Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-09-20


| On Thursday the fair opened brightly and
the streets Of Portland were filed with
crowds of strangers, who had come up to the
great exhibition. 1t was difficult to get
about the hall in the afternoon and the music
in the evening throngcd the aisles with visi-
tors.
| There great crowd at the Park.
In the forenoon, the drawing of horses took
place, and there were six entries. The
weight was $500 pounds Of stone on a drag.
The pair belonging to Alonzo Norton of
West Mills, moved it feet 10 inches. His
single horse moved it about foot. J. S.
JorJans pair moved it 3 feet 2 inches, and
the big pair belonging to w. i. Harris of
Elm Brook walked off with it l5 feet 2 inches.
The single horses of both latter gentlemen
moved the drag little. W. p Harris took
and special premium of IS was recon-
mendcd to be gIvca to Alonzo Norton. In
| single horses, j. Scott Jordan got lst and
W. Z. Harris I'd premium.
For pulling contests by oxen, there were
| ten entries. Under the first class Of oxen,
I feet 3 inches and over, a pair of huge fell
lows belonging to Granville Hall of Fall
mouth were first put on. The weight of
| stone was 6,559 pounds, and five men sat on
| this, increasing the weight to about 1900
| They easily took it GO feet in five pulls.
Their age was I, girth feet 10 inches and
weight about 1000 pounds. Alonzo Norton
| of West Mills put on his Z feet 3, six year
olds, the combined weight of which was
1920. They took it Is feet in three pulls.
Under the second class, n. Perkins of
North Jay had a smart pair of year olds, &
feet and :: 200 pounds. which succeeded in
dragging 1000 pounds 81 feet in six pulls.
| Otis NJ. Hilton of Anson, attached his five
year ods, 6 feet 10 inches, weight 3,2j4, and
they got away with it short distance.
| The annual meeting of the Maine State
| Agricultural Society was held Thursday
| evening. President Hamilton said the exhi-
| bition last year paid its bills and nearly
| $500 of the old Indebtedness. The success
| Of the present exhibition was almost assured.
as there had been larger attendance at the
park that day than was ever known before at
any fair in the State. If the weather con-
tnued good they would be able to pay all
this years bills and the whole of the old in
debtedness.
| The society then proceeded to the election of
officers for the ensuing year, with the follow
| ing result:
Presidential l.. Dennison. Portland.
Treasurer-H. S. Osgood, Portland.
Trustees-Chares +. Libby, Portland :;
Ii. NJ. Hight, Skowhegan; John Morrison,
East Corinth Geo. w. Kicker, Rockland.
The exhibition Of the Maine Pomologiral
Society. in the galleries of the City Hall, is
one of the finest they have ever made. The
officers say, while excellent, they do not
think it quite compares with that of last year.
70 those who did not see last years display
it is superb.
The society elected the following officers
Presidcnt-Iienry ingalls,, Wiscasset.
Vice Presidents-Joseph Taylor, Belgrade;
Granville Fernald, Harrison.
Secretary-Geo. b. Sawyer, Wiscasset.
Treasurer-llenry Mclaughlin, Bangor.
Executive Committee-The President and
Secretary, ex-officio; Samuel Rolfe, Port
Iand Charles S. Pope, Manchester; Andrew
). Sawyer, Cape Elizabeth.
Trustees Androscoggin, ID. J. Briggs;
Aroostook, II. Tilley. Cumberland II. NJ.
Chase; Franklin. S. II. Leland; Hancock,
c. G. Atkins; Kennebec, w. =. Atherton;
Knox, T.. II. Hoffses; Lincoln, J. Currier;
oxford. y. +. True: Penobscot 5. c. Har-
low; Piscataquis, ii. a. Robinson; Sagada-
noe. J. II. Kimball; Somerset, g. Hoxie;
Waldo, j. W. Lang; Washington, II. A.
Sprague; York, +. j. Young.