Ellis County Texas Archives Photo Document.....Jane Bell Baby Contest & Picture December 1932
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Newspaper Clipping from Ellis County Newspaper in about December 1932



BABY SHOW
                                  MINIATURE FAIR  
                                                                GREAT SUCCESS

	The baby show conducted by the WCTU at their miniature fair Friday 
afternoon was a decided success with a large crowd in attendance.
	About 25 babies were registered and at the appointed time the mothers 
began to arrive with their beautiful babies, for this was a beauty show only 
and not for physical examination.  The babies were judged on three points, 
beauty, brightness, general appearance.
	The children were arranged in three groups, first, all under 1 year of 
age; second, all from 1 to 2 ½ years; third, all from 2 ½ to 4 years.
	A table was placed in front of the judges who were seated, and each 
child in rotation placed on the table and numbered and the judges knew them 
only by numbers.
	It was a beautiful sight to view the various types of beauty and a task 
almost appalling for it did seem cruel to have to make any distinction between 
them for they were all pretty, so pretty and so attractive in every way that we 
did wish we could give every one a prize, but as only three could be winners, 
the judges after due deliberation pinned the blue ribbon on the following:  No. 
1, little Jane Bell, four months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Bell; No. 2, 
Jo Ann Roberson, 18 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Roberson; No. 3, 
Frieda Francine Jones, 3 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Jones.
	The prizes were: 1 gold bracelet from Dunkerely Jewelry store; 1 8x10 
portrait from Maresh studio; 1 8x10 portrait from Littlejohn studio.
	The judges were out of town ladies and none of them knew a single one 
of the children or their mothers, hence their judgment was as fair as they 
could make it.
	Mrs. E. J. Anderson of Waxahachie was chairman of the judges; Mrs. 
William Campbell of Oak Grove, Mrs. J. L. Lemmon of Rice.



Additional Comments:
Picture attached is Jane Bell, 4 months of age.

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