St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-10
Thousands of People attend the
F~orty-fourth Annual Show.

The county fair of 1891 was a uc-
cess in many ways. Never before
has there been so many entries of
horses, poultry, vegetables and floral
hall exhibits. While the entries of
cattle and sheep were small some
choice stock was exhibited. The ra-
ces drew good crowds and for a
track that is acknowledged to be
about five seconds slower than the
best tracks some excellent time was
made. The weather was perfect
every day and there were crowds on
the grounds on Wednesday and
Thursday. Nearly 10000 people
were there yesterday. A more de-
tailed account of the fair follows.
Horses.
Every year shows a remarkable
increase in the exhibit of horses and
the fair of 1891 exceeds all previous
fairs in this department. The hand
some and large string from the
Maplewood Stock farm, East Hard
wick, was not here, but there were
more horses than n could carefully
examine in all the three days of the
fair.
In standard bred stations George
l. Higgins of West Concord showed
Strike, 1892, by Jay Gould, a rich,
mahogany bay; Emmett Hill Of
West Concord entered Jesuit, 2676,
bv Onward, a handsome chestnut
stallion bred in Kentucky Hamilton
Brock showed the well-known stall
lion, Goldhnder; DIR. @. w. Ward,
Eastern Boy, 1904, record 2.2919, a
handsome horse by Gen. Knox; A.
F. Hill, Greensboro Henniker, by
Wilkes Boy. All of these stations
had their get exhibited in other
classes.
A. o. & J. Bemis of East Burke
and DR.. G. w. Darling of South
Ryegate showed three-year-old stall
lions, the latter entering LIE Roy D,
by Eastern Boy. B. P. & R. J. Cole
had a handsome t~wo-year-old stall
lion. F. E. Cobleigh of East St.
Johnsbury, M. V. B. Sargent, South
Danville, and George I. Higgins of
West Concord showed standard
mares and colts. F. S. Montgomery
of East Hardwick had a two-year-
old colt. Randall & Lynch Of this
place entered their yearling Golden
colt. Other yearling colts were one
by Jesuit entered by Emmett Hill a
Golden colt entered by B.. P. Cole,
Danville, another Golden colt shown
by D. K. Wakefield, Danville, and one
by F. J. Frye, Danville. Standard
sucking colts were entered by w. G.
Stiles, East ST. Johnsbury; F. R.
Brown, West Concord; Harvey &
Brewer, West Concord.
Stations with their families were
shown by 6. L. Higgins, Emmett
Hill, Ora N. Drew, North Danville,
M. c. Blodgett, St. Johnsbury, D.
K. Wakefield, DR.. G.. w. Ward, c.
Pinard, St. J~ohnsbury, F. 6. Streeter.
There were 10 entries for the re-
year-old stations as follows: Ora
n. Drew, Emmett Hill, H. A. Fol
som, St. Johnsbury, George Suitor,
George Switser, c. A. Brown, Water
ford, 6. w. Ward, two entries, A.
c. Farmer, West Burke, Fred Seavey,
West Concord.
There were nine entries in the class
for t~wo-year-old stations as follows:
J. E. Warren, West Concord, ]. w.
Morse, ~Passumpsic, T. E. Bennett,
West Concord, F. ]. Frye Danville,
c. L. & c. B. Stevens, c. A. Brown,
Waterford, A. c. Farmer, East
Burke, w. H. Chase, Sheffield, w.
H. Morrison, St. Johnsbury.
There were some nice matched
roadsters shown this year and the
entries were as follows: Col. Frank
lin Fairbanks, NJ. B. Greenbanks,
South Danville, F. A. & S. O. Morse
and c. E. Morse of Danville, Charles
Weeks of North Danville, William
Cassidy of Ryegate and D. Vance
of West Barnet. These matched
pairs are: F. \. & S, o. Morse, F.
D.. Gilman, Franklin Fairbanks, c. E.
Morse, J.. R. EMERSON & Son,
Peacham, B. F. Haviland of Danville,
Charles Weeks, F. H. Ford, North
Danville, c. V. Clifford, Hardwick.
". L. Gilfllan of Barnet entered
one pair and NJ. ]. Russell of this
place two pair of draft horses.
The class of mares and geldings
waS renreSantad hr +heca nn+rar.