Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
Hobby Show At
Gaithersburg Fair
'Highlights Show
Affair Sponsored By Future
Farmers And HOmemakers
Clubs Held Large Success

Clubs Held Large Success
A hobby show, held in connection
with the annual Gaithersburg Com
munity fair almost stole the show
last week, when the annual attrac-
ton sponsored by the Future Far
mers and Homemakers of the high
school opened. Practically every
thing from stamps to trains was
shown while scores of exhibits of
farm and home products completed
the fair.
Grand Champion ribbons were
awarded Philip Watkins for his
stamp collection; Warner Snouffer
for his exhibit of corn and small
grains; Raymond Pool on a Bar
red Rock cockerel and pullet and
to George and Edwin Fry for
showing the best plate of red po-
tatoes and a breeding pen Of
chickens.
Results of the show follow:
Other winners in the poultry
classes included George Crawford,
John Lewis, Hugh Davis, John
Servis, Richard Burdette, Dick
Rock, Billy Darby, Owen Watkins,
Stanley Weeks, Annette Howard
M. Bertchy, Allan King and George
Smith.
George Crawford and the Fry
brothers won first places in the
livestock exhibit.
Winners in the hobby class.
which included such exhibits as
match covers, auto tags, hornets
nests, drawings, bullets, scrap
books, woodwork and models of
airplanes, trains and ships, were
Eugene Nichols, Mervin Ward,
Paul Ellicott, Frank Jarvis, Eu.
gene Benson, Ernest Day, George
Young, Sam Wolfson and Philip
Watkins.
Pet class winners were Fred Fry,
Pauline Whetzel. Betty Harding,
Wash White, Rebecca Peddicord,
Warren Snouffer, Harold English,
Eugene Cunningham and Margaret
Cook. Among the pets shown
were dogs, cats, pigeons, bantam
chickens, rabbits, gold fish and
guinea pigs.
First prize for fruits was attain
ed by Billy Darby, Harold English,
George Crawford and Larry Rey-
nolds.
Vegetable winners included FL
wood Weeks, Harry Bertchy, Rich
ard Burdette, Ray Hawkins, Char
les Green and Ed Beall.
Topping the class for corn and
small grains were Paul Bowman.
Raymond Pool, Billy Glover, Will
stood Upton, John Lewis, Pat Bus
sard, Edward Fry and Donald Kal.
Winners in the clothing class
were Peggy Hines, Clerimond, Rey-
nolds, Helen Mills, Hattie Seek,
Barbara Walker, Ethel Ulachtcr,
Glenna Smith. Louise Mullinix,
Mrs. Cora Howard, Reva Mae
Brown Rita Harrington, Mary
Frances Windham, Betty Lee Wat
kins, Roberta Mead, Daisy Belle
Fraley, Edna Savage, Dolores
Blinkley and Doris Ratcliff.
Confectionery winners included
Bette Lee Watkins, Helen Mills,
Clerimond Reynolds, Ruth Fry, Jo-
sephine Ratcliff, Reva Mae Brown,
Margaret Neel, Peggy Humphrey
Marian Groves, Carol Walker, Vio-
la Brown. Sis Martin, Caroline
Smith, Doris Ratcliff, Dolores
Binkley, Louise Peters, Peggy
Hines, Iris Baadte and Barbara
Walker.
Winners in the handiwork and
paint;noe oIacc uora Malta porton
Helen Shipe, Louise Moore, Helen
O'Neill, Lois Fraley, Marie Lin
thicum, Doris Day, Ruth Harding.
Caroline Ridgely, Eleanor Kephart,
Miriam Groves, Marcella Baker,
Ann Jacobs, Lula Whitley, Betty
Reed, Dorothy Halterman, Ethel
Wachter, Josephine Ratcliff, Betty
Bradley, Keith Willis, Mary Wind
ham, Mary Shaw, Howard Wayne,