The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-10-09
Berwick Fair.


weather was fine, with the exception Of |
Saturday and even the rain OF that day was
barely more than enough to make the race |
course in n fine condition for the afternoon |
race which was the best OF the season.
Wednesday, the opening day of the fair,
was devoted exclusively to the arrange |
ment of exhibits. An addition having been |
made to the main building, the arrange |
ment of the articles was somewhat chang |
ed from the previous year. We noticed |
the absence of the fine display Of dry |
goods so handsomely arranged by the mer- |
| chants of Berwick year ago.
Thursday morning the parade of stock |
took place. Col. A. ID. Seey. marshall of |
the day, headed the procession, followed |
by teams of horses, men on horseback, and |
leading colts; next came the cattle, Of
which there was large display of fine
stock. We noticed the Jersey stock taking |
the lead in point Of numbers. In the
MAIN EXHIBITION BUILDING
was good display Of articles, among
whom we noted II. NJ. Hockmun, with
display Of choice candies. Miss Ida Spon-
cnberg; fancy needle work consisting of
mats, pillows, lambrequins, &c. Miss Lii
lie Evans, with artistic lambrequins, ,scarfs,
mats, &c. Leslie Berger, painting. needle
work. Mrs. +. r. Jackson, fine painting
and needle work. In the centre of one
side of the building was beautiful oil
painting of Col. A. ID. Seely, as fine and
natural as life. William Hertz the photo
grapher had a good display of his art. A
silk quilt of Mrs. B. f. Crispin was the adj
miration of all. Mrs. Harry Glenn, of Ber-
wick had some ornamental oil painting
upon China cups and saucers. Some ANA
| teurs of between 12 and 10 had exhibits of
lead pencil work, in the form of maps, &c.
w. L. Michael the Berwick dentist had
some of his work on exhibition. The dis
play of dry goods by Freas Bros. was quite
attractive. We should fail in our report If
we omitted to mention the exhibit Of Geo.
Carey-a fine specimen of "Bull dog
about 3 mos. old-Mr Carey should have
good premium for his exhibit. Frank |
Distlehurst of Berwick had some of his
ouio vi anu tncy "CiC pSaueNsj
Berwick people need not 60 out of their
| town to make their selections. Wesley |
| Cooper's display OF robes, harness aud sad |
| dlery attracted the attention Of the farmers |
and drivers. Burt Kurtz exhibited pret- |
| ty canoe with sails, it was a fine piece of |
work Mrs. Peter Suit and Mrs. B. +. |
| Dreisbach had articles OF hair work OF
wreaths, crosses roses, &c. Wilbur Little, |
son Of DR.. Little exhibited a stuffed bald |
| eagle, said to have been shot at Nescopec. |
| Mrs. John Evans had as fine silk patch |
| quilt as anyone could desire. jeremiah |
Walp was the only one having a display of
| honey-it seemed nice and looked filed
we did not get an invitation to taste it.
The display of fruit was excellent, II our
farmers could all raise such fine varieties,
the York State apple would have poor SALE
Among those exhibiting were Charles Hill
of Salem township, apples Samuel Petit,
| Berwick, apples Benjamin Evans, Nesco-
peck, grapes and pears Daniel Martz, Ber-
wick, ounces and apples; Samuel Hauck
of Summerhill, several varieties of peaches
| Peter Suit, Berwick, grapes and apples Il.
B. Fowler, display of fruit; Charles Frantz
had as fine display ofgrapes as you could
find anywhere-the clusters were large and
full.
| G.. A. Baker of Wilkes Barre had a
display of fancy earthenware.
| There were many mammoth pumpkins
and squashss, William Abbott of Espy had
| lor Of rintxt
exhibition. In the centre of the building
in which was stored the pumpkins,
squashes, grain and all kinds af farmers
produce, we found j. Satzer, of Blooms
burg and B. F. Dreisbach of Berwick Why
the association should assign this section
to these men we could not perceive, unless
it was to draw the attention of the ladies
| from the fine needle work to the exhibits
OF potatoes, pumpkins and squashes. The
location, however, did not effect these gen.
tlemen in the least, Mr.. Dreisbach with all
smiles was presenting the merits OF the
New American, Household, and New G.
Howe Sewing Machines. For durability
the New American surpasses everything
it is light running and almost every class
of work can be done with it. He had also
the Estey Organs and the Chickering and
Ivers and Pond pianos. j. Saltzer had
with him Thos, Methcrell and son of
Bloomsourg and Mr.. Spots of Shamokin
who gave some excellent music and soon
drew large crowds of people, Mr.. Saltzer in
his usual pleasing way would then present
| the merits Of the White, Domestic, House
hold and Love sewing machines and the
Estey Organ and Ivers and Pond pianos.
The display OF poultry was very fine
among the exhibitors were Il. b. Fowler
with Wyandotte and G. ii. Gender with
Plymouth Rock, Langshan and others.
There were some very large turkeys, but
we could not ascertain who brought then.
John Rccdy had Lcghorn, Game, Hamburg
and Plymouth Rock chickens.
| Among the cattle we found the large
Durham bull of Frank Evans, % years old
and weighing nearly 300 pounds. DR..
Reagan's stock OF Jersey cattle were fine,
he had cows, bull, young hefers, and
pen of 6 calves. Frank Evans had on
exhibition Durham COW and heifer Dan
iel Hill, an Alderney COW, Henry Walp,
graded bull, VIM. Freas one Durham COW
and heifer and 9 head of young heifers.
Among the registered Jersey stock, Mrs.
Lizzie Jackson had COW, c. II. Zehnder,
heifer, Geo. X. Hess, COW, calf and two
bulls, Morris Rittenhouse and Jos. Sponen-
berger each had one bull, viii Rouch one
cow.
The display of sheep was meagre and
embraced only the Cotswald breed.
The department for hogs was all taken
up, and some of the pens for sheep were
used. Enoch Rittenhouse had the Chester
white. Dr. Reagan had Yorkshires and
Chester white. s, ]. Conner and f, Evans
had the Poland China. Daniel Adams had
the Yorkshire. Dr. Gardner had the Duroc
: Jersey, and good representation of them,
he had one year old weighing over $50
, pounds, SOW and ~ pigs, one boar and a
, number of shoates, in all twenty.three
| In haI nf fat