The Van Buren press., 1876-10-17
THIRD ANNUAL FAIR
OF THE
Crawford County Agricultural and Ne.
chanicaI Association.
THE WEEKS EXHIBITION.
(By our Special Reporter.

tBy our Special Reporter.l
The Third Annual Fair of this Asso-
citation, was opened in Granger Hall,
Van Buren,, Oct. 10th, by the Exhibition
OF goods in classes A to Ii, inclusive.
This Department was under the ex-
elusive control of Messrs Sam. Martin,
Jno. Neal and Miss Hazeltine Massey
to whom great credit is due for the eff.
cient manner in which they discharged
their duties. There were not many en-
tries made on the first day; but on the
second, the people began to be imbued
with an enterprising spirit, and articles
for exhibition began to pour in and the
commodious Hall was filed to overflow
ing, with articles Of beauty and use.
CLASS A.
This class WAS well filled by farm and gar
den products.
In the Potato line there were some fine en-
tries BY Mrs. Jno Ogden. Jos Winters. Hen
ry Shibly. W. 7. Englanl and Geo. Beers.
Arkansas tavo ite fruit, the Apple. WAS ex-
hihited In abundance. Specimens being en-
tered b, Henry shibley Jno. Mallock. c. F
Harvey and Tho>. EtimondSon.
Emrmous turnips b, Daniel Michael. and
mammoth pumpkins were piled around in
proiu>ion There were entries of Figs grow n
here, of cotton stocks, and u sample OF hemp
by Mr.. Michael l6 feet hgn, which Is some
thing new for this county.
Geo. Beers entered bushel of the magnif-
cent Texas rust proof oats"
CLASS B.
| Manufactured goods. There were more en-
tries in this than any other one class.
The chief entries OF bedquilts were made by
Mrs. Henry Wilcox. Mrs. 4. Wall. Miss Mat
tie Smith. Miss Ollie Phelps Mrs. }. W Cary
Mrs. Brodie and Mrs. Bearden Two quilts
were exhibited by Grandma Gross. both made
in her 18th year. One quilt by Mrs who
| is "a years old. A fine. well made quilt was
also entered by Marietta Mccain aged wears
| Numberless other articles belonging to this
class were also exhibited.
CLASS G.
A fine specimen of cheneille work by Mrs.
O'Connor. Some beautiful crochet W erk by
Miss Massey, Belle Dickson. Mollie Brown.
Mrs. Newell. Lula and Augusta Miller.
Some exceedingly fine Braiding by Mamie
Love.
Fancy needle work by Fannie Thomason.
Agusta Miller and Mrs. Walker Moore.
Wax work BY Miss Ellie Murphey.
Artificial flowers. a fine lot, by Misses Agus-
ta. Lula. and Katie Miller There were a
thousand and one other beautiful articles in
this department. with mysterious names aud
unimaginabe uses which so confused the re-
porter, that he was fain to leave it and pass to
CLASS y.
The display of pictures in this department
was very varied. and very fine and 1t would
take far too much space to catalogue the en-
tries. To the lo,er of the beautiful this Was
the most attractive corner in the building
CLAsSE
Miss FundenbTg placed the association nm
der obligations. by a fine display of cut how-
ers. Mr.. G.. f. Harvey also entering some
finr bouquets.
In the line orr lilies AMI preserves Mrs. Me-
Cain decidedly lead the list
| Miss Mamie Durham contributeda a maynif.
icent iced sponge cake The staff of life WAS
represented by some line loves made by Miss
Ollie Phelps. Carrie Williams, and Tom Ed
mondson the cit, baker; rs also b, Miss Gus
sic Scot;. with batch OF rusks, light MS the
teithered snow.
| Taos. Emond>on displayed "A large show
ease filed with roatectinnary. which causrd
much contending for II place on the tasting
committee in this class Miss Massey the ef-
ficient Superintendent, however. soon settled
this dispute by appointing N said committee
DR. Wright and Geo, Austin. who are we'll
known To be very small eaters.
CLASSF.
\ M Callahan & Co. exhibited large pile
lin ~ Il ,ur aoI meal WAS entered by ii. {.
nay,nan. JESSE Brtnson Callahan 4 Co. and
b, iuu>. biileu
CLAoSG.
r. G. Roberts made large display of tin
ware. :. ID. l,aughrrtv and Henry Glass.
furniture
+. Adams d Co made fine display of tn Z
work of their planning mill, consisting of floor.
ing. weather. boarding mouldings and scroll
work numbering between 80 and 40 different
kinds and all made OF Arkansas timber
j. a. Mcllvaiyh of Van Buren. and G. D.
Meser OF Ft. Smith each entered a magnif.
cent mans riding saddle. Mr.. Mcllvaigh also
exhibited II complete set of harness and fan
cy riding bride.
CLASS II.
Bourland & Graft exhibited large collec-
tion of Geological and Genealogical specie
linens. Such complete cabinet Is no where
else to be found in the state, and 1t attracted
much attention, To partirularze in this col
lection would occupy too much space.
In. the Chemical department Messrs. Goss 4
Harris made magnificent display of medi-
cnes and chemicals manufactured in their cs-
tabIiahmen1. They are deserving of credit
for enterprise in demonstrating that many
articles can be made here that have here to
fore been bought in other cities.
MISCELLANEOUS
Austin & Ward had grand upright show
case filed with articles in the fancy dry goods
line from their store The display was very
fine. In the case was also battle axe. boat
paddle. and finely carved whales tooth