Hide Article Text (OCR)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1969Agriculture Keeps PaceBattle OfThe Bands Highlights Grange FairBrass bands belong at countyfairs; they go along with the nostalgic memories or pictures of the fairs. But what about rock and roll groups blaring out their new sounds?Those who are a generation or so removed from the soil may find that agriculture has kept up with the pace of today’s life in every Aspect, and modern music would seem to be included. A battle of the bands, pitting a number of local rock groups, entertained at the 21st Annual M i ddletown Grange Fair Thursday night to cap the first of a three-day event.There was everything elsethat should go with a properlyrun fair, which the Middletown Grange lias been since its conception by the youth of the Middletown Grange just after World War Two. One could buy white elephants, take part in the horse show and judging, be in on flower judging, and exhibit “baby beef.”Thursday’s program included the Rabbitt Show, the judg ing of the 1 H projects, the Guinea Pig Show, the Bucks Guernsey Cattle Show, the Log-Sawing Contest, and. of course, the battle of the bands.By evening, the number of young people at the show had increased, and as the bands began arriving the anxious young and their curious elders began filling the Charles D.Lowries Dining Hall. A total of six bands played when the Chicken Barbeque Dinner was concluded, and the tables used' for sitting on.First place and $50 went to “The Crystal Haze,” a four man band from Newtown, and second place went to “The Mystic Freight.” a Langhorne group who collected $30. “The GreatCompromise from Doylestown played for their new friends in Wrightstow n. to w in third place and $20.AWARD—Stanley Sheaffer of New Hope displ White Award for Unit I Vegetables he won Tl in the 4-H projects division of the judging Middletown Grange Fair. Two more days ofcompetition remain.
Newspaper Details
Doylestown Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Aug 15, 1969
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 21 Feb 2019
Other Publications Near Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Doylestown Intelligencer
Intelligencer
Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
