Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-10-09


the "native blues" will fully hold their
own with the more royal or imported
bloods.
THE HALL.
Here, as indicated above, was an ava
lanch of fine things, ornamental, fancy
and useful. Fred j. Blake of Bellows
Falls, had two oil paintings, four cray
ons and several pencilings. They were
all very commendable art works, the
oils especially, one being scene
from Mirror Lake in California, and
the other a scene among the Rocky
Mountains. These are some of young
Blake's frft efforts and highly credit
able to him as an artist. A fine mono
chromatic was shown by Samuel Knight
of Putney. There were several very
pretty feather wreaths, one by Miss Alice
Morse, another by Miss Emma Hart,
and still another by one whose name we
missed. Miss Carrie Wilcox had fine
collection of shells, and Miss Clara +.
Gorham fine shell glove box. There
was also very pretty oil painting by
Miss Elvira Gorham, and crayon BY
Miss Cora Gorham.
Mrs. Geo. Campbell displayed very
handsome bead cushion in coral pattern.
Mrs. S, E. Bond of Drewsville, N. H.,
had very beautiful handkerchief case
embroidered with white chenille and
lined with white satin quilted, which was
very much admired A sofa cushion of
very lovely design in worsted embroidery
by Belle May, attracted much attention,
Very nice taste and skill in needle work
as displayed in the tides of Mrs. F.
Arnold, Mrs. III. V. Bragg, Mrs. G. P.
Albee and many others. A tatting tidy
in colors by Miss Nora Grout, was very
pretty. Miss Susie Leach had cushion
of very nice workmanship. Two mats
by Miss Amelia Bond of Guilford, were
remarkably pretty. A corner bracket
and basket both made of shavings by
Misses Susie and Clara Gorham attracted
much attention for the skill and ingenu-
ity with which they were designed. Bed
quilts were almost innumerable, in fact
so large show in this department of
needle work is rarely seen at any fair
among them was noJable one made by
Mrs. Anna Carpenter so years of age
and contained $3.50 pieces.
A curiosity was an ancient pocket
book carried at the battle of Bunker
Hill, June II, 1776, and to the close of
the Revolutionary war by Elnathan Reed.
1t also contained continental money,
twenty dollar note received by Mr.. Reed
as part pay for his services as soldier
in the war. 1t is now owned by Elmore
Peck, and is an interesting relic.
A more modern curiosity was chair
made entirely of grape vine, exhibited
by Geo. A. Weston of Chester.
FRUITS, VEGETABLES, &C.
The representation of the fruits and
vegetables was large. The cabbages,
turnips, beets, pumpkins, squashes, and
potatoes were numerous and large and
some Of them enormous. OF the fruits,
Henry Floyd probably had the greatest
number of varieties, having 80 of graft
ed and 60 of natural fruit N. G. Page
had 81. Sylvester Grout, o. L. Fisher,
Jason Gorham, |. N. Farr, H S. Vince
lock (of Grafton and several others al
so exhibited in this department. Pears
we're exhibited in FIVE varieties by N. G.
Page, and some nice Flemish beauties by
Kneeland Abbott.
| Grapes we're exhibited by N. G. Page,
S. Z. Baird (of Bellows Falls B. F.
Richmond, o. L. Fisher and Others. Mr..
Baird's Rogers, No. 8, were extra, and
the Concords and Hartfords by Messrs.
Fisher and Richmond were also nice.
Something of vegetable curiosity
was the gourd vine, some II or 10 feet
in length, on which has grown some so
gourds of about the size of gill cup.
They were raised by Mrs. j. A. Farwell
who has during the past season trained
them over the piazza of her house.
Mrs. James May had very thrifty
night blooming cereus, which opened q
blossom last Sunday during the day, a
rare occurrence for that plant. Mrs
May had some fine canaries, which made
music for the occasion, evidently doing
their best to attract the "notice " to
which they certainly seemed to be fully
entitled.
1t is rare to see Martynias at fair
but VIM. B. Clay had good represen
tation.
SUGAR AND HONEY.
5 Under this head we may as well say
that Mr.. o. f. Peck has this year gone
in to win, whether at town or county
fair, or oxen, pumpkins, sugar or tall
corn. There is of course no doubt a
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