The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-27
THE WADENA COUNTY FAIR.
Cold and Rainy on the Second and
Third DAYS.

Cold and Rainy on the Second and
Third Days.
AS was stated in last weeks issue
the Fair opened up in good shape
Wednesday the first day. and every"
thing seemed to fortel of a splendid
time on the second and third days.
But alas. on Thursday morning, the
sky was clowded, the wind chilly, and
a cold damp drizzly rain commenced
in the morning and continued all day,
with the exception of few minutes
at 4 time that it would slack up in
order, a. it seemed, to get better
hold. But notwithstanding the cloud
that seemed to hang over them, the
managers were determined to make
the best of it. There were not many
on the grounds before noon, but in
the afternoon, there was quite a
crowd assembled and many were the
words of praise and expressions of
utter astonishment at the beautiful
and tasteful arrangement Of
! FLORAL NALL,
which was decorated and beantifed
by the grand display Of our merchants,
and the tasteful arrangement Of the
articles.
AS your reporter, walked around
the hall, commencing at the
west end, the first display that
caught our eye, was that of Amos l.
Benedict, Druggists, vhe had long
showcase upon q table filled with
drugs. medicines, toilet and fan cy ar
ticles, which were all very nicely ar
ranged.
~Right opposite to that was a fine
display of the same line of goods by
L. E. Stinehour.
The next was Baumbach L
Meyer, who had displayed an
excellent showing Of their man.
moth stock of dry goods and no.
tions.
Along side of this was good
display Of the clothing store Of F. B.
Coon & Co., all very tastefully arrang-
ed.
| Next in rotation was Mrs. l..
Kramer's display ofladies Mats, Bon
nets, and fancy goods, all nicely ar
ranged in 2 handsome showcase.
L. Kramer had a good showing Of
hides. furs and roots.
L. Erickson had long
showcase we'll filed with boots
shoes, and slippers, which re-
presented in good shape, his well
filled Boot and Shoe store.
Next was fine display made by
our enterprising merchant, J. Katzky,
who also had long show case well
filled with his excellent dry goods and
notions.
J, X. Miller, our hardware man,
had one of the incest arranged dis
plays in the hall, one of the novelties
of it being z sign made out of rope
with q red background, which was a
very neat arrangement and we under
stand, was the handy work of his
wife.
John Heinen had his harness shop
represented by nice display Of har-
nesses, whips, etc.
P. II. Kline had one of his hand.
some Western Cottage Organs in the
hall and was furnishing tho crowd
with music.
Giles Peake had his furniture busi.
ness represented by one of his elegcnt
bedroom sets, and other pieces of
furniture.
J. H. Montgomery was present
with one Of J. Estey & Co.'S, and one
of Story 4 Camps Organs. for which
he is Agent. They were both beauti.
, ful Organs and helped to ornament
the hall.
II. Mctzger had beautiful display
of watches, clocks, jewerly, etc.
John Heron and Theo. Northfoss
each had sh ow cases, filed with beau
tiful specimens from the Nationa
Park, which attacted considerable at
tention.
In the center of the hall was a nj &C
collection of house plants, and per-
ennial flowers in bloom, with hand.
some bouquets tastefully interspersed
among the crooks and vaces, which
were arranged in pyramidal form
and was very beautiful sight to
behold.
In the north end Of the hall was
the fancy work department, which
was we'll represented by various spe.
cimens of needle work crochet and ta-
|pestry.
Tho household departmen ent was
rather slim, owing to the extremel y
difflcnlt weather for our ladies to bring
in their articles for exhibition, but
what was there was very nice.
The art department was well filed
and some beautiful designs displayed.
The departmental of grains. grasses,
roots and vegetables, were not filed
to overflowine but what was on ex-
hibition was of the most excellent
iquality and would CONVINCE anyone
that this country cannot be exeelled
in tho roixinn of Grains 1raases and