The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-03
Gorham Grange Fair.

The annual fair held by the Gorham Grange
was opened yesterday. The attendance of the
first day was probably as large as last year,
and the articles exhibited were worthy of any
fair. The walls of the hall are very prettily
decorated with pictures, quilts, rugs, and
other ornaments, both handsome and nicely
wrought. The varieties of apples are numer-
GUS and excellent.
The exhibition Of pears, peaches, grapes,
and about every kind of fruit that can be
raised, is large and equals in variety and
beauty any exhibition of former years. The
butter is fine and a credit to the farmers
wives who exhibit it, A fine lot of preserved
fruit is also shown. The art exhibitors are
not 50 very numerous, but their efforts were
greatly praised. Miss Mary Robbie and Frank
lin Stanwood exhibit some Of their fine paint
ings, and Miss F. Kellogg some nice water
color decorations Some of the pictures were
notable for their great age. The number Of
quilts, tides and fancy articles is too numer-
GUS to mention, but the collection is very fine
and attracts good deal of attention. In an
ante-room is the farm produce Here may be
found immense pumpkins, turnips, carrots,
potatoes, large traces of corn and onions,
bushels of fine beans, big bloody beets, and
parsnips cabbages, peas, squashes, wheat,
oats, and other productions, of which the
owners may well be proud. The following IS q
list Of the principal exhibitors:
FARM PRODUCE.
CG. Files. IA varieties; r. Lowell, 80 do j. F.
Storey, 20 do; W. E. Strout, % do; Eli morton, Z
do VI b. Merrill, rs do; +. L. De Merritt, do;
Samuel Carruthers, do; VIM. Lombard, do; H.
Douglass, B do.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Brown Bros, caskets. -
R. A. Fogg, varieties preserved fruit; Dora b.
Strout, 6 do
Mrs. R. A. Fogg, 2 varieties household articles;
Mrs Fred ROBBIE, 10 do; Kitty Garland DO; MIS-
G. A. Bracket, 2 do; Mrs. A. Bickford, DO:
Dr. W. r. johnson, 9 varieties garden produce;
Louise Libby, 3 varieties household articles;
Nellie E. Larrabee, 4 do; Mrs. VIM Mitchell, 90;
Stephen Hinckley, collection eggs AZ kinds
Mrs. Capt. Stanwood varieties household aTti-
cles; Mrs DIR. johnson, do; Miss Nellie Llooy'
3 do.
Louisa Irish 3 mats 80 years old.
There were many other entries, but lack OF
time prevents my mentioning them.
The exhibition of cattle is very good. There
were twenty-eight yoke of working oxen and
all of them are fine specimens Matthew
johnson made the best display of stock, it
COuSlStlu5 VI SoNSutoSu uofau' AASN $1,000
exhibits some fine Jersey full blooded stock,
and Robert Weeks, Mrs. Sarah Cressey, VIM.
Cressey, W. Fl. Sturgis, Fred Robbie and w.
H. Lombard some fine grade Jerseys; Leonard
Parkhurst Chas. johnson. Matthew johnson
and Chas. Deering grade Durham. Some
grade Dutch stock is shown by Chas johnson,
and grade Ayrshire by Arthur Mcclellan
Eli Morton exhibits some fine swine.
The exhibition of horses is quite large. Mr..
Matthew johnson. shows q fine matched pair
of farm horses, as did also Chas. Johnson.
VIM. Wescott Sd shows nice pair Of three
years old gray horses. Col. Robe had his
black horses on exhibition, which are hard to
be beaten for matched horses.
Col. Robe offered a generous premium to
the farmer who brought the best exhibition OF
cattle and general farm stock The premium
was awarded to Matthew johnson, and it is a
notable fact that the johnson family are al
ways on hand at a farmers exhibition.
The fair is held on the farm Of Frederic
Robbie, which is very elevated and beautiful
spot, overlooking the village and surrounding
country There was a large attendance of far
mers yesterday, and they were not sparing OF
praise A full list of premiums awarded will
be given tomorrow.