Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-10-20


The track everything was favorable, and the
thing was a success.
At the conclusion of the races the crowd began |
to leave, and, for a long time, the street was
full Of people, who were busily preparing to leave
for home All felt satisfied with the exercises
of the fair and were not slow in declaring IT |
a success The genial stage driver Ben
HYDE. found stage room for goodly number of |
people, and started of towards Chelsea, with a |
load Of twenty three, amid chorus Of cheers for
Bethel, Chelsea and Tunbridge Very soon the
street was cleared, and the hotel, which had been
teeming with hungry people for two days, had |
the appearance Of " some banquet hall deserted -
The fair had been and gone-leaying decidedly
satisfying record
rnE SHOW.
The display In Floral Hall was excellent, and
indicated the interest taken in the fair by the la
dies especially those Of Tunbridge. We noticed
an extra show Of quilts and bed-spreads, among
which Eta NJ Northrop exhibited fine spcci-
men Of her work Mrs. solomon Smith, nicely
wrought quilt, Helen parkill, fine quilt aud
bed-spread Jeanette Smith, good bed-spread
Mrs H. II Rogers, fine log cabin quilt; Miss l..
b. fafnham, quilt of good workmanship Mrs
Q O. Caief exhibited u splendid gents muller
A rag bcd-spread was shown, made by the Widow
Adams aged eighty years. 1t was silk-tiled, and
was n very good one indeed Mrs 5 Smith ex-
hibited some good stair carpet; Mrs +. b. Stan
lev and Mrs NJ X Griffith showed some excel
lent rag carpet, as did also Mrs, G, c. whitney
Mrs NJ. Nelson showed a fine double shawl, which
was worthy Of notice Mrs. + y. Jones, two good
rugs. and Mrs n H. Austin and Mrs II. Hutch
Ht..1U
exhibited two drawn rugs, and Helen Parkill also
showed one Of the same kind. Mrs. II. b. Colby
showed a good wagon mat and there were sew
eral other mats, rugs and carpets ON which We
could see no labels, all worthy OF note.
There was a splendid show of fancy work some
Of which we mention. Ladies' underwear was
well represented, among which were chemise
and skirt, by Mrs. c. +. Avery; an embroidered
skirt by Emily Brown night dress shown by
Flora Durri aged thirteen, which was very
nicely made; an infants skirt, by Mrs. ;. Smith
and a show Of ttting underclothes by Louisa
Page Ella Blaisdell exhibited two nice tides
| Mrs Mary Camp, fine watch case; jeanette
| Smith aud Mrs. r. X. Monkey, tine worsted tides.
Mrs NJ A. Cox, a worsted lamp mat, which was
very finely made Mn +. D. eastman, a fine
canvas tidy. and n railroad tidy Mrs. I. d. Mox-
! ley, fine railroad tidy Mrs. V. b. Cushman,
two good crocheted tides; Marion Huntington, a
handsome bracket; Carrie Whitney neatly
made motto; Grace f.. Durham and Marion Hun
iington, excellent slipper patterns; Mrs. l.. C.
Jones, finely gotten mp paper flowers; Mrs. L. r
Doubleday, handsome pyramid of flowers; A
H. Cushman a fine lot Of chromos, which added
much to the interest Of the show in the hall Eta
/ n .,..I Pa. ola Inu
baskets; Marion Huntington, handsome specimen,
Of penmanship Mrs. J. c. Sprague, an elegant
wax cross Ella Blaisdell and Grace Dnhanl, fin,
specimens Of hair wreaths.
The show Of fruit and vegetables was very hn'
indeed. r. c. Latham made a good showing %
apples; r. W Smith, fifty varieties Of apples an,
a few pears, 4. T.. Salter, nineteen varieties o
apples; W 5. Foster sixteen varieties. Mrs. W
5 Foster exhibited fine lot Of preserves ans
pickles; John r Fish, good specimens Of map
syrup; Vim. Swan, sixteen varieties of apples
II. r. Abbott, good showing Of apples and sam
pies Of various seeds Potatoes were shown in goo
variety and quality aud among them we notices
those Of 4. C. Jones. Daniel Noyes, W. II Noble, q
II Goodale and others Beets Of enormous size wer
shown by f. $. Hall, 4. r Salter and W \
Farnham NJ 5. Adams & CO. exhibited yer
fine samples Of flour aud meal G. C. Rowe
showed some fine onions I. W Smith, som
seed wheat; C. b Fisk, seed corn and forty-sX Va
rieties of grain and seed leouard Emery, goo
lot OF Prolific potatoes Messrs Fisk and Abbot
: showed mammoth squashes. V. b. Cushnan eS
hibi,ed a box OF good honey, and c. b. Els
showed three leeccs Of wool Mrs H. e. Slac
had u good case Of millinery ON exhibition, AR
Adams had samples of his handiwork, in the wa
/ OF blaclxsmithng
, The cattle display was very good and we hear
good Judges say 1t was equal TO- if not better thar
most Of the shows this season. We can only mel
ton some Of the specimens on exhibitions f. "
I Farwell showed splendid yoke Of working oxeI
. which were Of extra size Geo. Webster exhil
tied some line cattle and ;. T. Durkee Shove
( good four-years-old steers. Merrill Jones and !
L. Robinson had fine specimens OF working cattl'
4 w n tarnham exhibited hne lot OF cattle
7 twenty-five head in all-includins pair OF thre'
years-old twin steers two pairs of two-years-old
$ three pairs OF yearlingsi and pair OF matehe
e steer calves Ihey were Durham aud grade ca
ue' and made display worth Inspection !,
o bailey mad yoke OF wo-years-old steers whic
+ weighed two thousand four hundred and twen'
4 pounds, and girted six feet h'e inches. Bale
, and farnham also exhibited seven head of Dutc
. cattle william l. Brown showed two-yoar
e | old and yearlng heller y L. Rowe had
$ good yoke OF Durham steers which weighed abo'
2 three thousand one hundred pounds. j u. fis
0 | showed fine Devon heiferi A. L. Fisk, two pai
. Of steers ID W. Cowdrey, grade Dutch bal
d Chas, Wood@orth, ten head OF Durham and grad
o cattle, Good specimens OF Jersey cattle wei
( shown by Geo, F. Nutting, n, l.. Boyden and
W. Carter J. d. Mead made fine showing
4 Durham cattle which succeeded in taking most
c | the premiums. T. 5 Hall exhibited good heif
and fine bull. The show Of young cattle WI
a very good, and large numbers OF interested PEI
II pie were attracted by the general display.
It The show of horses was very good, and the "a
c lowing were among those shown; brown
r Hutchinson, Tunbridgc, showed a fine stallio
II four years old, with five Of his stock Orcu
e Blxby, Chelsea; George B. Nutting. Randolnl
n and 4. T. Richardson, STAFFORD, also showed Il,
e stations q. O. Calef, washinston:J 4. Hemin
,, | way. Chelsea; and n H. Austin. Tunbridae e
Al hibited some three-years-od stations which ma,
lie good show. J. A. Stanley, Chelsea; J. =. Her
d ingway, Of the same town; and n. L. Rowell, Tu