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1920s–2026 · AT BOUNDARY SIZE — THE FAIR'S WHOLE IS SOUTH BEND'S
In the fair's modern form, Penn Township's share runs through its club and its exhibitors. St. Joseph County's 4-H clubs are township clubs: the Purdue Extension county handbook for 2021–22 lists the county's clubs by township — Centre, Clay-Edison, German, Greene, Liberty, Lincoln, Madison, Olive, Union, Warren — and this ground's club as the Penn-Harris Township 4-H Club, its coordinators printed in the handbook as Susan Muszynski and Stacey Andrews. There is no Osceola-named club; the town's children show as Penn-Harris members, and the club's own federal register line — the 4-H clubs' affiliated-organizations entry, exemption ruling dated April 1946 — stands in the civic register below at the address of a county family on Lake Street. The fair the club shows at is the county's, on the South Bend grounds; its whole course, from the 4-H era's disputed 1926-or-1927 origin to the "101st annual" billing of July 3–11, 2026, is South Bend's telling, and this article takes only the township's documented share of it.
That share, at the size the press of record documents, is this. The Farmer's Exchange's report of the 2025 county 4-H livestock auction (July 11, 2025; Jerry Goshert) records a sale of $541,729.50 across 502 lots at South Bend, and in its champion rows one Osceola exhibitor: "Makena Allen of Osceola sold two grand champions, the turkey and pair of turkeys" — the single turkey bringing $120 from the Knowlton family, the pair $180 from Skiles Automotive. Four years earlier the Exchange's report of July 16, 2021 shows the town on the buying side: Addyson Farias, a ten-year member from Mishawaka, sold her grand champion Pekin duck for $250 to "the Dale Sommers family of Osceola." The Exchange prints hometowns as the fair reports them — postal places, not town lines — and both lines are printed here exactly at that strength.
Principal sources: Purdue Extension, St. Joseph County 4-H Handbook, 2021–22 (club list and coordinators); The Farmer's Exchange, July 11, 2025 and July 16, 2021 (auction reports read whole); St. Joseph County 4-H Fair, the fair's own account (2026 billing).