The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-24
May Day Fete By Fed
GRAFTON Of Clubs
Homemakers Stage Gala Open
Air Festival At West
Nottingham


Favored with ideal weather condi-
lions the Cecil County Federation of
Homemakers Clubs staged a gala
May Day Fete at West Nottingham
on Saturday, that drew attendance
from all sections of the county.
The morning session and business
meetings of the Clubs were held in
the Presbyterian church, where re-
ports of the various officers of the
Federation, as well as presidents of
the different clubs and the Home
Demonstration Agent were listened
to, goal prizes awarded and other
routine business disposed of.
At the noon hour lunch was served
by the ladies of the Missionary So
eiety in the chapel. So literally
was this popular feature patronized
that the ladies had their hands more
than full attending to the demands of
the multitude, over two hundred par
taking of the excellent lunch pro-
vided.
Following the midday luncheon
the assemblage again gathered in the
church for community singing, di-
rected by Mrs. j. B. Fassitt, and lis
tened to the greetings of State Home
Demonstration Agent, Miss Venia M.
Kellar, and an address by Mrs. Hes
ter B. Provenson, of Washington,
D. G.
At the close of the exercises in the
church those in attendance there, as
we'll as hundreds of others, swarmed
over the beautiful Academy campus
to the place chosen for the outdoor
Spring Festival, where on the green
sward throne for the May Queen
had been erected, the gentle slope of
the spacious campus at that particu-
lar point forming natural ampi-
theatre, fanked about by grand old
trees, and providing an ideal setting
that could not be surpassed in
beauty, for the presentation of the
5pectacIe in which each club played
an important part.
The Spring Festival, which was in
the form of a pageant, with May
Queen browning and May Pole dance,
was directed by Home Demonstration
Agent, Miss Viola Cook, with Mrs.
]. B. Fassitt at the paino. The
various parts taken were: Morning
Came Early" Calvert Club and Prin-
cipio Club; Cornish May Song,"
Charlestown Club; May Queen, Miss
Marian Graham, Charlestown Club;
attendants, Miss Betty Leslie. Mrs.
Phoebe Mench, Miss Virginia Arm
our, Miss Henrietta Bouchelle, Mrs.
Fred Hill, Mrs. J. G. Emrey, Miss
Elsie Rea, Mrs. Andrew Stanley, Mrs.
Clement Mackie, Miss Jane Ceilings,
Miss Lydia Warrington, Miss Evelyn
Bayles; flower girl, Jean Davis;
crown bearer, Billy Hicks; corona
ton, D. B. Mcdowell, president Cecil
County Farm Bureau; Come Let Us
Be Joyful" Aiken Club; coats, Pears
and Barley Crow" Tiny Tots; 81
Love Little Willie," Lewisville Club;
Lark In the Morn" Appleton Club;
'Tiratomba," Childs Club and War
wick Club; ooh, Susanna" Cherry
Hill Club; "a Hunting We Will Co."
Colora Club; "The Keeper" Hope
we'll Club; Generous Fiddler" Les
lie Club; Come To The Fair" Lib
erty Grove Club; Roses" Charles
town Club and Liberty Grove All
Club; Recessional May Queen, fol-
lowed by America the Beautiful"
The pageant was well presented
and much enjoyed by the large as
semblage, the May Queen and May
Pole features being especially pretty.
Taken all in all, the Clubs have every
reason to feel proud over the success
of their May Day Fete.