The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-22
BUXTON AND HOLLIS FAIR.
Fair Weather and Fun for the Festive
Farmers.
A Fine Exhibit of Horses and Cattle,

| the Buxton and Hollis falr AsSoclabiOh ~
Buxton Lower Corner. was all bustle
Tuesday morning at the opening OF the
eleventh fair Of the society.
| The Buxton and Hollis fair covers the
towns Of Buxton, Hollis, Marlborough
and Dayton Besides always getting up
| superior exhibition, the managers have al
ways been blessed with big crowd, thls
fair being noted in this respect. The orheerS
of the society are as follows;
PRESIDENT. NJ. Harper.
Wise President-Martln " jose.
Secretary-Ira w. Mniken -. Eauovs
Directors-Geo II. Libby, John A. rsnoW5S'
Gilbert Hasty, Aaron W. Hiiiii"SA'
Hayes, Ralf Kay.
The programme is as follows:
FIRST DAY-Opening of hall at noon
Exhibition Of neat stock. horses &c; ,.,, Vua.ar
Town team-Buxton in comRetlIoh WIN Watei-
SECOND DAY-Draft oxen-hOrse trot for horses
race for stallion colts belonging in York County.
The following have been entered: Judge Hollis
ter, Hemlock, Pilot B., Hero, Blue john Almoat
Lambert, Southwick colt.
500. - ~
AMONG THE STOCK.
The display in this line was excellent-a
large number of fine oxen were shown-Mr.
VIM. Seribner was present with ihis fat pa
girth it., weight 400.
A very fine yoke of perfectly matched OK
en- from Hon. Mark P. Emery's Maplewood
Farm were being shown up by Mr.. Gnstin,
the manager of the farm. They are finely
trained, five years old, measuring IT. A.
Moses Burnham and son brought four
yoke of matched Herefords, one yoke OF
year old, two yoke year old, and yoke of
well trained calves. One pair Of the year
lings are model of beauty, measuring IT.
A. and weighing 2316 pounds.
Mr.. E. Abbott also showed six very fine
Hereford steers.
C. E. Warren showed fine pair Of Dur
ham calves.
Ralf Kay of Dayton, showed his fine but
ter herd consisting Of 10 fine animals.
Charles II. Hill of Buxton, showed
Gurnsey cow of enormous milk producing
capacity.
Mr.. Silas Elder, showed a herd Of fine
Jersey COWS, and bouncing bull calf. eight
months old, measuring feet, inches.
Seth Meserye had Grade Durham
cow.
c. b. Huston, good Jerseys.
The two most valuable animals among the
neat ,tock were from Pine Park Farm,
Groveville, owned by Mr.. Wm. c. Webster.
They were Baltimore, two year old Jersey,
registered No. IL, 467, A. j. c.. and Nyerts-
ball. No. Alb of the Holstien- Friesian, Herd
book.
Mr.. Webster is the'owner of IS head OF
Holstiens, nine of which are at Pine Park
Farm and the others in quarantine and with
the importers Wertsball is good speei-
men Of this noble breed. He was dropped
Feb, "a. 1886. and weighs $40 pounds. His
sire, Keyes 9th. is the finest Holstein ever in
America and his dam :has record of 95
pounds of milk day. Fine Jerseys are al
so bred at Pine Park, the bull Baltimore bo-
ing as fine Jersey as New England can
produce, and of great pedigree.
Mr.. Frank MeKenney, had on exhibition
his Holstien bull, Prince of Monroe. The
Prince is a magnificent fellow, three years
old. His number is 1880 in the Holstien
Breeders Association.
HORSES.
Some good horse flesh was shown, at the
head of the list must be placed Prince Roy
al, owned by Mr.. Webster Pine Park Farm.
Prince Royal is a thoroughbred Norman
stallion, six years old, weighing 1850 pounds.
of rich seal brown, nearly black and very
beautiful His sire was Romeo, imported
by the Dupage Co., ILL.,, Agricultural Society,
his dam noted Norman prize winner.
Another noble horse was the two year old
stallion King George, owned by Walter
Fickett of Stroudwater Sire, George Dex-
ter, out of thoroughbred Clydesdale mare.
He weighs 1860 and wears the first premium
ribband of the New England Fair of 1886.
Fred N. Smith had fine HambletoniaR
yearling and brood mare and colt
s. G. Hight, Hambletonian mare and colt,
and pretty A year old Hambletonian stall
lion.
Josiah Hill, ,ltwol6ne colts.
J. B. Tarbox, good yearling colt.
Hon. Mark P. Emery showed splendid
driving horse.
IN THE HALL
The hall,was very tastily arranged by the
efficient committee, Joseph III. Murphy, AL
mira C. Eden. Mrs. Laura E. Cousins. and
Miss Alice E. Hayes. The exhibits do net
bear the names of the exhibitors. but arc en-
tered by numbers. This gives more impair
tial award Of premiums, but makes it rather
less interesting to tho ladies, as they like to
know whose taste and skill produces the
pretty things. The reporter managed to
discover the owners of some of the fine ex-
hibits in spite of secresy. Some. beautiful
silk crazy work was shown. Miss Carrie K.
CARL of Buxton, Miss Mary Owen, Buxton,
Mrs. James Hanson, Biddeford, and Miss
Nellie L. Hearn, Saco, had beautiful quilts.
A nice patchwork quilt was the work Of
Mrs Benjamin Harmon, aged 80 years. Mrs.
S. c. bennett showed fine sofa pillow; also
Mrs. C. C, Hersey. A beautiful embroider-
4ka ~
L. Usher. DIR. F. A. Southwick made
splendid exhibit of hammered brass. Mrs.
Woodbury. of Kansas City, Mo-, also
brought an artistic piece Of this work.
Beautiful silk crazy work was shown by
Mrs. Joshua Dyer, a lady of "a. Mrs. A. j.
Edgecomb had an exquisite table scarf.
A. B. Leavey of Saco,w on hand as usu-
al with the Estey pianos and organs, Briggs
crown piano chair and the Domestic and
Standard sewing machines, with the SAM
pies of the pretty work done on them, and the
pretty girls who do it.
Charles H. Towle of Bar Mills showed
case Of jewelry.
CIV. Costellow Of South marlborough.
displayed bees, hives, apiarian supplies and
honey Mr. Costellow is large manufacture
er of simplicity hives and dealer in bees and
honey. He displayed five kinds Of extracted
honey, white color, raspberry, apple-blos-
som, buckwheat and golden rod. Each kind
being of different color and flavor.
F. NJ Cove of Biddeford exhibited hlll
line of boots and shoes.
On Wednesday evening concert will be
given in Sanderson's Hall under the manage
ment of Mr.. Arthur Towle.
On Thursday evening Mr.. Frank Harmon
advertises dance at Sandersons
NOTES.
In town teams Buxton, as usual, competed
with Hollis, Marlborough and DAYTON.
Buxton had string of % yoke and the com
bined towns 30.
The poultry show was light. F. J. Leayitt
showed coops of Wyandottes, white crested
Polish and brown Leghorn. John Milliken,
white Leghorns
Items from Sanford.