Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-04


Best Bread Mrs T Breed, Bedford, first prem.
Best Cookery, by girl under Il, Miss T. Marble
SolOn, FIRST premium.
Best Variety Cake, Miss f. Marble SoIon, first
prem um.
Class 23-FLowERs
Best Boquet, Miss F. Bull, solon, first premium
Best Variety Verbenas, Mrs. o. Wills, solon, first
Best Floral Design, Mrs II. E. Falk, Bedford,
first premium.
Best Floral Design, Mrs. Vim. Wells, Bedford, |
second premium.
CLASS 25-GRAIS SAMPLES
Best bushel Corn, John Libby, Bedford first
premium
Best basket Corn, J. Mclean, Newburgh, second
premium.
Best Sweet Corn, A s Wiley NOrth6eld, first
premium.
Best Pop Corn, c. Dunbar, Bedford, first prem.
Best peck Field Beans J. Wakefield, Bedford, first
Best six-stalls Sorghum, John Tinker, Bedford,
first premium
Best six-stalk Sorghum, c. Weld, Bedford, second
Class 26-yEGETABLEs.
Best half-hushel Potatoes, T. H. Wilcox Bedford,
first premium.
Best half-bush7l P1tatoes, John Quayle, New
burgh, second p7emium.
Best half bushel Prince Alherts e. Durham, Bed
ford, first premium
Best half bushel Granite Potatoes J. Libbey, Bed
ford, second premium.
Best half-bushel Turnip Beets, j. QuayIe, New
hurgh, first premium.
Best two varieties Beets, \. 5. Wiley Ncrthfeld,
second premium.
Best half-buslel Black Seed Onions q. Wells
SolOn, first premium.
Best Acorn Squash, }, Libbey, Bedford, first
premium.
Best s'x Cabbage J. Mathews, Bedford, first
premium.
Class 27-FRuITs
Best ten varieties Apples, T. Pike, Orange, first
premium.
Best ten varities Apples, II. F. wightman, Bed
ford, second premium,
Best samples Of Apples, c. W. Kellogg Bedford
first premium.
Best ten ounces, A. s Wiley, NorthReld hrst
premium.
Best plate Isabella Grapes r. D. CowIe. Warrens-
Vile, first premium.
Best plate Isabella Grapes, Levi Marble, Bedford,
second premium.
Best plate Catawba Grapes ar d. Cowle War
rensville, first premium
Best plate Catawb1 Grapes, L. Marble, Bedford,
second premium.
Best bunch Isabella Grapes L. Marble Bedford
first premium.
Class 37-MIsCELLAxEous
In this department three mammoth To-
bacco stalks in tubs exhibited bv A. S. Will
| ley, NOrthfield n tail, branching Castor Oil
Bean Plant grown by T. Matthews Bed
| ford and the very large Beets of John
| Price, Bedford were objects of curiosity
and secured favorable notice from the
Committee. The Flour Sitter of Wells &
Dunlap, Cleveland Double Reed Melo-
| deon of Jonas Allshouse Newberrv. Geau-
ga county; Lithograph Pictures Of A. NJ.
| CurTan, Cleveland; Worked Skirt BY Mrs.
| quets by Mrs. c. NJ. Hamlin, Bedford
Cone Frames by Mrs. Z. II. Falk, Bed
| ford; Cone Basket by Mrs. G. a Baker,
| 81 o,.1 n, II
Collins, Newburgh; and Fancy Picture
exhibited by A. P. Leland, Newburgh
| had many admirers and were highly com
mended by Committees Lelands picture
is rare curiosity. From one standpoint
good portrait appears Of Gen. Mcclellan,
from another Gen. Scott, and from the
front Gen. Washington on his white
charger, all without any change i'll the po-
sition of the painting.
This is the day of sports in the ring. and
the amphitheatre has been filled with in
| terested people. During the fnrenoor
Incr0 was considerable Iast trOtting to
saddle and harness, and the sports of the
afternoon were opened with Foot Race
for Citizens purse of $500 to run together
one-fourth mile and repeat best 2 in 3.
Six fast boys entered the lists, and con-
tested nimbly for the prize. The race ex-
cited much idterest and drew frequent
shouts from the spectators.
Equestrianship by five young ladies fol-
lowed. The well-trained horses were rode
by Miss E. Wells, Bedford; Miss Ada
Henry Bainbridge; Miss P. H. Culver,
Bedford; Miss A. F. Holcomb, Hudson;
Miss Q. N. Leland, Newburgh. The rid
ing of all was so good that the Committee
DIR. j. P. Robinson, II. F. Cannon, Mrs
Royal Taylor and Miss Ann Wightman.
divided the purse of $l5 equally between
them. We understand, however, that the
Committee made up private purse of So
additional for Miss Culver, who managed
her horse with a skill and daring seldom
attaiUed. Miss c. is said to possess sort
of Rarey art in horsemanship, taking wild.
mettlesome colts and subduing them to
her mounting, when the "boysn fail to
train them to the saddle.
f. The Sweepstake purse of S25, open to
the world, for the fastest racking horse.
best in 8, was contested for bv ". Hoff-
mans Maria Brough," Cleveland F.
D. Darrows "Gen. Grant Cleveland;
and F. W. Bells "JOe, Cleveland. The
purse was won by "Gen. Grant in three
straight heats. Joe" was Withdrawn after
first heat, and "Maria Brough" broke up
badly in each, owing to the short curves
and roughness of track. Time, 2.5I; 2.4I;
242
The Citizens purse of $40, for fastest
trotting horse in the district, was won by
d. L. Wightman's "Kitty, in 255, beat
ing Mr. BacOn's "Silvertail7
The Sweepstake of S25 for fastest trot-
ting horse, open to the world, best 3 in 8
also excited much interest, and was won
by Mr. Hoffman's MAY Queen in three
heats in the first and third of which
she led Mr.. Zellhan's Lookout when the
latter was withdrawn. Time, $50, PAS.
249
This closed the Four Days Fair, and |
without an incident to mar the general !
holiday season. All pronounced it the
best of the Union Fairs and the receipts |
leave the worthy Society with a surplus in |
the Treasury.
A word of Bedford. 1t is one of the
oldest villagos III Cuyahoga county, and |
is awaking to the importance of its loca- |
ton and business advantages. Several en-
citizens have recently organized |
an Iron Manufacturing Company with a
capital of 5000, and will have a Rolling
Mill in operation within the next sixty
days The foundation is laid, the frame
ready to put up, and the machinery pur-
chased The location of the Mill is con- /
venient to the Cleveland and PITTSBURGH /
and we wishthe enterprise abund- I
ant success.
Chair Manufacturing seems be a spe-
ciaIity of Bedford. The Chair Factories
IF Messrs. Wheelock & Co, and Mr.. G.
Purdy, employ thirty hands each, and the
demand for their excellent work is con-
SANITY extending and increasing.
Bedford has IL well established reputa-
ion as Il Cheese mart. Messrs. +. II.
Cannon Il Co. have made cheese promi
lent part of their mercantile business for
ome fifteen years, and have built up an
extensive and profitable trade in the West.
They employ no commission agents, but
leal directly with dairymen and cheese
buyers, the latter principally in Indiana.
illinois and Michigan. Their cheese are
Ill of domestic manufacture They re-
,eive the cheese when quite green from
ome one hundred and fifty dairies, mostly
n Bedford, Brecksville, Twinsbnrg, Bos-
on and Northiield townships-the dairies
angling from twenty to thirty, and in
ONE cases fifty cows-and cure and pre-
,are them for market in large, well venti-
ated cheese-houses, under their immedi-