The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-10-15
BENTON FAIR.

penses in full, but will be enabled TO pay
its stockholders dividend. They should |
feel proud Of this. For the first time In its |
history IL was favored with desirable |
weather during the entire time Of meet
ing. We saw decided improvements in the
Fair of this year over previous years and
with railroad to Benton, their future
meetings will compare favorably with 9TH
er Fairs in the State. The exhibits were
larger and some OF them better than for
merly. The display of agricultural pro-
ducts depends upon the condition Of the
crops. This was very unfavorable year
for some of the crops in the northern part
of the county. The apple crop, which sell
dom fails there, is an inferior crop this
year and the display of apples at the Fair
showed IL. The display of potatoes was
very small and so was the crop. ,Squashes,
beets, rCiabagas, carrots, onions, tomatoes,
were as large and fine as at any Fair. The
ears of corn, the specimens of wheat, rye,
oats, buokwheat barley, could not be ex-
celled A full line OF mill products was
exhibited by G.. W. Cole, of Rhorsburg.
The honey crop was never larger than this
year and such large displays were never
before seen at Fair in the county. The
| largest exhibitors were Daniel Fritz and
Josiah Coleman. The praises of the wo-
men in the northern part Of the county
| have been so often sounded that ii Is only
necessary to say that their display did
| bo, Ia ,I
pies cannot be excelled. The pies alone
occupied as much space as all other baked
goods There was scores of them. The
wines, preserves, jelles, spiccd, picked
and canned fruits were almost too tempt
ing to resist. Here where you never hear
the expression, 'good butter" for all but
ter is good, the most beautiful rolls were
shown.
| The funcy work compared very favor
able with that seen at larger Fairs. In
quilts and cushions the crazy patch pre-
vailed. Specimens of embroidery and
handsome lace were numerous. Fine
work on ladies undergarments showed how
skillful the ladies in that part of the
county arc with the needle. The work in
wool, hair and artificial flowers were very
fine The display of millinery goods, hats
and bonnets trimmed in ibbons and feath-
ers and birds, was very creditabe.
The exhibition of live stock was an i'm
provemcnt over last year. The Holstein
bull of John j. Harms attracted good bit
of attention on account OF his immense
size. He weighs 2040 pounds. There
were a number of Alderney and Shorthorn
cattle; besides Devons, Guernseys and ma
tive stock The horse show was very fine.
The handsomest horses, mares, colts and
driving horses were to be found among the
exhibit. The farmers are selecting
the males with greater care and
the colts show off better Sheep
and swine were not very numerous
and they did not show much care in
breeding. The poultry display was the
smallest of all. All the fancy b. eeds
were, however, represented.
Benton is too far from the railroad to
have large display of agricultural imple-
ments. There was only one moving ma
chine, the Champion, one broancast seeder,
one feed cutter, splitter and crusher.
There was a goodly number of wagons
exhibited. The Appleman Bros, of Ben
ton, had several of their celebrated farm
wagons, platform spring wagon, with a
greatly improved platform, and several
skeleton wagons. John Ewes had two of
his well known Millville farm wagons. j.
X. Rice had fine skeleton wagon and A.
A. Hopp and w. B. Snodgrass, both of
Miffiinburg, had each several very hand
some buggies.
Keller Bros. had full line of Danville
stoves, great variety of tinware, num-
Der of very pretty library lamps and the
Western Washer
II Hulme represented the Vermont
Farm Machine Co., with churas, butter
workers, and butter printers
jerry Saltzer had number of very fine
Miller organs, two celebrated Estey organs,
White, Domestic, Davis Vertical f, ed and
Royal st John Rotary Sewing Machines.
The last named is pronounced the best re-
tary machine IN the world. Jerry's stall
was crowded all the time, listening to the
excellent mdsic, rendered by Richard Meth
erell and B. F. Spots assisted by Charles
McI1enry.
s. D. Neyhard exhibited the New Wheel
er No. and a great variety of tinsel work
writing and embroiderlng done on this ma
chine. This stall was surrounded by
crowds watching this machine turn out
work.
There were more shows and fakirs at
this than at any previous meeting of the
Benton association. There were four
tents. In the one was exhibited the tall
Congo Indian, pair of pythons, a Punch
& Judy show and man swallowing an 1S.
inch sword Another has the largest hog
on earth; another the 8 legged calf and
the fourth is variety show consisting OF
songs, dances, farces &c.
The races were unusually interesting
The horses were more evenly matched and
the races better contested than at any pre-
|. vious fair.
The races were unusually interesting.
The horses were m ore evenly matched and
the races better contested than at any
previous fair. We give them as follows
COLT RACE.
o. II. Henrie, Orangeville, DAISY" 1st.
r. Il. Smith, Benton, Flora" I'd.
+. 5. Smith, Benton, "Chas. s" Sd.
Time, 3;20.
FARMERS TRoT.
William w, Black "Boy Prince" lst
f. S. Smith, "Chas So
Martin Coleman, "Chas c" I'd.
o. IL. Henrie, "Flora" 3rd
Time, 240 2:5l4, 2;59l,
DISTRICT TRoT.
Alfred Hess, "Brown Dan" lst.
William w. Black "Boy Prince" 2d.
Clint Lewis "Pet l." 3rd
Time, 2;444, 2:4st, 2;4st.
"Pet l." made best Time on first heat 2:44g
235 TRoT.
W, II. Hughes "Robert c" 1st.
J. II. Braine "Dan L" end
: Saml. Prentiss, "Annie Ginglesn 3rd.
Best time 1886.
OPEN TO ALL.
F. X. Jackson, Berwick, "Joe Emmett" 1st