814-Umcaster Farming, Saturday, August 1, 1992
Couple Recall Public
Wedding At The Fair
Sharon B. Schuster
Maryland Correspondent
UNION BRIDGE, Md.
Fifty-three years ago, on August
23, 1939, Frances Bauerline
became the bride of Frank Fogle
of Union Bridge, Maryland. Now,
at age 71, Mrs. Fogle said that,
like many brides, she had the wed
ding day jitters. Understandably,
Frances Fogle had more to be
nervous about than most brides.
Approximately 3,000 people
witnessed the event at their public
wedding at the Carroll County
Fair.
“I saw all the people when I got
into the limousine,” she recalled.
“It didn’t make any difference
to me,” said her husband, Frank
Fogle. “The more the better. There
were about 6,000 people on the
grounds that evening,” he added.
How the couple came to be
married at the fairgrounds is an
interesting story. “We had been
going together for about a year
and a half,” explained Mr. Fogle. I
was at her home one evening
when I saw this ad in the paper:”
Attention: Young Couples in
Carroll County. Would you
like to have a pretty wedding
Poultry Queens
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Two queens instead of one will
be selected at the annual Lancaster
County Poultry Queen banquet on
August 7. One will be crowned as
the Pennsylvania Poultry Queen
and another as the Lancaster Coun
ty Poultry Queen.
Thrte contestants are competing
for the honor of promoting the
poultry industry. It is a bit confus
ing, but two of the contestants are
named Melissa D. Yoder. The
other contestant is Mary Sauder.
The two 17-year-old Melissas
Preparing for the Lancaster County Poultry Queen Banquet are, from left, Melissa
Darlene Yoder, contestant; Lancaster County Poultry Queen Michele High, Alternate
Lancaster County Poultry Queen Marlene Enck, and Melissa Dawn Yoder, contestant.
Another contestant, Mary Sauder, is missing from the picture.
on Wednesday, Aug. 23,
1939, at the Carroll County
Fair at Taneytown? If so, con
tact Mrs. T. B. Cash, West
minster or George E. Dodrer,
Taneytown for information.
“I showed [animals at the fair]
all my life. I said we might as well
get married there,” he mused. The
economy was not good at the time,
according to Mr. Fogle, and he
said that (hey saw this as a way to
“get married, for free.”
They applied for the public
wedding and all of the free ser
vices that went with it free for
mal wear for the bridal party,
flowers, hair styling, a limousine
and cash. “That’s the only free
haircut I ever had,” said Mr. Fogle
with a chuckle.
The young couple competed
with about 16 other couples who
dreamed of the same grand wed
ding at the Carroll County Fair. At
the time, the site of the fair was in
Taneytown where the Taneytown
Shopping Center now stands. It
was the 42nd annual fair in the
county, and the Public Wedding
was an eagerly anticipated annual
event.
“I think we were chosen
did not know each other until they
met at a get-together sponsored by
the Poultry Association to prepare
the contestants for the pageant.
Melissa Dawn Yoder is the
daughter of Vernon and Barb Yod
er of Christiana. She works part
time on her parents’ ISO acre farm
where they raise 20,000 broilers,
SO pigs, 120 steers, a dog, and
“1800” cats. She also works part
time at Yoder’s Country Market in
New Holland.
Melissa will be a senior at Lan-
because we would draw a good
crowd, Frances being from West
minster and myself from Union
Bridge,” he surmised.
The names of the chosen couple
were kept a secret from the public
until that Wednesday evening at 8
p.m. when Miss Frances Bauerline
stepped onto the grandstand and
stood by the side of her 22-year
old husband-to-be, Frank Fogle.
“It was almost like you were in
church,” recalled Mr. Fogle.
“They stopped all the rides. It was
surprising how you could get
3,000 people to quiet down, he
observed. “They didn’t want to
miss anything,” said Mrs. Fogle.
The Fogles’ wedding was the
first “top hat, white tie and tails
affair” at the fair according to a
report that was picked up by the
Associated Press. Another article
reported that the bride, “a charm
ing brunette, wore a gown of
while taffeta, with puffed sleeves
and a short bodice, and a long,
attached train. Her tulle veil was
also full length and was caught
with a transparent white velvet
bow. She carried a colonial
arrangement of white roses and
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To Be Crowned August 7
caster Mennonite High School in
the fall. She is a member of the
Campus Chorale and is president
of her church’s youth group.
She has a brother and a sister
who are married.
Melissa Dailene Yoder is the
.daughter of Richard and Sherry
Yoder of Mount Joy. She has two
married sisters.
In the fail, Melissa will be a
senior at Lancaster Catholic High
School where she plays softball
and runs cross country. During the
Frank and Francis Fogle were married at the Carroll
County Fair in Maryland In 1939.
summer, she works as a waitress at
the Martin House Restaurant.
Melissa’s mother works for
Wenger Feeds, which makes
Melissa eligible jo compete for the
Poultry Queen title.
Mary Sander is the daughter of
Glen and Joyce Sauder of Neffsvil
le and has one brother. Glen is co
owner of Sauder’s Eggs of Lititz
where Mary had worked part time
for two years.
Nineteen-year-old Mary is a
recent graduate of Lancaster Men
nonite High. She is a waitress at
Lancaster Airport Restaurant and
is majoring in early childhood edu
cation at Lancaster Community
College.
Mary enjoys riding horses (she
previoused showed) and water
skiing.
The banquet program includes a
presentation skit by each contes
tant and impromptu questioning.
The contestants are judged on
appearance, speaking ability,
poise, personality, industry know
ledge, achievements, and availa
bility to make appearances.
Tickets for the banquet on Fri
day, August 7, which starts at 6:30
p.m. at the Lancaster Farm and
Home Center, are $l2. For tickets,
call Guy Martin (717) 626-2074 or
(717) 397-7820.
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