Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-10-08
HALLFAX FALR.

tant part in the Bocietys history, and IL has
become standing joke that the only thing
needful to wreck a dry SPELL even Of long
standing, is to hold a cattle show at West
Halifax, and the thing is done. Yet, with
true New England hsrdihood this has made
no difference with our farmers, for they rally
| to the meetings each year just as enthusiast
cally RI ever seemingly determined to make
the next exhibition the best OF all, bad wealth.
er TO the contrary notwithstanding but last
Wednesday was an exception, a red.letter
day, day Of thousand, warm and pleasant,
and the society had the best show and the
biggest crowd in its history. ellison, the
! Chesterfield ,auctioneer, was on hand az usual
! but his rubber coats did not sell az well as in
days gone by. There was but one string Of
oxen from the east part There were about
| 30 yoke of oxen on the grounds Geo. H.
| Phillips of Oolerane Mass, had two pairs Of
2.year- olds, weighing respectively 2O3O and
| 1920 lbs. Addison Eames and Elliot b.
Green, each pair Of the same weight, 2O7O.
| or 3 year.olds W. w. Stowe had a pair,
weight, 2S70; aud O. o. Thurber pair, 1850;
| o. L. Stacy, 27G0 l.. l.. Brigham, $3.50 Is.
rael Hall showed pair of two years old
steers that weighed 27SO. They were trained
to follow the motion of the whip like soldiers
at drill, and were fine looking steers We
understand that they we're sold during the
! day, but we we're unable TO learn the price.
! We don't believe they can be beat in the
| county. We noticed a bull exhibited by o l.
Haven-a splendid fellow, looking like pic
ture. He was dark cherry, ? years old and
weighed 1860 He was raised by j. M. Bas
sett of Wilmington, and is western Durham.
There were over 40 entries of horses, in
! the various classes aud it was called the best
horse show ever held in this section. II Q.
Wilcox OF Jacksonville exhibited his bay stal-
lion British jack. He ia six years old,
weighs 1900 pounds, aud stands 10 hands
! high. Mr.. Wilcox purchased him in Montreal
in 1884. lie is rapidly becoming ~ noted az
the famous Mcclellan stallion OF COleraine,
Mass Several colts of his were exhibited,
and attracted considerable attention. Among
them we're drove of six owned by Mr.. Will
cox himself These all show a great resem-
banoe to the sire. BILLY Grandee," owned
by A. W. Rice OF Wilmington, years old,
weight $50, WAS also shown. Q. +. Griffin
had years old colt by the Ned horse, that
was a beauty and attracted much attention.
He was a roam and weighed 2GO lbs. Luther
Adams showed nice brood mare with two of
her colts sired by British Jack" one weigh
ing $40, the other 1856 pounds l.. II. Bal
lou showed brood mare and three of her
colts sired by "NIctor Hambletonan." One,
, years old, weighed 9GG; yearling W, ghed
| $50 and the youngest 422 all very fine, and
brood mare and two of her colts, by Victor
Ham bletonian." One, one year and . months,
weight $50; the sucker weighed 39S. Horace
Stowe had two years old colt by Victor
Hdmbletonian, weight 1866. Milton Powers
also showed one OF ViCtor's colts, two years
old, weight S2S F. II. Niles exhibited n two
years old, by the Nedd horse, weight, 1912 ;
Joseph Clark showed a two years old colt, by
the Nedd horse, weight $40. Several other
a. A. -. 4 IL.
bers OF the Vermont Horse association good
to look over. There WAS but one entry of
swine-a SOW aud pigs by NJ Powers. Sew
eral pens of sheep we're exhibited. There
we're seven cOops OF poultry among them a
coop of bantams by BERTHE BeaTnard, coop
Of Wyandottes by A. A. Hill and a coop Of
Plymouth rock chickens by q. A. Allen of
Nottingham. The children kept watch of a
box of white rats, owned by Harry Cain of
jacksonville. FlagR, the soap man, sung his
funny songs, and the long haired Indian med
icine man performed wonderful cures The
Jacksonville cornet band furnished music.
The speech was by Col. A. b. Franklin OF
Newfane, Master of the state grange Patrons
of Husbandry, who gave a plain home talk
on farming.
