Friday Governor’s Day — Fine Exhibits — Camden Products Shown

By Staff Correspondent)

CAMDEN, S. C., Oct. 3. – Camden’s county fair is on, and that in full blast. The gates were opened yesterday. They close Saturday. Friday is “Governor’s Day.”

The exhibits this year are excellent. The midway is attracting much interest. Many people from the entire county have visited the grounds.

Friday is the big day. Governor Richards, a Kershaw county man, will be the special guest. A special committee has been appointed to provide for the governor’s entertainment, this being made up of H. G. Carrison, Jr., L. T. Mills, Senator G. C. Welsh, M. H. Heyman, C. W. Birchmore, Mayor C. P. DuBose, W. R. Hough, R. M. Kennedy, Jr., W. L. Depass, Sr., Mendel L. Smith and J. B. Zemp. A luncheon at Hobkirk Inn will be a feature of the entertainment for the governor.

The community exhibits are among the best things at the fair. Among these are the displays from Blaney, Lugoff and the Charlotte Thompson school section. The exhibit from the Camden schools also fine. A feature of this display of the work of the school children are some remarkable pictures in crayon and water colors that would do credit to much older and more fully trained hands.

The poultry section is one of the finest ever seen at a county fair. There are also splendid displays of the agricultural products of Kershaw county.

There is an exhibit that stirs the pride of Camden residents. It is that of the Young Men’s Business League. It’s the interest centers not chiefly in the fact that it is displayed by a Camden organization, but because of the large variety of products of Camden’s manufacture. Camden has no mean place in the industrial sun, and this exhibit tells clearly to the world to what extent Camden is transforming products.

Two of Camden’s leading industries of course are its two textile plants, the Hermitage and Kendall mills. But these are not all. In the exhibit are displayed the many products of the cotton oil mill, the brick of the Camden Brick company, rollers used on cotton spinning frames, as put on the market by the roller mill here; the “No-Mo-Korn”manufactured by James D. Zemp; the man-holes, grates and various other metal products of the Camden Iron and Brass Works, and probably the most unusual of all South Carolina manufacturers, the handsome mirrors made by the Hoffer company.

J. W. Saunders is executive secretary of the Kershaw fair; H. C. Carrison, Jr., is president; and J. B. Zemp is vice president.

-W. A. T.