Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-08-05
Fair
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of the 80 is typical and the fact
that the last County Fair turned
in neat $4,000 profit - any
profit would go to agricultural
scholarships and not to mem
bers.
Any way you look at it, there.
fore, the work of the 80 men on
the hottest day in 18 years rep.
resented community service in
the form of a desire to make the
Montgomery County Fair bigger
and better, and the neighborly
willingness to work together
without pay and at the tempo
rary neglect of personal bust
ness.
The men, hard at work on car.
pentry, sheet metal and cleo
trical jobs from $50 am. until
milking time, saw nothing unus-
ual or particularly praiseworthy
in what they were doing. But
more than one onlooker com.
mented on the undertaking as a
modern survival of the old pio-
neer self.reliance and willingness
to help one another. In similar
fashion, in the Montgomery
County of 100 years ago, neigh
bors might have met to help a
newcomer in a "barn-raising."
Most of the 80 were County
farmers. But not all. Rabbit
and goat breeders came from the
Washington area and Virginia.
The rabbit men" were particu-
larly willing to explain.
'The Montgomery County Fair
is the best place we have to ex-
hibit," one of them from Virginia
said. mot only do we have pens
provided and the premiums are
the highest on the East Coast.
We want to show our apprecia-
ton by helping out"
r. H. Farquhar of Sandy
Spring was more laconic: mo, l
don't have anything to exhibit at
the Fair" he said, Il just think
its a good thing" Then he
climbed back on the roof and re.
sumed his carpentry.
In all, well over 100 County
men have worked on the project
which involves roofing and fin
Using the 10 by 112 foot main
cattle pavilion, the 26 by "a dairy
parlor, the "a by 100 foot sheep
and swine barn and the SO by
100 foot dairy and goat barn.
And alo If them obviously think
the Fair is a good thing" be-
cause a good many of them have
been working without pay on the
job since last February and 9TH
ers have either donated mater
ials or made them available at
cost.
1t all started last February
when the logging committee of
the Fair cooperative got permits
sion from Isadore Kudusky of
Contee Sand and Gravel and w.
w. Rappley of Potomac to cut
about $4,000 feet of timber for,
the buildings.
The timber was cut and logged
with Richard c. Hunt, Fair care
taker, hauling it to the saw mill
on the Fair grounds.
Then building ontractors Har-
old Ward of Wrathen and Ward
and Joe Heck, Jr. of Camp and
Heck laid the buildings out -
put in the footings and got
things in concrete shape.
Next step was for w. L. King,
farmer and Gaithersburg bust
to accept appointment
as building chairman, and send
out the call for his fellow work
ers. Mr.. King and R. N. Whip,
Center Secretary and assistant
county agent, insist that from
the start the project just sort of
ran itself.
How is it that each man knows
what part of the building to
work on? ooh, they just natur-
ally pitch in on whatever they
do best after their regular job"
How are foremen like Sidney
Mills of the stock pavilion ap-
pointed? well, the boys just
sort of recognize the man who is
best qualified and let him call
the signals"
Everybody agrees that the
Saturday noon on-the-spot lunch
es served by ladies of the Coop
kept things moving with more
vim and vigor. Ladies who are
helping in this way include: the
Misses Nancy and Hazel Lech.
lider and Mrse. Earl Lechlider of
Gaithersburg; Mines. Louis Leth-
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