The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-09-06
La SALE County FAIR !!
The Society Achieves Another
Success.
A Big Attendance No End TO Goods and
Stock Displayed-And Cords OF
Fun and Good Races,
NEDSESDAS---Third Day.

Art and Floral Halls TO better advantage. The
attendance during the day was fair, and in the
afternoon around the race track the crowd was
large and the scene animated, The receipt.
show that about three thousand people came in
=, the gates
MECH tNlCAL DEPARTMENT.
This department, the thnress Of which was
much complained OF by farmers last year, was
much better than it had been for years, aud was
. center Of attraction all through the fair.
J. r. Porter EXHIBITS the famous Peru pillow, sew
cral varieties, among which are two nickle plat
ed centennial plows, stirring and u breaker
further ornamcntcd by the diploma of the eXhi-
bition and gold medal. Also of the same make,
Brewster u Co.'S sulky plows; the Moline sulky;
IL Davenport and Peru city cultivators with
springs aud Moline do; q Marseillcs stalk cutter
and power shelter with power attached; go
pArr, same make; Barlow corn planter with
wire check-rower attached, an Ellwood harvester
with cord binder, Eureka 6 foot mower Mo
line and Peoria harrows, an Acme scale put up,
a Nette farm wagon, hay-rakc and loader, road
scrapers, horse hay forks, straw cutters, &c. Also
the celebrated Porter Hay Carrier, erected on q
NbpNCI lIdNh anu VI NiIc tdDlt MS Is DIlcl >
pet machine, made by himself and shipped to all
pa , Of the L. S, being everywhere received
wit, reat favor.
Reed u Co. exhibit fine collection, such as
la self-bindcr ID. VI. Osborn'S No. o ID. NJ. OS-
born's rahcr No. &, mower No. ); old ground
pows, sulky plows, breakers and riding pillow at
tachmeut timber plows, road plows, cultivators,
riding and walking; tOngueless walking cultiya-
tors Climax Cultyator, 6 shoycls, with gopher
shovcls and a deyic for cultivating oats in corn
stalk stubble Il hand garden pillow, vibrating
sef-cleaning harrow, road scrapcr, sclf-dumpiny
hay rake, lock hay rake and other varieties;
Champion corn planter, Phillips patent check
rover attached; Champion drill, rotary drop,
Brown planter, Haworth check rover attached;
Brown rotary drop, mast and broad cast secdcr,
two horse grain drill, horse do drill for fall
wheat in corn, the world renowned Eclipse
thresher, Shaw's prairie, center arched, gopher
improved draft raises and lowers in front gets to
and from the corn by sliding on the aXel, Al
blades, light machine, elegantly finished;
Barncss hay-carrier and device for eevating
and handling hay in barn and Barnes's hay fork
f. ID. Swcetscr q Co. are on hand with an eX
ulDlJ Oh over seventy cHlTlcs. NOOu harvester
and Self Binder binds by compressed arm-no
strain on the wire-wire does not break as in
other binders. Champion Reaper and Mower,
Buckeye Reaper, Forests Hay Loader, First
IL Bradley's Stirring Plows, which throw
themselves out Of the ground by acticn Of the
team-a boy can handle them; Keystone
planter, feed cutter, cider mill; Brown, Union,
Keystone, Challenge, Star and Rockford plant |
ers; Buford & Co.'S sulky and ground plows,
Gale and Furst e Bradley's self hand dump
rakes, Rockford grain drills and seed sewers,
Brentwood churns, Doty washer, wheelbarrows;
Ottawa Clipper and Maierhofer plows, etc
Gritiln's Ottawa drain tile, brick and fine brick,
&c. besides Clipper plows Barnes check mower,
grain registers, King IL Hamilton's goods, power
shelter and power champion walking and new
spring cultivators Johnson's ditcher, etc, and
Freeland's celebrated gophers.
The Maerhofer Plow works, the "Clippor,"
made a fine showing of their goods; nothing
fancy" but such as are sold from the shops eve
ny day, consisting of gophers, cultvators, break
ing and other plows.
John Deere, of Moline, H., shows suky
pillow, cultivator, stirring pillow and corn planter
A. F. Mackinson exhibits new thing, q metal. |
lie horse collar and harness combined, from the
Rochelle collar works.
A new wrought iron wire fence and wrought |
iron posts, with spiral screw to sink them.
new and practical, near Art Hall.
Matlock exhibited dozen Cincinnati carriages.
j. II. Newell, of Ncmillionville, exhibits gate
for farm use, opens and closes from buggy, by
lever
Vim. Stormont shows wind mill and pump
and large platform scale.
The Marseilles Manufacturing Company have
,ne of their power shelters mounted; also pow
,r, a corn-stalk cutter and gopher.
In this department also was display of Tile
" A. T. Griffin aud by the Ottawa Pressed Brick,
sewer Pipe and Drain Tile Company Both ex
libited very fine goods; but the display Of the
ottawa company was by far the larger showing
large number of all sizes of sewer pipe and drain
lie, as also shown by Mr.. Griffin, and beauu.
PRESSED bricks griffin showing lot of fine brick
md a lot of paving tile 10 inches square, some
hing new. Both displays were highly creditabe
o the exhibitors.
Premiums were awarded in this department as
ollows:
Cistcrn pump, 10 =. ID. Sweetser.
Well pump, WIN. Sormont LIST. :. F. Dewey ID.
Horse hay fork, j. T.. Porter lst. Sveetser "a.
Hay carrier, Porter.
Grain register, Sweetser
Hay cutter Porter LIST, Sveetscr 2d.
Mower knife grinder, Porter.
Threshers, Reed h Co ,
Corn harvester. q. II. Rugg.
Hedge trimmer. Swcetscr.
Mower, Sweetscrs' Champion Light LIST. Reed 2d
Combined reaper and mower, Sweetser LIST and ID.
Grain binder. Reed 4 Co ist Porter al. t,
Horse rakes, Reed & Co lsf, Sweetser 81,
Horse power, Porter.
Cider iaill. Swcstscr.
Windmill, St0rmont. III
stalk cutter. Porter.
Power shelter. Porter
Whceharruvs. SvrctSer 1T and II.
Road piow, Reed 4 Co.
Walking pillow, Porter lst. Sweetscr ~.
Garden pillow. Reed a Co.
Riding pillow, SwVttser LIST, Porter "a. \
Hsrrew, Porter
Gopher, J. l. shaw Let. Sveetscr ii.
Cutyator, Sweetscr LIST, Porter I'd. E,
Planter, Reed 4 Co lst Porter h.
Check ROVER. Porter lsi, Reed & Co. 81. II
puethor augyr, Swretstr,
Grain drill REED Co. lst, Sveetser ID