St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-09-24
MECHANICS HALL.

Our Fairs have never been noted TO
their exhibition of mechanic arts, yet il
some respects this department was 1.
fair success. C. C. Bingham exhibited
a case of choice and expensive guns
In the same case was rifle made by
John Belknap, and was perfect piece
OF workmanship, as is all his handi.
work. John o. Hale, state agent, had
on exhibition quite variety of Fair
banks scales, and was kept quite busy
weighing people and giving them rec
ord of their weight.
The dairy seems to be coming to the
front in our fairs, and an unusual mum
Der of butter workers, creamers, churns,
ETC., were to be seen in this depart
ment. j. R. EMERSON had a variety OF
his butter prints and carriers, which
have become quite popular with those
who put up fancy butter.
Outside the hall were the usual vari-
ETY. of hay tedders, plows, harrows,
threshing machines, etc. The tanning
mill of F. Davis is complete machine.
The manure spreader made by B. F.
Rollins attracted considerable atten-
ton. Miller g. Ryan exhibited couple
of buggy wagons of their superior
make, and Hugh C. Moore fine lot of
carriages made in Massachusetts, also
quite display of driving harnesses,
nice and cheap. The st. Johnsbury
Granite Co. exhibited life-size granite
statue, "Hope."
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
The earth has brought forth abun-
dainty this year, as all know. The
vegetable department was well filled
with everything from 5O-lb. pumpkin
down to Seeding potato. There were
large number of exhibitors, some
quite extensive ones. L. ii. Jones had
fine variety, also w. B. johnson, C.
F. Gibbs, Nelson Roberts, and others.
This is the even year for apples, and
there were more entries in this class
than we ever remember to have seen
before. NJ. j. Russell showed ten vari-
cites, Geo. Galbraith some 25 varie-
ties, j. P. Foster had quite a display,
and also others whose names did not
appear.
There were four entries of grapes,
all well ripened. N. NJ. johnson ex-
hibited the Champion, which ripened
this year in August. DR.. S. T. Brooks
showed some very nice Delawares and
Hartford Prolifcs, and Milo Hale some
Concords.
BREAD AND BUTTER AND CHEESE.
This department was filled to over
flowing. Besides the choice dairies'
there were the fancy prints of Mason,
EMERSON, Willis, etc. nice plain and
sage cheese; white, graham and brown
bread; bees honey and maple honey ;
sugar refined and unrefned preserves,
pickles and jelly without end or begin
ming. The committee in this class
must have had long sweet time of it.
FLORAL HALL.
A prominent feature in floral hall was
the exhibition of taxidermy by C. w.
Graham. This included a fox, hedge
hog, the splendid otter killed by w. c.
Hill, peacock, eagle, and other large
birds, squirrels live and dead, a case of
mounted foreign birds, live mink
caught at Gov. Fairbanks's fish ponds
few days ago. Mr.. Graham shows
great taste and skill in his business.
A clock made by Frank Bigelow, a
deaf mute, and another by N. Corbeille
of Lyndon; an elegant display of mil
linery by o. H. Hale 81 Co.; J. NJ.
Kimball's show of jewelry and silver
ware; Mems display of photographs
o. w. Richardson's case of shoes, were
prominent in this department. A large
crayoning of cattle by Miss Helen Kit
tredge was much admired. The "house
that Jack built" (of moss) was proba-
bly, really built by Mrs. Samuel Hall
A cross made of ravelled cotton, exhib-
tied by Mrs. John Cowling, was an in
genious piece of workmanship.
In flowers, there were some beautiful
designs by Miss Ingram, Mrs. Charles
Packard, Ida Mullen and others, and
large and elegant display by H. T.
Closson of Thetford, and fine display OF
pot plants from Underclyffe, exhibited
by John Borland. These two latter ex-
hibitors made this portion of the hall
very attractive.
The amount of fancy and substantial
work in the ladies department was very
large, including all the various articles
usually found at our fairs.
Notes of the Fair.
COMMENDABLE ENTERPRIsE.-C. G.
Bingham, with his wonted enterprise,
ran a line of telegraph wire from his
drug store on the Plain to his store on