; best chufas, Dr. Atkinson; best pumpkin, Camden Long; best sugar cane,
Calvin C. Helvester; best baled hay, Mr. H. Anderson; best cassava, Thomas E. Scott; best okra, T. Casey; naval
stores display, A. W. Killian; turpentine tools, H. B. Stafford; these implements are manufactured right here in
Camden County.
In the baby show, there were nineteen healthy and
promising entries of both sexes. A finer lot of babies were never born anywhere. It seems that Camden
county is prolific in all natural resources and incease. The prize babies were: Largest and finest baby in
Camden county, Master Floyd Godley; best girl baby, Miss Dorene Stafford; best boy baby, Master Warren Jackson;
baby with prettiest eye, Miss Florine Godley; largest boy baby, Allen Long; largest girl baby, Miss Elizabeth Foster.
The judges escaped without injury in this contest, but in the beauty show of Camden county young ladies, they are
still under suspicion. In this contest Miss Carrie Long's bronw eyes won the judges over and they declared
her the most beautiful girl in southeast Georgia. The young ladies then judged for the handsomest man and
gave the button by Mr. Robert Long.
The persistent efforst of Editor Walter Wyatt,
of the Southeast Georgian, in his efforts to encourage the agricultural interest of this section, are certainly
bearing fruity. This fair is one of the results and it is an eye opener as to the possibilities of energy.
The Camden County Agricultural Society is ably officered by an enthusiastic corps of workers. Dr. D. P. Rose
of Owens Ferry is president; Dr. B. Atkinson of Waverly is vice-president; J. O. Dyals of Ownes ferry is secretary,
and Thomas Scott of Satilla is treasurer. These men are creating an interest in the revival of the fertility
of Camden, and stimulating the efforts being made. Speeches were made by Dr. W. B. Burroughs and Dr. J. A. Butts
of Brunswick, and Rev. Henry Cassells of St. Mary's. These were brimming with interest and encouragement.
Besides
the prize winners in the contests were praise worthy exhibits of cane syrup, sorghum syrup, vinegar, by Messrs,
Long and Thomas; jellies by Mrs. C. P. King; pickles by Mrs. T. Caey; butter by Mr. J. P. Mazzell; catsup by Mrs.
C. Long.
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