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I1Novel Feature,\Pleases Large Crowd Hei£While the doggies, all kinds and | ed Virginia Petrea, attired as a sizes of them, predominated in the , circus girl tiding on a pony, was ( fourth annual pet parade of the j second in this class as she too pre-Centralia supervised playgrounds j sented a beautiful picture, while staged at twilight yesterday, the Thomas Mason brought many ponies, cats, rabbits, chickens, gold : laughs as he depicted the organ fish, goats, ducks and even the grinder with an orga nin hand and chinch bug's were out to have their 1 small dog aheaa ipstead of the big day which to many of them usual monkey.comes but once a year. j The parade, led by a motorcycleIThe parade, with little tots who could hardly walk to children whoalmost touched the grownup stage j Oak and from there leading, carrying or drawing some kind of pet. moved off from Libraryescort, wended its way west on Broadway from Library Park tocircled the block to the south, returning to Broadway again at Locust and re-Park promptly at G:45 p. m„ for its , turning to the. park, trek over the business district. The The prize winners were announc-judges, who viewed the contestants ed as follows: and their pets prior to the paradeIas well as during the march, had difficult task? anead of them, but their decisions semeed to meet with general approval.With an entry list of about 50, it j was decided to give five instead of t three places for the dog's, and the !appearance of nine ponies, includingan ovjergrown ’ one which carried off the prize for the largest pet, brought a prize class for this group.The outstanding novelty class brought the big bad tiger from the j jungle into the parade in the form of a cat that had been caged in an j elaborately decorated “circus! wagon. To add to the joys and woes of the parade, the ‘tiger’’ es- j eaped to throw a panic into the . thr ng of youthful parade watcherswho had lined the streets, while the little girl who tugged away at the j wagon continued with a tear etain-ed face through the remainder ofthe line of march.Lincoln,I11 2 3.1. o1.and2.44!Other novel entries included thetransformation of two dogs intohorses that were attached to carts which were beautifully decorated Two goats, one ridden by a boy, also added to the entertainment features of the parade, as did the quack of ducks and the peep, peep of the baby chickens. The cats, of which there were numbers of them, the rabbits, including' the “earless wonders.” gold-fish, painted turtles and chinch bugs all came in for the curious stare of the admiring throng.Dressed as an English hunterlargest Pet1 Simon Franklin, horse..Smallest PetHelen Eagle, Fairview.Most Peculiar Pet Dorothy Rapp, Field.James Fetgatter, Franklin. Cheeter Jackson. Field.Most Beautiful Pet Louise Fetgatter, Franklin. Virginia Phillips, Fairview’. Best Caged Pet -Doris Beatty, Fairview-, circus wagon.Wilma Koelling. Fairview.Best Decorated Pet Kathleen Wilson. Lincoln, decorated dog and costume of owner.Lenord White, Fairview.NovelMarjorie Johnson. Fairvie Junior Clark. Fairview.fatsWaren Schlictma, Franklin. Fern Fulfer, Franklin.largest Dog Babe Smith.Smallest Dog Clarence Locke, Lincoln.Best Dog - Marjorie Phelps, Field.II1.1.2.(1.2.1.1.1.*3.5.1.*)3.4Most1Dorothy Curtis', Lincoln. Mary Montgomery, Irving. Robert McKilvey, High SchoolPoniesBoh Langenfeld. Irving Gene Alcorn, Franklin.Ralph Alcorn. Franklin. Bryan Fortney. Fairview. Original and b»*st Costumed Phil Corbell, High School, En-moimted upon a pony, Phil Corhell jpresented a striking parade attrac- | liah hunter on pony,tion, which drew him firm prize ar j 2 Virginia Petrea. Fairvie*.the most original and best costum- * 3, Thomas Mason, Franklin.t(€t
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Centralia Evening Sentinel
Centralia, Illinois, US
Sat, Jul 14, 1934
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