Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-07-26

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with the money that belongs to the
simple and unwary. All these class
es attend the fair, and it is impossi-
bic for the managers and the officers
OF the law to keep the grounds as
free from evil things as is desirable.
We are not trying to uphold the
managers of fairs in anything wrong,
and wish they might make them as
pure as church service, if it were pos
sible.
But to take this matter home, and
talk about the coming fair in this
county, which everybody wishes to
be successful in the best sense, let us
offer a few suggestions, worth little
or much as they may be. Let the
Agricultural Society insist on liberal
premiums for all classes of stock, for
all products of the soil, for the dairy,
the sugar orchard and the home man.
ufactoly. Let them remember that
the ladies' department, which con
tains many articles on which great
labor, skill and talent are spent,
deserves much larger cash recog
milton than it is wont to receive. Let
the society remember that the third
day is devoted to racing and that the
comparatively large amount of mon
ey expended on the "green race"
the ''county purse, ETC., etc., is a
waste. This money ought to be used
to increase premiums in other drec-
tons. Let there be greater care in
regard to committee men. We be-
lieve the committee on all kinds of
stock ought to come from without the
county, so far away as to he beyond
personal bias, and SO respectable as
to be above purchase. The hasty
picking up of a committee on the
ground is fruitful of much injustice
and many reasonable complaints.
Every animal should stand on his own
merits and importantly or greenbacks
dropped in the pocket, should have
nothing to do with awards. The ag-
ricultural society should be wise,
generous, and mindful of the inter
ests of the county.
The managers, we doubt not, are
willing to do anything that shall seem
best for the good of the fair. In keep
ing with a purpose made last year,
we think that all the cider, ale, beer,
rOtgut and other stuff that has here
tofore gone on to the grounds in bot
ties, casks, etc., should be kept of
entirely. Then if man is drunk, he
cannot lay it to the "sweet" cider.
Every wheel, box, chance game, OF
other thing calculated to inveigle
away money should be shut out,
with all that class of sharpers which
make the grounds hideous with noise
and do no good. The best police
regulations should be maintained. II
we are allowed a word to the public,
we should say: Try to make the fail
worthy the county. Take
everything to it that you have that is
meritorious, and be prepared, after
all, to be just as we'll satisfied with,
out as with premiums. Try to get
your neighbors out, and be willing tC
pay for family ticket, which shall
include only your oaon family. He'll
to make the fair creditable by YOU
own efforts. The women should re,
member that ''free" ticket for arti
cles merltorious for their department
is worth something, and that the,
can contribute greatly to the useful
ness and pleasure of the fair b,
helping in these departments. Let NJ
lady show herself mean or stingy BY
bringing some insignificant, WORTHLESS
article to cheek herself through on
Such persons oftentimes carry thei
tickets home and let somebody els
cheat themselves in on it the mex
day. If we had not been in the Sec
retary's office heretofore, we woulc
not expect that these things could b
done, but they have been. Do no
come to the fair unless you can b
honest. If there are any partie
anywhere who hope to sell liquor, sc
drunk, fight, or disgrace themselva
it might be we'll TO remember thu
they are very liable to have bushes
} in the ''police" court before they g
away from town.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.
WdshinqtOn, July 10Th.