December 13, 2017
This is “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical Society.
Today’s
story is titled “That’s A Lot Of Not-So Angry Birds” and as you listen, you
will learn why this title was chosen.
This is a story about the 1939 Golden Jubilee Show of the Kansas Poultry
Breeders Association. It was being held in the Junction City Municipal
Auditorium on Jefferson Street. Several
of the associations arrived in town early in the morning to supervise the
arrangements for the show. Erection of
steel coops to accommodate approximately 2,000 birds were started immediately
with all entries to arrive by noon the next day. Judging would take over two days with the
Saturday morning judging devoted to the 4-H Club members and high school
vocational agriculture students.
Mr. J.R.
Cowdrey from Topeka, who was the club secretary and treasurer, commented that
there were no finer birds in the country than those that were being shown at
this show. An influx of hundreds of out
of town visitors were expected to take advantage of the first Sunday show ever
held by the poultry association. After
the first day of the show, local persons who attended came away expressing
their opinions of the exhibits in terms little short of amazement at the amount
of high quality poultry. They encouraged
others to see the show – especially since admission was free.”
Now you know
why we titled this program “That’s A Lot Of “Not-So-Angry Birds”.
And that IS today’s story on “Our Past Is Present” from the
Geary County Historical Society.
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