The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-10-11

| county, Ia, showed beautifully prepared
strawberries. cherries, pine apples. aud
topped it all OH with rare specimen OF
Mrs. Lou McCauley, Of Elkton, was not
| behind any iii quality of goods shown,
even though her exhibit was not so cx-
tended as others. She leaned rather to
| the useful than the ornamental, and did
commendable work in showing how a
lady can make a tallow candle, or lard.
or even how she could, without soiling
her hands, preserve in the highest style
OF the art Il ounce or pear. Bessie
Bedwell, of Newark, Delaware, showed
a long list, making a handsome display
OF jellies, preserved fruit, canned fruits,
spced fruit, marble cake, and even to
potatoe pie, that great staple of Amer
lean Yankee subsistence. The exhibit OF
Mrs Sarah J. Wetheril, of EIkton, at
tracted particular attention. She only
showed about a dozen specimens of the
art preventative, but what was shown
was notable for its quality; Strawberries,
blackberries, grapes, cherries, gooseber-
rles, and tomatoes formed about the pa
Sis of one OF the best exhibits in this
line. Mrs. III. L. Leslie showed tomato
catsup and canned peaches, both of most
excellent quality. Miss Louise Rudoiph's
blackberry jam, and Miss Annie \ Ru-
dolph grape jam were among the excel
lencies of the show, not counting Mrs.
Tobias Rudolphs tomato catsup, which
was prime indeed. Miss Mamie Tyson
showed two excellent specimens of the
housewives art in apple and grape jelly.
Among the other exhibitors, and their
name is legion, we name the following.
each of whom had exhibits in all classes
closely approaching those above named
i'll excellence. and i'll some eases exceed
ing them: Mrs. Geo w. Boulder, Miss
Mary VI. Boulder, Miss Florence McIu-
tire, Miss Mary Hollingsworth, Miss Su-
sic Bratton, Mrs. Mary Maxwell, OF
Turkey town, who has an admirable dis
play Mrs. F. Z. Pennington, who has
also on exhibition works of her hand
worthy of far more notice than can be
given it here Miss Ella Kirk, Mrs. J. J.
McCauley, and Miss Rachel McCauley. of
Elkton, Miss Florence Tuite, Mrs. John
Rosscll, and Miss May Leslie, of Elkton,
Miss NJ. E. Clark, of Newark, Del, who
showed dozen specimens of skillful
work in fruit preserving Mrs. S. L.
Peterson, Of Cherry Hill, also made a
fine display Miss Annie r. lamar and
Mrs. Amelia Dean, of Elkton, the latter
having quite an extensive display OF
rarely fine articles of the class Miss
Lydia Tyson, of Louisville, Pa, also
made large and excellent show in this
line Mrs. Isaac Tyson and Miss Lizzie
Tyson, of Cherry Hill, both made fire
displays; Miss Birdie Miller, OF Elkton,
almost eQualed the best in quantity and
came fully up to any one in quality of
preserved goods, jellies, etc Mrs. Saml.
IL. Miller also made fine display Mrs.
Cornelius Morris, of Wilmington, Del,
surely overtopped all othors in the ex-
tent of her exhibit. She showed 81
separate packages or glasses of preserves.
jellies, pickles, jams, catsups, and an
endless variety of articles made or con-
cocted in the kitchen, the parlor, OF front
rooms of our forefathers Annie McIn-
tire, Maggie M4Intire MIS-. J. II. Ford
Sallie Jackson, Lille V. Alexander, Mrs
Amy Milbourn, Mrs. Lydia Lockley, of
Elkton, and Mrs. Matte Rogers of Bay
View, made most excellent exhibits. as
also did Mrs. J. T. Clark, Mrs. Ella Ash
ton, Amanda Tyson, Miss Lizzie VI.
Holt, Miss May Holt, Miss Mary II. Nc
Cullough, Miss Annie Pierson, Mrs So
phie II. Aldtidge, Mrs VIM. Dunbar
Mrs. Gertrude Lee, Miss Laura Boulder.
Mrs. Vim. II. Salmon and Miss Jennie
Gilpin, also of f Kton, Mrs. Ellis Alex
ander and Mollie Bye, of Hickory Hill.
and Mrs. Daniel Peirce, of Elkton. also
added largely to the show, the former
having as long a list Of articles on exhib
ition as almost any one else Mrs. Nor
ris Dunbar and Mrs. W. X. Gilpin, of
Elkton, showed some fine articles in this
line, as also did Mrs. Joseph II. McNeal
and Maggie A. Denver. Besides those
named there were hundreds of exhibit
ors, and to name all, ten-fold the space
m y l.
Suffice it to sry that all articles shown
were fully mp to the standard, little or
no inferior goods being on exhibition.
FARM PRODUCTS.
Like all other departments this, under
charge of DR.. A. w. Mitchell, was almost
running over with exhibits. To under
take to tell of ali of them would be a
task requiring more than the force of re-
porters we can muster, and four times
the space we have to devote to it. We
will simply endeavor to give the names
of a portion of the exhibitors with a faint
idea of the articles shown by them.
Foremost among them we noticed
Judging of place by the attention the
exhibit elicitedl T. S. Stephens, Of Cal
vert, who showed wheat and rye flour,
buckwheat, nine varieties of wheat, three
each of rye and timothy, and several
other grains, all of which were highly
creditable: Mrs. Kate Davis, of North
East, showed two fine varieties of apples:
Jesse Taylor, of Cherry Hill, showed
oats, wheat, timothy, onion and other
seed; VIM. Richie, of Cowantown, wheat,
potatoes, onions, bects Chat beat all
beatS); Miss Kate Reese, of Elkton, show
ell superior variety of vinegar; James
L. Clark, Elkton, showed red and fultz
wheat; VIM. T. johnson, Elkton, showed
the biggest of pumpkins and rare seed
corn; VIM. Conoly, Oxford, Pa, took the
ticket for fine peaches, peppers, citron
and large variety of cabbage: VIA. J.
Bracken, j., showed very long list of
apples, also number of different vere-
tables; John Bryscn, North East, was full
ly up to the times with very long list
of grapes, supplemented by com, wheat,
Nc: J. J. McCauley, New Leeds, came
to the front with pears, peaches and
plums in greater variety than was ever
known here before; $. w. Morrison, Ok
ford, Pa, added to the fair two or three
choice varieties of grapes and pears: John