Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-22
ALL HENRY COUNTY TURNS OUT TO
WITNESS ANNUAL CORN AND COLT SHOW
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Mount Pleasant, Oct. 22.-AM Henry
county turned out to attend the OPEN
ing day Of the annual corn and colt
show. Turnout the entire day the
public square was thronged with visit
ors as were the exhibit rooms at the
court house and Y. NJ. G.. A. A repro
duction of the famous Henry county
exhibit of agricultural product which
won first prize at the Iowa state fair
was artistically reproduced in one
of the local store windows and proved
big attraction. The judging OF the
fine stock was held on the east side of
the square where temporary stands
had been erected to accommodate the
crowd. The judging began at o'clock
in the morning and continued until
well into the afternoon. The Henry
county corn and colt show has been
ranked for the past few years as one
OF the strongest of its kind in the state
and judging from the exhibits today 1t
will excel all previous ones.
The baby health contest which is
being run in connection with the corn
and colt show, is being held in the
court house and is proving to be Of
unusual interest. A feature OF this
contest will be a monster educational
parade on Thursday under the super
vision OF Miss Carolyn Campbell.
county superintendent. A band will
accompany the parade and floats rep
resenting all the schools and town
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of march. Miss Mabel C. Bentley. Of
Ames gave an interesting lecture on
the subject of The Child and its Care"
Yesterday afternoon DR.. Winters. Of
Mount Pleasant, lectured on The Care
of the Child's Throat" Over eighty
children were entered in the contest
but the scoring has not been announced
as yet Thursday will be the closing
of the show and a large part OF the
day will be devoted to the annual old
settlers reunion.
Corn Show Awards.
There were many exhibits in the
corn show held in the Y. NJ. c. A.
building. The awards were all made
by Professor Taft, Of Ames, and are
as follows:
Amateur ten ears of yellow corn
II. NJ. Smith, first; Will Glandon.
second.
Sweet corn, ten ears-A. S. Love-
land.
Popcorn. ten ears-Angus Moore.
Single ear, yellow-Ed Breazeale.
Amateur. thirty ears white-Joe
billy grand champion.
Single ear, white-Joe Dilly.
Amateur. ten other than white
Lester Schuerman.
One-half bushel of oats-J. D. Moore.
Professional ten ears yellow-George
Schuerman.
Professional ten ears white-E. l..
Reed.
Champion ten ears white-Elmer
Reer.
Thirty ears other than yellow or
wfiite-J. T. Chandler.
Professional ten ears other than
white or yellow. T. Chandler.
Thirty ears yellow-John Kopp.
Champion single ear-Ed Breazeale.
Amateur ten ears white-Joe Oily.
The following are the wisners Of
premiums at the annual calf show.
Prof Rex Beresford. Of Ames:
Junior dairy calf-First, w. n.
Grove & Sons; second, Newell Moore.
Senior grade calf-First, A. S. Love.
land: second. w. B. Seeley.
Junior grade calf-FirsL Everett
Wright: second, A S. Loyeland.
Senior dairy calf-first. Iowa State
Hospital: second, w. II. Grove & Sons.
Junior Hereford calf registered-First
W. T. Wright; second, Alyins & Jacob
son. :.
Senior Hereford calf. registered-W.
T. Wright.
Junior Angus calf. registered-First.
w. B. Seeley: second. Nelson. Cornick.
Senior Angus calf-W. B. Seeley.
Junior Shortbprn calf, registered
First, George Bird; second, Fred c..
Wiley.
Senior Shorthorn calf, registered
First. L. Garrels; second. A. S. Love-
land.
Champion grade draft = Everett
Wright.
Champion dairy calf, winning rib
bon and trophy-Iowa State Hospital.
Champion Hereford-W. T. Wright
Champion Angus-W. B. Seeley.
Champion Snorthorn-L. GarTeis.
Grand champion calf beef breeds,
winner of trophy Carols.
Grand Parade q Climax.
The efforts OF the association TO Sc
cure a better breed OF live stock. shows
results in the fine list of entries in all
departments in the past three days.
The climax OF the three days celebra-
ton came at o'clock today in the
form of a monster parade over one
mile in length The parade was headed
by the marshals Of the day, who
cleared the streets Of the vast con-
course Of humanity which had over
flowed the reservations IN the park.
The marshais were followed by the
Olds Band, and directly behind them
came twenty automobiles which held
the ninety babies entered in the baby
health contest The educational pro-
cessio1 then drew In behind. and was
in reality the feature Of the parade.
1t was by far the most elaborate pro-
cession that ever passed thru the
streets Of Mount Pleasant. The sue
cess Of this parade was very largely
due 70 the untiring efforts Of Miss
Carolyn Campbell, county superinten-
dent Of schools, and the hearty coop
Grafton of the various teachers. Miss
Campbe1rs work In the interest of the
Henry county schools has recently