The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 July 1969 — Page 19

Kosciusko County’s 53rd Annual FREE COUNTY FAIR afrz, SUPPLEMENT TO THE PIERCETON PRESS and THE MAIL-JOURNAL

FAIR SECTION

Week-Long Gala At Fairgrounds August 4-9

County Fair To Feature Top Livestock Dale Sponseller of Etna Green, long time member of the Kosciusko county fair board is superintendent of the horse department at the Kosciusko county fair. The classes include saddle horses, ponies and 4-H classes as well as draft horses and mules. Ponies in both 4-H and open classes will be brought in by 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug 4, and will be released on Wednesday. Saddle horses will come in on Thursday, Aug. 7, and will stay until Saturday. Facilities are not available for stabling all horses for the entire duration of the fair.. Draft horses will be shown early in the week. Officials responsible for the horse department include: Mr. Sponseller, Don Clase, in charge of stalls: Cloid Swartz, saddle horses; Dale Lowman, ponies; and Don Hostetler, 4-H horses and ponies. The judges will be Corky Hall and Rose Marcyhanon. Livestock improvement association assets with the dairy cattle show and officers of the association serve as barn superintendents and assist with records. The County Sheep Improvement Association sponsor the open sheep show and conducts the exhibit. The officers also help with the 4-H lamb department and work with members in handling lambs at the 4-H Sale. The County Cattlemen’s Association made up of feeders and breeders were responsible for initiating open class showing of beef cattle. They provide the personnel for conducting the show. DAIRY SHOW TO BE HELD FRIDAY The Kosciusko County Dairy Show will be held Friday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Kosciusko county fair. Over 300 head of dairy cattle are expected in the two day event. James Fish, owner - manager of the Lock Shore Guernsey Farm, Hickory Hills, Mich., will be the judge. Classes of Guernsey, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss and Jersey dairy cattle will show on August Bth. They must be on the grounds by 9 a.m. and will remain until the days showing is completed. Holsteins will show on Saturday, Aug. 9. Judging will start at 10 a.m. each day. Officers for the show include Eldon Watkins of Syracuse, Emra Stookey of Leesburg and Eldon Cumberland of Beaver Dam.

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BRINGS $1.70 — Last year’s grand champion county fair 4-H steer hit a new high at the annual auction when it sold for $1.70 per pound and brought it’s owner $1,606.50. The animal, a 945 pound Shorthorn, was owned by Glen Davis of Milford. Purchasing the champion were Frank Thomas of Marsh

Annual 4-H Club Sale Set For 6:30 Thursday

About 350 head of 4-H club livestock are expected to be sold at the sale of market livestock Thursday evening, Aug. 7, at the Kosciusko county fair. The sale is expected to gross in excess of $50,000. The sale is conducted by a 4-H sale committee appointed by the county 4-H council. All auctioneers are invited to assist in selling and the two Warsaw banks act as clerks. The superintendents and assistants of each of the 4-H livestock departments are responsible for moving livestock in and out of the ring. The

average time spent in each sale in introducing, selling, moving, recording and clerking is about fifty seconds. All checks for sales are made by the clerks to the 4-H member and all payments for purchase are made to the clerks. .Expenses of the sale which include a barbecue for the buyers are borne by 4-H members in a percentage deduction from the returns from the sale. Over, weight and under weight livestock which are obviously not of good market grade are not permitted to sell and 4-H

Supermarket; Ralph Thornburg of Thornburg Drug Store; George Cox of Harveys and Mrs. H. B. Lowery and her son-in-law, Richard Morris of the Lowery Shopping Center in Warsaw. They are shown above with Davis. Last year 317 animals were bought for a total of $57,658.25.

members are permitted to sell only one exhibit in each class of livestock except when he has a champion. He may then sell the champion plus one other exhibit. Pig club members exhibiting a market litter may sell all three of the exhibit. Members of the 1969 4-H sale committee responsible for the conducting the sale of market livestock are as follows: Dorris Harrold, Dale Beeson, Ed Washier, Kenneth Fawley, Leo Anglin, Devon Davis, Fred Powell, Tom Smith, Ray Darr, Ivan Zimpleman, Freeman Gruenewald, Elmer Martin, Robert Bishop, Leon Tucker, Edwin Beigh, Don Robinson, Willis Alt, and Don Frantz. 1969 Indiana State Fair dates — August 22 - September 1.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1969

BEEF SHOW SET FOR FRIDAY The open class beef cattle show at the Kosciusko county fair will be held Friday, Aug. 8, at 10 a.m. The show is open to any resident of the state and exhibitors outside the county will make an entry fee of $1 per head. Classes will include registered breeding cattle of the Hereford, Angus and Shorthorn breeds. They may be brought to the grounds after 6 a.m. on Friday and will be released at the end of the show. Bill Langohr of Pierceton is department superintendent. He will be assisted by Everett Tom, Jr., Ernest Rhoades, Fred Powell and Leon Tucker who are officers of the County Cattlemens’ Association.