In the hall we noticed a decided change
from former years, as the show of farmers
necessities was much larger. The North
River creamery of Jacksonville had an eXhib-
it of butter in balls tAstefully marked with the
association stamp; also an exhibit of ball but
ter by Mrs. NJ. Wicks. There were several
entries of brown and wheat bread, cake, etc.
by Mrs. Willard Wicks. The show of canned
fruit was very nice. Seven varieties were
shown by Mrs NJ. Wicks, and several by
Mrs. Horace Stowe and Mrs Alison Crosier
We were pleased TO see that yarn aud knitted
goods were by no means forgotten. Mrs
Alvin johnson, of Marlboro, exhibited sever
al coors OF yarn in the skein; Mrs. Horace
Fowler some mems stockings; Mrs. l. wi,
Collins, mems stockings and mittens.
Rentleman's scarf, made from fine merinC
wool spun, colored aud knit by Mrs. JohI
Perry, looked equal to the articles made from
worsted and the Germantown woods; also
boys scarf knit by Horace d. Niles, littl,
boy eight years old. We also noticed WOW
en- bed spread by Mrs. j. p. Fish. 1t Wa
Just the pattern, and looked like the spread
our graudmothers used to weave in year
agone. There we're also several pieces Of raj
carpetng by Mrs. Orvlle Crosier. We saw
some bed quilt blocks pieced by Preston
Stowe, little boy seven years old. Mrs
William Niles is the fortunate possessor Of
flax spinning wheel hstchel, cards, etc, com
plete, which she exhibited with fax in all tn
various stages of manufacture. This was
great novelty to the majority Of those present
A bottle, containing cross, ladder and sew
l eral other wooden articles, was shown by Mis-
Nettie Whitney. We noticed a show cas-
shown by Barnard wilkins Of Guilford, tina
was a regular "multum in parvo" 1t con
Z tanned about thousand articles of interest
among them fish, stuffed birds, geologicf
specimens, ancient earthen ware, dried fruit
shells, etc Among the flowers, of whic
, there was nice exhibit, was an odd lookin
p snake cactus by Mrs. Emery Whitney; tw
varieties of foliage plants. by Mrs. f. H
Niles; basket of cut flowers, pansies, b
Mrs. A. l.. Thurber, looking as fresh as
Just gathered. We saw fine large oil pain
) ing by Miss Lila DeWolfe; a painted Ian
u brequin by Mrs. l.. II. Ballou; a pretty eros
of gray moss by Miss Alice NJ. Thurber;
{. brush-broom holder by Miss Clara L. Stacy
n a macrame tidy by Mrs. f. II. Niles; an
o crocheted lace by Mrs. d. E. Tucker. A tast,
a full piece of work was brush-broom holde
and match case by Miss Lena Donelson,
@ Coleraine, Mass; also button hook hold,
by Mrs. W. @. Niles We saw an India
h bead portemonnAie by Mrs. l.. j. Brown
"a splendid piece OF work Mrs. f S. Allen,
Nottingham, contributed a sofa pillow
+, silk made by Mrs. Sally Pollard, ss yea
a od-a nice thing. We neglected at the pro-
u or time to speak about Mrs. Luther Adam
! cheeses, which certainly looked good enoug
10 cat. warren Hbbbtuueu Vi GullIOTu Ill
Warren Niles exhibited some nice maple sy
If up. There were also two samples of tu
l. sugar by Geo. ii. Phillips of Coleraine al
IS Warren Fesserden of Guilford, that locke
almost as white as the graduated article. Gre
n p. Worden showed several samples OF hone
We saw a luscious plate of tomatoes by NJ
, lard Wcks; fifteen exhibits of corn, by G.
:, Barber. d. E. Tucker, w. F. Mixer OF Bra
teboro, f. o. Preston, ID. s. WOrden, al
Milton Powers; some cabbages by Geo.
l. Clark and Ira LarTabee; squashes by f.
Hill, Alcandar Preston, Berthe Learnard, al
10 Willard Wcks; some yellow globe beets
Ira LarTabee that were quite curiosites.
p noticed some of the old fashioned oow-ho
potatoes which were lovingly looked at Al
handled by the "old residents" aud exhibit
by f. o. Hill; apples, pears and quinc
ia were shown by Geo Barber. Warren Ft
sender exhibited the Climax pulverizing hG
a row, Cooley dreamer, and Vermont Farm NJ
y, chine Cos. evaporation. The Acme sewil
n machine was shown by A. L. Dunklee.
- @. p. Gibson, the auctioneer, generous
T offered some prizes for a foot race, viii
- was quickly arranged aud participated in
Melvin Dalrymple, Norton Thurber, Arth
uS Stone, John Harris, Will May, John Robei
of Jacksonville, Riley e. Boyd of Wilmir
VS. ton, Frank Ward of Guilford, and Carl Ike
of Coleraine, Mass John Roberts came
IN first winning cabinet album; Riley 30
be second, getting six-baded knife; Carl X
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