From the Stafford County Mailing List - December 2004
The article below appeared in the NEWS-OBSERVER (Herndon Observer Fairfax County News) on Thursday, 28 June 1934.
*NOTE: Hazel
Keys [should say KEYES] was the daughter of Gordon Keys [KEYES] of Stafford
County, who is sponsoring someone else. Presumably it was thought more tactful
for people not to sponsor their own daughters.
Independent Hill was in Prince William County. The contestants came from 3 or 4
northern Virginia counties.
Ruby RUSSELL later married Walter William WARD. Zella POSEY married Harold POTH.
Rowena POSEY married Thomas D. MILLER. Thresa COPEN married Lewis SUTHARD. I
think that Minnie RINES is the one listed in the 1930 census as the adopted
daughter of William T. and Katie H. WINE.
NEWS-OBSERVER, Thursday, 28 June 1934
Entrants in Beauty Contest
Entrants in the Beauty Contest to be
held at Independent Hill Saturday, June
30, at 8 o'clock.
Name of Entrant Sponsor
Dorothy Linton Gordon Keys
Laurie A. Higgins John Oleyar, jr.
Ruby Russell Claude L. Oleyar
Annabelle Holmes Mr. E. Herring
Mrs. Bertha L. Wine Mr. John Wine
Minnie Rines Wilson Miller
Josephine Gaba E. L. Dawson
Mrs. Charles Linton Mrs. E. Herring
Patsy Keys Mr. N. C. Pattie
Bessie Cornwell Fred S. Schwab
Dorothy May Jones Mrs. Ed Jones
Mary K. Holmes Mrs. Jas. Lowe
Marie Copen C. C. Athey
Helen Czapp O. C. Zeshiel
Jacquelyn Miller B. T. Harding
Belle Kincheloe Micky Finn
Martha Grymes John Czapp
Lillian Posey Walter Miller
Mildred Oleyer Elmer Coppage
Edna Coppage Mrs. R. C. Linton
Zella Posey C. S. Lunsford
Mamie Cooper C. H. Beach
Helen Gaba O. W. Jordan
Hazel Keys Jas. W. Lowe
Louise H. Wine Mrs. Sam Tuttle
Rowena Posey Bradford Lowe
Julia Woolfenden Bennie Hoover
Virginia Wright Joe Herrick
Lettie Wright Orville Hoover
Thresa Copen Ray E. Wood
Louise Tubbs Malo Ledbetter
Emma Shutlock John Shutlock
Miss Sarah Pitts Mr. Charles Linton
Stella Lowe Mrs. Myrtle Pilson
All of the above entrants are asked
to be at the O. F. A. Hall promptly at
8 o'clock Saturday night.