The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-05
Windham Genre Fair.

houses were deserted by the women and the
fields by the men. Everybody went to the
fair and carried with him some product of his
labor. On the grounds all was hustle and ac-
tivity and in the hall humanity was packed as
close as sardines. all struggling to catch
glmpses of the luscious apples and grapes, or
the quilt OF many colors, or the chair which
their great grandfathers sat in a century or
more ago, or the thousand and one other things
which the ladies had wrought, or the gentle-
men compelled the soil to yield 1t was
merry, good natured crowd of men and women
and children, whose days of recreation are few
and far between, but who the more keenly en-
Joy them for this very reason. One feature of
the exhibition and a very pleasant one too, was
that no admission fee was charged. Every
body was free to come and see what his neigh
Dor and his neighbours wife had been doing,
without money and without price. He was
asked simply to afford his neighbor the same
privilege.
The display on the grounds and in the hall
was very creditabie to the industry and thrift
of the town, both 10 quantity and quality. The
fruit exhibit was especially noticeable Doubt
less it was generally regretted that it was simp-
ly an exhibition. 1t would have been pleasant
forlthe visitors to have brought other org ans
than the eyes to bear upon it. 1t might have
ruined the exhibition no Sever. Mr.. VIM Var
ney exhibited two varieties of grapes; Hall &
Senter two; d. f. Hussey four; J. S. Roberts
twO;J. S. Knight two; w. w. ABthone one
Mr. Varney exhibited three varieties of pears
Hsll & Senter "went" him one better; E. Nj.
Varney had two; D. F. Hussey one; Charles
Hunnewell one; Joel Varney one and W. B.
Hooper one. Messrs. Hall & Senter exposed
their orchard to raids by exhibiting Is varieties
of apples: W. D Hooper showed Z; VIM. Var
ney 6; Edward Douglass 1 D. r. Turkey 1; Al
vim May bury 2; Alley Hawkes. 6; D. F. Hussey
s; Chas. Jones 5; Chas. Hunnewell s; Geo, M.
Elliot 1; VIM. Goold 6; T. L Allen As.
Knight 2; Joel Varney 2; Chas. Walker 1; j.
Takey 8; B. f. Dunn 6;J Takey 8; S. r,
Kemp2. Look at the assessors books and to
every inhabitant we have omitted give va
rety or two and the list will be complete.
Turning to the tables of household articles
we are in despair. There were butter and
cheese and bedquilts and socks and lamp mats,
and table mats and rugs and sofa pillows and
slipper patterns and toilet sets and tides and
catch alls and worsted wreaths and she'll work
hundred or two other things made
by ladies of which they know the names but DO
reporter does. Mrs. Aunie S. Merrill was
awarded the first premium for butter and Mrs
81. Q. Leavitt the second and Mrs. Ella S.
Merrill the first for cheese. The principal
lady exhibitors were Mrs. e. Varney, Mrs.
VIM. o. Thompson, Mrs. Charlotte NJ Cobb,
Mrs. W. 81. Allen, Maggie F. Allen Lizzie NJ
Blake, Mrs. Annie S. Merrill, Mrs. Gilbert
s mall, Martha M. Webb, Mrs Elias Little
field, Mrs. II. e. Whittier, Mrs. John Rob-
erts, Mrs. j. T. Fellows, Mrs. Annie T. Mer-
rill, Julia NJ. Hawkes. Mrs. Julia Pride To
avoid making this a town directory we omit
the rest.
The Centennial department (its the fashion
now to have Centennial department to every
thing) was we suspect under the charge of "W.
G )" at any rate arge part of it was bis ex-
hlbit There was curious chair, which ha1
seen 175 summers aud had held the grandfather
of Peter Thatcher Smith, who preached in
in 1862, and had doubtless rocked
the parson himself. A venerable deed from
the Reverend Parson to the Town of Wiud-
ham, dated III, showed that legal chrography
q century ago was rather more leg'ble than at
present MIR. Goold showed a woman's riding
saddle, bell metal fire set, firedog, five pieces of
pc wter table ware, two pictures, one of Addison
and the other If Prince Frederick William of
England, of STYLE which is numbered among
the lost arts, basket of ancient china table
ware and box of embroidered infants Clothes
On the grounds the display of horses and cat
tie was very good. There were seven yearling
colts shown and three two year Odds. A Palm
er Knox colt owned by Charles Hunnewell, at
tracted considerable attention. The first pre-
MUM for two year olds was awarded to Moses
Hunt, the second to G. M. Varney. and the
third to james E. Fellows. &C. Hall exhib-
tied promising yearling, sired by Lghtfoot.
For fat cattle Eli Stone took the first premi-
um, Fred Phinney the second, and Chas. Hun
newell the third. For pillow teams Ira Brown
took the first premium (Pettingill plow), and
Edwin Hunnewell the second (Holbrook plow).
Calvin Merrill took the first premium for three
old steers, and E. Saywood the second; VIM.
Thompson first for two year olds, Thomas Mer-
rill second; yearling steers Neal r. Hall first,
and William Townsend second. There was an
excellent display of matched cattle. The larg-
est yoke girted feet 9 inches, owned by Chas
Hall John T. Fellows, Thomas Morrill,, Ed
mund Douglass, Calvin Merrill Edwin Hume
newell, John j. Dodge. Eldridgs Ward and R.
NJ Chaplin also exhibited fine cattle.
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OK teams. The pulling match drew large
crowd and was probably enjoyed more than any
other feature of the day. The weight of the
drag was not ascertalned. Charles w. Halls,
Isaac Halls, Edwin Hunnewel's and Ira
Browns yokes each hauled it and were proper
ly applauded.
The exhibition of fowls was one of the most
Plymouth Rocks, Polish, Hamburgs. Brahmas,
Leghorns, Seabrights in profusion and confu-
sion. On Brown Leghorns the first and second
premiums were awarded to Hall and Senter,
and the third to G. D. Hasty. The awards on
Rocks were the same. G. d Hasty
took the first premium on Dark Brahmas, white
Leghorns, second on light Brahmas and third
on Hamburgs. A. M Aver took the first on
Seabrghts and second on Hamburgs. Frank
Maxphila fret on Buff Cochins. ". 81. Russ,
Jr., first on Light Brahmas, Polish and Ham,
burgs. FL. g. Hawkes. first on Dominiques.
There was also quite display of pigeons
Second Day of the York County Fair.
A very large crowd was present yesterday
afternoon to witness the pulling matches
First came a trial of strength for draught
oxen, and eight yoke of cattle were entered for
the prizes. Each yoke was hitched to drag
of dead weight of $500 pounds, and then told
to ''go itp' Horace Sawyer's yoke of light
cattle pulled well aud were awarded the first
premium. j. r. Taylor's oxen we're heavier
and pulled, perhaps, somewhat easier than
Sawyer's, but the judges thought best to en-
courage the young ones, so chslked Taylor's
for the second prize Ivory Henderson took the
third prize. The next match was for draught
horses, and only two pair were entered-the
horses of the 'Eben Simpson s. f, E. Co."
and pair by Israel Sherwell of Biddeford
They pulled dead weight of $500 pounds, and
several men besides SherwelPs team won.
Of course, being the first evening, and all
preparations not completed, there was small
attendance at City Hall fair Tuesday evening,
but your reporter found it an excellent oppor
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