Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-29
THE MONROE COUNTY FAIR,
CLOSING SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF THE
EXHIBITION

CLOSING SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF THE
EXHIBITION.
The most exciting race that came of
during the Monroe county fair was run on
Friday evening, between "Jo Galloway" !"
owned by Ewing White, and Whirl.
wind.' owned by j. B. McGhee: The
conditions of the race were such that the
winner had to be two best out of three, or
distance the other: The first race was so
close that they .were precisely together al al
the end Of the first half mile, and as they
came out, Whirl-wind was best by only
half length: The closeness of this
race rendered second necessary. On this
Whites horse distanced the other. and re-
moved the necessity of the third.
Entries had already been made by E. G.
Sylvester, of Loudon county, Ewing
White and Chas. McGhee, of Monroe, for
half mile race, which proved to be very
close. Sylvester's horse came out only a
few feet ahead, while Whites followed a
e e6 il eHsFciaes aaFsRes Of of hsks 4fst closeu
with q mile dash by j. G. Han's horse
alone, for the purpose of showing his
speed.
While in attendance at the fair we no
ticed some fine specimens of variegated
county, worked by Messrs. Reynolds
Hullng & Co., of Chattanooga. These
were exhibited at the stand of Worth
Stickley & Co., of Madisonville, and were
fit specimens of our finer qualities of East
Tennessee marble.
Messrs. Worth Stickley s. Co. also made
good display of drugs and other mercan-
tile goods, which was new feature
of the fair. These gentlemen are
of the most enterprising citizens of Madi-
sonville and are taking q great deal OF in
IN 10 Infr In nd JTH1n
ment of thorough h-blooded stock in the
county. They are the owners of "Sir
Walter Scott" who took the premium as
the best draught stallion. The one year
old, two year old and sucking colts which
took premiums respectively are his colts.
Their blooded jack Barcelona" is the
four year old that bore off the premium.
Mr.. J. ?. Kefauver, of Madisonville
had his grain planter" on exhibition
during the fair 1t will be remembered
that MIR. Kefauver is the sole inventor o.
this piece of mechanism. 1t presents 6
wonderful degree Of ingenuity, being Sc
constructed as to alternate hill of corr
with hill Of peas without injuring thC
grain in the least.
We had almost forgotten to mention The
81. 80 premium offered by our worthy
townsman, Peter Kern, for the.best cheese
| John Hall bore this premium LOFT to Lou
| don county.
The $40 premium offered for the bes
| county by j. II. Carmichael. Mrs. j. 2
| Kefauver was the recipient of specia
cash premium of 81 for the best fy
| pounds of butter.
We hadthe pleasure of meeting Col. j
81. French, of McMinnville, who devote
his time to raising fine stock. He had hi
two horees Wander bilt' and Grit on tn
grounds, and expected to compete for th
500 purse, but for some reason he failed t
run his horse. Grit" it will remember ered
is the horse that won renown at GallatiI
as the first colt at 2. years of age that ha
won mile race in so short time as
minute and AL seconds.
M. Thos. Richards was on the ground
with number of ''SiIver Chimes" organ
from the popular house of Marshall d Co
also Mr.. Price, representing the house
Love s. Co. They furnished some melo
dious strains, which were not less welcome
by the officials of the fair than the anxiou
listeners who crowded around to catch tn
sweet strains. They succeeded in sellin
every instrument they had, and returne
jubilant over their success.
1.-The fair of this year was success /
every respect" came to our ears from NOR
than one source. The spirit of friendl
emulation which actuates the citizens {
Monroe was calculated to give the ia
such send off, The untiring energy an
perfect management upon the part of th
officers gave universal satisfaction and Ell
listed the interests of the surroundin
counties as we'll as those of Monroe
The students of Hiwassee college wei
permitted to adjourn their work and ''tak
in the fair" as holidays.
Our article would not be complete will
out returning thanks to Mr.. +. 4. RobiI
son and his excellent lady, for hospitaliti'
while we were in attendance at the fai
Our readers will be better prepared to est
mate the superiority of our hostess whe
we tell them that Mrs. Robinson too
more than dozen premiums on horticu
u. al products and culinary articles of ht
town make. Mr.. Robinson is one of Mao
isonviile's popular lawyers, a staunch r.
publican, who stands squarely opposed
the Wilson democrats, of whom we foun
larger number in Monroe county tina
we had expected to find anywhere in Ea
: Tennessee. May the tide of prosperit
rest upon the good people of Monroe an
the Wilson element be forever blotted ou