Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-10-05
THE HALTFAx FAIR.


tuesday
Without intending it Halifax has this week
had two days fair. The morning OF Oct.
I'd was cloudy and the weather.wise predict.
ed a storm. Before 8 o'clock the rain began
to fall in business-like style, and continued
without cessation through the day. Many
preferred to stay at home rather than risk
the weather, and others that started for the
fair turned back when the storm commenced
and those who did not had reason to regret
il for there has been no other day 80 per-
sstently rainy for many months. Yet con-
siderable number had gathered in the village
before the rain began to fall, and others con
tinued to arrive. The dining tents were
pitched and ready for business the proprie.
tors Of the target guns were on hand, hide
Gus images we're set up TO be knocked down
for q consideration, and cavalcade of gay
wooden horses were saddled and bridled ready
TO be ridden in circle at a reasonable price
for livery hire. Members of the Whining
ton band stood about in brightnew uniforms,
while the rain fell impartially on all, and the
street was soon ankle deep with ground tan
bark and mud.
About twenty pair Of very respectable but
uncomfortable looking oxen and steers were
hitched together just ready for parade when
it was announced that the remainder of the
exhibition would take place on Thursday. o.
D. hhlo tAulDlteu u number OF durham ana
grade cattle, said to be of extra quality
which are noticed as a part of the Tuesday
fair to reward him for driving them sew
en- miles in the rain, which he thinks is
enough for one cattle show. He had FIVE
COWS, bull, and a pair of oxen weighing
$500 lbs
We went into the hall and found there an
excellent show of fruits and vegetables which
were to be left over till the close of the fair
on Thursday. The potatoes, especially, were
extra in size and smoothness, aud large va.
riety, including samples of almost all the
newer kinds, were shown. Samuel b. Wor-
den was a large exhibitor in this line, having
"a varieties also seed corn OF several yarie-
ties. Milton Powers exhibited IS varieties of
potatoes, some large ears of late Canada Cap
seed corn, traces of several other varieties Of
seed corn, six kinds of beans, a specimen Of
timothy seed, turuips, squashes, onions and
cultivated dandelon plants in blossom. @.
F. Griffin had eight varieties of apples a
pumpkin weighing 36 lbs, and another
weighing 81, also good beets, turnips and
carrots BENZ Barber showed O large varie-
ty of seed corn, among which was trace of
a rare kind with long heavy ears, also varie.
ties of apples, peaches pears, ounces and
garden vegetables. number of varieties of
apples were also shown by Willard Wicks,
ohu PSoShon " Aoioui btO"S opPiSsi bihPISt
pears and a basket containing 20 varieties Of
garden vegetables by A. Preston. G. b. Dix
put in two more, making his basket contain
% varieties. ID. E. Tucker exhibited a sam
pie Of white Probestier oats of which We
understood him to say that he raised 81 bush
els per acre.
But little OF the work of the ladies was
displayed in the hall on Tuesday. We no.
ticed, however, some tAstefully arranged cut
flowers contributed by Mrs. Oscar Dix and
house plants by Mrs. Emerson Tucker; also
an oil painting of merit by Mrl. f. H. Thur
Der