The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-10-18

Last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and satur
day. the twenty, eighth annual exhibit of the
Stark County, Agricultural societystook place
Thoushsthe weather was not thefinest, there were
many people present, the average estimate of Fri
days attendance being 1856 \, AN departments
exhibition hall, machineFy and stoek were well
filled The 0snabnrg band iurnishsd good music
and made an attractive appearance The follow.
ing is fpn list Of The prominent exhibItOrsin
fl8FIB /, THE HALL: .
Henry Fisher was there with his usually aitrac
tive display ofmower knife grinders, iarm btlls
and signal system. babbttlng ladies' hay fork,
reaper aud moNerseotions &c. HlsexHiblt prov
cd Of great ilterestto all farmers II did 1t the
Centennial and probably win AZ Paris nextygaf.
T. J. Numatak Son the grocersy had ID pr0minent
spacein the hal aud The most attractive feature
ofthelr exhibit was 90 elegant spice millfuR by a
miniature steam engine. Billy was on hahdto
enlighten all who didn't know enough to satisfy
them, and ga, Baxter, the ready and ever oblig.
ing clerk couldn't be asked ssuflicient number of
questions VIM, Volkman's Cigar, case, was a roy,
al temptation u ali smokers and owing the su-
periOrity Of gods gnd excellence in display, he
took first premium. W. r. Devices & Cos show Of
hats, caps, and furnishing goods was very fine j..
o. Palmer exhibited a large and most BRILLIANT
display Of carpets, curtains, lambreqdihs &C.,
from his large establishment at 80 South Market
street, Bostick & Keefer, ''Reub" and "Tom,"
had remarkably fine'ca5e of hats and received
much praise aud commendation for the 6ne ar.
rangement of thelr, goods, Hapbeft q, Conkell
fshOwed two Of the finest monuments ever sculp-
Led. Louie Moushey's aquarium held a crowd all.
the time and is really one Of the handsomest af.
iaiTsYe have everseeh. &C, CJBnyderhada a large
display of fine hardware. Jno. KOOns showed
an array Of the best and prettiest queensware.
SpeTa, the one price clothing man was there too.
Mrs. o, NJ. humans exhibit of millinery and
fancy goods eclipsed rainbow in all the efful.
gence Of It's spectrum tints, and was the special
admiration of all the ladies Of any taste, and
where ID the lady-thAt hasn't taste when It comes
to bonnet? ], c. Bockius & Son had fine dis.
nlay of boots and shoes. w. B. Perkins IL Co.,
the book, and news dealers had an attractive ar
rangement Of goods. ]. A. Meyers case Of jew
els, watches, silver ware &C., under the su.
pervisOn of Frank and Joe was most beautiful.
E D. Kepllnger, dry goods manifested the fact
that he is tasty In the arrangement ofsuch affairs
J.W. Donaldson of Masslllon showed a collection
OF fancy stamping blocks Beggs & Bell, queens.
ware andso forth showed up well. Courtney, the
photographer, had his usual space and stood by
with pride as visitors by the dozens stared admir-
ingly at his baby show, containing elegant photo
graphs of $50 babies fat and slender, blonde and
brunette, saucy and funny all in bunch. NJ.
Rphman had fine show OF ready made clothing
Dhmontithe grocer had q alargeis space devoted 10
fancy and staple groceries. ]. X. Simmons had
showing Of organs, and delighted a large number
with good musicg ], a. Werner the city paint
stOreiman was there with fine exhibition Of bis
goods Mrs M Wynn Foxes department of
musical instruments was especially fpe and were
utilized to a delightful extent. Myers u Smith,
and l. p. Miller, manipuatedsewiug maehies. J.t
& w. Reed, showed saddlery and harness John
banners patent revolving book racks were great.
ly admirably legal and literary parties. Law
renee Alexaners wooleh mills were well repre-
sented, YOst& Rooms, the young but prominent
stove and metal ware dealers had large and
finely arranged display of goods in their line and
were the only articles Of that class on exhibition
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. had beautiful
show of Eve Of their Safes each of different style
from steel lined railroad safe to the wooden
covered household safe all ornamental In design
and finished in the best manner, Ell Miller,
agent of the White Sewing Machine Company al.
50 had fine display. os
The show of fruits was also very fine, several
exhibitors having as high as twenty varieties on
the shelves The Louisville Woolen Mills exhib.
ited a fine line of fabrics of their own manufac.
tute There was also large list of domestic goods
and canned fruits: The Presbyterian sewing
society had an array of goods for sale and also
reaped reasonable profit from their dining hall,
Louis Engle's display Of flowers, and plants was
very fine. The Lutheran sewing society was also |
largely represented with fine domestic art-
cles. ~
The exhibit of poultry was unusually fine and
larger than ever before Among the largest ex.
hibits were those Of Major A. vignos, 19 eoops
nearly all of the Plymouth Rock breed F. Bair,
Canton, 80 coops Milton Harding Is coops, G. W. |
Nolan, Alliance 20 coope, B. F. Neiss Canton, 15
coops Charles Flooding, Leetonia, o., 2S coops
and 10 varieties, o.s, Hardgrove, H. G. Mcdowell,
and others. ..a'a" ...t lois af |
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