The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-10-30
GUILFORD GRANaEI.s
Hold their 2hd Annual Fair With Success
full Results.

full Results.
The 2nd annual fair OF the Good Patrons o
GuilfOrd, was held Saturday. The day wa
one of the finest, the attendance large, and thu
exhibits were many and of various kind @
farm products; while the ladies departm mi
was not behind as the display In fancy, house
hold, and ancient articles, was thought by
some to equal our county fair. No premium
were awarded, but below we give some Of thu
articles that were exhibited. The display o.
fruit was not as large as last year. Garden
vegetable were in abundance. Corn and pump
kns filled a goody space IN the hall. Severa
fine strings OF corn were shown of different va
rieties. Frank Lynde had one pumpkin tina
weighed 46 lbs l. E Jaqueth one u inches In
length; Warren Fessenden a Hubbard squash
weighing 80 lbs also crooked neck squash thai
would be hard to beat. He also exhibited the
| Cooley Dreamer, junior style, and tho Phila-
| delphia butter worker for which he is agent
w w Barney who Is agent for the Carver but.
ter worker had one on exhibition. Fine speci-
mems of Imperial wheat and Russian oats were
shown by Francis Lynde, while Thayer and
OF Style had samples Of wheat. A large
gourd raised by Samuel Bixby was exhibited
| by A W Putnam while several kinds of useful
and ornamental gourds, were shown by Miss
| Ina Howe, 2 samples OF butter were shown by
Mrs M L Barney and Mrs M E Sibley, while
Mrs 0 Thayer brought a cheese that many
| thought would be excellent to the taste. The
following articles were exhibited. Apples, w
w Barney, F Il Wood, A G Yeaws ] L Bull
lock, I N Lynde, L II King, H N Jacobs.
Pears, ounces and grapes, w w Barney.
Mrs NJ II Bullock had ancient books, shell
hair combs with high top, cost when new $l2,
linen embroidered table cover over 100 years
old, also an old bedquilt; Mrs Gilbert Morse
had cattle's horns cleaned and polished; Mrs
L Jaqueth, pewter platters, mug and tnm-
bier, Williams History Of Vermont, 1875,
mi DrapnptOr 1918 fnOt i /, Rul
lock and + 4 Ihayer, pumpkins; Marcus
Worden, sweet pumpkins; Bracket,
negro and sweet pumpkins; 1 N Lynde, negro !;
Frank Howe and Herbert Jacobs, squashes
F Ward, ] L Bullock, Yeaw, pine apple
squash; turnips, sweet German, w Sergeant;
white egg, F w Bracket and l. Sbley; ruta-
bagas, C P Wood and E Ward. large
basketful OF fiat turnips were shown. the ex-
hibitors being unknown. Carrots, butter, o ]
Hale, Orange, o Thayer; onions, Thayer
and N Lynde; cabbages, red, Dutch and
drum head, G W Sergeant; drum head. l. E
Jaqueth and 0 Hale; white spine cucumbors,
w Sergeant; potatoes, Yeaw, varle-
ties; W w Barney, H w Jacobs, S L Sibley,
N Lynde, J l. Bullock, beans; Frank Howe
25 varieties BENZ Dyer and F II King, several
varieties. Different kinds were shown by Q
Thayer, 7 N Lynde, J L Bullock and F D
Ward. A large pod OF Florida bean by c
Adams. Canned fruit, Flemish Beauty pear,
ington plums, CANNED in 1872, Mrs I N Lynde.
