REPORTS FROM EARLY CAT SHOWS IN THE USA - OHIO

AKRON & CUYAHOGA FALLS, OHIO

BLUE PERSIAN MALE BEST IN CAT SHOW. The Akron Beacon Journal, 23rd January 1949
A little cat with a long name, Double Champion Carthas Late Dawn, came out with the top prize in the second annual show staged here by the Cuyahoga Valley Cat club. Double Champion etc., a blue male Persian, officially won the title “best in show.” He also finished first in his class. His owner is Mrs Martha Cordrey of Elida, O. The two-day show was held in the auditorium of the M O’Neil Co store. It attracted 20,000 persons and 185 cats according to the show secretary, Mrs Evelyn Sills, 765 E. Buchtel av.

Even the store cat, Miss O’Neil, got into the act before the judging was completed Saturday afternoon. A blue Persian, Miss O’Neil too first in her class. Only two Akron cats finished near the top. A blue Persian, Timothy Blue Boy, owned by Miss Zorka Stefanov, 950 Wye dr., was named best neuter. Lady Chipein, owned by Miss Virginia E. Gardner, 841 Merriman rd., was named best domestic shorthair in the show. Other top winners chosen by the show judge, Mrs Silas K Andrews, included:

Best Opposite Sex – Fleming’s Honey Chile, blue-eyed white Persian, owned by Mrs Earl C. Fleming, Columbus.
Best Champion – Double Champion Carthas Late Dawn.
Best Opposite Sex Champion – Smallhurst’s Girl of the Sun, a red Persian, Mrs J J Small, Cleveland.
Best Novice – Katnip Korner Romeo, a shaded silver Persian, Mrs Vivian Osburn, Buena Park, Cal.
Best Opposite Sex Novice – Ja-Em-Ette’s Glorious Jade, a seal-point Siamese, Mr and Mrs William K Hedrick, Andover, O.
Best Kitten – Lake Erie Charming, a blue Persian, Mrs Robert Coulter, Lorain, O.
Best Opposite Sex Kitten – Spoon River Sky Dust Paw Paw, a cream Persian, Mrs Walter Yeager, Toledo.
Best Spay – Mistress Mischief Musette, a blue Persian, Mrs Elizabeth McGrew, Cleveland.
Best Foreign Short Hai – Ja-Em-Ette’s Glorious Jade.

This year’s show was managed by Raymond D. Heine, 79 Atlas st. His assistant was W h Hall, State rd., Peninsula. Winners in the various classes and their owners include:

