Roanoke Rapids Herald

13 YOUNG LADIES IN LIONS RACE FOR EXPOSITION QUEEN

Thirteen young Roanoke Rapids ladies are competing for the honors of Queen of the Lions Club Mid-Summer Festival, which will be held here during the week of August 8th to 13th, according to announcement made this afternoon by Mrs. Edwin Akers, who has been employed by the Lions Club to look after the advance ticket selling drive. More contestants are expected to enter the drive before the end of the week, and as pointed out by Mrs. Akers, there is still ample time for any young lady to enter the race and win Queen honors, as well as the handsome $85.00 value diamond ring, or $50.00 in cash.

In addition to the Queen's prize, two other prizes will be awarded the next two girls placing second and third in the advance ticket sale drive. The second prize is a beautiful $37.50 Bulova wrist watch, or choice of $25.00 cash, while third prize is a solid gold Cross and Chain, conservatively valued at $15.00, or $10.00 in cash. The prizes will be purchased from Land Brothers, local jewelers, and are on display in their window.

Girl contestants working in the drive at this time include: Helen Stewart, Agnes Wood, Mildred Burton, Mabel Williams, Mary Cannon, Bertha Batton, Edna Harrison, Fannie Stephenson, Alice Myrick, Mary Woodruff, Minnie Lee Medlin, Elsie White and Elizabeth Massey.

Anyone who wishes to enter the drive still has time to do so, and it is not yet too late to go out for one of the major prizes. Smiths Hotel lobby has been selected headquarters for the Festival, and Mrs. Akers is on duty at the Lions Club desk there every afternoon and evening. There is a golden opportunity for girls to sell tickets in nearby towns, as the Festival is expected to attract more out-of-town visitors than usual this year.

The 12-man committee, of which Ted Speight is chairman, is working overtime with various meetings being held almost nightly to work out certain details incidental to the Festival this year. Early indications point to this, the second annual Mid-Summer Festival, eclipsing last year's show both from a standpoint of attractions and amusements offered, and from the amount of money earned for the club, all of which stays right here in Roanoke Rapids for the Lions work among the underprivileged blind, and in helping prevent blindness.

The Crescent Amusement Company, a North Carolina outdoor show organization with winter quarters at Gastonia, has been engaged to furnish the attractions along the midway. This company, said to present the very highest type of good, clean shows, legitimate concessions and the latest and most modern safety-approved riding devices, is now playing Eastern Carolina towns, and will add several rides and other attractions before playing their engagement here the week of August 8th to 13th.

Rosemary Manufacturing Company has consented to let the Lions Club have the vacant lots on Roanoke Avenue again this year, and the Festival will be held on the grounds there. A large marquee will be erected as the main gate for the week of the show, and there will be plenty of good clean shows, amusements and rides for everyone on the grounds.

Last year's Mid-Summer Festival netted close to $1,000 for the local Lions Club, and all of this money was spent in Roanoke Rapids and immediate territory by the Club in their work among the blind. Every single cent netted by this year's show will stay in Roanoke Rapids, and there will be a much larger net return this year because of the fact that the Festival is being promoted locally, without the aid of an outside promoter.

There will be no exhibit booths or merchants displays at the show this year, in fact the Lions Club has gone on record as favoring not asking local merchants for any kind of assistance in promoting the show, so the Club is appealing to the community to support the show strictly on its own merits.

To boost attendance, a cash prize of $25.00 will be given away on the Festival grounds each night of the exposition, totaling $150.00 in prizes for the week.

Purchasers of advance admission tickets to the gate at the low price of 10c each are not only helping their favorite to win in the contest, but are actually saving 15c on each ticket purchased as the gate admission will be 25c during the week of the show. The Lions Club urges every one to subscribe liberally to their advance ticket sale, which will insure the success of the Festival this year.

Meanwhile a great deal of interest is being shown by girls selling tickets, and their "boosters," and