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Various Exhibits Splendid Feature Of Three-Day Fair; Estimate Wednesday Crowd At From 15,000 to 20,000 — With the judging of poultry, band concerts, addresses, baseball games and dancing, the third and final day of the Huntingdon County Agricultural Association’s Fair attracted large crowds for the wind-up. The Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad alone carried 4,500 persons to the fairgrounds while twice that number arrived in automobiles, on motorcycles, in wagons and every conceivable vehicle. One of the features of the last day of the fair was the awarding of a first prize in the poultry exhibits to a blind man, John W. McCauley, of Alexandria. He exhibited the winning Rhode Island Red Cockerel. The grand champion and first prize awards one to Law Lawn Rebecca Pauline, the Holstein cow exhibited by Ralph C. Fagan of Oneida Township.
Hold Two Boys On Charge Of Forcing Way Into School — Two boys are held in bail here, charged with robbing the William Smith building and with committing several other petty robberies. They were arrested Wednesday afternoon in front of the C.H. Miller hardware store, where it is alleged they were detected stealing tools from automobiles. It is alleged they forced their way into the William Smith School and obtained pencils and other school supplies valued at more than $20. It is also charged that they stole two rubber mats from the entrances to the St. James Lutheran Church and obtained articles from the five and ten store. The stolen property was taken to a hill near the Blair Memorial Hospital where the youths placed it in a hole which they covered with dirt and leaves. A list of the buried trove follows: 45 lead pencils, two clocks, 13 pairs of scissors, a bottle of glue, two boxes of paper clips, a pair of spectacles, a typewriter ribbon, magnet, paper fastener, three keys, chalk, two bunches of keys, mouth organ, comb, five rubber erasers, mirror, whistle, book mending tape, pocket knife, picture frame, wire, nail file, paint brush, compass.
Baseball Clinging To Limelight Here As Football Dawns — (By R.B. Reed) — Although considerably eclipsed by the leaping of football into the limelight, baseball still lingers in the minds of the fans.
Rebecca can be reached at rberdar@huntingdondailynews.com.
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Partly cloudy this evening with more clouds for overnight. Low near 65F. Winds light and variable..
Partly cloudy this evening with more clouds for overnight. Low near 65F. Winds light and variable.
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