Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-19
Dogs Of All Types
Admired by 10000 al
Fredericksburg Mart
By Richard Rodgers
Stor Stoff Correspondent

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Oct.
19.-More than 10000 admirers
of Mans Best Friend showed up
today at the Fredericksburg Dog
Mart. And a lot of them went
home with barking bargains.
The cheapest transaction on
record was for rs cents. That's
what a damp little pound of
week-old mongrel fetched. At
that, he did better than his two
brothers. They were sold in a 81
package deal.
Highest Price Is $40.
A big coon dog brought $40.
That was the highest recorded
price today but there may have
been higher ones on the sidelines,
where owners and buyers reached
terms without bothering to call
in the auctioneer.
Only 81 dogs were bought of
the block. Thirty-some others
were offered but bidders didn't go
as high as the owners demanded.
Almost 200 assorted dogs were
entered in the show preceding
the auction.
The grand championship rib
bon went to a 2-year-old Irish
setter owned by DR.. David w.
Scott of Fredericksburg.
A scabrous spaniel who started
losing his hair years ago, and has
his nudity project almost COM
Ipleted, won the prize in the ugliest
mutt division.
He barely nosed out a pop
eyed brute with a mastiff's head,
a dachshund's torso and a Dali
matian's pelt.
In the biggest dog contest. q
coon dog won easily. He was
shown by Tommie Franklin, 81,
of Richmond, Va, and Mr.. Frank
lin ought to be able get a pretty
price for him, once a description
of the animal reaches the Basker-
villes.
The day included contests for
humans, too.
Samuel Ford. colored, a g.
year-old Chancellor CVa.) farmer
took the title in the fox-horn-
blowing contest. Mr.. Ford's in
strument, a followed horn from
a long-dead steer, had an in
dividuality of tone unequaled by
anything else heard during the
day
Kermit Aylor, A. Of Madison,
Va, triumphed over fellow en-
trants in the hog calling contest
Mr.. Aylor's aria was tremen-
dous. Curis covered for Is minutes
after he finished.
The show started with a parade
through downtown Fredericksburg
Not a long parade-officials had
laid out a route that would avoid
AS many fireplugs and other dis
fractions as possible.
Affair Started in 1898.
This annual tribute to the pooch
started in 1898. The Indians and
white settlers agreed to a cease
fire once a year so the tribes could
buy the settlers hunting dogs.
The settlers did all right, too.
They got gold and furs from the
braves.
This went on until about the
time of the Revolution. While the
whites were growing weary of
England's gouging. the Indians
were getting pretty tired of being
gouged by the settlers. The true
seasons were called off and both
sides went back to giving tfleir
opponents haircutS.
In 1927 the mart was revived
and has continued since, except
during World War II. Affairs be-
tween Indians and those who
pushed them off the land are
friendlier. Today a troupe of
comely squaws from the Pamun-
key Tribes reservation in King
William County danced some of
the routines their ancestors used
to put on years ago.
The only ill-will exhibited at
this years market was between
the exhibits themselves. And
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