Blue-Eyed White Female Open – Fleming’s Honey Chile.
Golden-Eyed White Female Open – Murray’s Jiminy Cricket of Van Dyke, Mrs Lila Rippy.
Golden-Eyed White Female Kitten – Ginnie Bear, Mrs H Trend.
Golden-Eyed White Female Novice – Spunky, mrs James E Priest, Akron.
Black Male Kitten – Ayme-Ty-Wynn Rufus, Mrs M E Thorne.
Black Male Novice – Maple Keya Lochinvar, Mary Louise Dunderman, White Pond dr.
Black Female Kitten – Maple Keya Nicolette, Mary Louise Dunderman.
Black Female Open – Corso’s Black Ruffles, Mrs H Woodman (Best black in the show).
Blue Male Novice – Smallhurst’s Corvette of Paw Paw, Mrs Yeager.
Blue Male Open – Lake Erie’s Sonny Boy, Mrs Rose Hardacre, Akron.
Blue Female Kitten – Rose Acre’s Carrie Lu, Mrs Hardacre.
Blue Female Novice – Hill Tops Beau Eve, Mrs Nellie Pratt, Detroit.
Blue Female Open – Kansas City Sky Dust O’Dubuque, Mr and Mrs Walter E Limbert, Mentor, O.
Cream Male Novice – Kabul’s Golden Sand, Mrs Hellen Korseboom.
Cream Male Open – Nor-Mont Café Au Lait, Mrs Merald E Hoag.
Cream Female Kitten – Spoon River Sky Dust of Paw Paw, Mrs Yeager.
Cream Female Open – Nadja of Silver Gables, Mr and Mrs Ralph Morris.
Silver Male Novice – Havencrest’s Kee Kee of Paw Paw, Mrs Yeager.
Silver Female Novice – Lucky Silver Pearl, Mrs Dorothea Diebel Keller.
Shaded Silver Male Novice – Katnip Korner Romeo.
Shaded Silver Male Open – Silver Quest Fantasie, Miss Kay Thomas, Cleveland.
Shaded Silver Female Novice – Lady Donna Rose, Addie Nye Norton.
Silver Shaded Female Open – Chewanna’s Bit O’Silver, Mr and Mrs Wilmer Shanteau.
Siler Tabby Male Novice – Ladd’s Silver Boy of Mi-Choice, Mrs Maurice Shaw.
Silver Tabby Female Open – Vangie of Mi-Choice, Mrs Shaw.
Smoke Male Novice – Boots, Mrs George E Hall Jr.
Smoke Male Open – Ball-ba, Mrs Ruby Lane, Taylor.
Silver Female Open – Bonnie Jean, Mrs Eleanor Myers.
Orange Male Champion – Smallhurst’s Dubl Trubl, Mrs Small.
Orange Tabby Female Novice – Peachglo’s Cleopatra, Mrs S C Mathay.
Red Male Novice – Spoon River’s Red, La Roque, Mr and Mrs Arden J Watts.
Red Male Open – Smallhurst’s Boyson, Mrs Small.
Red Female Novice – Fairway’s Tangerine, Mr and Mrs W H Hall.
Red Female Open – Just-A-mere’s Scarlett, Mr and Mrs Watts.
Red Female Champion – Smallhurst’s Girl of the Sun, Mrs Small.
Red Tabby Male Novice – Fairway’s Gay Rover, Mr and Mrs Hall.
Red Tabby Male open – Peachglo’s Reddy Boy, Mrs S C Mathay.
Red Tabby Female Champion – Erdmurr Thunderbolt, Mabel S Erdman.
Red Tabby Female Novice – Peachglo Lady Lovelace, Mrs Mathay.
Red Tabby Male Peke-Face open – Eico’s Viking Cinerella, Ella Condoy.
Brown Tabby Male Open – Pan Peter’s Joshua, Mrs W T Newcomb.
Tortoiseshell Novice – Smallhurst’s Nancy, Mr and Mrs Gerald Stoneburner.
Tortoiseshell Open – Northway Tortilla, Mrs Amspacker.
Blue Cream Open – Dawn’s Ever-ready, Mr and Mrs H Millbeck.

Foreign-bred Short Hair Championship classes:
B.P. Siamese Male Open – Warren’s Seh-Si-Gnong-Tong, Mrs H Woodman.
B.P. Siamese Female Kitten – Johnson’s Lingo Sao, Mrs Doris Johnson.
S.P. Siamese Male Novice – Kerry Lu Goopey of Crickmore, Mrs A G Johnson.
S.P. Siamese Male Open – Warren’s Seh-Si-Gnong-Tong [must be an error – this cat can’t be both a Blue Point and a Seal Point!]
S.P. Female Kitten – La Core’s Jennifer of Johnson, Mrs Doris Johnson.
S.P. Female Novice – Jo-Em-Ette’s Glorious Jade.
S.P. Female Open – Kin Foo Lan Yen, Mrs Anna F Kinney.
Orange-Eyed White Neuter – Tommy, Miss Kathleen Ann France.
L.H. Black Neuter – Shadow, Mrs W A Williams.
L.H. Blue Neuter - Timothy-Blue Boy, Miss Stefanov.
L.H. Blue Spay – Mistress Mischief Musette.
L.H. Smoke Neuter – Sweet William, Miss Virginia E Gardner.
L.H. Smoke Spay – Nicolette, Mrs Ruby Lane Taylor.
Seal Point Spay – Kin Foo Rosamund Kung, Mrs Anna F Kinney.

