Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-10-09
The County Fair.

The County Fair.
Owing 10 the inclemency of the weather,
the Fair on last Friday and Saturday was not
as successful as was anticipated The weat'
er during all the week was stormy; on Friday
it laincd so necessarily that no entries what
ever Were made, and Saturday morning it
was likely that the Fair would be an utter
failure. Bet towards noon it cleared off, there
were large number of entries large col
lection of peopled gathered, and the Fair was
held.
The Address by Hon. L. p. HARVEY was
direct, practical, Astounding with valuable
suggestion. and was listened to with interest
and pleasure. We have not space for full
report, but will speak briefly Of the show in
the various departments.
VEGETABLES.
The display OF vegetables was not large in
quantity. but decidedly large in the dimen-
sions of the individual articles. +. S. CheS-
bro entered fine lot of onions, and lot of
monster cabbagcf, which took the first prize
C. B. Bruce and G. II. Nichols exhibited
very supcriorlot OF potatoes and beets. Robt
Beard and Levi Bailey ad some fine potatoes,
turnips and cabbage. Chester Fox showed a
very large variety of potatoes and some supe-
rior ruta baga turnips and beans. d. Marsh
and E. Childs had Il very fine lot of bcets,
carrots, onions, etc, Mason Stone showed a
good lot of garden vegetables, and S. A. Green
lot of squashes and sweet potatoes which
beat all competition. Judson Warner showed
lot of pumpkins Of the real old V vermont di-
mansions. c. B. Bruce some fine carrots. and
\, Huddleston a lot of large turnips. VI. W.
Barb had bushcl of carrots which took the
first prize A. +. Shattuck showed a splendid
lot of watcrmelons, and n. Ottman very fine
sample of tomatoes.
GRAINS.
There was some very fine grain on exhibi-
ton Samples Of wheat were shown by AL
bert Smith, Levi Bailey, L. W. Clark, Chester
Fox, e. s. Belts. Ellsworth Childs, Mason
Stone. |. +. Maynard and others, The wheat
was all Of good quality, and there were also
some lots of very good oats and barley. ELS
worth Childs contributed more to the show of
grains than any other one person.
FLUITS.
The show of fruits Of course was not large,
confined mainly TO apples and grapes. G. H.
Nichols slowed sample of grapes which
were of superior size and flavor receiving the
first prize. d. b. Ba ley also showed fine
lot of grapes, and twelve var cites Of apples.
The apples weae large, luscious and fair, CIV
ING abundant evidence that Pierce County
can produce good fruit.
TABLE ARTICLES.
The re WIS very fine display of table arti-
cles, the whitest bread, the richest butter, con-
serves, .ollies. honey, etc. Entries in this de-
/ part,nent wc,e made by Mrs. Albert Smith,
Mrs. C. 3. Bruce, Mrs. Ellsworth Childs
| Mrs. G. Cook, Mira. V c. Dennison and 9th
! ers. As we did rot taste many of the articles
we cannot speak of their comparative excel
lencc. but we know By personal experience,
that the maple sugar shown by Oliver Gibbs
,Jr was first rate article of saccharinc mat
ter, while lhc native grape wine and HE cigars
exhibited by G. H, Nichols, suited our sty lc
exactly. and like Oliver Twist, we banker fol-
more of the same sort
MECHANICS.
/ There was but small exhibition in this de-
! partment VIM Sondsrman showed a buggy
and double wagon. George Newton set OF
2 n. 1
slaves.
| FINE ARTS AND NEEDLE WORK.
! There were some very fine articles in this
| depart lent. Mrs. Levi Bailey showed some
good carpeting; Mrs. /. A. Todd some beau
/ tiful flowers Mrs. Converse some carpeting
| Mrs. Bliss worstcd work; Mrs Snow beau
| titul bedouilt: Mrs. Chester Fox some artifi-
cial flowers and Mrs. L. e. Teale some en-
broidery and worsted and silk work. Mrs,
Winslow showed several quilts, and two beau
tifvl pyramns of shell work. Mrs. Walls
showed fine lot of needle and knitting work.
| +, f. Teale had very elegant pair of sleeve
buttons. manufactured by himself. Lutte A.
! TAYLOR placed on exhibition daguereotype OF
a Lapland girl, in comedian frame made by
Mrs, S. D. Dodge. It attracted considerable
attention, but drew premium, probably
from the fact that it was not home produc-
ton.
STOCK.
Quite large amount of stock was entered
but owing to the unfavorablc weather but little
was placed on exhibition, and we did not ex-
anime this sufficiently to be able to report up
| on it.
Ransom Nestle of Cottage Grove. had inc
stallion, Royal George Jr., on the ground; al
so trotting mare, Dolly. M. II. Faninwa-
gen, of Point Douglas, had splendid trotting
horse, Flying Dutchman. We do net know
what time he has made, but should judge from
what we saw of his movements that there is
sporting blood in him. Ed Kinney had out
his trotfng stallion Black Hawk, and made
good time with him. Altogether the Fair
,,aosed off ,,leasantly The Premium List and