Washington County Festival Plans Spring Up With 80+ Local Leaders
Washington County invites residents to attend next week’s festival as Klein leads three days of events. More than eighty Washington businessmen form ten committees handling parade floats, exhibits, program, entertainment, display, recruitment, and other activities across Tuesday to Thursday.
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Washington County
Carl W. Klein
Washington
W. Crull
Better
Meantel RL. Lytle
Claude Tucker
John Winga
H. B. Knight
Loyd Morrison
Fort Sherman
Abileity
Hansen Drives Festival Parade Organization
B T Hansen oversees parade setup for the festival with parades planned Wednesday at 1 00 PM and Thursday at 4 00 PM. Prizes offered for best float decorated car and best comic feature. Industrial section and livestock exhibits included. Washington hand and ton drum corps to perform in parades. Music manages the event with Music discovers and encourages higher aspirations of man.
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B. T. Hansen
Washington Hand and Ton
Good Music for Festival and Parade Plans
Westside committees arranged music for the Sixth annual festival contracting the Washington municipal band and the Legion drum and bugle corps to perform over the three days. The band will give several concerts and the drum corps will exhibit while both groups participate in parades on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
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Wal
Washington Municipal Band
The
Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
Washington
West Nide
Fall Festival judging schedule floods confusing program
Fragments of a Fall Festival timetable show multiple acts and contests across days September 16 to 17. Entries include the Montfort Sisters groups, The Three Webbs, Busang and Fox and Marion, and Askaris Four with events such as poultry and horse judging, drum corps performances, concerts in Sunset Park and Central Park, a parade and various contests.
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Pour Montfort
Italy
Sunset Park
Busang
Fox
Marion
Montfort
Central Park
Askari
Webbs
Askaris
Beatts Sisters
Montfort Sisters
Marion Drom
Beatty Post
Central Pa
The
Three Webbs
Leon
Blackberries Free to Pick as Market Fails in Ray City
Ray City Oregon reports Farmer John C Boxworth offered 300 tons of blackberries free to pick due to lack of a commercial market. The offer drew local volunteers to harvest the abundant fruit from his fields.
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Ray City
Ore
John C. Boxwworth
Mt Reveals Kahn Hickory Flat Ring Detected in Field Plow
A diamond ring snagged on a farm plow near Hell Creek, Hickory Flat, Miss, as Abner Jones plowed the field. No one elatmed the ring, and he kept the item in his possession.
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Hickory Flat
Miss
Abner Jones
Hell Creek
Decorations for fall festival on Washington streets
A committee budgets 250 dollars for street decorations next week with banners pennants and bunting using electrolier posts. The effort aims to brighten the three day festival with expert help and a festive streetscape.
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Apeater
Washington
Cere
Fast turtle race draws big crowd at Vonda City
A bustling scene at Vonda City on September 10 reports a fast turtle race attracting a large crowd. Details are unclear due to OCR damage but the event featured rapid turtles and local spectators.
Washington fall festival invites all county residents
Washington prepares a county fall festival spanning Tuesday to Thursday, replacing the former county fair of a generation past. The event combines entertainment by local merchants with prize exhibits and contests, welcoming visitors from within and beyond Washington county as organizers aim to match or surpass previous festivals in scale and quality. Pebblestone wins an unseen pre race, owner Thomas F Boettcher of Hollis. Ships require vast paint supplies, with large liners needing about 10,000 gallons and smaller 80,000 ton ships about 10,000 gallons.
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Washington
Washington County
Pebblestone
Thomas F. Boettcher
Hollis
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HEAN
Ron Hebner
Mac DeLong
Geors Pauls
LM. Soule
Pratt
E. T. Hansen
Ka. Shhenefelt
O. Brown
Givn ‘Eldridge
Ea Goeske
Oral
Shirley Clark
Lester Or
Shannon
Robert
Pat Yoon
HH Rester
Howar Baxter
Howard
Sitter
Fo A Stowe
EE. Cline
Henry Bailey
Dr. J. Pease
Clarence Logan
Pharles Denivon
Jack Westphal
Homer Stephen
Ralph Scott
Ted Crone
Clarenee Jacobs
Harrison
Dodider
Charles Davis
B. F. Bost
Wick
Ralph Gibson
Richard
Johnson
Ea Hammer
Julius Basin
Henry Shields
Carl McDaniel
Harry Ward
Wisie Long
Harold ‘Montgomery
G. E Ace Coa
Speer
CW. Rien
E_Richison
E. Dunlap
C. ‘ Cru
John’ Applegate
Paul Gor
Hates
George
Pennsylvania
A, Speer
H.R
Lund. Lemmon
Carl Hedges
Ray Clarence
Wiele
Wo Enslin
Harold Hays
Mr. Schmitt
Marty Ward
Frank Miller
Man
Deethney
Hansen
Man Walters Damrosch
H. & A. Baking CO
Washington Band
Tokyo
Coronel Charles A. Lindbergh
Emperor Airoh
Japan
Lindbergh
Hirohite
Lindberg
Kahn
Knotek Bros
Riverside, Iowa
Williamsburg
Presbytery
Town City
Presbyterian Church
Willamsburg
Norris ¢. Dickey
Columbus Junction
CS. Williams
Hills
Presbtery
WH. Parker
Cotter
J.B. Hodgson
FW. Eastwoodinfield Smouse
D. Paul Chapman
P. Lemon
Big Crowp
Vonda City
Bia
A. E. Atchison
North Side
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