CROCHETERS!
ENTER THE 1955 NATIONWIDE
CROCHET CONTEST
Sponsored by National Needlecraft Bureau
OVER $3000 IN
NATIONAL PRIZES
FREE TRIPS
TO NEW YORK CITY
Here’s your chance to win big
cash awards with your crochet.
Enter the nationwide crochet con
test at our fair and compete for
over $3,000 in prize money to be
awarded national winners by the
National Needlecraft bureau. The
grand national champion will re
ceive $500 plus an all-expense
paid trip to New York City. Other
free trips will go to the top win
ner in the “men only” and “teen
age” classifications.
The best of fair trophy, illus
trated above, engraved with the
name of our fair, will be awarded
to die contestant whose piece is
chosen best of all entries. You can
enter any one or more of 10
classifications. If your entry is
awarded a nationwide crochet
contest blue ribbon as first prize
winner in one of these classifica
tions it can compete in the nation
al finals in New York City.
To be eligible for judging, your
article must be made of mercer
ized crochet cotton in any size
thread up to and including 100,
and must be completed this year.
After the judging at our fair, we
w'ill report the names of the win
ners in all classifications to the
National Needlecraft bureau, who
will send official entry blanks for
the national finals to the winners.
The pieces may then be mailed to
the National Needlecraft bureau
in New York City for the nation
al judging.
Our fair secretary has complete
xules and regulations for the na
tionwide crochet contest. Write
or call for your copy now!
Nationwide crochet contest rules
ore as follows:
1. All entries must have won a
nationwide crochet contest blue
ribbon at a participating state,
county or local fair. Contact your
fair for entry requirements.
2. All entries must have been
completed since January 1, 1955,
except in those cases where par
ticipating fairs are held prior to
April 1, 1955. In the latter case,
entries completed since July 1,
1954, are acceptable.
3. All entries must be crochet
ed of mercerized crochet cotton in
any size thread up to and includ
ing 100. Mercerized crochet cotton
with a metallic strand is also eli
gible.
4. A contestant may submit as
many entries as have fulfilled all
the foregoing rules.
5. National judging in New York
will be based on workmanship,
beauty of design and general ap
pearance. Decision of judges will
be final. In case of a tie, duplicate
prizes will be awarded.
Nationwide crochet contest priz
es include:
Grand national champion: $500
(this includes classification first
prize award), plus a free trip to
New York City.
Teen-age girl champion: $100
first prize award, plus a free trip
to New York City for herself and
one parent or guardian.
Men’s champion: $100 first prize
award, plus a free trip to New
York City.
Classifications: Tablec 1 o t h s,
bedspreads, luncheon cloths, cen
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terpieces (14” and over), buffet
and vanity sets, chair sets, doilies
(under 14”), scarves and wall
panels, pot holders and hot plate
mats, place mats, other household
accessories, edgings and inser
tions, fashion accessories, ladies
ov ,v 65, men only, teen-age girls.
Extra awards are being made
in the 1955 nationwide crochet
contest.
Smart Crochet magazine offers
$600 in special awards for original
designs eligible for participation
in the 1955 nationwide crochet
contest. An original design is one
you made up, not previously pub
lished. If your design is original,
mark it so on your entry tag.
All original designs receiving
nationwide crochet contest blue
ribbons in any of the 16 contest
classifications will be eligible for
the following Smart Crochet orig
inal design awards in the final
judging in New York City.
First award .$200.00
Second award . 125.0C
Ihird award . 100.00
Fourth award . 75.09
Honorable mentions (10)
at $10 each. 100.00
Total .$600.00
Pictures of the designs receiv
ing the first four awards, the
names of the winners, and the
fairs at which they qualified, will
be published in Smart Crochet.
Directions will also be published
unless, because of excess length,
they are not suitable editorial ma
terial. All entries will be insured
from the time received until they
are returned.
If you have further questions,
write to National Needlecraft
Bureau, Inc., Smart Crochet
Awards, 430 Park Avenue, New
York 22, N.Y.
Page, O’Neill Bands
Planning Concerts
Two of Holt county’s own mu
sical organizations—the Page band
and the O’Neill Municipal band—
have been signed for fair concerts.
The Page band, under the direc
tion of Prof. Leonard Sawyer, will
be heard on Friday, August 19
The O’Neill band, under the ba
ton of Prof. Charles B. Houser,
will maKe with midway music on
Saturday, August 20 — the final
day of the fair.
Both musical organizations will
be heard in concerts at 1 p.m., and
7 p.m., at the grandstand.
Johnny Mullen’s orchestra has
been contracted to furnish music
both Friday and Saturday nights,
August 19 and 20, under the stars.
Outdoor dancing long has been
an established entertainment fea
ture at the Holt fairs.
f PAGE OIL CO.
Distributors of MOBILGAS,
MOBILOIL
Tank Wagon Service
TIRES _ TUBES — ACCESSORIES
Phone 36 Paee’ Nebr*
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Finkbine Bros. Lumber Company
LUMBER — HARDWARE — COAL
Phone 12-W Inman, Nebr.
“Congratulations to the Fair”
Lewis Kopecky
Dealers in Baled Prairie Hay
“The Finest Grown in the State”
also handle bat/e ties
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Phone 11-W — Inman, Nebr.
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Penney's
Chambers Fair
Special!
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One time buy! 22 by 42-inch all
yarn braided rugs! Terrific for
summer . . . they’re cool looking,
hard to soil, pop into the washer
to clean. Strong 5-ply yarn. As
sorted colors.
_2.00
Plugge to Furnish
Stock for Rodeo—
Walter Plugge, well - known
Wheeler county rancher, once
again will have about one hun
dred head of wild horses, bulls
and calves at the annual Holt
county fair and rodeo to be held
at Chambers.
Rodeo dates are Friday and
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Saturday, August 19 and 20.
“These animals are really
wild,” Plugge says. “The wild
horses are fierce buckers and
quite unpredictable in their ac
tions.”
Contest will be conducted un
der RCA rules and will be view
ed by professional judges.
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Compliments
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SEGER FUNERAL HOME
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I Need The Money!
O’Neill Drive-In Theater
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Seger Oil Co.
CHAMPLIN PRODUCTS
Twenty-Four Hour Service
East O’Neill Phone 345
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HEUTON PRODUCE ]
Atkinson, Nebr. — Phone 7472
Your Market for
Cream — Eggs — Poultry
GOOCH’S FEED
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CAMPBELL
Lumber Co.
“Wants Your Business”
CAMPBELL LUMBER CO.... Atkinson
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