The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-07
From Daily HERALD.
OUR COUNTY FAIR.
THE SECOND DAY.

The second day of the fair opened very
auspiciously, though few threatening
clouds kept many away; yet notwitnstand
ing this about 1000 tickets were sold, and
everything moved off pleasantly.
Taking little circuit around we found
much to admire and write about. In the
FINE ART HALL
we found the usual large amount of fine
work, quilts, blankets, woolens, carpets,
tides, pictures, wax work, &c. The wax
work is the finest we ever saw, and shows
some beautiful designs.
THE VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT
is not as well represented as we have seen
it in other years, but that is owing to the
early time of holding the fair, and the fact
that many are not yet matured. The ex-
hibitors so far as we saw at hasty glance
were Amos Kemble, III. P. Weaver, and D.
G. White; the latter has 50 distinct varie-
ties of potatoes.
THE CHEESE
show is splendid, four factories beingrep-
resented. John n. Kinsman has half
dozen specimens of his excellent make;
Bass & France, several of theirs; Thorn
burg & Dean three or four, and L. A. Cham
berlin of Kirkville, several, one of which
weighs $50 lbs, and consumed in the man
ufacture, 5257 lbs. of milk. 1t is noun
tain, and we'll worth going up to see. We
have been trying to get our Centennial
commissioners to send for it, and think
they will yet. Itwould add much to Iowa's
show there.
THE FLORAL SHOW
is the best we ever saw. Many hundreds
of plants and flowers are exhibited. Mrs.
r. p. Bacon has 125 different pots; Mrs.
E. j. Kemper about the same; Mrs. G. G.
Lofand, Mrs. NJ. J. White and others,
smaller lots, and Amos Kemble has big
show from his greenhouse. Amos has 130
different and distinct varieties of verbenas,
named. This show includes many rare
plants and flowers.
FRUITS.
Apples are pretty we'll represented, the
exhibitors being Robert Sewers, Jno. N.
Dixon, G. B. McFall, Jacob Hines, w. S.
Edgar, Silas Scott and S. r. Petit, and the
exhibit includes about one hundred varie-
ties, which for the early season, makes a
fine show. Of course the later varieties
are not fairly represented as to size and
color, but all exhibitors are alike on that.
w. S. Edgar and G. B. McFall each have
RambO that will weigh nearly pound.
There are several specimens of plums,
the Lombard by ]. N. Dixon, and Spanish
King by Mrs. Moore of Cedar, and S. w.
Jones of Beacon.
OF pears, the show is not as great as we
have seen, but quite number of speci-
mems are shown by w. s. Edgar and A. S.
Nichols.
The grape show, for some reason, is
failure, only two specimens being shown,
though there are tens of thousands of
pounds in our vineyards.
The Siberian, Transcendant and Hyslop
Crab Apples are shOwn-very fine speci-
mems.
JELLIEs, &C.
The show of jellies, jams, preserves,
and delicacies of like nature is very good
and shown in such great variety as to
bother the taste and Judgment of the
best committees.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sicbel & Co. have large show of their
eXcellt mt make of wOolen goods.
Warrington & Cummins haye a fine dis
play ofpictures. that can hardly be excell-
ed anywhere.
l. G. Green s. Son have fine case of
boots and shoes.
L. l.. Hull and Rein Wilson, the boss
saddlers and harness makers of the west,
each have fine shows in their line COM
plete and elegant.
From Daily HERALD.