Exhibitors of corn. L Jaqueth, Austin Akey,
F E Ward, + E Thayer, + N Bracket, W
Sergeant, Henry Jacobs, G Barton, fhayer,
Frank Lynde, I N Lynde, OF Hale, W IL
Jacobs. Maple syrup, Warren Fessender,
Herbert Jacobs, l. Jaqueth; sugar and sy,
rup, & Thayer; cranberres, Bullock, f
L Ward; turnip beets, A G Yeaw, L Jaqueth,
+ L Ward, mangel wortzel, l. Bullock,
Mrs Kate Lynde ancient money, bodkin 80
years old, home knit hose 80 years old Mrs
Margaret Hill, pitcher Is years old, tea pot,
cups and saucers; Mrs f Ward, platter with
shells, decaDter and glass mug; Francis Lynde
Alex Murrays arithmetic, most OF it written
instead of printed, 1857, copper ore containing
quartz just as it was dug from the mine; Ihos
N Lvnde, flax wheel, cards and hatchels; A w
Putnam, teapot; Aurelia d Taft, wooden shoes,
rair of bellows; Fred M Taft tiny horse shoe;
John L Wood, tish's sword; Sam Akely, bel
lows Al years old Sibl.y, portion OF sug-
ar cane grown in 1850 on the battlefield where
Jackson fought the British in 1872; Mrs o
Thayer, dress flannel made by Mrs Sophia
Snow, linen made by Mrs g Allen, table,
cloth spun and woven by Mrs Susannah Allen,
nearly 100 years ago. bedqullt pieced by Mrs
Sarah G Sheldon, 80 years old and Mrs Thrza
Thayer in her s6th year; Samuel Bixby
spear, bayonet and cartridge holder; W W,
Barney, turnkey, captains commission to John
Barney Esq, from his Excelency William
Tryon Esq IVA; MRS Gilbert Yeaw, an old time
vandyke; Mrs G P Wood, address to the MEM
bers OF the Washington Benevolent society, de-
livered at New Fame June II, 1872, by Samuel
Elliot Esq. copy of the Washington news pa
per published at Windsor December 10, 1914,
pebbles from York Beach, Ne, tablecloth made
by the late Mrs Eunice Wood of Putney in
1924, never used TIL 1884. She helped pull the
fax, hatchelled, carded, spun and wove enough
for ten tableclOths beside some towels; Mrs
Barnard Lypde sent h handsome reel that was
her grandmother, having been made by
young man and given to her II she would ASK
a girl If his company would be acceptaoie'
vor in 1854; Mrs Marcus Worden, crockery
l25 years old Mrs Thayer crockery W
years old.
FANCY ARTICLES.
Sunfower tidy, painted tidy, table scarf,
painted, plates pond lilies and daisies, EN-
broidered lambrequins, Mrs John Thayer; en-
brodered cushion, towel rack, tidy, 2 embroid-
cred chair seats, Mrs c A King; panel, hand
painted pond lilies, hand painted splasher wood
the rmometer case, painted, embroidered Japan
ese block, Florida scar fan toilet mats, sofa pill
low, Lula Adams work bag, apple seeds, Mrs
John Wood; child's crochet collar and cuffs,
painting. autumn leaves, daisies and wheat,
painting, tides, embroidered, Mrs N Brack.
EFT smell pOrtmOnnale, Lcslle Auatho, speo'
Gle case from Florida, W w Barney; embroid-
cred toilet cushion, Mrs Mary Jacobs; en-
broidered toilet cushion, sofa pillow, table mats,
log cabin bedquit, Mrs l. Bullock tidy, pond
lilies painted, knit rug, Mrs A w Putnam;
oleander blossoms, handpainted, Lucy Ciisbee;
toilet cushions, embroidered afghan, embrod-
cred lambrequins, two quilts, tucked chemise,
Mrs r King; knit BAG, Mrs Dyer; four
bedauilts, Mrs Truman Yeaw Is years of see;
basket quilt, log cabin, stocking bag toilet
cushion, crochet tidy, Mrs Samuel Ward; jap
asese quilt, lambrequin, bedquilt, Mrs Austin
Akely; sample,of lace, cardbord work, Aurelia
Taft; cut flowers, Mrs II Richmond; cut
flowers, pot flowers, Mrs Sibley; knitting work
holder little boots, Lottie King; crochet afghan,
scarf. hood, bedquilt, crochet bedspread, Mrs g
Moore; bedquilt charm, Lula Adams; crys-
tai photograph, Mrs Jane Houghton; painting,
Alice Barney painting, Lucy Barney; speci-
mems of pencil drawing, Grace Lynde.