Second annual Pioneer Day coming Oct. 14
Sep. 22—Ada Diamond K Kiwanis, in cooperation with Pontotoc County Historical Society, recently announced their second annual Pioneer Day is slated for Saturday, Oct. 14, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Wintersmith Park.
The event will feature a Dutch oven cooking contest, an old fashioned pie eating contest, a watermelon seed spitting contest, a beard and mustache contest, and a hog callin' contest.
Visitors can meet the person after whom Ada is named, Miss Ada Reed, as well as President Abraham Lincoln, and Maj. General James A. Garfield.
The event will also feature the Chickasaw storytellers, children's games, wagon rides, butter churning, quilting, Lucy and her Amazing Chickens, cowboy poets, the Balladeer Singers, mountain man Bill Penn, wool spinning, square dancing, and Concessions.
The country band Southern Neon is also slated to perform.
Prizes will be awarded to winners in the Old West Dutch oven cook-off starting at 9 a.m. with judging to begin at noon, and the Old West beard and mustache contest with competition beginning at 12:20 p.m., and the hog callin' contest, which starts at 1 p.m.
For more information, or to register for a contest, call 580-399-4193.