Manx Division:
Parti-Color orange and white Female Open – Ramtal’s Honey Bea of Cartha, Mrs Cordrey.
Red or Orange Mackerel Female Open – Cartha’s Rebecca, Mrs Cordrey.
Red Tabby Male open – Cartha’s Pot O’Gold, Mrs Cordrey.

Burmese Division:
Burmese Male Kitten – Moulmein Theebaw, Mrs I W Winkler, Huntington, W. Va.

American bred domestic shorthair division:
Black Male Novice S.H. – Smokey, Gladys m Smith.
Shaded Silver Male Open S.H. – Kiri of Springbrook, Mrs C F Kunkler.
Shaded Silver Female Open S.H. – Kiriki of Springbrook, Mrs Kunkler.
Silver Tabby Female Novice S.H. – Lady Chipein, Virinia Gardner.

Non-championship classes:
A.O.C. Male Kitten L.H. – Feller, Mrs Frank Flannery.
A.O.C. Male Novice L.H. – Smokey, Mrs Anna Harbaugh.
A.O.C. Female Novice L.H. – Nosey Rosi, Mrs Delores Fisher.
Neuter Gray and Black L.H. Tabby, Mrs Charles J Bush.
Neuter Red and White L.H. – Whiskers, Mrs Ralph A Peterson.
A.O.C. Spay L.H. – Penocchio Del Amarrio, Mrs Roy Montgomery.
Household Pet Male Kitten S.H. – Perky, Misses Marie Bernert and Clarice Davis.
Household Pet Male Novice S.H. – Teddy, Mrs Verna M Egit.
Household Pet Black Neuter S.H. – Teddy Low Ransom, Miss Nancy Ransom.
A.O.C. Household Pet Neuter S.H. – Little Abner, Mrs John Zeigler.

SPRUCED--UP CATS IN LIMELIGHT. The Akron Beacon Journal, 13th February 1961
Cuyahoga Valley Cat Club holds its sixth championship show Saturday and Sunday in Richardson School Gymnasium, 2226 Twenty third st., Cuyahoga Falls. The show room will be open at 8 a. m. Saturday for veterinary inspection and judging will begin at 10 a. m. both days. Judges will be Mrs. Lila Rippy, all breed; Winifred Steele, shorthair specialty, and Richard Sorenson, longhair specialtv. Phyllis Saver of Tallmadge is the show secretary. One feature will be the appearance of a white Persian. Swanee [Shawnee] Moon Flight owned by Mrs. Nikki Horner of Newburgh, Ind. A quadruple grand champion. the cat has been best of show 50 times.

CLEVELAND, OHIO

CLEVELAND CAT SHOW – Arizona Republic, December 5th, 1901
Cleveland, Ohio., Dec. 4. — The cats easily carried off the honors a the poultry and pet stock show which opened today in the Grays armory. There are chickens, turkeys, ducks, pigeons and rabbits without number on exhibition, but the star feature of the whole show is the elaborate display of feline pets. Everything from the highly prized Maltese to the common yellow article is shown.

ELYRIA WON – The Chronicle Telegram, December 9th, 1901
Elyria carried off some prizes at the poultry and cat show at Cleveland last week. Albert Behrens, of Grace Court got first prize on four pair of game fowls for best display of bantams. Mrs. Behrens’ black Angora cat “Pickaninny” took the first prize of $4 and also a special prize of five gallons of disinfectant, given by Robt. West, of Cleveland, for the best neuter cat in Ohio. The cat received a complimentary notice in the Cleveland papers.

TABBY IS SHOWN OFF - Various, December 4, 1902
Cleveland, O., Dec. 4 — The mewing of cats mingled with the loud crowing of cocks and the soft cooing of doves, in the discordant sounds that greeted the ears of the many visitors thronging the Gray’s Armory today. The occasion was the opening of the big poultry and cat show for which preparations have been going forward for several months. The show is in all respects the largest and most notable affair of its kind ever held in this city. The entries number several thousand and embrace all varieties of domestic fowls, together with a choice assortment of high-class felines. The judging of exhibits commenced this morning and will continue until the show closes the last of the week

NOCTURNAL DISCUSSIONS – Hagerstown Exponent, 10th November, 1904
The Cleveland Cat Club is planning to hold a cat show in November. This is probably the subject of the backyard discussion you hear when you wake up in the night, remarks the Buffalo Express.

