The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-10-07
EVANSVILLE COMMUNITY FAIR
Third Annual Event Was Successful
From Every Viewpoint.

TEOHi Every view pOlHl
The Grantsville Community Fair,
which was held on Thursday and Fri
day of week before last, lat the grounds
of the fair association, recently pur-
chased and will be maintained as a site
for future gatherings of this nature,
was the most successful of any fair
the association has conducted during
its activity now covering three years.
Financially, it exceeded the expecta-
tons of the most sanguine of its pro-
motors, and socially it was, as in for
mer years, the means of bringing to-
gether neighbors, friends and rela-
tives in a community spirit with COM
munity interests at heart, and, like one
big, happy family, everybody gathered
together for work and recreation. For,
as everyone knows, it takes work to
plan and carry out any kind of enter
tainment and an agricultural fair is
by no means an exception to the rule,
as it entails a great amount of not
only careful planning, but actual phys
ical labor as well, but our men and our
women worked so faithfully and so
willingly, each committee doing the
work of three ordinary ones, that the
result was success.
The livestock exhibit, with G. H.
Bedell and S. G. Shaw of the Univer-
sity of Maryland Extension Service as
Judges, showed some of the finest cat
tie, horses, pigs and sheep one could
wish to see, while the pens of ducks,
chickens, turkeys, geese, pigeons and
rabbits were delight to the eye.
Several attractive refreshment
booths were well patronized at all
hours, and on Friday music was rem
dered by a colored orchestra from
Frostburg.
One unique distinction in connec-
ton with the fair was the utter alb
sence of any kind of amusements. No
ferris wheel or games of chance were
to be found, it having been the desire
of the association to hold the fair
purely on the merits of an agricultu-
raj and livestock display, with the var
ious other exhibits usually found at
such places, and since the gate re-
ceipts, proceeds from refreshments,
association fees, etc., amounted to the
snug sum of $1,100, it can readily be
seen that the venture was a success.
The entrance fees were but 25 and
Is cents and certificates of member
ship were $1.00 for men and so cents
for ladies. Several hundred dollars
were paid out in prizes and for other
purposes. With the exception of ba-
nanas, ice cream, soft drinks, etc, all
refreshments, including bread, cake,
pies and coffee, We're donated, all be-
ing homemade and most delicious, it
is needless to say.
The display of vegetables of all
kinds was magnificent, and in the
canned fruit, preserves, jellies, ETC.,
department ordinations of apprec a.
ton were heard upon all sides. The
Junior Home Makers Club exhibited
some of the finest canned goods
ever seen.
In the domestic arts corner there
were some beautiful pieces of hand
work, including crochet, tatting, en-
broidery, knitting and other like pro-
ducts. A flag made by Corp. Harry
Patton, who was in overseas service,
and cover made by Harrison Wiley,
also a former service man, were on
display both being done beautifully in
wool. These exhibits were all judg-
ed by Miss Rhea Morgan, Allegany
County Home Demonstration, and Miss
Ora Day, district agent from College
Park, Nd. There were also some pho
geographic exhibits from L. ]. Beachy
and number of other things, includ-
ing renovate adnd remodled wearing
apparel, quilts, rugs, etc. County
Agent j. A. fowler and County Dem
onstrator Miss Laura Henshaw, assis-
ted all through the fair, and the local
committees and officers worked like
beavers to make the Third Community
Fair the success that it was in every
way, even the weather being propi-
tious.
The first registration day for women
was held on Tuesday last, SO names
being entered upon the registers, 46
of them being women. Six men reg
istered as Republicans, two as Dem
ocrats, and the women were about
equally divided, there being % Re-
publicans and % Democrats, and one
, who declined to affiliate with either
party. About one-half the village wo-
men of voting age registered, but
there are still several hundred to be
heard from in the district, and it is
hoped that all women will become
awake to their responsibilities as cit
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