The largest expense item was advertising and printing, $149.56, by the Western Hills Press. Some of the “Display Exhibits” the first year were Vitt and Stermer, Western Hills Press, Rebold Funeral Home and Wullenweber Motors. With that boost, the first efforts of our young club wound up with $112.25 in the black. $270.50 was subscribed by individual Kiwanians and community business establishments with the largest contribution of $25.00 from the Western Hills Publishing.
Lacking operating cash, it was necessary for the Kiwanians to raise a “starter fund” to underwrite the first festival. Fos and John accepted the “lumber, the seats, ropes, flags, tables, and building” at Harvest Home park and started working on the 79th festival. O’Rourke, our club’s first president, was General Manager of the first 18 festivals until Oreste Barone took over in 1958 for the next 13 years. He continued in that capacity for 32 years when he became Chairman Emeritus in September, 1970. John Williams, M.D., were presidents of the old Green Township Harvest Home Association, became the first chairman of the Kiwanis committee. The Green Township Agricultural Society held the deed for the Harvest Home Park and this ownership was transferred to the City of Cheviot with the stipulation that the City of Cheviot permit the use the Harvest Home Park for the Annual Fair.ĭr. Then the newly organized Harvest Home Fair Association of Green Towhship continued the tradition as teh Fair we know today in Cheviot beginning on Friday, Augin Carson’s beautiful grove and yearly after that until 1939, when the young men of the infant Kiwanis Club of Cheviot-Westwood took over the reigns for the 79th annual one day festival. They fenced in and farmed 20 acres and when their first harvest in 1806 was abundant out of this fertile land, they invited the other settlers to rejoice and give thanks for the harvest, and in a grove outside of their cabin they held the first of many annual “festivals.” The Green Township Agricultural Society was organized to hold the annual festival on Carson’s ranch from 1855-1859. Enoch and Ashsah Carson had settled on 100 acres of Green Township land in 1805 with their eight children.
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