Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-26
Letter from Main Street.
NAM STkEEf, MfrvLIyroWx, ]
Saturday, Sept. %, 1877. I

oesuusy, ccPs Il. lof.
Sentinel and RspsbIican Once sesin I
am with you relative to the fair. The most
tickle weather fer the period of fortnight
kept people in aconstant state of hesitation,
as 10 whether they should, or should not,
enter stock and other articles for exhibition
at Riverside Park Fair. until up TO Thurs
Gay morning, at whicn time all avenues o.
entry were closed and the exhibition was as
full as could be expected. Waving the
fruit display, which was unav oidable, owing
TO no fruit in the county, it would require a
large company OF lawyers, twelve Jurors
and full bench, supported by cloud OF
witnesses, to decide whether or whether
not better fair has ever been held within
the limits of the county.
The attendance on opening day Was not
large, but a good cheer of heart ives
plainly visfbly on the countenance of those
on the ground, and the observer was made
I 20 feel that the crowd had no stilted notions
conc erning the fair, but fully understood
that the exhibition could not be the largest
county fair in the Commonwealth. They
were happy in Whist they possessed, and a
King could be no more.
About o'clock p. NJ, on opening day,
troop of young men frsm town, attired in
full Indian costume, entered the ring and
gave an interesting Indian performance, that
equaled performances of a similar character
that have been pronounced good by show
goers. If the Indians of $50 years ago,
who nsd6 the plateau on which the far
ground is located their favorite haunt in
which n conduct ring dances and high car
nival, could have witnessed the imitatOry
performances Of the .spale face" braves of
aifflintown in the year or our Lord 1877.
they would have thought it all bitter joke
on the ways OF tie Indian, or would have
been comphmente6 to believe tnat the pale
face boys would turn brave ted men If they
only dared TO do so. Eighteen hundred
years ago the ancestors OF the people who
eiJoyed themselves on the plateau OF which
the Park is part, roamed nude over the
hills Of Great Britain and through the bogs
of ireland, or wandered through the woods
of Germ any clothed in the skins of beasts
captured in the chase Let US hope that
eighteen hundred years hence our posterity
may not be found in a relapsed condition,
holding Druidical amuSements and religious
worship in a semi nude state where their
fathers have exhibited in civilized way
during The present week.
The young meu who initiated the red
braves SO admirably in dress and perform
ancc, are named, l.. Swartz, J. uluuff, +.
Hughey, James Keiser, C. Pannebaker, r.
Paunebaker, q. Thompson, James fasick,
John Wagner, II. Tyson. Wni. Mccoy, Will
liam Keiser, A. Wright, A. Creswell, c.
Graham, g. Meyer, d. Funk.
The Indian Performance was appropriately
supplemented by boys riding fnll-blnoded
Indian ponies. that Smith and Kurlz, of
Delaware township, bought in the Indian
Territory from the Red Men themselves.
The pony that Mr.. Thompson's son rode
WAS bcrgtl IRON a Conanche Chief who
weighed l5O pounds, and who sat asiride of
the little horse at the time of the purchase.
A pony race by Andrew Parker and Chas.
Groringer added zcst 10 thoughts OF the lu-
dians, who are passing away rapidly before
the cvershadowIpg destiny OF tine white
man
Tie oB;Iee of carriages vas large; and
as all who gr 10 Saratoga must daily drink
OF the famous waters, SO must the carriage
people all drive over and over again, over
the splendid track.
There ere thonssnd thoughts that |
would like to let escape through the col
umns of the Sentinel and Rspnblican, and
hundreds of things that saw that | would
like to make mention OF, but here is the
Premium List, aid that has the preference
of space, which l prefa-e by the
RACE,
of county horses, on Wednesday, which
was trotted by JuRiafa MGid, entered by G.
NJ. Diven; a gray horse named Frank, en-
tered ~ L. = hld1agn, ana nldrr Hdintu
Roam Mare, entered by David Sieber. The
race WAS won by Juniala Maid, her best
heat being y
PREMIUMS.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
Judges-WillIsm Thompson, J. II. Gun
ningham, J. W. Hamilton.
Premium corn planter, award of merit, to
J Kaufman; premium drag harrow 81.
10 Wm Hartnisui premium onc-horse sled
soc, To Nm Hartman; premium corn fod-
der cutter. award of merit, 10 J A Kauf-
man; premium family carriage i.J0, to
W Thompson; premium corn plow and
cultivator, award of merit, to n A Drum
gold premium grain drill, award "f merit,
to JOS Weiser; p'emium 5 tar plow, award
of merit. to George Herr; premium Cham
uip1 uluy TO George Herr.