Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-09
MARLBORO FAIR
OPENS TOMORROW
Banner Year Expected at
Annual Southern Mary
land Exhibition.
BY GEORGE PORTER,


UPPER MARLBORO, Md, September
disappointment of judges and enlarge
ment of physical equipment having been
completed last week, officials of the
Southern Maryland Agricultural Fair
Association were today putting the
finishing touches" to their arrange
ments for their annual fair which opens
tomorrow, while the clerical force Of
the organization was fully occupied in
caring for entries in the various classes.
According to William G. Brooke,
secretary, the entries in every class out
number those of previous years. They
have been pouring into his Office by
mail during the past week.
The ma jority of exhibits will be entered
today, but competitors in the farm prod
ucts classes will be allowed to file their
exhibits up TO 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning, when all exhibits must be de-
livered In the main hall, except flowers
Wednesday before $50 am.
Many Live Stock Entries.
The number of live stock exhibits has
specially increased this year, the secre-
tary says, emphasis being placed on
cattle and sheep entries. The horse
show held last year on the opening day
will this year be omitted. The usual
racing program will feature the after
starting stalls, seen in Maryland for
the first time at Bowie last Spring, will
be used here to help handle the spirited
racers before the barrier is sprung.
Judges have been appointed by the
Extension Service of the University of
Maryland as follows F. W. Oldenburg,
specialist in agronomy, to judge farm
crops other than tobacco; K. A. Clark,
live stock; w. H. Rice, poultry, and F.
w. GeiSe, f1oriculturiSt, to judge home
gardens and garden exhibits. Louis p.
Ranst of the Tobacco Growers Associa-
ton will judge the tobacco exhibits and
also the All Club boys teams judging
contest.
Woman Judges.
Judges of the women's exhibits. to
include clothing, fancy work, canned
goods, ETC., have been named by the
County Federation of Women's Clubs
on the recommendation of Miss Venia
M. Kellar of the Extension Service as
follows:
Miss Margaret McPhetters, nutrition
specialist; Miss Catherine Cowsill, Mrs.
Georgiana Linthicum, county agent of
Anne Arundel County, and Miss Maude
Burklin.
The County Federation of Women's
Clubs plans to use the time during the
judging of exhibits on Wednesday, when
the exhibit hall will be closed for a
federation picnic on the Fair Grounds,
according to Mrs. Rudolph S. Allen,
president Of the organization.
Mrs. John Alcock, president of the
State Federation of Womens Clubs, has
been invited to attend this event. De-
tailed plans for the picnic have not
been completed, but it is expected to
hold several important committee meet
ings In conjunction with it.
The booth exhibits in the federation
hall at the fair grounds are to be at
tended by at least two members of the
exhibiting clubs as hostesses each day.
For the first time this year the
federation Is also featuring a depart
mental exhibit. This treats of the
seven departments through which the
federation functions: American citi-
zenShip. American homes, fine art, edu-
cation, legislation, press and publicity
and public welfare.