The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-09-23
FROM DAVENPORT,
County Fair and Other Items or
INTEREST
DAVENPORT, Iowa,
Sept llth. 1873.

'losed was grand success so far a
display was concerned, but a partia
failure as to display. Old "Probs'
seemed bent on having things hi
own way and succeeded pretty well
Rnn every day or night during the
week save Friday and Saturday. En-
tries were made all day Monday anc
up to late hour Tuesday evening
amounting to about 5000 in all. Ow
ing to the rain Of Tuesday morning, ar
ticles were not all in place till Wed
nesday noon. There was about 6,O0t
people on the grounds Wednesday
All were counting on the next day a
the big day of he fair, and the GROVE
would have been immense had the
rain not poured down Wednesda,
night and Thursday morning making
the roads heavy and impossible. A.
1t was there were from 10000 to l2,
600 people in attendance. Friday
was by far the best day; more people
came, and the principal part of the
racing was done in the afternoon
There was no racing on Thursday ow
ing 10 the bad condition of the track
The most severe storm Of the week
came on Thursday evening. but the
track was scrapea aud ready bv Fri.
day noon.
! will try TO be prief in reporting a
few of the things on exhibition. The
fish aquarium exhibited bv commis.
sioner Shaw contained about SOC
specimans of the tinny tribe and was
"A point Of interest To great crowds
continually. 1t was located close TO
art hall, The rows of ofshe!ving encirc.
ling the entire hall outside were fill
ed with small grain and vegetables of
every kind, principally the products
of Scot, county. seldom, if ever, has
there been finer samples of potatoes,
bees, tomatoes. onions, turnips, par
ships. squashes, pumpkins, &c, ex-
hibitei here, than were shown at this
fair, and specimens of small grain To
he seen Went lar 10 convince one that
the quality, at least of grain in this
county is all right. Inside the hall,
one hardly knew where to commence
to describe things. Every available
space was filled with something, and
that of the choicest. The place new
er presented "A finer appearance. The
high mound in The center was crowd
ed from top to boto with rare and
choice plants, boguets of all sizes,
boxes of cut tl)Sers, floral wrearhs
and bells, while all around the base
were Jets of water shooting up keep
ing everything cool, fresh and green.
The stalls in the fancy department
were all crowded. one of them con-
tanning a ch ice collection OF fancy
work made by the children OF the
Orphans Home. Passing on we see
q choice collection OF furs, n handsome
case OF Remlng ton ms,among which
is sample of the rifle used by the
American Team at Creedmore and in
Ireland. Here is also seen the f.
nous writing machine. Paintings by
home artists, pho ographs by Eghert
aud specimens of ornamental penman-
ship from the Davenport and Rock
Island Commercial Colleges 6lled the
walls III around. The fruit depart
ment VAS full.
More ground was allotted for the dis.
play ri agricultural implements than
ever before, aud was all filed. Long
rows "f plows polished like silver,
reapers. mowers, ,hreshing machines,
scales, wind mills, patent gates and
host OF things too numerous to men
ton. In the poultry sheds we find
fine specimens Of red, black and gray
game, light and dark Bramahs; Sum.
matr.s, hlack Spanish, Partridge buff
and black Cochins, white and Brown
Leghorns, Houdans. Bantams, Bronze
and Holland Tu' keys; Augsburg and
Rouen ducks, Peafowls and Bremen
and African geese. The hog show
is very good, though the pens are not
all flied. The exhibitors were prin
cipallv citizens of this county and
brought pure breeds of Birkshires,
Ches'ers. Iorkshires and Polands:
one Of the latter breed weighed near
ly 1000 pounds. 1t would take a
good sized horse to balance him.
Mrs. Kimberly, of West Liberty
took the lead in ca tie, her herd Of
short horns going FAR ahead of any
thing in ,ha stalls. The four year
oil bull BrF sstplate, is magnificent
animal and weighs 1900 pounds
+. II. Healy showed two year old
bull which whighs 1920 pounds The
Brownie Bros, Of Long Grove, also
exhibited a fine herd of short horns.
Horses were here from all parts;
some OF them fine stock The large
draft horse Loudertan, weighs 1000
pounds. Brogham, entered by Thomp-
5 IN, of Clarence was spoken of highly
by many professional horsemen.
Taking this exhibition in all re-
spects save the matter of attendance,
it is fully equal to any previous ex-
by Scott Co, and ever as it
is. the management will pay all prem
iums and expenses and have a good
sum left. If the weather had been
good throughout, it would have been
the bes, fair ever held here.
A man by The name of Davidson
living near Muscatine, came to this
city during the fore part Of the week,
and was drugged and robbed of 5000
bv couple of scamps. He wander
ed out into the country and was found
next day in an insensibie condition
twelve miles from town.
Miss Alice Dutton, Davenport's
famed pianist, gave concert in the
Opera House last evening. She was
assisted by her sister and Strasser's
full orchestra. Miss ID. goes east in
a few Days.
During the terrible storm Of Thurs
night, bolt Of lightning struck
barn in the north west part part of
he city and set FIRE to it, burning it
down in few minutes. Chimneys,
signs and branches Of trees were scat
tered promiscuously during the storm.
J. Il. Brown, the noted mind Read
er was in the city during the past
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