Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-30
THE WoopRR1DGE FA1R.
A Great Many People Present And A
Most Successful Fatr-Their Twenty
EIGHTH Annual.

nnual Woodbridge and Bethany fair at the
Woodbridge fair grounds, and to say the
least it was the most successful fair held
there in number of years. By three o'clock
in the afternoon the fair grounds, which are
situated at the top of the Woodbridge hills,
and from which can be obtained a fine view
of the city and Long Island Sound, were alive
with people on foot and in carriages who
came to take in the fair. Every fence raj,
telegraph pole and hitching post in the
neighborhood of the fair grounds was used
to hitch horses to- and it was estimated that
one Thousand teams were at the fair during
the day. On the grounds everything was
confusion; marshals were riding here and
there on horseback, vendors were calling off
the virtues of the wares they had to sell, and
E'Black Joe, with his banjo, was trying to
outrival the Seymour band which surrounded
by large crowd were playing tunes never
before heard by many present. Near the
center of the grounds was erected large
tent where the exhibits of fruits, vegeta-
bles, fancy work, fowls and other small arti-
| cles were displayed. The tent was presided
over by strong and sunburned Bethany
farmer, sSand each one who entered was
obliged to give up the sum of twenty five
cents for so doing. Around the sides of the
tent on tables were exhibited the vegetables,
while hung on the sides of the tent were the
fancy table covers and such like articles. On
other tables in the center of the room was ex-
hibited the fruit, and in small addition to
the tent was display of poultry. In the
line of pears Mr.. D. E. Todd, of Beth
any, toek the first premium, he
exhibiting eighteen different varieties, in
Guiding Bartlett, SICKLE, buffum, Bose, apple
pear, Sheldon, Flemish beauty, Jersey and
others. May & Clark, of Bethany also had a
display of thirteen varieties. Jacob Besiegel,
of Bethany, in the line of grapes outdld his
competitors, making excellent display of
Isabellas, Concords, Hartford Prolifcs, Ca
tawbas and others. In the line of peaches
the latter gentleman exhibited a number of
varieties, some being nearly as large as a
small muskmelon. John Currie, of Wood
bridge, also made an excellent display of
grapes, peaches and pears of many varieties
D. c. Todd, of Woodbridge, had twelve
different kinds of pears on exhibition, among
them being some excellent Duchess de An
gouleme pears, Flemish beauties and others.
Other exhibitors of pears, peaches and grapes
were Lucius Russell of Bethany, J. j..
Beecher of Woodbury., J. w. Barker
an excellent display of champion
ounces; William Tomlinson of Woodbridge,
w. w. Peck of Woodbridge, ]. A. DoWrs of
Woodbridge. The display of vegetables and
apples was much larger and better than for a
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display could not see how anyone could be in
want of vegetables to eat. OF apples w. w.
Peck, of Woodbridge, had eighto an varieties
and took first prize. Leroy G.. Beecher, of
Woodbridge, had fine display of pumpkins,
squashes, beets. potatoes and corn. Among
others who had on exhibition vegetables
were: Theron Todd of Bethany, John Curria,
j. w. Barker, &. G. Newton, G. C. Hitch
cock, Irving Doolittie, J. P Beecher, F. W..
Peck and Jacob Besiegel of Woodbridge,
and @. NJ. Smith of Bethany, who took first
prize for cabbages. S. D. Doolittle of Wood
bridge, exhibited two pumpkins, one weigh
ing 1853 pounds and the other 119 pounds
and it is safe to say that Mr.. Doolittle's fam
lily will have enough pumpkin pie this fall.
During the year while the men had been
planting their crops and harvesting them
their wives had not been idle, as shown by
the display of fancy work at the fair yester-
day, which was viewed with much interest
by the many ladies present. Mrs. g. Leigh
ton of 81 u Broadway, this city, showeda very
handsome silk bedquilt as well as a painted
table cover, both of which articles were very
pretty and tasteful and were much admired
by those who viewed them Miss Gertie
Peck, of Woodbridge, exhibited some knit
tides; Mrs II. W. Lessey, of Woodbridge,
some crazy patchwork and silk tides; Mrs.
ia. O'Hara, of Yalcsville, some tides; Mrs.
D. E. Currie, of Woodbridge, a hand
some table cover; Mrs. Jerome A. Downs, of
paintings; Mrs. D. Russell, of Oranges table
cover; Miss Minnie D. Clark, of Woodbridge,
a fancy table cover; Mrs. jerome Twitchell,
of Naugatuck, some small tides and other
fancy work. There were also other
exhibitions of fancy work too numerous to
mention. Two small plain black cotton
dresses hanging side by side with cards at
tached caused nearly everyone to stop and
examine them. There was nothing ve1y
strange about the dresses. but the cards bore
statement to the effect that
one of the dresses was worn by George Lewis
Hotchkiss, one and half years old, sixty
one years ago at the funeral of his father,
Miner Hotchkiss of this city, and that the
child died two months after his father. The
other one read: This dress worn for
the first time seventy-five years ago by Rob.
ert E. Hotchkiss, of New Haven. He was
afterwards captain of the whaling ship Ben
jamin Rush, sailing from New Bedford. He
died in New Bedford in 1850. On table
alone by itself stood large and very delic-
ious looking cheese made by Mrs. Leonard
Todd of Bethany, who is eighty-six years of
age and still retains perfect health and reads
the papers daily.
In the side tent where the poultry was ex-
hibited George w Neal of the almshouse ex-
hibited as fine litter of English setter pups
prize stock as dog fancier would care to
see. Here also F. d. Shumway, of West
vile, took the first prize for the best exhi
bition in the poultry line, of white leghorns,
partridge cochins, brown leghorns and black
leghorns. w. NJ. Beech of Woodbridge dis
play ed some Plymouth Rocks and Louise M
Perkins of Woodbridge a handsome Angora
rabbit.
The display of cattle, which was good
one, took place at one side of the grounds,
premiums being awarded as follows: Fat
sheep, first premium Frank II. Todd, Wood
bridge; cosset lamb, first premium, Stephen
Perkins, Woodbridge; Dairy herd, irst,J- P.
Doolittle, Woodbridge; second, John Currie,
Woodbridge; Guernsey heifer, first, F. Fl.
Todd, Woodbridge; Attorney stock, first,
John Currie, Woodbridge; heifer calf, first
Emmerson Atwood, Bethany; second, Wilson
N Russ Russell; working oxen, first, D
CLARK, Bethany; Holstein bulls, first, G. G.
Hitchcock, Woodbridge; Holstein bull grade,
first, Lauren Doolittle of Bethany; calf, first,
John Currie, Woodbridge The town carts
also came in for their share OF. admiration,
each being drawn by fifteen yoke of oxen:
and the Bethany wagon taking the first prize
and the Woodbridge cart second. Many New
Haven people were present during the day,
having driven out from the city. The Off
GERS, marshals and directors who had the fair
in charge deserve great credit for the able
manner in which things were managed dur
ing the pay. They were:
President, jerome A. Downs, Bethany.
Vice presidents, John Currie, Woodbridge;
E. 0. Pardee, Bethany.
Secretary and treasurer, S. g. Davidson,
Bethany.
Directors, c. c. Hitchcock, R. c. Newton,
S. w. Barker, L. G. Beecher, R. FL. Baldwin,
Woodbridge; Jasper B. Todd, Burton s.
Hall, William Fl. Lounsbury, I'd, Robert
Mcclure, Street B. Todd, Bethany. Chief
marshal Ernest z. Hotchkiss, Bethany.
Funeral OF Madame De Bic.