The Republican journal., 1881-09-15
Our George at the State Fair


This IS lively Gig, its altogether too lively.
never saw city where the people tried so hard to
make the most of the day. Morning begins here
at four O'Clock At that hour they begin to ring
the bells This is for the people to get up and see
how dark it is. got up and it was darker than
the Jennie Cramer case, and shifted my pillow
into cool spot and laid down again Well, the
bells keep ringing till about SEVEN by which time
all the factory bells are dineing their tongues and
take it in the conglomerate. there is an awful
racket over here but it's good lively city all the
same, and the only one where the State Fair ever
paid None but the brave deserve the fair, and
Drawer town than Lewiston don't exist Any
place that is brave enough to have all the hungry
denizens of Maine swoop down on it for week
and eat up all the spring chickens and fresh eggs,
cannot lack courage
Well, when got here the first thing learned
surprised me had understood that Lewiston
| Hotels were strictly temperance houses. That
man would die OF thirst before he could get little
spirit Why, they arrested mar here one day
| for stopping a hearse. liz said that all he wanted
was some bier, and he'd have it, if he stopped
every funeral III Lewiston. You can see by this
| how strict they Well how about the H otels I
| What did the landlord tell me. when | wanted
room Says he, Young man, every Hotel in this
city is "pi4os mr. What did do | fell in
with Ed. Mayo of the Skowhegan Reporter, and
he cut his bed right in two and gave me one half
Of t. I'D you come over here any time, and kick
me right ont of bed, and take the whole of it, and
| ! won't say word
4 letter a week after the fair cannot be very
new. Every body has got the gist of it from the
daes, and will only give you few incidents
! that attracted my attention Among the city mer
chants. Belfast is well represented. W Pitcher
has one Of the finest dry goods stores here and
Bickne and NeaI is one OF the most enterprising
firms in the clothing business These are Belfast
| boys, though believe Neal came from Belmont
but when come within six miles of the TRUTH it
don't matter much. In the crowd we had fair
| quota lou could meet Belfast man often enough
to borrow cork screw ityou needed one. Henry
Mariner has one OF his household temperance so
cetes exhibition here Its washing machine
and goes by water and so does temperance so
| ciety or ought to- but sometimes it don't Henry
would put IN dirty clothes, and give them clean
record III short time. He contemplates getting
up larger to candidates for office through
| if he makes success Of it, his fortune is made
| met quite a number of newspaper men Mayo
I've mentioned saw Howard owen Of the
Name Farmer got along with him tip top till
four year old colt named after his little girl won
a race and then Howard began to loom and he
felt better than laid egg He cut every
newspaper man thereafter, except the propretors Of
large daihes. shall buy rotling horse soon as
get home. and name her after my little girl that
| is, shall name my little girl first and then name
the horse after t-somc distance. Howard is a
good fellow, but he can't bear prosperity After
that colt gets beaten once or twice owen viii be
round wanting 70 scrape my acquaintance again,
and then shan't know him
A very noticeable feature Of the FAIR Is the
| almost entire absence of ntoXlcants | am not
s. stupidity green that think in a crowd like this
at Lewiston, there is liquor drank, for there is
| Every one who really wants any has way proyid
| ed by which he can obtain it. and this will always
be The ease, bnt think the drinking people OF our
| State as a whole. have rather come to the concu
sion that 1t j. not absolutely necessary to pour
down a quart in order to obtain one drink. |
asked Coz SlarbIrd, who is a reformed" temper
uutt lecturer btlltNt, now He accounted Tor Sucn
state Of sohrety and said he, Its fashion
| Drinking is nothing but fashion, and Just now it
don't happen to be popular to get drunk and |
guess the Col. has got the right of it.
The trains going and coming during the week
We're crowded The NJ. e. Co had very good ar
engagements for the transportation of the public,
though our branch was the only that did not
have a special train. Skowhegan and Dexter had
late trains provided and could the races IN the
afternoon and get home in the evening while our
people had to leave the ground at > IS r M in
order to get back the same day Had there been
later trains there doubt but that u large
number At nur people would have awaited them
selves Of the opportunity to 70 over and spend at
least one day, but 1t they had to use up two
days to get
The FAIR grounds presented a very lively APP
pearance, and reminded one Of circus day Hand
organs PLAYING in the various side shows tents of
negro MINISTRIES living curosities lifting machines
galvanic batteries vendors of the great American
glass cutter, cork screw, can opener stove LITTER
baby tender, door fastener, in fact 10000 useful
inventions all combined in one, and all for the
low price Of fifteen cents Or two for a quarter"
The rheumatic doctor the pain killer and the
cAtarrh man, with the usual sprinkling of Dea
mons Dicks all occupied their carts and dspens
ed their drugs TO the crowd, and with all Of them
talking at once, aided TO the noise OF twenty
tive ylctualers, each OF whom was ringing huge
dinner bell and announcing that he would till you
up tor " cents or no pay and struggling into the
mixture OF sounds. would Gee isionally come a
broken fragment Of tune from a distant band
making this conglomeration of noise a perfect
Babel, and the visitor would hurry hy, his brow
contracted with pain. and an agonized expression
on his face and seek the Retirement OF box stall
and dg the sounds out of his ears with the end of
wheat straw If you a with smile on
his eountenance, it a dead sure thing that he
deafer than Il haddock,
The ey hibiton Of cattle was good Some im
ported stock OF }oiwell's Of Hanwell and zen
Tiltons Of Iogus attracted much attention The
trotting was also interesting. NO very fast time
was made. but the races were well contested and
gave good satisfaction. Great credit is due to the
Judges, for their impartial management and the
gcntlemanly way in which the races were conduct
ed. The gentlemen who acted as Judges were
"OHi = iit'd' n =, N'itlNSs, duu | \ Quick
land, W Ii Strickland timer am under obi
cations to Mr. Heald for tAvors shown me at the
ground, bY which WAS enabled To stand inside
and look ont, instead of standing outside and look
ing i'll Position is "A big thing, both IN playing bill
lizards and reporting State Fair
Really the feature of the Fair in the Hall show
(all of which was hnel, was the baby show don't
know exactly under what head this was cassed
but presume twas Domestic Manufactures, or
Patrons of Husbandry, or something Of that kind
Well dropped over to the Hall and in that mod
est timid way Of mine, that way that is 50 the re
Of reporter got into the room where the babies
and their mothers or proxies were Only select
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