Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-10-05
AGRICULTURliL NEWS NOTES
Morgan County Picnic

Overlooking with sandwiches, sal
ads, baked beans, chicken, meats
pies, and cakes held the sumptuou
| dinner for the visitors of the fourth
annual Morgan County Farmers
1 picnic. Is gallons of coffee was pro
vided to quench the thirsty appe
tites Of the "hearty eaters" Cream
| for the coffee was furnished by tn,
/, Muskingum Valley Creamery. Mrs
Margaret Curran, chairman of the
1 dinner committee, reported tina
more than 500 were served, ant
that the dinner was the largest ant
most efficiently served of any tha
she has ever attended. While the
people were eating, the M.&M. higl
school orchestra furnished music
and added in a great way to the sue
cess of the entire picnic.
BY afternoon the automobiles
and crowd that had gathered made
the fair grounds take on the aspect
| of the recent fair. Conservative es-
Inmates place the number of people
assembled at one thousand which is
also a record breaker for this event.
Mr.. Murray d. Lincoln, Executive
Sec'y Of the Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation, was late in arriving at
the grounds and some anxiety was
manifested about this part of the
program. However, he finally ar
rived by automobile from Columbus
and was very shortly introduced to
the crowd by Mr.. Oliver Edgerton.
His speech on the subject of farm
organizations in Ohio and what
they are doing held the attention OF
the majority for almost an hour
His talk was followed by brief
and humorous reading by DR.. Stull
A matter of business which con-
cerned only farm bureau members
was introduced by the chairman fol-
lowing the speeches. 1t was decid-
ed by those voting that the date of
the annual county farm bureau
meeting be changed to November,
instead of in January as is provided
by the constitution. A motion was
also made by j. A. Hambleton that
the picnic next year be held on July
4th, and that 1t be made coun-
ty event and to include town folks
and business men.
Chester Strong, o. L. Young,
and B. F. Fulks, and Carl Bark
hurst were in charge of the athletic
contests. The following list gives
the awards and the winners:
100 yd. dash. open, 1st prize, 81,
Clifford Greatlouse: End prize,
open, soc, Raymond James: 100 yd.
dash. boys 1914. 1st soc. Fred
Whitehouse. End. Csc. Thomas Crr-
ran; 100 vd. dash, bows under 10,
1st, soc, Donald Mccormick, End.
25c, Robert Barkhurst; so yd. fat
mans race, 1st, 81. Fred farmiter.
End, soc. John Carter: so yd. dash,
girls and women, 1st. 81, Temple
Dawson, End, soc, Emma Davis;5 so yd
dash, girls 1914. 1st soc, Marjory
Dawson. 2nd, 25c, Marjory Best;
so yd. dash. girls under 10, 1st,
soc. Dorothy Cosgrave. End, Csc.
marguerite Knox: Once around
track-1st, 81, Raymond James.
2nd. soc. Chester Roberts; Open
relav. teams. 1st, So End, 81.
First team--Chester Roberts, For
est Patterson. Ernest Roberts, For
est Mummey; Second team-Clif-
ford Greathouse, Raymond James,
Roy James. Floyd McInturf; Relay,
hoys, teams 1st. 50. End, 81.
First team-Thomas Curran, Orin
Patterson. Robert Glenn, Lewis
Strong; Second team Gerald An
derson, Donald Mccormick, Robert
Barkhurst, Bernard Knox; Baseball
throwing contest, open, 1st, soc,
Branson Miller, 2nd, Csc, Ernest
Tenent: Baseball. girls, 1st, soc,
Jessie Cordray, End, Csc, Margaret
Bone; Wheelborrow race, 1st, 81,
End, soc. First team-Bernard Pat
terson, F. A. McInturf; End team
Chester Roberts. Ernest Roberts;
Three-legged race. 1st. 81. End, soc.
First team--Chester Roberts, Ev
erett Roberts; End team-Ernest
Roberts, Forest Patterson: Sack
race, 1st, 81, Chester Roberts, End,
soc. Forest Patterson Running
broad jump. 1st, 81, Ernest Rob-
erts, End. soc, Forest Mummey;
Running broad jump, boys. 1st. soc.
Thomas Curran, End, 25c, Dean
Smith.
Mistakes Corrected
In the Beef Calf club award list
published, James Carrel, Bristol
township, was omitted through mis-
take. The corrected list is given as
follows: Orville Elliott, trip to club
week: Zeolia Gessel, $780, Cecil
Lawrence, $500; Raymond Reed,
$500; James w. Carroll, $1.00;
Pansy Bragg, $1.00.
Township Notes
East Windsor community, Wind
sor township was represented by
their farmers institute committee
who met and planned the coming
institute to be held on November
"a and 25. The committee met at
East Windsor grange hall on Tues
day, Sept. 26. Mr.. X. W. Barnes is
president and Mrs. Dell Daugherty
secretary of the institute.
Club Week Nov. 2O-25
Nov. 20-25 inclusive, are the
dates for club week this year. Over
600 farm children, county cham
pions, in 81 of the 88 Ohio coun-
ties, will be brought to Columbus
by their local leaders for the week.
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