The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-22
BAXTER CAIRNS CAKE CONTEST
Excites Very Great Interest and At
tracts Large Crowd-There
Were Sixty-Eight Contestants

Were Sixty-Eight Contestants
The cake contest given by Mr.. Bax-
ter earn Wednesday afternoon in eel
ebration of the event of his moving
into his beautiful new store. was one
of the most pleasant, successful and
spirited affairs of its kind that was
ever given in this city.
Mr.. earn has the county agency
for the Majestic stove and the Henry
Clay -four, and to advertise them was
part of Wednesdays conception
also.
The Majestic stove is manufacture
ed in ST. Louis and is made of malea.
bic iron and is almost indestructible.
Mr.. Carl c. Ridge, who is demonstrate
ing it's splendid qualities, subjects it
to all kinds of harsh treatment. He
hits the parts with a big hammer,
opens the doors and puts his entire
weight upon the hinges, cuts a hole
in part of the pipe and pastes it
over with a piece of paper, which
does not scorch, showing that the
heat remains in the stove and does
not escape through the pipe. Alto
gether it is a most wonderful stove
and Mr.. Ridge charms one with the
splendid and affable way in which he
sings it's fine qualities, and every
statement that he makes is reinforc-
ed with a written guarantee.
The Majestic Stove Company also
manufactures gas stoves, and the
qualities of these stoves are also as
sweeping in their excellencies as the
wood stoves.
The Henry Clay -four is manufac-
tured in Louisville, KY, and special
efforts are made to make it's superior
qualities known in this territory, and
it figured as part of Wednesdays Gel
ebration.
Mr.. earn offered three prizes for
the best plain cake made of Henry
Clay -four. Layer cakes and fruit
cakes were excluded.
The first prize was one of the Ma
jestic meleable iron wood stoves, the
selling price OF which is $65; the Sec
ond prize, Majestic gas stove; third
prize, a barrel of Henry Clay -four
Ocala has a big reputation for its
cake-makers, so the contest ELECTED
a marked interest from the start, but
no one had any idea that there would
be more than fifty entries, but there
we're sixty-eight contestants, and all
the afternoon Mr.. earns spacious es'
tablishment presented a most ami
mated appearance and hummed with
babel of voices, and each fair con-
testant was in a culver of excitement
Mrs. NJ. E. Erwin, Mrs. w. V. New
som and Mrs. Elmer DeCamp were
selected to act as judges and gra-
ciously accepted the responsible task.
AS the cakes came in they were
numbered in duplicate and the names
of the contestants were known only
to the store managers.
A slice was cut from each cake, put
on a tray with one of the duplicate
numbers and sent into an adjoining
room where the judges performed
their delicate duties.
Rev. j. B. Ley, in a very chas1e'
exquisite and pleasing manner made
the announcement of the decision OF
the judges.
He announced that number ten
was the winner of the first prize;
number seven the second prize and
number twenty-seven the third prize
An examination of the records
showed that Mrs. Frank Harris helo
number ten, and was the winner OF
the first prize; Miss Halle Ley neld
number seven and was the winner
of the second prize, and Miss Meta
Jewett held number twenty-seven
and was the winner of the third
prize. :,
The prize cakes were cut into small
slices and distributed to those IN at
tendance.
A number of the cakes were donat-
ed to the Daughters. OF the Confeder-
acy and were sold for the benent OF
the Fannie r. Gary memorial hall'
and a sum approximating twenty dol
lars was realized.
Mrs. earn assisted in numbering
the cakes and Mrs. ]. Wesley Stevens
and Mrs. Samuel R. Pyles silced
them. and lemonade and other re-
freshments were served during the
afternoon.
The affair was a splendid success
and Mr.. earn won many compliments
and acknowledged them most gra
ciously.
The winners of the prizes were
also the recipients of many congratu'
lationS.