Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-12-02

The fourth annual Community
Show of Worcester County closed its
doors at the Worcester County Court
House last Saturday night. 1t was
the biggest and best of all the prev
ious events and County Agent +. |.
Oswald and Miss Lucy Walter, super
visor of Home Service, received con-
gratulations from hundreds of visit
ors who saw the show and are inter-
ested in the development of the
county.
There were 200 individual exhibit
tors and 2200 different articles were
entered and displayed in the court
room and corridors of the Court
House. The display was set in a
beautiful autumnal decoration of
colorful branches from native hard
woods, pines and cypress. The ar
tistic merit of the display alone
should have won prize, but as none
of intrinsic worth was offered, it had
adequate praise in the admiration of
the visitors.
The special features of the show
were the community displays of
Newark and Williams. Newark's
booth was placed in the lower cor
ridor, in an alcove, and artisically
arranged were hundreds of articles
of household work, domestic science
and products of the farm and garden.
In national displays Newark'S boys
have won first recognition in Boys
Club work and some of the products
were shown.
The Williams community featured
canned goods and vegetables and its
decorations of native pines and ever
greens at the entrance to the Court
room was portal to the main dis
play.
Newark Wins First Prize
Newark won first prize and Will
liams second.
Farm displays which won prizes
were made by Robert Davis, Cedar
Lawn Farm first, and +. j. Dukes
and Brother, second. In the Cedar
Lawn display were served mammoth
pumpkins, the heaviest weighing l76
pounds, and unusual farm and gar
den products. The feature of the
Dukes displays were the beautiful
apples and corn. The Dukes Broth
ers won the first prize for apples.
This display consisted of l6 boxes of
Stayman Wine Sap and Rome variet-
les, together with 200 plates of Beauty
Stark, Green's Golden and Jonathan
arranged in and around the judges
bench. These apples were of the
highest grade and would have won
recognition in any horticultural show.
which proves that Worcester County
can come into its own as an apple
growing section if it will but carefully
cultivate its apple orchards.
Castle Hill Orchard won the sec
ond apple prize, but was close COM
petitor of the winner of the first
prize. Its display consisted of North
Western Greenings, York lmperials
and Black Twig.
The Boys Club display prize was
won by Charles Timmons of c. b.,
and consisted of everbearing straw
berries, cotton and garden vegetables;
the Girls Club display canned goods,
vegetables and jelies. Both displays
were noteworthy and showed advance
ment over former shows and that the
boys and girls were becoming better
trained in the work pertaining to COM
munity development.
One of the attractive features of
the Community Show was the "Baby
Show" conducted by Miss Wilson,
County Nurse. II babies were en-.
tered and they were splendid speci-
mens-never saw so many pretty,
healthy youngsters at one time. Bar
bara Ardis, little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Ardis, of near Snow
Hill, took the first prize. with little
Madeline Griffin, close second.
Snow Hill High School Leads
The displays of the high schools
also showed advancement over pre-
vious years. the manual training and
domestic science departments show
ing work that would compete with the
trained artisan. Snow Hill High
School won the first prize and Stock
ton the second.
In the department of fancy needle
work 45O articles were displayed.
Mrs. Dundon Ames. with her dis
play of li0 varieties of canned fruits,
vegetables and meats out-heintzed
the "57 varieties" and won first prize
for her household display. The second
prize in the household department
was won by Mrs. William X. Truitt
of Indiantown. Mrs. Handy Truitt, of
the same neighborhood, won a special
prize for a basket carved from an
oval-shaped pumpkin and filled with
garden vegetables of the first grade.
Cut and potted flowers were an at
tractive feature of the houshold dis