Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-04
4H CLUBS
RALLY DAY IS HELD
Girl From Mclean Hurt When
GrandStand Rail
ColIapSeS.
Special Dispatch to Tho star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
FAIRFAX, Va, May H-The annual
All Club rally, the big event of the
All Club year, was staged Saturday on
the Fair Grounds here with an attend
ance Of about 800. The morning was
spent in demonstrations. with a pro-
gram Of games and recreation. led by
William Langhorne Leitch, Boy Scout
executive for Northern Virginia, In the
afternoon following q picnic lunch. The
day was marred by only one mishap
when railing on the grandstard gave
way and Eloise Faidley of the Mclean
club fell four or five feet to the ground.
She was taken home for examination.
but her injuries are not believed serious
The main address of the morning was
delivered by Robert Foster of the United
States Department of Agriculture, in
charge Of All Club work in the Eastern
States. He spoke on the power of a
million boys and girls. The program
opened with the club song by all the
members. Each club then gave a
dramatization of song: Annandale,
Little 30 Peep: Baileys Cross Roads.
Three Little Kittens; Burke. Here
We Go Around the Mulberry Bush;
Clifton, Aud Lang Syne"; ForestvilIe,
Choosing the Spring Flowers; Fair
view. Would You Take a Walk With
Me?"; Fort Humphreys Little Jack
Homer; Fairfax, The Old Woman Who
Lived in Shoe; Falls Church. East
Side. West Side; Herndon, Flora Dora
SeXtette" Lorton, Ten Little Niggers";;
Lee Jackson, School Days; Mclean,
Maggie: Oakton.. Betty Washington
Making the Flag; Potters Hill. ooh,
No. John, No; Woodlawn, "follie Ma
lone; Vienna, Aunt Dinah's Quilting
Party"
This was followed by a bread Judging
contest participated in by Onida Cauble,
Irene Daniels, Adrian Tobin, Elizabeth
Golfer, Margaret Clair. Mary Cline,
Kathleen Anderson. Estelle Grenr,
Mary Norton, Dorothy Allison, Alice
Bready, Louise Talbot, Vivian Hart,
Ruth Chesley, Lois Jones, Frances Hef-
fling. This was won by Onida Cauble
of Annandale. The judges were Miss
r. Belle Burke, Mrs. J. A. Mailman and
Mrs. Florence e. James.
The health and growth contest was
judged by DR.. E. S. Waring Of Fairfax,
William Meyer of Herndon, assisted by
Mrs. Margaret Crandall of Annandale.
Each club picked out its best developed
girl. the entrants being Minnie Gentle,
Mildred Dyer, Ann Rust, Julia Robin
son, Mavis KearnS. Jean Bready, Helen
Webb, Vivian Beahm, Margaret Ed
wards, Mary Grove Marjorie Miller,
Helen Daniels Pearl Skinner. Kitty
Birkett, Annie Beach, Betty Mattingly,
Theresa Miller. The contest was won
by Margaret Edwards of Mclean.
The Clifton All Club demonstration
team, Rebecca Myers and Bernice Rig
giles. won the county wide champion
ship with demonstration on Cheaper
Cuts Of Meat" They will represent Fair
fax County in the Statewide contest in
Blacksburg in July. The judges, Miss
Belle Burke, Mrs. J. Hunter Mack and
Mrs. Ruth Allen, had a hard time de-
Gliding between the two contestants.
Clifton's rivals were Margaret Bladen
and Louise Hilleary Of the Annaudale
Club, who gave a demonstration on
Carrots, From Soup to Dessert"
The showing the clubs made at the
rally, including the song demonstra-
tons, was judged by Mrs. ]. q. Kinche-
loe, Mrs. D. j. CARRIER and Edward D.
Vosbury. This score was combined with
the scores on the work Of the year, in
order to select the countrywide winner.
The S. gold piece for the champion
club of the county was awarded to the
two-room school at Fairview, in Lee
district, whose members made an abSo-
lutely perfect score on every point The
schools two teachers are Emmett Day
and Miss S. Dorothy Brown.