Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-13
FOOD SAVING SHOW
ENDED BY CONTEST
Of HEFTY VISITORS
+. II. BEDFORD, Veteran Of
ficer, Tips Scales at
1858 1-2 Pounds.
OFFICIAL WEIGHER is BUSY
BALANCING HEAVY CITIZENS
Average of 1000 Persons Daily
Attend Times-Dispatch Edu-
cational Exposition.
SEVERAL SPECIAL FEATURES
Dances BY Children, and Singers
Entertain Throngs on Last
Night OF Event.
OFFICIAL WEIGHER is BUSY
BALANCING HEAVY CITIZENS
SEVERAL SPECIAL FEATURES
Dances by Children, and Singers
Entertain ThrOngs ON Last
Night OF Event.

H. ri. BEDFORD. veteran Richmond
Policeman. custodian OF the Second
Police Station. won the pr.zc offered
py The Times Dispatch for the latest
I.an present at the Food Saving EN-
position yesterday and last night
City Weighmastcr Long presided at
ihc scales Slr. BEDFORD registered
US l.2 pounds.
INQUIRIES a, the Second Police Sta
iRat Mr.. itedtord had been on the
lfIce getting fat for twenty-five years.
'id that there was enough available
.nnde around the station for this
,,eieran guardian OF the peace TO read
IN. Times Dispatch in comfort all
summer
years subscription 20 The Times
y!Spatch was the prize offered an$'
visitor 10 the exposition who we!ghei
iile greatest number OF pounds over
omcinI weIEher Busy.
Inc omcial we!gher was KEEP. busy
all the evening weighing fats and
near-fa,s. Everybody who tipped the
scales at 200 or over was presented
with ticket to the show.
a careful record was kept OF The
10 whom the doors of the exposition
opened wide in respec; TO their sur
plus avoirdupo!s was long one. for
the Eat people were not as sensitive
as tho red heads.
Miss Gabriel Holsback. 4os Mort.
Third street. 3li pounds was the
heaviest OF the many women who
weighed. Others who were accorded
light Ugh Of ,,, way Va, last night we're C. H.
pounds; j. II. Collins. 2i3 IL Loui-
stana Street. 2eo pounds. and Mrs. j..
III. Collins, 22l pounds; Il. $. Davis,
iis South Belyidere street. 2s2 pounds;
Mrs. Joseph Hines, i03 Montcrio Ave-
nue.. 236 pounds: r. \. Tal!aferro. al2
East Clay Street, els L. pounds; j.
+. Burkhardt. el2 East Clay street.
East franklin Street, EOS pounds; Mrs.
u. NJ. Lowry, % North Lombardy
street, siS pounds; Mr.: I g,a
pounds; Mrs. w, r. Gudgen, io0e West
Cary Street. 254 l-2 pounds: Mrs. T.
Huff, 6l5 North Eighth Street. 227
pounds, young woman at 1870
Second Avenue. Highland Park. who
failed to give her name al the ticket
One CoIored Candidate.
Only. one representative OF the
eolored rage claimed IN! The. pTintie t;e,, Of
Lilly, OF III West Cary Street. who
weighed exactly 200 pounds.
The exposition closed a. 10 o,c!ock
GU; among the booths regular cir
Gus crowd. tired, but happy. Every
body was N a good humor and every
bod, praised the food show.
Sales managers displayed orderbooks
showing thousands OF dollars worth of
new business as u result of the inter
css aroused by the exhibits at the food
show. Out-of-town firms were especial
y pleased with Richmond's enterprise
in patronizing purely educational
venture In that eXh! bitorS and demon
s;rators sold none OF their products
in their booths.
average Of 1000 people daily IN attend
ancc at the show for the entire week.
Special Closing Features.
The exposition closed with many
special features to entertain tia great
crowd which WAS present tn. entire
PARTICULARLY enjoyable feature OF
The evenings entertainment was the
dancing of two of Miss Ella Bintord's
little pupils-Miss Dorothy Duski and
Miss Lillian Green.
The children danced number OF
fancy dances in cotsume in the gallery
OF the drill hall 10 the great enjoyment
OF the spectators on the floor below.
From the gallery, also, George L..
Boyden, a Boston musician. and another
singer in the crowd below sang Wait
ing for You"
Mrs. Wilson left at o'clock this
4norning for Philadelphia to report to
the commanding officer of the United
states Navy station there. she being
still In the service of the government.
Guests OF Mrs. Wilson at her lecture
Yesterday were number of Catholic
SISTERS. Benedictine. Franciscan and
from the Cathedral School. who eX-
pressed their pleasure in Mrs. Wilson's
talk and demonstration, and the educa-
tional value of the exhibits in the