Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-20

L lr:NEsvILLEFAIR.- The expectations
OF our Barnesville friends were happily
realized during last week. All the adj
vaniages of the most beautiful weather
were theirs; and intact the newly graded
condition of the grounds rendered favor
able weather a prime necessity ia hav-
ing any fair, at all. The location is in
many respects good, and the good taste
and enterprise of the managers were
displayed in almost every feature of the
exhibition. Floral Hall is all that was
claimed for it. The plan upon which il
is built gives it many advantages over
those gens rail- built. Visitors move
freely and easily through every part and
at every point meet som thing on exhi-
pition. The displays were in most cases
good and of greater variety than usual
at local fairs. There is danger, however.
that the anxiety of managers to see the
hall well filed, may lead them to en-
courage the exhibition of articles of no
merit, and such as will only detract
from the high character of the display
warranted by few good articl's. A
desire to look well often ends in spelling
all. Little works of merits and works
of little merit are different hings. A
rough pencil copy by little boy of ten
years is a subject of more interest to the
visitor than a fine Chrome; not that
there is any particular merit in copying,
or that the sketch was meritorious, but
native talent OF that kind is so scarce
that we cannot help being interested in
the most Indifferent out-crop of that
kind of genious. There is simply
dearth of originality in displays of this
kind ut all our fairs, and artists have
t,ut little heart to work while commit
tees make but little difference in reward
in. home skill and foreign work. Mr..
Shut of Barnesville took the lead in
sun pictures, while Mr.. Fari- OF this
place was first in display of Oil paintings.
Fhe Halls were well filled with Fruit,
domestic articles and hardware, with
many articles for the curious.
The Stock pens were, by no means.
empty. Cattle. Hogs, Sheep and Horses
in abundance. Good as they were, we
think that a good Farmers Club in our
County would effect an improvement i'll
he character of the stock usually found.
Pure bloods are seldom seen, and the
very moderate breeds of cattle now pre-
vaIent make poor displays. Cross-breeds,
without any regard to selection, have
lost many of the fine points noticeable
in good stock. A good Farmers Club
in Belmont would set our farmers to
thinking. The Fair was financial
succe s-receipts amounting to three
thousand five hundred dollars. The
number of people present was immense.
On the second day the number was es-
timated at five to six thousand, and
about the same on F .iday. An improve
nent upon windows by Mr.. Rodgers
of Belmont is worthy of notice. 1t is
decidedly the cheapest and best method
of. ventilation by the adju tment of
windows that we have ever seen.
Being compelled to leave before the
racing came off, we can say nothing of
this entertainment. We learn that
Woodmansee's nag as usual did the
trotting.
The success of this the first fair of the
Barnesville District is due in agreat
measure to the interest manifested by
the inhabitants of Barnesville and vi
entity and to the good judgement of its
officers and especially of the Secretary
DIR. Kemp.