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Tuesday, September 24th will mark the opening of the
56th annual Ephrata Fair, the oldest of Lancaster
County’s fairs It will run through Saturday, September
28, climaxing with the annual Miss Lancaster County
pageant at Ephrata High School.
One of the big events on the program of Pennsylvania’s
oldest and largest street fair will be the parade on Wed
nesday that will move over a three mile route starting at 7
P M., ram date Thursday 7 P.M. The parade which at
tracts about 65,000 viewers will have 30 to 35 musical
units, floats, Miss Lancaster County, Mrs. Lancaster
County Pure Chief and other participants.
A carnival spirit will prevail throughout the five-day
event along the midway stretching-for several blocks with
rides, eating stands and free entertainment at the band
stands several evenings. On Thursday afternoon
thousands of children turn out for “Kiddies Day” when a
reduced rate is offered them on the rides.
Thursday night a representative from the various
Lancaster County fire company auxiliaries will vie for the
crown of Mrs. Lancaster County Fire Chief.
The annual baby parade, one of the fair’s major at
tractions, will beheld Saturday at 2 P.M. A large crowd is
expected to line the parade route to see the elaborate
floats and tiny tots in fancy costumes.
Saturday at 8 P.M. the program will shift to the Ephrata
High School auditorium for the great finale of the fair
when the new Miss Lancaster County will be selected.
This annual event, produced by the Ephrata area
Jaycees, has attracted a sell-out crowd from all sections
of Lancaster County for many years. This is one of the
finest preliminaries to the Miss Pennsylvania pageant
held in the state and carries with it many wonderful prizes
and scholarship awards. For 23 years The Ephrata
Farmers Day Association has sponsored this event.
This may sound like just a five-day entertainment-filled
event but to the contrary visitors to the fair will find many
interesting displays of products from farms, orchards and
gardens - flowers, fruit, home baked and canned goods,
crafts, art, needlework and models shown in store win
dows and the exhibit tent.
One of the points of major interest is “Ten* City” m
Ephrata Community Park where outstanding displays of
poultry, cattle, baby beef, sheep, tobacco, grams and
forage may be seen A carcass lamb auction and a swine
sale will be held there during the fair It is also at the park
that the pig chase, cow milking, tractor driving and
garden tractor pulling contests will be held
A center of much interest to ladies and girls is located in
Mrs Moore made the dress she is wearing, the long
acrylic dress and the green crocheted afghan on the
sofa ,
Getting Ready for Ephrata Community Fair
by
Mrs.
Charles
McSparran
Farm Feature
Writer
Mrs . Luther Moore
Mrs. Luther R. (Miriam) Moore will exhibit some
of these canned goods and jams at the Ephrata Fair
a tent on Lake Street, on the Borough Lot. There you will
fmd fresh fruit and vegetables, flowers, eggs, honey,
baked goods, 4-H sewing. Junior foods (prepared by girls
and boys 9 to 20 years of age), canned goods and a few
commercial exhibits.
The committee for Department 5 or baked goods, Junior
foods, apiary products and eggs is Mrs. Luther R.
(Miriam) Moore, Mrs. Sandra Saylor and Mrs. Janice
Breneman. Mrs. Moore has served on the committee
about five years and has acted as chairman three years.
Mrs. Saylor and Mrs. Breneman were new on the com
mittee last year.
Entries in this department will be accepted Tuesday,
September 24 from 3 to 9 P.M. Judging will take p’ace
Wednesday about 8 or 9 A.M. As has been the custom in
the past as soon as the baked goods are judged a sample of
each entry is placed on a plate with earned ribbon at
tached and it is displayed all week. The rest is given to the
Ephrata Community Hospital Auxiliary for a food sale.
The sale will likely start about 10 A.M. The proceeds are
donated directly to the hospital for equipment. This is a
splendid idea because the baked goods would spoil till the
end of the fair and anyone baking can feel they have
helped a worthy cause. Buyers eagerly wait for a chance
to buy the baked goods as soon as it is judged.
Classifications of baked goods for adults will be quick
breads, yeast breads, rolls, iced butter cakes, egg cakes,
pies, cookies and candy A special rosette will be awarded
for an entry judged Best of Show in yeast breads.
Last year this committee had between 250 and 275 en
tries Of this number two or three dozen entries would
have been Junior entries, about a half dozen entries of
brown and white eggs and a half dozen honey entries The
balance were entries in baked goods, candy and home
products such as homemade soap, noodles, potato chips
and salted nuts
The committee is responsible to set up their exhibits
with ribbons attached after judging on Wednesday Then
Mr s Moore gives out the ribbons and prize checks after 10
C M Saturday night
Mrs Moore expects to enter exhibits of her canned
goods at the fair She will probably enter grape, peach,
•If a win r r y, blueberry and apricot jam and canned meat,
Sept. 24. She is holding some of her delicious nut
brownies.
peaches, grape juice, apple sauce and red beets. She may
enter some garments she made also. She has exhibited
canned goods, sewing and needlework for three or four
years.
Mrs. Moore has been a member of Farm Women
Society 3 for three years. This society has 42 members.
They have served food at the fair for many years. This is
their chief source of income. This is a terrific job but
financially rewarding. They are famous for their clam
patties. They start opening clams on the Saturday before
the fair. Monday they cook chickens and make pepper
cabbage. Mrs. Moore, besides working as a fair depart
ment chairman, helps the Farm Women Tuesday mor
ning, Wednesday or Thursday night and Friday and
Saturday. She is on the committee to remember ill society
members with flowers this year.
Mrs. Moore has been a 4-H leader for the Lincoln Sewing
Club for six years. She was in 4-H sewing herself for three
years and was in the Home Ec class in high school. She
also took a tailoring class, “Sewing With Knits”. She does
almost all her own sewing, a lot for her daughter, makes
tic users for her son and is making a suit for her husband.
She made herself a spring coat and winter coats for her
daughter She says she really enjoys sewmg.
Miriam is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Roy Forry of
Reamstown Although her parents did not live on a farm,
as a girl she stayed on a farm with her grandparents, Mr
and Mrs Harry Forry, all summer and on weekends all
year She graduated from Ephrata High School on
Highland Ave. After graduation she worked in the office of
W W' Moyer Co as ticket printer, then went on to book
work. She has worked part time for Roy Zimmerman &
Sons, Ephrata RD3, as a bookkeeper in the Accounts
Receivable Dept, for about three years She works from ?
to 4 days a week Zimmermans sell fuel oil, coal, grams
and fertilizer
Luther is a back hoe operator for Dutchman Con
struction Co , Akron His hobby is attending stock car
races, working on motors and rebuilding motorcycles
Luther attends stock car races every Friday night from
March to the end of September at Reading Fair Grounds,
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