Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home News Weekly
Vol. 40.   No. 38.
SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1943
Price Five Cents
Sewickley 5 Kfarvest .festival
The Crowned Queen of the Harvest, Joyce Maust, sits in state between
her attendants, Jeannette Harris (left) and Mary Maruca (standing
on the right) as all three were presented with War Bonds hy
. Daniel E. Davis, President of the Y.M.C.A.
(These Photographs by Thomas Toia)
SEWICKLEY S FESTIVAL
Garden  and  Needlework  Exhibits
Featured Popular Gathering
Great yellow pumpkins, squashes,
cucumbers, lettueo, celery and tomatoes
unlimited, all wore displayed in colorful
and appetizing array in the Y.M.C.A.
gymnasium Labor Day afternoon and
evening, fruit of the toil of many a
bcal^ Victory gardener, a, creditable
showing indeed. But that was only part
ot the attraction that brought the
people thero in numbers limit crowded
building and the grounds adjacent Until
lato in tho evening. Thero wero exhibits
of pies and cakes and "baked goods of
all sorts in ono of the rooms, canned
and bottled fruit and vegetables iii
another, and a most interesting collection of needlework art and handcraft
triumphs in another, all well worth tho
seoing and admiring.
Tltoi'o wot'o things for sale aisoj jellies and fruits, cakes and pics, hot dogs
and refreshing soft drinks, on the side
porch of the building,' there, also was
tlio "Slsh pond" so popular with tho children that it was -Jlshod out in an hour
oi' two; and in. a lino of booths sot up
"Car the tennis courts wore half a dozen
Midway" concession booths — dart
tl'i'ow, baseball in a barrel, a fortune
teller, and what not, all .manned by
Kiwanians, and surrounded constantly
by young and older contestants trying
their skill, A bit of light rain in tho
evening prt and on, was not sufficient
to dampen their enthusiasm or drive
them indoors. Most popular sport for
the younger children was the pony-ride,
two beautiful piebald ponies, being led
around the lawn up near tho Annex;
au.l in the afternoon, somo wonderful
horseshoe pitching games and exhibition throwing, by 'George Curry of Monessen, State champion, and Harold:
Gambo of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Horseshoe CoimUiteo chairman, Amazing, tho -kill with which ringers were
thrown with uncanny regularity.
In tho evening a gay iparado starting
at tho Broad Street sehool conducted
the elected Queen of tho Harvest and
her unsuccessful rival candidates up to
the fair grounds. Tho sixteen girls wero
mounted on a decorated truck, a pretty
sight for any ono to seo; they were
preceded by the Scwickley high school
band, and by Sewickloy and Osborne
Girl Scouts in green uniforms; flanked
by white-clad (least Guard men, followed by Boy Scouts and by tho Sowickley Valley Post No. 4, Amorican Legion
men, whoso mighty efforts had voted
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Th0 nrnwd surrounds the High School Band and parading imitgiasJhe_QUeen is cf owned