Annual show set for Sept. 8
By Suzanne Loudamy Tri-County Leader

On Sept. 8 from 8 a.m. to finish, the Lone Start Antique Tractor and Engine Association will present their seventh annual tractor show and pull.

The event features activities and fun for the entire family.

It will be held in Whitehouse, three miles east of downtown Whitehouse, off State Hwy. 110 on FM 346, East Main Street, on the Chip McClain property, formerly the Whitehouse Young Farmer's facility.

All-day events include displays of antique tractors and gas engines, tractor pulling competition, demonstrations of wheat threshing using a huge belt driven antique threshing machine driven by an old tractor, hay bailing and corn grinding and much more.

Food concession, arts and crafts, horse painting, kiddie barrel train rides, and kiddie tractor pulls, are of interest for young and old alike.

At noon an auction of new, antique, collectable, craft and miscellaneous items will take place. Proceeds benefit scholarship fund for area college students.

Door prizes will be given away.

At 1 p.m. a tractor parade of antique, collectable and restored tractors and farm equipment will begin.

The Lone Star Antique Tractor and Engine Association began in 2000 to preserve an interest in the heritage of machinery so important to the nation's farming industry.

Today more than 100 members regularly attend and participate in this East Texas are organization.

For more information contact Charles Parmley at 903- 581-3811.