CADIZ — The Stumptown Steam Threshers Club’s 60th-annual reunion and show will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Harrison County Fairgrounds, located at 550 Grant St., Cadiz.
The club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, display and demonstration of antique and historical farm equipment.
The event officially begins Saturday at 9:30 a.m. with an opening ceremony that will include Boy Scouts raising the flag, followed by the national anthem.
The public can view steam traction engines powering an antique sawmill sawing boards with other demonstrations including steam traction engines powering an antique threshing machine, which was how grain was separated before combines.
The straw separated from the grain will be baled by an antique baler which is fed by hand, and the bales are tied by hand using wire instead of twine. Corn will be shelled and ground into cornmeal feed using an antique stone burr mill. The freshly ground corn meal feed will be available for sale to the public.
A shingle mill will be cutting shingles from single bolts which are cut from logs that have been sawed on the sawmill. A large variety of other displays and demonstrations will cover the show ground, including antique single-cylinder gas engines which will be used to power equipment such as pump jacks, butter churns, cream separators and washing machines.
Antique farm tractors and crawlers of numerous makes nad models will be on display as well as a large variety of antique lawn and garden tractors. there will be antique cars and trucks as well.
“The equipment on display is an educational experience for all in attendance as the public gets a chance to see how the American farmer performed his chores in the days before electric motors, advanced farm tractors, combines and more modern equipment became available,” a spokesperson noted Some equipment may date back as far as 1900 or earlier.
A flea market is part of the event and included baked goods, farm toys and new items. the Stumptown Ladies Auxiliary will offer club T-shirts and crafts for sale with tickets available for the drawing of a handmade quilt. There will be food concessions.
Events on the Saturday schedule include the Bill Fowler’s whistle blow, which will signal lunch time as was the practice in the days of the use of live steam to power the threshing machines. A kiddie pedal tractor pull begins at 3 p.m.
A worship service at 8:30 a.m. begins the Sunday schedule. A tractor operator’s contest is at 1 p.m. with awards presented at 2:30 p.m. for the oldest man and woman in attendance and the drawing for the quilt. At 3 p.m., children will get an opportunity to search for quarters and candy in the pile of wood shavings cast off from the shingle mill.
Show admission is $5 per day per adult. Children under age 12 are admitted free with an adult. Club memberships are available for $8 per person. A commemorative badge is included with each membership, and a membership is valid for admission to both days of the 2022 show. Plates and mugs commemorating this year’s show will be on sale.
Show information can be obtained by calling Gary Wellendorf, club secretary, at (330) 265-3659.
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