EBERLEINS WILL HAVE THE WINNERS ON EXHIBIT THIS WEEK SATURDAY

Fred. G. Eberlein took six foxes to the National Silver Fox show held at Muskegan, Michigan, last week. There were 308 entries in the show, and Mr. Eberlein came back with two of the prizes.

He won first prize, the blue ribbon, for silver adult male, pale and he won fifth place in the medium silver adult male class, The medium silver is considered a higher value animal than is the pale silver, so his fifth prize is as much to be proud of, as is the blue ribbon that he won.

There have been so many requests from people who want to see these animals, asking to go out to the farm, that Mr. Eberlein has arranged to show the two winning animals in the window of the Farmers Hardware Company all day this Saturday. The presence of strangers annoys the foxes, and so this public exhibiting plan was adopted.

The Eberleins have been in the fox business for only two years, and the winning of these two prizes is a notable accomplishment, In a few years, the fox industry will have grown to big proportions, but right now, the Eberleins can be considered as being among the pioneers of the business.

The Shawano foxes were shipped to and from Muskegan by express and were personally attended both ways by Mr. Eberlein. They attracted considerable attention at the station along the route.

Source: Unidentified newspaper clipping, December 1922, in the Frederic C. Eberlein genealogical folder.