Whopping Good Show

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November/December 1975
Art Dickey 
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I didn't get to meet but a few of the gas engine exhibitors. Rich Parsons was there from Indianola, la., also Wayne Holder from Leon with a trailer load of engines. I had hoped to meet Roger Gatton of Leon but found he was furnishing one of the grain separators and so was too busy to bring engines.

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There were a number of antique cars at the show. One man had even brought His 1923 Model T Touring all the way from Davenport, la. Also in this line up was a truck owned by Harry Olsen of Garden Grove. This was one of those attachments that you bought and converted the ordinary Model T car into a chain drive truck. Basil Dale of Humeston was on hand with his real nice 1925 Chevrolet touring car, and his Dad. Vere Dale had his nice 1927 Chevrolet Sedan on hand too.

There were two rows of interesting old farm machinery.

At the same time all the threshing, etc., was going on there was a horse show taking place in the arena at the fairgrounds.

Other interesting items to see were a small mule hooked to a sweep feed mill, a hand corn sheller running full speed, by mostly small boys, several men gave demonstrations of hewing logs flat with broad axes, which used to be done when log cabins were built.

There was an abundance of antique dealers and flea market dealers on hand. There were some good antiques for sale and of course, as usual, some plain junk.

I only had around 3 hours to observe this show, jot down notes, take pictures and try to meet a few people who helped out in this show. One man who helped a lot was Carl Coffey of Leon who had a lot to do with the binding, socking, etc. and also furnished one of the separators. Dang it, I never got to meet Carl. Anyway I have tried to write this the way I saw it. I predict this will become quite a show in the future because I'm sure that with the success they had this year, there will be lots more exhibitors next year.

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