Georgia Mountain Fair Ready For 16th Opening
"Old Fashion Pioneer Parade" will be held at high-noon at this annual event will be horses, mules, covered wagons,
6th and 13th. at the Georgia Mountain Fair. Featured and antique cars.
Dust off your fiddle and grab your bow -- and off to the Show will ^ held- Over 50 musicans from the hill country
Georgia Mountain Fair. Friday. August 12th and Saturday, wlll provide wp entertainment.
August 13th, the Fiddler s Convention and Country Music
Another hand and home fashioned attraction is a Copper- have made extinct. It is on display all week at the Georgia
Still ? not in operation ? of the kind that the revenooers Mountain Fair.
On August 5, the 16th ann
ual Georgia Mountain Fair,
sponsored by the Towns Co
unty Lions Club, opens for
nine exciting, fun-filled days
and nights for both the young
and young-at-heart.
Located in sight of
Georgia's highest peak, and
alongside Highway 76 in mid
town Hiwassee it proudly
presents exhibits which bring
back treasured memories of
other days. They delight the
eye, tantalize the taste, and
excite the interest. A car
nival fit for the children, the
mothers and their teen-age
daughters, offers thrills and
pleasure to every age group.
The schedule of events in
cludes the opening of the Fair
on Friday, August 5. Sat
urday, August 6, brings the
Georgia Mountain Cloggers
Convention, as well as a noon
time parade and horse show.
Sunday, August 7 offers an
old-time "Gospel-Sing" from
1:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Monday , August 8 is the
day for the first annual Geo
rgia Mountain Fair Art Show
in which a number of artists
from over theState will stage
a one-day show.
Tuesday, August 9 features
two events. A Flower Show
sponsored and supervised by
the Hiawassee, Enotah and
Blairsville Garden Clubs
will open at 2 p.m. and will
run through Thursday noon.
Also on Tuesday, the Sears
Roebuck F.F.A. Pig Chain
Show will be held, beginning
at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 10, is
Youth Day, and will feature
the Georgia Mountain Feeder
Pig Show, open to all Mount
ain Youth.
Thursday, August 11, is set
up as Lions Clubs Day, when
members from Lions Clubs
from everywhere will be wel
come.
Thursday is also Rockhound
Day, when enthusiastic
searchers for rocks and
minerals will be in the lime
light.
Friday, August 12 features a
Cattle Show at 1:30 p.m. and a
Country Music showbeginning
at 7 p.m.
Saturday, August 13 offers a
number of special events.
Among them, a County Music
Show featuring top country
music entertainers from
several states: a hog rifleshoot
with contestants from all over
the South competing for
quarters of Beef. This shoot
is divided into four age groups
and competition is keen, with
even the women showing skill
with the old muzzle-loaders.
The Annual Fair Parade
begins at 12 .-00 noon, and will
feature antique cars and
Horse-and-Buggy Days.
Each evening a free out
door movies are shown, and af
ter the excitment of the day
it is good to sit under the
stars and enjoy the quiet of die
evening and the beauty of the
surrounding mountains.
To all who have not visited
the Georgia Mountain Fair we
offer a hearty welcome and to
those who make it an annual
pilgrimage, may we hope that
we will never disappoint you.
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Sam McQuagg, averaging a record shattering 153.8 m.p.h. in a 1966 Dodge Charger, set a new speed mark in the
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Backward Glance
43 YEARS AGO, JULY 20,1923
Mrs. V.W. Swan of Hayes -
villi spent the week end with
Miss Carcie Ferguson.
Mrs. J.W. Davidson and
children returned from
Atlanta, Ga. Saturday after
having spent the week there.
Misses Ma urine and Eloise
Fain returned from Clinton,
Tenn. Saturday night, where
they have been for the past
week visiting relatives.
Miss Martha Candler ret
urned a few days ago from an
extended with relatives and
friends in Florida.
At high Noon, Monday, the
marriage of Miss Beryl Co
oper Bryson to Mr. Henry
Buford Corns of Chattanooga
was celebrated in the Mag
nolia Avenue Methodist Ep
iscopal Church, South.
30 YEARS AGO, JULY 16,1936
Miss GraceBarnett was aw
arded first place in thebeauty
contest sponsored by the Ch
arity League at the Murphy
high school auditorium Fri
day night. She will go to Ral
eigh in November for a
screen test.
Little Miss Anne Leather
wood was selected as the
winner of the Shirley Temple
contest and received a dress.
Mrs. H.S. Whiteheart and
children of Winston-Salem are
visiting relatives and friends
here. *.
Miss Fannie Kate Brendle
of Brasstown was a visitor in
town Thursday.
Miss Rosaland Chandler left
Saturday for a visit with rel
atives in Athens, Ga.
Miss Mary CathronHensley
returned home Monday from a
visit with relatives in Ashe
vtlle.
Miss Jean Dickey is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. John Yan
cey in Atlanta this week.
Buster Bayless who has
been working in Portmouth,
Va., is at home for a few
days.
20 YEARS AGO, JULY 18,1946
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ricks
of Akron, Ohio have announced
the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Elizabethjane
Ricks, to Donald Warren Ram
sey on Sunday, June 30, at
4 o'clock. The ceremony was
performed in the Akron Bap
tist Temple by the Rev. James
D. Moore in the presence of
only a few close friends and
relatives.
Mrs. L.A. Lee of DaltonGa.
and Mr. andMrs.H.Bueckand
son, H.C. left Tuesday
morning for a two week's trip
to San Deigo, Calif.
Mr. ad Mrs. Harry P.
Cooper of Atlanta, and Mrs.
H.A. Mattox and sons, Harry
and Phil returned to Murphy
Tuesday night frorm a two
week's vacation spent on St.
Simon's Island.
OBITUARY
MRS LULA BURCH
MURPHY-Mrs. Lula Car
roll Burch, 87, of Hi was see
Ga., died Tuesday, July 12,
in her home after a long
illness.
She was a lifelong res
ident of Towns County, Ga.
Surviving are two daught
ers, Mrs. Billy Kirby ofHi
wassee and Mrs Joan Mash
bu-n of Asheville; four sons
Wayne of Toccoa, Ga., V.D.
of Clyde, Carl of Swannanoa
and Truett Burch of Hlwa
ssee; one brother, Waco
Carroll of Swannanoa; 35
grandchildren, 40 great
grandchildren and six great
great grandchildren
Services were held at 2
p.m. Thursday in Lower Bell
Creek Baptist Church, of
which she had been a member
for 73 years.
Rev. Homer Wilson, Rev.
John Thomas and Rev. Ray
mond Carroll officiated and
burial was in the church cem
etery.
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