Old Missoula

500 Dolls Are Shown During Week at Parks

Oldest One Is 180 Years.

Sandra Pritchard Is Owner.

More than 500 dolls were on display in the various parks when the Missoula recreation department sponsored a community doll show in Bonner, Franklin, Kiwanis, North Side and West Side parks Friday evening. This activity was proven to be most popular by the public interest and participation.

Many interesting dolls were entered for display. Many parents and friends came to see the attractive and varied groups which the children brought for the show.

The 180-year-old doll, entered at North side park by Sandra Pritchard, 405 Fourth street, won the blue ribbon for the oldest doll on that playground. At Bonner park, the ribbon for the oldest doll was awarded to Lois Connell, who entered a doll which was 85 years old. This doll had been given to her mother, Mrs. G. D. Connell, when she was a little girl, by an old woman who had played with it when she, herself, was a youngster.

Blue ribbons also were awarded by the neighborhood judges to the following children:

Bonner Park.

Most beautiful doll, Irene McMahon; largest doll, Shirley Lintz; nationality group, Marjory and Janet Howard; largest collection of dolls, largest variety of dolls, the smallest doll and the oldest doll, Lois Connell, who entered 31 dolls in the show.

Honorable mention was given Colleen Smith, who entered a doll 52 years old; to Helen Mycklebust, who entered a doll 30 years old and to Diane Dragstedt, who brought a doll which was imported from England.

Kiwanis Park.

Most beautiful doll, Mary Margaret Dieberiche, largest doll, Frankie Clinkingbeard; smallest doll, Carol Burklund; oldest doll, Evangeline Murias; largest collection, Rita Marie Morin; greatest variety in size and dress, Darlene Nelsen.

North Side Park.

Most beautiful doll, Doralee Riel; largest doll, Iris Combs; smallest doll, Irene Randolph; oldest doll, Sandra Pritchard; largest collection, greatest variety, largest nationality group, Diane Pritchard.

West Side Park.

Most beautiful doll, Margaret Collins; smallest doll, Helen Jensen; largest doll,
Betty Anne Root; oldest doll, 27 years, Virginia Gasser; largest collection, variety and nationality group, Rose Ellen Mudd.

 

The above article appeared in The Sunday Missoulian on August 29, 1937

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