FELINE PETS IN CLEVELAND EXHIBITION – Detroit Free Press, 28th November, 1904
Such a lot of cats, so many more than were expected, have been entered for the cat show this week, that the managers have been obliged to change the suite of rooms in the Arcade from the second floor, where four had been engaged, to the sixth floor, where more space can be obtained. It will be by far the best show that has been held in this city and one of the best that have ever been held in the middle west.

One more cup has been added to the fourteen already noted, this one put up by the Joliet Cat club. There will be a strong competition for the handsome Owen cup, as Champion Angus, owned by Mrs. Frederick W. Story, of Chicago, twice winner of the cup, will be here, and Albert Edward, a beautiful blue cat, owned by Dr. N. S. Niven, of London, Ont., also a winner of the Owen cup, will be present to contest it. Mrs. Story also sends Hamish, an orange male cat imported from England, and only once before shown in this country. In England he won over the champion, the King’s Own, and among sixty-three competitors for eyes and type.

Besides her $2,000 cat, Miss Owen, of Detroit, will send Cupid, valued at $500. Mrs. L. A. Woodward sends Onyx of Gladdissenn, valued at $1,000, and Argent Puff Ball, worth $500. Mrs. Everett Davis, of Chicago, president of the National Cat club, and Mrs. A. H. Baker, treasurer of the same, each send several very fine, specimens. The cat show will open on the sixth floor of the Arcade, Euclid entrance, on Wednesday of this week, and will last three days.

CHAMPIONSHIP CAT SHOW – East Oregonian, 30th November, 1904; The Spokane Press, 30th November, 1904
The first annual championship cat show of the Cleveland Cat Club, opened auspiciously today. About 150 cats, including Manx, Siamese, Persian, Angora and the ordinary short-haired variety are on exhibition representing a value of nearly $25,000 in feline loveliness and beauty. A large number of exhibits come from Chicago, Pittsburg, Detroit, Washington and other cities. Judging began today and will continue until the close of the show next Saturday. Fourteen silver cups will be awarded to the winners.

TO MANAGE CLEVELAND CAT SHOW – Democrat and Chronicle, 10th January, 1906
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Brace is in Cleveland superintending preparations for a cat show to be held by the Cleveland Club later this season, of which she is to have charge. The club will put its net proceeds into a fund for a refuge for stray cats. Mrs. Brace is secretary of the Lockehaven Cat Club.

CATS TO BE TREATED ROYALLY – The Indianapolis Star, 29th January, 1906
A cat show that will be held at Cleveland, O., this week promises to be original und unique if nothing more. The blue ribbon felines are to be treated in a royal fashion. Not only does the management of the show offer rewards in the shape of money to the amount of several hundred dollars, but it even offers books for the cats themselves.

The Masters Thomas and Mistresses Tabitha who reign over a kingdom of church mice, office rats and like inhabitants of public buildings are to be rewarded with the nucleus of a cat library if they present themselves in proper sleekness and with well-trimmed claws. The former qualification admits them to the class of “best conditioned cats," entitling them to a copy of "Letters from Pussyville," or “Pussy Meow,” according to whether their pedigree shows them to be waif cats or church cats with orthodox training. The qualification of “well-trimmed claws” merely establishes them as qualified for recognition by the Cat Club as bread-eating rulers only, without cannibalistic tendencies, believing firmly in moral suasion only and utterly opposed to capital punishment.

COSTLY CATS DIE – The Pittsburgh Press, 12th May, 1906
As the result of a peculiar disease which has made its appearance among felines that were exhibited at the Cleveland, O., cat show held recently, several Pittsburg society women, ardent cat fanciers, have lost some of their valuable animals. Already nine cats have died and others are becoming infected. The losers so far are: Mrs. Richard Hardy, of Trevania avenue, Swissvale, lost five cats Persian cat and two of other breeds, valued at $475; Mrs. J.M. McNall, of Wood street, Wilkinsburg, lost one cat, valued at $150.

