Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-03-22


Radon station VICAR is sind
ing a mobile unit to broadcast
from the festival from 200 to
$50 pm, on Saturday after
noon, with the good friend of
the festival, Hal Morgan, presid-
ing.
This year for the first time.
tn Golden Wedding party will
be held on Saturday under the
capable leadership of Marion
Parker. This years Golden We'd
ding party, as in the past, will be
held at the high school on Mem
orial Drive, just off of Chardon
Avenue, with all folks who have
been married fifty years or lon
ger being invited.
Sunday, April 8 will again see
pancakes and sausage being SER
we'd for breakfast in almost ev-
cry nook and Granny of the
town, with that delicious Geauga
County maple syrup natrally
being served. This year the fes-
ival board is holding a relig-
ious song festival in the school
auditorium on East Park Street,
with ther service beginning at
900 am. This service will be
under the supervision and lead
ership of DR.. Walter c. Corey of
Chardon. After the close of
church services Sunday morning
a large crowd will be on hand
to welcome two trains which
will arrive in Chardon 12:15 and
1890 from Canton, Akron, War
ren and Cleveland. These trains
are sponsored by the Railroad
Historical Society and will bring
approximately 5000 visitors to
maple festival. Thet will leave
Chardon at Ais and 4:30.
Last years festival brought a
record crowd of 150,0O people
to Chardon and if all signs are
proven true this years crowd
will set an all time record Tor
visitors.
Sunday the parade will be led
by Ohio'S Governor Frank J.
Laushe together with the fes-
tival queen and her attendants,
with the parade beginning at
800 pm, Sunday afternoon.
Sundays parade will feature to-
gether with the floats from Sat-
urday's parade, any and all com
mercial or non commercial
floats on any subject or theme,
with 1St, End and 3rd prizes
being awarded for the be st
float, of $500, $500 and $1,000
each.
During the three days of the
festival an antique show will be
held in the school auditorium
on East Park Street, with all
antiques displayed being for
sale. Also for Four Woodsmen
from Painesville, Ohio, a now
famous barbershop quartet, a.
long with their Model T Ford,
will entertain the visitors at the
festival during the three days.
Other attractions will include
NOUS wagon; demonstrations of,
concerts by the famous Chardon
Rube Band who will be drawn
through town on their equally fa-
nous wagon; demonstrations O
syrup making from the crude
iron kettle swung over an open
fire used by the first white
families who settled in this area
in 1898 to the modern sanitary
conditions, operating evapora-
tors in use today; log saving
and demonstrations of the tap
ping of the naples and sap ga
thering. The boy scouts again
will have an important part on
the program this year as they
will build and man a telephone
and boadcasting system in the
park and will have an extern
slve exhibition showing te var
ious activities of the boy scouts
along with an opportunity to
enable them to pit their various
SkillS in several contests.
This years price for maple
syrup will be $3.50 a gallon
with the syrup sales being hand
led by the Geauga County Hos
pital association.
The festival will again feature
two songs written by Mrs. A.
( B, Georgia. Cook, with Sugar
ing in the Spring" as the fes-
t1Val theme song. These songs
have been recorded and records
OF both songs will be on sale
IN the village during the festival.
Again, as in the past, the fes-
tival will feature rides for the
klddies and a special attrac-
ton will be a ride around the
park on wagons pulled by an
authentic steam engine. which
attraction is being sponsored
by the Geauga County Conserva-
ton Department.
Many exhibitions are planned
for the education an entertain
ment Of all thoe wishing to visit
the Maple Festival.
The Geauga County Festival
Board has purchased a large
number Of green and white
signs in the shape of arrows,
which will be erected prior to
the festival lat all intersections,
pointing the way to Chardon for
radius of 10 miles.
Last years festival had to be
postponed a week after a freak
10 inch blizzard literally snow
ed in the entire area, over the
scheduled March dates. This
year however, the festival board
has set the date of the festival
In April and if all forecasts
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