Fairs of Other Days That Are Held No More Canonsburg, Hickory and Florence used to have fairs, but they dropped them long ago and left such exhibitions to towns like Washington and Burgettstown. The present Washington fair has been running only a few years, the "old" Washington fair, held near the foot of Main street and later near Chestnut street, having petered out a decade or more ago. Only Burgettstown has been able to hold a fair for the long period of 58 years. The exhibition there shows no signs of lagging interest or decay. It is thirty-one years since the last fair was held at Canonsburg. Started in the early seventies, it ran for ten years and then ceased to be. Until its last few years the attendance was large, people coming from many miles away. The fair was conducted by the Chartiers Valey Agricultural Association, composed of leading farmers of the community. This association leased the CURRY farm and erected buildings and laid out a race track. The grounds today are about the only tract around Canonsburg that haven't been built upon, the town having spreading out in every direction. The fair was an important event in the village life of the seventies and early eighties, and attracted much more attention then than it would today. T. M. POTTS acted as secretary during the existence of the Chartiers Valley Agricultural Association. It has been forty-five years since the tenth annual exhibition of the Mt. Pleasant Equitable Agricultural Association was held at Hickory, on Wednesday and Thursday, September 29 and 30, 1869. The fair grounds were located near where the roads leading from Venice and Canonsburg enter the east end of the town. Many names familiar to our readers were that year among the lists of its officers and committees on award of premiums, as follows: President, James RANKIN, Hickory; vice presidents, James M. CAMPBELL, James MILLER, William W. MCCARRELL, Hickory, James MCKEE, Locust Hill; R. D. SCOTT, Cardville; managers, T. M. BERRYHILL, James B. SMITH, William THOMPSON, W. M. CAMPBELL, A. J. MILLER, William RUSSELL, Hickory; Alexander MCELROY, David DAVIDSON, Buffalo; William CAMPBELL, Canonsburg; secretary, S. R. WILSON, Hickory; assistant secretary, S. CLUTTER, Dinsmore; treasurer, Dr. Joseph MCELROY; chief marshals, R. M. MORGAN, Hickory, and W. S. LEE, Cardville. From the best information obtainable the Florence fair was held each year from 1861 to 1863 and then disbanded. An effort was made to revive it in 1866, and an exhibition was held that year, but that was the last. The fair was held on what is now the CALLAGHAN farm, just this side of Florence. Florence is one of the few towns, if it is not the only town, in the county that has stood still or gone back in the last half century.