The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
PRIZE WINNERS AT
GEORGIA CORN SHOW
PARADE IN ATLANTA DRENCHED
IN DOWNPOUR OF RAIN, BUT
BOYS STUCK TO JOB.
$500 PEOPLE LINED STREETS
Carroll Took Prize For Best County
Exhibit, and Walker County Boy
Won Central Railroads $500
Mare. Other Awards.

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Won Central Railroads $500
Mare. Other Awards.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to start at
2:30 and delayed an hour in form
ing the annual corn show parade was
drenched with a terrific downpour of
rain as it reached the center of the
city. Although soaked to the skin
some 500 corn club boys stuck to the
job and paraded as complacently as
if the sun was shining brightly. More
than $4,000 people lining the streets
to view the parade were soaked be-
fore they could reach shelter.
The parade was longer and had
more interesting features than usual
The continued rainfall during the
entire afternoon and evening pre-
vented carnival merrymaking scenes
as planned.
The judges of the exhibits were
H. E. Stockbridge, G. F. ,Hunnicutt
and L. A Nevin, all editors of we'll
known farm journals.
Carroll county carried off the $50
prize for the best county club exhibit
of not less than so members.
AppIing County First.
Appling got the $40 prize for the
best county club exhibit of not less
than forty members. Other winners
of leading county prizes were Wal
ton, Pickens, Whitfield, Franklin,
Polk and Berrien.
Morris Crowder of Walker county
won the $500 Percheron mare given
by the Central of Georgia railway
for the best showing made on it's
line. Gordon Lee Hasty, also of
Walker county, won the H. G. Hast
ings $3.50 scholarship at the Georgia
State College of Agriculture.
Other individual prize winners in
Guided Bethel Edwards, Franklin
county; j. H. Brooks, Polk county;
Dan Galloway, Whitfield county;
Jesse A. Borders, Troup county;
Joseph Freeman, Winston Crawford,
Chattooga county Glenn York, Polk
county; Will Morrison, Whitfield
county; Eugene Clark, DeKalb coun-
ty; Frank Dunn, Pike county; Her
schel Marchman, Carroll county; j,
P. Johns, Stevens county; Clifton
Cole, Franklin county; Hosea Nc
Donald, Lowndes county; Carl
Marchman, Carroll county.
OF the twelve educational scholar
ships, worth $25 each, offered by the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in
each congressional district the win
ners were: First district, Charles
Way; second district, Sim Stewart;
Third district, James Daniel; Fourth
district, Jesse A. Borders; Fifth dis
trict Eugene Clark; Sixth district,
William Clifton; Seventh district,
Roy Virgins; Eighth district, Bethel
Edwards; Ninth district, j. P Johns;
Tenth district, Hardy E. Daniel;
Eleventh district, Louis Register;
Twelfth district, Elton Monkey.
Canning Club Winners.
The Girls Canning Club of Hart
county won the first prize with Mus
cogee second, Pickens third, Fayette
fourth; Stewart fifth and Tiff sixth.
Cora Brown of Polk county won first
individual prize, while other prizes
won by the girls include Mamie Ma
son of Banks, Lena Blade of Pike,
Elma Brown of Turner, Josephine
Childs of Stewart, Lena Taylor of
Cherokee, and Maud Nixon of Car
roll
Scholarships given by the Georgia
Bankers Association were won by
Ruth Kirkland of Emanuel, Minnie
Haynes of Wayne, Mabel Hadley of
Jenkins, Ethel R. Tonsey of Wilkes,
Gertrude Davis Of Stevens, Lois
Stevens of Fayette, Maggie Hendrix
of Cobb, Mary Belle Miller of Whit
field, Thelma Williams of Worth,
Lola Bolton of Tiff, Mozelle King of