COLUMBUS, OHIO

KENTUCKY CATS MAULING OUT-OF-STATE OPPOSITION. The Courier Journal, 25th November 1966
Kentucky cats again have the hair bristling on the backs of rivals in at least 40 states. Entries owned by Mrs. Nikki Shuttleworth of Jeffersontown have won the “best cat” award at 19 out of 23 shows since the feline-show year opened five months ago. Mrs. Shuttleworth returned Friday from attending six shows in Columbus, Ohio, where she made an almost complete sweep of the honors. There were two shows for longhairs only, two for short-hairs only and two all-breed events. Entries came from a score of states.

Grand Champion Shawnee White Wash won the two longhair shows, was best cat in one all-breed and reserve in the other, in which Mrs. Shuttleworth’s Grand Champion Shawnee Painting The Town Red was best cat.
In the two shorthair shows, the top prizes went to Nikki’s Grand Champion Hill House Daniella, a Burmese.
In the same all-breed show in which White Wash triumphed, Daniella was the best shorthair and another Shuttleworth entry took the best-kitten ribbon.

Cat shows operate on a sort of fiscal year. The first big one this year was held by the Chicago club in Gary, Ind. The Shuttleworth entries won the top prize in three out of four shows and reserve in the other. Several other top awards came at the Milwaukee shows. Mrs. Shuttleworth will attend a series of shows for longhairs only this weekend at Racine, Wis.

DAYTON, OHIO

FANCY CATS ADD DAYTON RIBBONS. Dayton Daily News, 15th November 1971
A chocolate-point Siamese male with the unlikely name of C. Horse Farm Khaled was general winner Sunday in the 12th annual Dayton Cat Fanciers championship show. He’s a Kentucky cat shown by Mrs. Norma Curless of Lexington. Out-of-state cats captured the top prizes in various rings: a blue American shorthair male and a red Persian female, both owned by Nikki Horner of Louisville; a blue Persian female belonging to Mrs. Raymond Klotz of Waukesha, Wisc.; a ruddy Abyssinian male owned by Mrs. Brenda Garnett of Chesterfield, Va.

Burmese and Persians turned out to be the ‘‘top cats’’ among Dayton entries. William Packard won second best premier with grand champion Kon-Ke-Ke Molly ‘Brown, a Burmese female, and best opposite sex novice with his Burmese male, Charisma’s Canasta. Best champion longhair was won by Nancy Davis, with champion Willow Glen’s Golden Image; Nancy’s mother, also of West Chester, won best longhair kitten with Willow Glen’s Lakota, a blue Persian male. Mrs. C. Herbert Schulman of Beavercreek took best opposite sex champion in the longhair ring with champion Fereshte Angelique, a blue Persian female. A Dayton Burmese, Jeri-Lo Tammy Lea, won second best cat in the shorthair ring for P. E. Adkins.

OTHER, OHIO

HERMAN, CASANOVA OF CAT WORLD TO BE AT STATE FAIR – The Daily Times, 8th August, 1961
Herman, “Casanova of the cat world” will meet two Maine Coon cats at the coming Cat Show during the Ohio State Fair, Aug. 25 through Sept. 2. The ancesters of the Maine Coon cats were ship-wrecked during colonial times and mingled with wild racoons. Herman, being from California, has never seen coon-cats before. Knowing Herman, there may be a new romance in the making. The Ohio State Persian Club, playing cupid is pleased to have Herman back. This will be Herman’s second appearance in Columbus. There will also be over 100 cats and kittens on exhibit. Many of these are Grand Champions, and Champions. Some of the types of show cats to be exhibited this year will be Longhair Persian, Silver Persian, Tabby and Torties, Cameo’s, Himalayan, Domestic Short Hair, Manx, Burmese, Siamese and Abyssinians.