The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-11-11
CARNIVAL FOR
GLyNN COUNTY
IS ANNOUNCED
Many Attractive Features Are
Announced for Big Benefit
Carnival.
HERE THANKSGIVING WEEK
Many Local Societies and Clubs
Arrange to Make New Hos
pitaI Benefit Huge Success
in this County.
HERE THANKSGIVING WEEK

Among the most attractive features
of the carnival to be held Thanksgiv
ing Week for the benefit of the City
Hospital will be displays of canned
goods and preserves and domestic
science products arc exhibitions of
cattle and hogs and other products
OF Glynn County farms, according to
to a decision reached yesterday by
Miss Marie Anderson, agent of the
Girls Canning Clubs Tor Glynn coun-
ty, and Farm Demonstration Agent
J l.. Dunn, both of whom have been
busy for some time planning exhibits
for the information of the people of
Brunswick
Yesterday it. was decided to ac-
cept proposition from the carnival
management to place the exhibits on
the carnival grounds, thus making it
possible for everyone in Brunswick
and Glynn County tc see them at the
same time the amusements of the car
nival are being enjoyed, and also ad-
ing an attraction that should do
much to increase the sum that will
go to the hospital.
Among the prizes offered by Miss
Anderson to the girls of the canning
clubs are: $500 for the best collec-
ton of II jars of canned vegetables
and fruit; $100 each for the best
sinle jars of tomatoes, okra, canned
pears. picked pearS, pickle relish,
corn apple jelly, grape jelly, and the
best two jars of snapbeans and but
terbeans; and $100 each for the best
exhibits respectively of six biscuits
made by so per cent. flour substitute
receipt, six sweet-potato mullins,
twelve so per cent, peanut waters,
twelve cornmeal cookies, loaf of po-
tato bread, and best pound of butter.
Rules for breadmaking must be fol
lowed Copies may be had on appli-
cation to Miss Marie Anderson
The prizes offered farmers and boys
of the Corn and Pig Clubs, by Farm
Demonstration Agent ]. l.. Dunn, are:
$500 for best bull of any breed; $500
for best heifer nOtover years old;
$500 for best boar of any breed; 50. .0O
for best heifer not over 2 years old ;
more; $500 for best pig under one
year old SIS 90 for best pen of not less
than / cockrel and four pullets of any
breed; $500 for best pair of turkeys
of any breed and $1.00 for each fo1
the following: Best L ears selected
seed corn. best display of cotton on
stalks, best display of velvet beans
shelled and in pod, best three bun
dies of rice, best Dushel of chufas
best bushel sweet potatoes, best dis
play of pecans, best display Of pea
nuts, best display of field peas, best
display of baled hay, county rown
best II stalks of sugar cane, best l.
stalks of sorghum with seed attached
best display of homegrown meat, best
display of syrup, best display OF fresf
vegetables, best bushel of Irish pota
toes, best peck of onions.
The management of the carnival has
agreed to furnish a large tent at the
entrance to the grounds and equlI
it with necessary shelving and lights
believing that the people of Brunswick
and Glynn county will appreciate the
unusual opportunity given them tt
see what is being produced in theil
county and also the fact that the at
traction is, at the same time, having
the effect of aiding the Brunswick
hospital
Circular letters will be sent out b.
both Miss Anderson and Mr. Dunn
giving information as to the contests
for prizes and the rules governing
exhibits and awards.
The best care will be provided fo1
the exhibits during the time they arr
on display.
Contestant will be restricted to pro
ducts raised in Glynn County in veg
etables and fruits, ooth canned ant
fresh, but in matter of livestock th'
fact is recognized that the breeding
of registered or grade stock is 81
new to this section that to show thu
progress being made it is necessar.
to permit exhibits of livestock pul
chased out side of Glynn county ant
brought here by our progressive far
mers for improving the grade of thei