The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-10-10
Bakersfield Town Fair.

This Fair occurred last weekly elnesday. |
II would be Of so little interest 10 many |
Of our readers that we do not design Civ |
ing a very detailed account Of this fair, |
but rather, for those who are not familiar |
with the way it is conducted. TO give the |
mOdus Op5rdndi. The fair Is held on the |
large open common aud is free 90 all. nei- |
Their admission or collection being resorted |
10 to raise funds. NOpremiums are offer |
ed save the commentators which articles |
Of merit receives About the only cash /
expense Is the band, and this Is met by a |
subscription. 4 month or so before the |
time for the fair, the yeomen Of the town
come together and appoint committees, |
secretary, marshals, &c. On the day
preceding the fair the committees and
other voluntary help. come bringing
boards, nails and the like, and build pens,
stand. floral hall and do such other work
as is necessary. The floral hall is a long
temporary structure, covered with cotton
cloth, with two alleys running lengthwise.
A small subscription, a large amount of
public spirit, good degree of unanimity.
and day or two of work sums up the
cost of the affair. The profits are good
social time. and opportunity for the farm
ers to see what their fellow townsman and
others are doing in the line of stock. hOr-
SEES. poultry, &C., by seeing their best
specimens, and to discuss the respective
merit of the various breeds. 1t affords
also day of recreation for the young
people, the instruction of a good address
and the pleasure of listening to good mu-
sic. In these regards the fairs for the
last two years have been very successful,
and neighboring towns have aided Bakers
field by contributing to the exhibition and
attending largely. This year there was
as large an attendance as during any day
of our county fair. The western part of.
our own county, johnson, Waterville aud
Cambridge was well represented.
We make mention of Il few things that
attracted our attention. Truman G..
Beach showed some fine collins and cas-
kets, which were quite suggestive of
thought, as the multitude of living hui
manity crowded by, thoughtless of the
fact that they would some day have one
all to themselves. Among the agents for
the collins we noticed for this county the
names of Sabin Scott, of Eden and +. j.
Mann, of Waterville. There was a case
of old relics among which we noticed one
pitcher $50 years old and handkerchief.
made in the long-gOne-by by Mrs. f.
Waterman. of johnson. i. G. Leach had
fine case of apples raised from trees of
the varieties sold by him as agent for a
Geneva nursery. We saw what seemed
to us to be valuable invention and one
that every farmer should have, in the Eu-
reka digger, for digging post holes, the
agent, Aaron Gates, of Montgomery,
would dig a post hole in 30 seconds
and we saw him do it. S. p. Lock, of
Waterville, advertised his valuable ferti-
lizer which bids fair to work quite revO-
: luton in farming on light soils especially.
o. G. Start showed l6 varieties of fine APP
Piles, Mrs. NJ. i. Start beautiful oil paint
; ings, while the finest crayon pictures we
ever saw were exhibited by Mrs. Dr.
Stevens. There were plants and flowers
in abundance. We noticed two cushions
that attracted much attention because of
the youthfulness of the makers. One
J was made by Miss Emma G. Mudgett, of
Cambridge, when only five years old and
the other by Cora F., when in her sew
enth year. The display of bed quilts was
gorgeous. In beauty and neatness of fin
ish we were at loss how to decide be-
tween one exhibited by Mrs. L. w. Blais-
dell, of Cambridge, and one by Mrs. e..
Bailey. Mr.. Willard, of Franklin had on
exhibition the celebrated CoOleys Porta-
for raising cream in few hours, before
the milk can sour in the least, and enabl-
ing the farmer to make good ''fall' bntter
in July and August. The method has
met with very great success over 700 da-
ries having been provided with creamer-
Y les during the present season Willard &
Edgar of Franklin are agents for northern
Vermont. The show of cattle was not
, large. Allen Crafts. of EnOsburgh,
showed fine yearling Jersey bull and III.
II. Scott, of Bakersfield, ten head of good
grade Jerseys. There was Il fine poultry
show, but nothing that looked finer than
-, the speckled beauties showed by Mr..
= Blaisdell, of Cambridge. We were sorry
to see the usual accompaniment of pool
e wheel, ball exercise, &C., but learned
that these were not licensed but simply
permitted because no one took the respon-
sibility to prohibit it. Henry Reed was
on the ground and did thriving business.
If there is anything that will make the
pennies burn in boys pocket it is to see
Reed draw out sweetness on his silver
, hook. There was horse trot in the af-
ternoon on the race course about a quar-
ter of mile away from the common,
d which was in no wise connected with the
fair. There were in all abOnt 400 entries
to this fair. The address was delivered
{ by Rev. j. X. Fuller, pastor Of the Con
q gregational church, at Bakersfield, and
was very fine effort, Astounding in witty
illusions, in good practical advice, and
- occasional rising into true eloquence. We
:, never saw a large crowd held to closer at
e tention than that given Mr.. Fuller. There
: was poem read, written for the occasion
by Miss Julia Lawrence, of Enosburgh.
We return thanks for the gena
courtesy shown us by the Secretary, II
H. Scott, and others, in our endeavor tC
learn the method of conducting the fail
l. and it's cost, sc. The Enosburgh brass
band furnished good music. They were
q drawn about the grounds by pretty
Y tno,, Of 4 ,,oIyn nf ava,