The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-05-30

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, do parlor do I
do horse harness for wagon, =
do buggy do q
do saddle 2
do bride /
do sample tin or copper ware Q
do pair horse shoes tile or fiat |
do other sample blacksmith work b
Best pair coarse boots /
Best do fine do /
Best do lady's shoes y
Best specimen cabinet work =
Best do joinerss do 3
Best do buckskin manufactured
gloves, mltttens OF whip
Best made cloth coat !,
Best do pants
Best do vest
Best specimen maple sugar, lbs. /
Premiums will be given to ether me.
chanical work found worthy.
Class k.-Agricuifurni Implements
Best two horse wagon =
Best do carriage s
Best one horse buggy
Best two horse pillow 2
Cd do do do Fymer
Best cultivator
"a 90 do Farmer
Best plow for blowing corn 2
"a DO do do Farmer
Best horse rake
Best OK yoke
Best show agricultural implements 5
Class L.-Ptowing
Best subsoil blowing
"a 90 90 do Farner
Best falow do
Cd do do do Farmer
Indeptndena
Best female equestrian A side saddle.
BY VIM. =. Thurs;on.
Rules and Regulations.
Isl. Parties for any OF the above pre-
mlums must be residents of Lee County.
and all farm, garden and household BRO
duciions must have been r ised in said
county also domestic manufacturers and
agricultural implements manufactured in
said county
End. Members of the Society and All
their family under twenty one are free !.
but non members will have to pay fee Of
one dollar before they can compete for
premiums
Sd. Owing TO great difficulties experi
enced heretofore ia making arrangements
ior STOCK competing for premiums, i, is
earnestly requested that all competitors
Will furnish the Treasurer, T.. A. Gibbs.
at West Point, a list OF animals, which
they intend TO exhibit a. least ten da, be-
fore the + lr.
NO article Wi ! be admitted which is no,
upon the ground by tweIye o'clock OF the
first day Of the Fair.
4Ih. No stuck or other article exhibi,
ed will be allowed to be removed from The
ground until the announcement .f he A.
ward OF premiums on the second 6av OF
the fair, otherwise they shall iorei, their
premiums.
9th. 10 enable the judges 10 award
the premiums properly, IT is required tha,
all competitors for crop premiums have
,he land accurately measured by a chain
and the products by the standard weights
OF the statute, and an affidavit OF the facts
sworn to by themselves, and at least one
respectable witness, and the competitors
must give the Secretary wrisen state
ment OF the mode of cultivation, time Of
planting, kind and quantity Of seed used,
and all particulars supposed to be of in
/ terest to cnliiYators A hAlr hushel ef
each crop must be exhibited on the day Of
the Fair.
9Th. No premium will be awarded for
any thing which is not superior of its
kind, and in the opinion of the Com.
mit'ee, fairly, worthy, and deserving
premium.
7lh. Premiums on the two acres corn
Will be awarded the last Of November, BY
the Secretary, the declarations and proofs
to be forwarded to him on or before the
/ 20th of November
Should sufficient funds be collected
premiums will be awarded for other de-
serving articles not mentioned in the
above list.
The following persons were appointed
az committees OF the different townships,
to solicit membership and subscriptions to
this Society, to collect and forward the
me to L. A. Gibbs, the Treasurer Of the
Society:
Denmark township-Dr. Shedd. Oliver
Mills and uustavus Bracket
Pleasant Ridge-Thos. Sawyer, TLos.
Marshall and VIM H. Stafford.
Mar on-A. Townsend, John Court
wright. and Jas. B. Pease
CEDAR. Black, David S. Bell, and
Dr. Childs.
Hayrison- Stephen Cook. B. C. Burt,
and Alb. Anderson
Franklin-Jo' Brown, VIM. B. Ar
mold, and Frank Semple.
West Point-E A. Gibbs, VIM. Alex
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