The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-10-09
THE FAIR.
Large and Fine Exhi.
bition Of Stock,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
A Display OF Articles i'm the Hall I'm
equalled at any Fair ever Held
In Tama County.
Over Seven Hundred Entries.
PARTIAL LIST OF EXHIBITORS
The Fair. Broken up by the Rair
Of Friday.
Adjournment Of the Trotting for Tw,
Weeks.
One Trotting Match and one Hal
Mile Dash.
The first annual exhibition of the
Agricultural Association of Tams
county was held on tho grounds o,
the Society, north of Toledo, las,
week, beginning Wednesday morn.
Ing, and ending Friday. During the
entire OF "Wednesday, the Secretary
and his clerks were busy in their
work of making record Of the en-.
tries, and the Superintendent of the
various departments found plenty to
DO arranging for proper exhibition
OF everything entered. 1t was
found early in the day that the stalls
would prove inadequate for the &C.
commodation of the stock that
came in from all parts of the coun.
ty, and other stalls were erected, and
by night every one was occupied.
The number of visitors was fully
larger than was to have been expect
ed the first day, and everything por.
tended a Fair whose equal was never
held in Tama county. The day clos.
ed with SO many articles on exhlbi.
tion--the hall was crowded to tia
utmost capacity-that many left
things at homo they had intended to
enter, while others carried articles
home for the reason that every nook
and corner OF the hall was crowded,
and room for anything additional
could not be made.
THURSDAY MORNING
gave evidences of fair day, and
early in tho morning the visitors
pouring, in from far and
near, as if tho people were bound to
make this the most successful fair |
ever held in this part of Iowa.
The day was quite warm, and the
crowd surged through the hall, and
auntere d about the grounds, exam
Rhate us s siask rut Ay ~e6AaAfsss up
III.
At $50 p. m. an address was de-
iyered by Col. A. B. Smedley, Mas.
.er of the Iowa State Grange. The
lay closed suspicious for the NOR.
row; but alas for those expectations
founded upon hope Of favorable
for Friday, about 20 o'clock
The rain began to fall" and the
thickening clouds indicated the be-
ginning OF an October rain. whose
duration mono can guess until over.
The cold, drizzly ram continued
throughout the day; and thus the
hopes Of many were blighted by the
workings OF the clements. The
track of course was unfit for trot.
ting, and the time for the trottlng
for the purses elsewhere mentioned
was fixed for Saturday, Oct. Is.
Hoping these "glittering generalities"
will suffice the wants of the reader
we will now give list OF some OF
the articles exhibited, together with
tho names of exhibitors.
AMONG THE HORSES
we found VIM. Ross exhibiting ]
span matched mares, / mare and
colt, two year-oll, aad ! yearling
stallion; w. B. King, ! Norman
stallion; Henry Soleman, ! span Of
matched geldings and l three year
old flly; VIM. Sperry, l four year
old stallion; Jas. Gray, l stallion; J.
b. Furrow, l mare and colt and one
two year. old flly; G.. T. Jones, one
two ycar-old stallion; w. A. Nc
Annuity, same; j. S. Townsend. ]
mare and colt; J. l.. Pugsley, l fine
yearling stallion; John Wiley 2 stal
lions and l mare, John Mccormack
| span mules, and l span matched
| s.allions; j. II. Linton, marc ant
colt; o. Burright. two year-old
FLY; NJ. NJ. Avery, colt.
| THE CATTLE DEPARTMENT.
John Reedy exhibited ! two year
old. short.horn bull; M, M. Avery
Durham and 9 grade COWS, year
ling Dull, yearling better, and tw'
calves; A. Curtis, three year-ol'
n,rbom hull: J. +. Mccormack on