The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-02

red ribbons IN literature; TWO Dlue !
ard one red ribbons in basketry, and
four blue and one red ribbons in the !
culinary department. The girls won
the first prizes on lemon pies, bis
cruits. raisin rolls and country butter.
Their pound of butter had the unique
distinction of bringing $3.50. It took
blue ribbon worth 81 and then sold
for so cents. The basketry exhibit
that the girls made was the prettiest
thing they did and brought them in
E neat little sum towards equipping
their basketball team, because they
sold over s25 worth Of their baskets
during the fair.
The contest between the commu-
mites was very close this year. AL
bought Shady won first place she
was only five points ahead Of Spar
while the other communities followed
close behind. Shady is very proud Of
herself and we'll might she be excused
for her conceit for her booth showed
that she has the goods and Marion
will have to take off its hat to the
folks from Shady. All that Mrs.
Jones tod you about her community
must have been true because the
Judges found them at the top Of the
| list. r he second place in the COM
munity exhibits was awarded to Spar
and 20 he casual eye it would have
been hard to make the decision be-
tween the two but the judges worked
cut On the system Of point by point
ani when the total was struck Shady
had 9I5 points to go for Sparr.
In a corner of the agricultural
building Mrs. H. P. Johnson had a
small stand where she waylaid all
housewives and showed them how to
cook on nothing. Mrs. johnson was
demonstrating and selling the Speng-
term) heat of one burner and makes
three burners out of it. Three in
one would be a good name for her
cooker and when she sells it from
house to house she sells three in one
minute.
| The University of Florida had an
exhibit of especial interest to the
farmers. It's demonstrators had one
side of the agricultural wing which
they used as a picture gallery and
demonstrated the right and wrong
way of packing vegetables as we'll as
many other valuable bits Of informa-
ton to the farmer.
The Florida Lime Company had an
exhibit of its lime both unslaked in
barrels and hydrated in sacks. This
is one of Marion's biggest industries
and it is always interesting to the
people to see some of the products
of our lime kilns.
The culinary department had or
hand a curiosity to most of the peo
Iple. Through the kindness of Mrs
is. A. Moses they had on display two
Brazil nuts These grew somewhere
near Miami and were sent to Mrs
Moses by friends. The nuts were il
their growing state and to the sur
prise of all they did not look like thu
nuts in the market. The small nut
: that we are accustomed to see are In
hull something like a black walnu
but much larger and this hull con
tains eight or nine Brazil nuts ar
ranged like the plugs of an orange
This common and we'll known nu
created a lot of interest. Mrs. L. "
Ponder had much amusement in show
I ing these nuts to her friends an
i inducing them to guess what the
D were. Late in the afternoon, alon
: came the editor of the Star, VIII
i knows nothing about nuts eXceE
l hickorynuts, walnuts, chestnuts, &C
l coanuts and the nuts that are ser
to the asylum. He was so stupi
= that Mrs. Ponder hit him on the bea
S with the nut. His dome was niue
t harder than the shell of the nu
S which broke and let all the little nut
L fall on the floor, whereupon he sai'
80, them's niger toes" (the nam
. they went by when first brought
n the country seventy or eighty yeal
5 ago.. We don't know yet if Mr.
- Ponder has forgiven him.
Both grandstands were we'll file
u Thursday and everybody enjoyed tt
It races very much if one is to jude
,. by the noise they made. Before tt
u Thursday races were over the after
n, ton of the crowd was partially draw
III to the football game between Oca
. and Barlow which took place in tt
/ center of the race track.
IL Taken all in all the fair has bee
- success. The live stock exhib
10 was small and the crowds not so lars
IL as might have been expected but on
ie side of that all had good time.