Grange Marks Anniversary at Athens County Fair Display
Grange members prepare a Centennial display at the Athens County Fair with sunflowers corn tomatoes vegetables and crafts. Pomona Grange with 328 members coordinates a team of 35 to 40 volunteers from Lodi Athens and Albany to assemble the exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herb Amey
Athens County Fair
State Grange Organization
Fairgrounds
Grange
Harry Henry
Amesville
Henry
Pomona Grang
Mae Smith
Grange Committee
Athens County
Lodi
Athens
Albany
Pomona Grange
Proxy Predicts Fair Weather for Rex Athens County Fair
Wayne Wingett, Rex Athens County Fair Board president, forecasts good weather and large crowds for Friday and Saturday. He guarantees no rain, noting near ideal conditions so far for the 121st fair. The junior fair livestock sale tops Friday’s lineup at 7 p.m. in the new sheep and swine barn show ring.
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Athens County Fair Board
Wayne Wingett
Best Photo of
Coolville
Larry Keirns
Athens Route 3
Best Photo
High priced Livestock Leads Fair Sale Totals
The 946pound steer sale totaled 1371.70 led by Bob Weekley of the Federal Hocking Fitters and Showers with a near 1000 pound Charolais cross. Pratt's Market bought the top 1971 sheep at 115.70 for an 89 pound lamb from Judie Dahse. Jim Linscott’s swine brought 1.60 a pound from Tri-County Packing, yielding 337.60. A horse show is set for Friday night at the grandstand with 4-H judging and harness racing on the program.
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Bob Weekley
Federal Hocking Fitters and Showers
Pratt’s
Judie Dahse
Guysville
Jim Linscott
Tri-County
Torch
Millfield
Fair displays stir protest as war horror shown
Helen Horn of People For Peace describes a tape slide show at the Athens County Fair that contrasts fairgoers’ focus on fun with the Vietnam conflict. Members Lady Barton and Eric Wright, both veterans, present films showing war’s horrors and ask what people stand for.
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Vietnam
Helen Horn
The
People For Peace
Athens County Fair
Lady Barton
Eric Wright
Mrs. Horn
Athens
Six winners named at Athens fair food interviews
The Athens County Junior Fair Building announced six food interview winners for the Ohio State Fair with names and projects listed. Separate notes cover births, admissions, dismissals, Meigs licensee folders, and a Surgeon College trauma education push since 1922.
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Athens County Junior Fair
Kathy Mayne
Albany
American College of Surgeons
College
U.S
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Messenger
Athens County Grangers
Pomona Booth
Rex
University
Defense Department
Horn
American Friends Service Committee
United Campus Ministry
Nelsonville Home & Savings Association
Savings and Loan
W. Columbus ST
Nelsonville
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
David Heightland
Gilbert Celedonia
Shade
Patricia Hoffman
Ida Druggan
Wilbur Linscott
the Plains
John Gallagher
Steven Koskis
Glouster
Edith Cumsbo
Leshia Weekley
Henry Hurst
Darvin Byers
Karl Fieler
Wilka May
Carl Seiple
John McCune
James Hager
William Griffis
Carol Jones
Richard French
Harvey Tschirgi
William Bartlett
Fred Hart
Robert Brooks
Thomas Henry
Regina Mathews
Meigs
James Watson
Tu Plains
Deborah Heaton
Pomeroy
Legion
Athens American Legion Hall
Nancy
Burkhammer
Coolville Hi-Los
Ann Ashworth
Debbie Tanborey
Tina Hupp
Mark Smith
Mike Flemming
Greg Sloan
Randy Goldsberry
Fur Fitters
Greg Milligan
Mud Crawlers
Ken Rose
Scioto County
Darrell Shoemaker
Pike County
Volkswagen
Rolls Royce
METS
Earl MatHews
Earl F. Mathews, Inc
John J. Lavelle
Robert S. Mathews
Hoffman
Bankamericard
Edis
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