Transcription
Miniature
country
fair
[17 July 78]
By Joan Gauker
A country fair - in miniature - was
the Dumfries Downhome Day Saturday
in the town's Merchant Park, where
prizes, displays, contests, music and
food highlighted the all-day event.
Capping the day, three beauty queens
were named for the town and the town's
oldest man and woman were honored.
The town's babies also shared the
limelight.
Games, pony rides, a small merry-
go-round, a bouncy space walk and
balloons entertained the smallfry when
they weren't eating or swaying to the
tune of the moment that drifted from
the bandstand.
Under a partly sunny sky, families
and friends sat talking or eating hot
dogs, chacoal-cooked hamburgers,
corn-on-the-cob or sno cones on benches
or on blankets spread on the ground.
Others stood talking in small groups as
the day's events unfolded.
Handcrafts, floral arrangements and
food goods were judged early in the
day. Hog and turkey calling, along with
watermelon eating and a variety of
other competitions attracted all ages
throughout the day.
Late in the day, Brenda Cornell, 17,
was named Miss Dumfries, Angie
Smith, 13, was named Junior Miss
Dumfries and Candice Covington, 7,
was named Little Miss Dumfries. The
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judges for all three contests were
Manassas Mayor Harry Parrish and
Mrs. Parrish, Quantico Councilwoman
Rosalie Frazier and Potomac News
Editor-Publisher Paul Muse.
Trophies were presented to the three
by Kathy Sterling and they were
crowned by Dumfries Mayor Willard
Mountjoy.
Honored with a plaque as the oldest
Dumfries woman was Annie Shumate,
89, who told the crowd. "this is the
greatest honor anyone has ever paid
me."
The town's oldest man, Jim Williams,
92, is a patient at the Potomac Hospital.
Starting the downhome celebration
off, the baby contest drew 23 entries in
two categories.
In the six-months-old to one-year-old
category, the contestants did little
more than look around curiously as
they sat on the hips of their mothers,
who beamed at the three judges.
In the one-year-old and two-year-old
category some dads stood in the circle
of mostly mothers handing on to offspring
who occasionally tugged loose
and toddled away.
An optometrist and two dentists who
say they sing together and call themselves
the "Eye-Teeth," judged the
baby events. They are Jeffrey Wynn,
James Hales and Mitchell Bukzin.
In the younger group, the judges
selected Sabra Unterzuber of Dumfries
as the curliest; Gena Lyn Strawderman
of Dumfries as the cuddliest; Summer
McCelland of Woodbridge as the
daintiest; Kimberly Renee Grant of
Dumfries, who sported a head full of
curls and walked up unassisted to
receive her award, as the most
outgoing; and Eric Wayne Snyder of
Dumfries, who clung to his mother - one
hand clutching her hair - as he received
his award, as the shyest.
Dumfries Town Sgt. Horace Scites
won the nail-driving contest, and Jessie
Rose was named first-place-hog-caller.
The winner of the turkey-calling
contest was 8-year-old Jonathan Bell ofTranscriber
Adam KitchenLanguage
English