Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-09-19
The COOS and Essex Counties Fifth
Annual Fair.

we should be exempted from Tie ram
that usually occurs at this time of the
year. Tuesday opened with mist
but that was driven off 10y the sun az
ter time, and people began to come
on to the ground in goodly numbers
and by noon the number of entries
of cattle and horses equalled that of
any previous year. Order prevailed,
and Tuesdays work being done,
everything depended on the weather
of Wednesday.
Wednesday, with its rain and mist
was dampener upon the hopes of the
Society, but as good fortune would
have it, the rain ceased and the good
people of Coos and Essex rallied to
exhibit their various articles that had
not been put on exhibition Tuesday,
and the departments of Manufactured
Articles, Household Manufactures,
fruit and vegetables, were very we'll
filed, and Floral Hall with its quilts,
rugs, pictures, floral designs and
flowers attested to the good taste of
the women belonging to the society.
A great number of articles were on
exhibition, not for the purpose of
drawing premiums, that were merit
orious, either for utility Or ornament.
d. II. & T. G. Beattie, of Brunswick,
with their usual zeal for good cause.
had on the ground samples of shin
giles, clapboards, ETC., that would win
prizes anywhere that premiums were
offered for articles in their class.
Col. Weeks, of Lancaster, again
exhibited his grade Durham; colts of
every age, size and condition. Motto
able among the yearlings were VIM.
Farnham's and S. A. Ways, and for
size and form p. II. Eastman's, OF
Lancaster, were among the foremost,
but where we have so many good anis
mails it would be invdious to men,
ton names.
The department of cattle was very
I'll and the display according to the
Judgment of the Awarding Com
mittees was such as to do credit to
any part of our country. The pas
lures of Coos and Essex cannot be
beat, and of fat cattle exhibited the
quantity and quality was immense
reckoning by avoirdupois, while many
on the grounds were not entered in
this class. Butter and cheese was
brought in, in large quantities, par
ticularly the former, ard as Coos and
Essex now compete wlVh the famous
markets of Western and Southern Yer
mont, the dairy-women of our section
can we'll be proud of their success in
this department. OF sheep and swine
the report of the Committee speaks.
Among miscellaneous and fancy
articles, we have only to say, they
were all that we could desire. Thos.
Morse with the rifles of his own manu-
facture; Messrs. Nutter & Grannis,
excelsior; A. J. Marshall's cabriolet
and phaeton Mrs. Franklin Bells flo
raj designs and flowers, and the other
additions to these departments which
space forbids us to enumeratc.
Among the articles on exhibition
VIC cannot refrain to mention scythe
snath made i'll 1918 by Adino N.
Bracket and used by hinl until his
death in 1847 We should be glad to
enumerate other articles that were
presented for premiums or exhibition,
but space forbids. We refer our
readers to the. list of awards to be
found in this paper.
The annual address by Hon.
James O. Adams, of Manchester, was
practical and full of valuable sugges-
tlons to the farmer. Our space for
bids further mention this week; in
our next we hope to be able to pub.
liSh at least an abstract of it. The
exercises Wednesday closed with the
race by horses owned within the soci.
ETY. limits that never trotted fol-
money, which was won by "Barnum,
owned by Mr.. Matthews, of Cole,
brook. We do not learn the time.
The Riding Park Association, with
more zeal than discretion, engaged a
professional balloonist to make more
attractive the sights of the 18th. We
are confident that the ascension by
Prot Allen, of Providence, was rs
much Of success as any one could
expect under the circumstances. He
went mp in his balloon, the "Venus,' y
amidst crowd greater than had eyer
assembled upon the grounds preyi-
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