The Republican., 1925-09-24
EVANSVILLE COMMUNITY ALL SET FOR The CARRET
FAIR WAS ATTRACTIVE COUNTY FAIR NEXT WEE]
Exhibits of Live Stock, Poultry
Farm Products and WOmen's
Work Were The Features

Grantsville Community conducted
its eighth annual Fair at the fair
grounds adjoining the town on last
Thursday and Friday, September II
and 1S, with a measure of success
never before equalled according to
some of the officials of the associa-
ton, hence they feel that their eff
forts, which had its inception long
time ago and in a small way, have
not been in vain and that from now
on the Fair will grow and expand
and become greater with each sue
ceeding year.
Grantsville community is well sit
uated as a center for a successful ag-
ricultural fair. The community is
one of the first to be settled in this
whole section of the country, hence
the people were brought up as agri-
culturalists and orchardists and their
children have followed in their foot
steps through generations, but the
later farmers have adopted the mod
ern methods of conducting the busi-
ness and as a result have forged to
the front in every branch of their
calling. This holds true not only re-
specting the tilling of the soil and
its seeding and harvesting, but in the
raising Of live stock they have i'm
ported purebred cattle and horses in
such quantities that it is no uncom-
mon sight to see fields containing
specimens of the highest bred cattle
and sheep to be found anywhere in
the country.
This was brought home to the OBJ
server when the Fair was visited at
Grantsvville on the above dates. In
the cattle sheds were to be seen some
of the finest bred animals to be found.
For instance, a Shorthorn COW, which
weighed 1890 pounds, Grantsville
bred and reared, alongside other ami
mails not so large of course, but per-
Feet pictures of breeding, were upon
exhibition. Sheep and swine were also
in evidence in large numbers and
these, too, were attractive. Poultry
had a department all of its own. A
large number Of fancy as well as
dependable breeds of fowls were eX-
hibited.
In the farm and garden exhibits,
grain and vegetables were exhibited
in great profusion and the arrange
ment must have been managed by an
artist or at least one having su-
perlative touch of artistic ability, for
everything in this line was perfect.
The womens department, compris-
ing domestic arts and science work,
was an attractive feature par excel
lent and contained almost every i'm
aginable article that could be made
prepared by the hand of the fair sex.
The attendance both days was
large, especially that of Friday, when
a large number of Oakland people
and quite a few from Meyersdale,
Pa, showed their interest by attend
ing. Band music was furnished both
days by the Elk Lick (Pa.) concert
band, an organization of some twen-
ty or more pieces.
An added feature of the Fair was
the booth of G. Broadwater & Son,
which was worthy of comment, es-
pecially the miniature store built by
Nevin Broadwater, the first of the
kind shown at any previous Fair.
Every passerby was attracted by it.
Also the exhibit Of the flour and
feed products of the Washburn Cros-
by Co., namely, Gold Medal brands,
with the assistance of the company,
they placed before the feeders of
poultry and stock valuable informa-
ton regarding the feeding.
The following prizes were awarded
in each department, namely:
Live stock Draft Horses-Brood
mare, 1st, Roy Beachy; 2nd, Casper
Loechel; 3rd, Roy Beachy Gelding,
1st, E. }. Beachy.
Pure Bred Shorthoin Cattle-Bull
list, Guy Stanton; 2nd, Josiah w
burst; 3rd, Irwin Baker. Cow, 1st
and 2nd, G. Fay Shaw; 3rd, Guy Stan
ton. Heifer, lst, Guy Stanton; End
G. Fay Shaw. Calf, (female), 1st, G
Fay Shaw; Bird, f. J. Beachy.
J Grades. Shorthorn, Mature Cow
, list, f. ]. Beachy; 2nd, Milton Baum
Calf, 1st, Milton Baum, Grade Jersey
Heifer, 1st, Daisy Shoemaker; 2nd
G. Fay Shaw. Grade Jersey Cow
1st, ]. L. Stanton; End, Casper L0e-
chel; 3rd, WILDER Hershberger. Grade
Guernsey Cow, 1st, J. A, Beachy
Grade Jersey Calves, lst NarkeI
Stanton
Pure Bred Guernsey Bull-1st, VI
G.. Toarhel. 2rd ycga,eh Tivanraod