Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-01
MAINE DISPATCHES.
sIDNEY's FAIR.
The People Attend Their annual Field
Day In ThEongs.

e'r VI '"e Booi oii to"u OF quincy, ami
tn y and their wives, with all their children
and neighbors, and many from adjoining
towns. celebrated the best autumnal festival
ever held in Sidney. The town fairs there
have steadily grown in interest year by year,
anl each Que witnesses an Improvement, not
oily in the management of the exhibition,
but in the character of the stock shown IL
was very pain to see that the brooi mares
and colts shown this year were better thu
were ever exhibited before. rh re wersi,
all about thirty horses al colts OF dtf.rent
classes shown, the one aud TWO year olds
beng hne lot, AL the younger sucker,
showing more goo iness of character, than
the tame number of such colts would have
done dozen years ago. EDos l.. Moore
had tne colt by Nor,ons HAmbletonian,
dam Messenger aud Eaton mare. Mlnn.e
Tow nsend showed a pet calf one year old
and beauty. J. II. Bean who had two
colts, two year Old and u yearling.
q. w. Mason showed four year oil colt by
Black Prince by Gen Knox, that weighed
l0jO pounds. q. X. Hastings had on .xhl-
bition IA mare and a colt by her side by Elmo
two years old. Mark Bean showed goo
brood mare by Howe's Bismarck, with IL
good ioal by her side. John Swift had II
brood mare Oh the grounds, with young
colt by sun of Cnshnoc. Z. L. Moore
showed a brood mare by Morrills Kuox,
with colt by Cloudman, by Monte Crlsto,
by Gen. knox. George +. WIxon
had good colt on exhibition. Allen Field
showed an Elmo colt. Leslie Bowman ex-
hlbttd brood mare with Red Wilkes suck
er by her side; also 3 year old colt by
Back Pilot. EphIiam Ballard had a two
year old colt, llambleionlan aud Knox, a
Il very handsome, well made animal L. A.
Feld showed three months old colt y
Nelson's Uhwsld. l.. Z. Howard showed =
mare with ioal by her side by the imported
French perchcron stallion, Capt. Pulley :;
Also 2 year Old colt by Cousins llamble-
touau. j. NJ. Palmer Inhibited 3 and a
halt months old colt, by Arthur Stevens
Onward, Jr. Bertrand Smiley showed AL
Elmo colt of Vermont dam, she but tire,
years old. pther exhibitors of good colts
were Elwin Robbins, Arthur Smiley, Franz
Abbott, Arthur Stevens and Serrlah stevens
There were three or four pens of cows
and heliers, and Two pens ot sheep. E.ra
Bdtcs showed some Very good ewes.
he team of ,1en Was made up of tweLty
six paIs, and their average xlrth MAS I te t
ana inches. The farmers contributing to
this s,rmg of good cattle we're ID. K. Town
send, Albert barnard, Calvin Graves, How
ard B. W!man, Alber' Taught, ID II. GOOD
hue, Turner Barr. f:ank Abbott, Sila,
Bragg, james N.@oi, Henry Goodhue, NJ.
Cowan aud j. h Hyman. The largest paii
of cattle ON the grounds we're owned by
Frank Abbott, and they filled the cham
out plump at 8 feet.
Ply mouth Rock chicks were shown by
Frank W. Ia, lor and j. II. Swift; Wyan-
dutles by Mrs. Demeritt Sawtelle aud Silver
Spaugled Hamburgs by Fred NJ. Spencer.
In the Town Hall tour large tables
were filled with fruit, Two with vegetables
aud dairy products, and two With fancy anu
ornamental ARTICLES, besides an array of
quilts, rugs and afghaus and other articles
v hich adorned the walls. The contributors
to the irult d, psrtment were: Ezra Bates,
5 plates of apples, one of grapes; l.. IL.
W,man, II plates of apples; Il. ID. swift,
20 plates apples; Geo. +. Bowan, ~ plates
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apples; Fred +. Blake, II plates pears, /
ot apples Frsuk Bowan, 20 plates apples, 3
of pears, 3 of < apes, of plums; K. l.
Dewitt IA plates apples; c. +. Stllson, I
plates apples; }. Weeks, plates apples
Eddie l.. swift, II plates apples; Nprr,
swift. one plate grapes; Charles a. llougn-
ton, plates apples; i-r.el ID. Kinney, oIe
basket of King Sweetugs; Mark Bean. A.
plates apples. of pears; Demeritt Sawtele.
. plates apples, of pears, 2 vases of flow
ers ). ). Reynolds, plates pears. II
plates apples; George S SHAW, IA plates
apples, one of pears. curiosity WAS ex
hlbited by Miss Ehth NJ. Watkins in the
form OF an apple of the crop of 1887 which
WAS on exhibition at the fair last year, but Is
ye, hard, and in very Z ,oI state of p e,er-
vation. Mrs. DIR. Bessey exhibited bunch
of very good celery.
Garden aud field vegetables were exhbi
ted by Greenl,at Barton, Henry Smiley,
Frank Abbott, 81. J. We, Ks, J. ii. Fiel !,
| Calvin Graves, Norris Swift, ID. l.. Weeks,
| Z. A. Field +. l.. Moore, j. +. Warren,
| VIM. Berry, II. A. Taught, .. A. Tolman'
! ID. Il. Townsend, l.. IL. W,man, Eddie l..
Swift, Jonathan Reynolds. G. ID. Swift aad
/ Mark b, an. A fine collection of vegetables
WAS shown by +. +. Stilson, and also one 10y
! Fred L. Blake, which comprised onions, cab
bages. squashes, and potatoes. MIR. Blake
wall. tins year, raise 400 head of cabbages
anu $50 bushels of onions. Melons were e1-
hibited by 7. :. Benson, and corn by A. +
! Clark. A snake cucumber feet inches
long was shown by A. /. Trafton of Water
Vile.
Mrs. J. F. Wyman e1h bited jar of fine
nriut butter; and domestic cheese VAS sho~I
b. Mrs. j. IL. Bean, Mrs. ID. ii, Goodhue
| and Mrs Nancy Dyer. Canned fruit Wa
shown by Mrs. VIM. Spearin, II cans; Mrs
F. Warren, ) cans; Mrs. g. X. Hastings
4 cans; Mrs. b. +. Harris aud Miss Eta
Clark. 6 cans. Miss Josep inc Wyman e1
hibited lot of yeast biscuit
In an enumera tim of the specimens o.
ladies' handiw ork and miscellaneous articles
! ,;h;..n 20 have endeavored to Obtain