The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-30
The County Fair.

Taken altogether, the show was superior
| to anything that has been on the grounds for
many years, although some departments were
hardly up to the average.
| HORSES.
| The reputation of our county for raising
| fine horses was fully sustained by the exhibit
in this department. 1t is doubtful if there
is a county in Michigan that can excel ours
in fine horses. Various varieties of
choice stock were shown. Normans, Clydes-
dales, Wilkes. Cleveland Bays, Morgans, etc,
etc. The show of young colts was the finest
ever got together i'll the county.
CATTLE.
The display in this department was rather
meager. Quite number of fine Jersey cat
tie were exhibited and some half dozen short
| horns and one or two Holsteins. This COM
pleted the cattle exhibit. which was much
inferior, in point of numbers TO many former
exhibitions.
SWINE
The exhibit of swine was not large in
numbers but excellent in quality. Berkshires
and Poland Chinas We're the only varieties
shown. w. IL Wilson. proprietor of the
Maple Grove herd, was the principal exhib-
| itor
SHEEP.
The show of sheep was very good, an inn
provement, as We remember it. on the exhibit
of last year. One noticeable feature in this
department was the marked increase of
coarse wooded sheep, although there was a
fine exhibit of fine wooded animals.
POULTRY.
The number of entries in the poultry
department was quite large, but there were
I..,. G.. L.. 81,
hibitors were Walter Durkee, G. p. Rawsop,
Buell. Bonfoey and Thomas Crane of Paw
Paw. and Mr.. Rawson of Bangor. The birds
were judged by the American standard and
many of them ruled out entirely. Some of
the finest specimens were shown by Mr..
Durkee, who is taking great pains to improve
his birds by breeding from the best speci-
mems he can obtain.
FLORAL HALL.
The exhibit in Floral Hall was an elegant
one and attracted much attention. 1t has,
probably, never been excelled in the history
of the society. The first thing liable TO
attract the visitors attention on entering the
hail. was the collection of ancient relics,
under the charge of Mrs. Daniel Morrison
and Mrs. Charley Wildey of the East and
| West Farmers clubs. The collection was
altogether too numerous TO mention in
detail. Some of the more noticeable articles
were a couple of oil paintings 200 years DID,
one of them being portrait of Mrs. Wildey's
great-great grandmother, together with q
| portion of that ancient lady's wardrobe:
mirror belonging to Mrs. j. Van Kirk dating
back 800 years: collection of ancient books,
among which were a treatise on medicine
published 232 years since, a historical work
20t years old, work called 1.-The Political
State" published in 1922, all belonging TO
Mr.. j. Bale an old religious work belonging
to Mrs. j. White, 229 years old, and couple
of volumes entitled The Sacred Theory of
the Earth published 1S4 years ago. the
property of o. w. Rowland. Mrs. White
also contributed large number of other
articles, among which were sword formerly
owned by British officer, and pipe of
peace, both of which were presented to Mr..
White by Mazomanu, an Indian chief. Mrs.
Jennie Butler contributed a coffee mill made
of hgnum Vita, on which has rested the dust
of two centuries. The collection of ancient
crockery ware and cooking utensils was large
and fine. Some of the principal contributors
to this department were Mrs. Chas. Butler,
Mrs. Cole, Mrs. O'dell and Mrs. II. Sutton.
An old pair of saddle bags advertised them
selves as having been carried in the war of
the revolution by Thomas Averil, great
grandfather of l. B. Connor. "What kind of
cooking utensil is that" was the frequent
inquiry elected by ali ancient warming pan.
Mrs. A. Sherman exhibited silver wine
! tankard, dating back two centuries.
We have mentioned but a few of the many
articles contained in this department, but
/ lack of space forbids further enumeration.
Adjoining the above mentioned exhibit
was the vegetable and fruit department,
which was filled as il has seldom, if ever,
been filled before. First came the individual
collection of L. a. Sprague, which was
not excelled by any other exhibit in the
hall, although it was followed by magnificent
collections exhibited by Lawrence Grange,
Paw Paw Grange and Waverly Grange, re-
spectively. 4 barrel squash weighing 1863
pounds was shown among Mr.. Sprague's
vegetables.
Miss Lydia Waite exhibited a fine
display of cut flowers. among which was
a floral tea-set and novel design entitled
Coates Affair."" which showed fine taste and
much skill. Miss Waite also exhibited some
fine portraits, oil paintings. her own handi-
work, which would do credit to a much more
experienced artist.
The east side of the hall was filled with
bedspreads rugs, carpets, paintings etc, etc,
ladies especially. We cannot enter into an
extended description of it, as we could not
even name many of the articles there exhib.
tied.
Mr.. Bonfoey exhibited an elegant lot of
honey, both extracted and in the comb. The
individual exhibits of fruits, both fresh and
canned, of vegetables and of grains, some of
which we're in Floral Hall and some ia the
new building, were numerous and fine.
Henley, 1.-The artist tailor" occupied quite
a space with fine exhibit of his goods: G..
w. Longwell made handsome display of
crockery and glassware and Jay Cummings as
usual, filled up his department with q beauti-
full show of dry goods, cloaks, ETC., hastily
arranged. Taken altogether, the Floral Hall
display was a matter of just pride to those
who had furnished, prepared and arranged
il. The decorations, which were very tasty,
were the work of the ladies of the East and
West Farmers Clubs.