Summer Colonists Plan Features For the Annual Fair East Hampton, L.I., July 20- There is a great deal of interest being taken in the annual Village Improvement Society’s fair for the benefit of East Hampton’s trees and greens, to be held next Friday on the Village Green in the heart of the village. Tea will be served on the lawn at “Home, Sweet Home,” village-owned shrine to the memory of John Howard Payne, who wrote the song in Paris in 1823 in remembrance of boyhood days here. A playground, farm booth, flower stand, cake, candy, and hot dog booths; home-made articles of every description, a fashion show, and a dog show are a few of the attractions to be presented at the fair, an East Hampton Summer fixture since 1895. Mrs. A. Wallace Chauncey and Mrs. Nelson C. Osborne head the fair committee, with Mrs. Eugene A. Coler and Mrs. Leo Koenig, treasurers. Girls Assist as Models Miss Eleanor Maloney will have for models in an Autumn fashion show titled “The Hit Parade”, the Misses Edith Beale, Mary Esther Krech, Rosamond Roberts, Anne Milaholland, Theresa Schey, Eleanor Robinson, Jeannette Barton, Maureen Kelly, Jennifer Burton, Avery Harder, Nancy Pike, Andrea Dowd, Helene Coler, Margaret Hedges, Mary Grace Harris, Cynthia Myrick, Shirley Smith, Dorothy Barrett, Betty Wilson, Barbara Robertson, and Isabel Robertson. The New York Times | July 21, 1940
Summer Colonists Plan Features For the Annual Fair
East Hampton, L.I., July 20- There is a great deal of interest being taken in the annual Village Improvement Society’s fair for the benefit of East Hampton’s trees and greens, to be held next Friday on the Village Green in the heart of the village.
Tea will be served on the lawn at “Home, Sweet Home,” village-owned shrine to the memory of John Howard Payne, who wrote the song in Paris in 1823 in remembrance of boyhood days here. A playground, farm booth, flower stand, cake, candy, and hot dog booths; home-made articles of every description, a fashion show, and a dog show are a few of the attractions to be presented at the fair, an East Hampton Summer fixture since 1895. Mrs. A. Wallace Chauncey and Mrs. Nelson C. Osborne head the fair committee, with Mrs. Eugene A. Coler and Mrs. Leo Koenig, treasurers.
Girls Assist as Models
Miss Eleanor Maloney will have for models in an Autumn fashion show titled “The Hit Parade”, the Misses Edith Beale, Mary Esther Krech, Rosamond Roberts, Anne Milaholland, Theresa Schey, Eleanor Robinson, Jeannette Barton, Maureen Kelly, Jennifer Burton, Avery Harder, Nancy Pike, Andrea Dowd, Helene Coler, Margaret Hedges, Mary Grace Harris, Cynthia Myrick, Shirley Smith, Dorothy Barrett, Betty Wilson, Barbara Robertson, and Isabel Robertson.

The New York Times | July 21, 1940

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