Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1929-07-18
Ais Ready For the Big Island Carnival
Friday and Saturday Except the Crowd
WE'LL ALL BE MERRY AND GO
ROUND ON THE MERRY GO ROUND

ROUND ON THE MERRY GO ROUND
In case your memory has failed, and
you have forgotten what 1t is all about.
! the Vashon Business Mems Club wishes
to again call the attention OF the public
to the fact that on Friday evening and
Saturday, all day, July 18th and 20. at
the Community Club grounds, will be
pulled off the fast and furious carnival
they have been planning for the last
two months.
Tim and DR.. McMurray, the presi-
dent and manager of the Club have
been going around the last ten days
like the proverbial button on barn
door, so it is not hard to believe that
nothing has been left undone. All that
remains to be done is for the crowd to
get together and have the time of our
lives.
First and foremost there will be the
merry y-go-round, which is already on
the grounds, ready for business to-
morrow evening. The report is cur
rent that no blondes will be allowed to
ride, but this is false, for YOU can ride
on the merry-go-round, no matter
what the color of your hair happens
to be, in fact you can ride even though
YOU are entirely bald. Freckles and
sunburn will not bar you.
Farther along will be the country
store, where for trifling sum you may
acquire anything from package of
rubber hairpins to sack of flour.
Merchandise for this has been donat-
ed not only by the local merchants
but by several Seattle wholesale and
retail houses.
Various games of skill and luck will
be at hand to make you believe that
this is your lucky day
The creased pole, with five dollar
bill for the man, woman, boy or girl
lucky enough to ascend its heights, is
set up. SO just get sanded up. and get
into climbing trim and 1t will be yours
(the bill, not the pole).
At two O'Clock the first race will be
pulled off. In order to maintain
secrecy Of the deepest. darkest. most
tantalizing degree, the committee re-
fuses to divulge the order in which
these races are to be staged. All they
ask is that everyone be on hand. for
there will be races for all, no matter
how young or old, fat or thin, tall or
short. And that's not all, there will be
prizes, too.
For everyone who has already ac-
cumulated SO much filthy lucre from
the berry fields that new car Is
forthcoming, there will be some Of the
spifiiest cars on display that ever
came to the Island. Not every COM
munity can combine business with
pleasure in this manner So even
though you feel that you must purchase
d car on that day there can be no
better place to sign on the dotted line
than right on the carnival grounds.
The ladies of the Community Club
will serve everything from hot dog
to whole meal so you don't need TO
bring your lunch In your pocket.
Once more you are reminded that
the money realized from this day of
fun and frolic will not be used for any
selfish purpose, but will be used partly
to add TO the ire-fighting equipment
of the vashon fire department, and
partly to help bring about, the reality
of the new union high school we are
all so anxious to build This is but the
beginning of what the Island is going
to do when 1t gets started so let's not
wait any longer to get started.
The youngsters have been pretty
busy picking fruit, and It's no fair
working all day Saturday, anyway. SO
Just pay them off and tell them you
we're young once yourself. and what's
more you're still young. Maybe there
never will be another carnival on the
Island while we are all this young. SO
we'd better meet all the rest OF the
gang there, and have the best time
ever.
When7 Friday evening and all day
Saturday, July 10Th and goth.
Where2 The Island Club Com
munity Home) vashon-
Why2 To raise funds for two i'm
portant community projects.
Who? Just everybody.
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