Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-02

AS regards exhibits, our fair was not
up to the standard this year, there be-
ing only 700 entries while last year
there were over 900. The weather being
propitious the crowd was immense. A
fine shower Monday night laid the dust
and Tuesday morning, the opening
day, broke clear and cool. The crowd
was not large on that day, but the en-
tries were made and active preparations
went on toward decorating and arrang-
ing the halls and grounds. Wednesday
as we strolled into the south wing of
floral hall we first saw the brilliant dis
play of A. w. Ferguson q Co., hard
ware merchants. The handsome stoves
were placed to the best advantage and
were admired by everybody; also sew
eral elegant hanging lamps which were
suspended from the ceiling.
Across from this was fair showing
of harness, blankets, robes, whips, ETC.,
by John Mccormick, of Port Huron.
Passing around to the east wing we
came upon Grant Holden d Bros ele-
CANT display of drugs, medicines, per-
fumeries, and everything pertaining to
their business as druggists. Also their
new departure, which is handsome
line of wall papers. The showing of
this firm was very neat.
Farther on we came to j. III. MoOre's
exhibit of the Singer sewing machine,
which he handles in his business.
De Steiger Bros, of Port Huron, dis
played some fine pianos and organs.
On the other side of the wing we no
ticed nice display of millinery and
ladies' and gentlemen's furnishings by
+. Il. Palmer q Co. Such neat, tasty
hats did the eye good to look at. We
congratulate this firm on the tastiness
shown here.
The next few steps brought us to the
large show cases of III. Doelle d Son,
which were filled with jewelry and sill
verware of all descriptions. 1t was
gorgeous, everything shone so. Behind
the cases were handsome clocks of all
kinds, shapes and sizes. One had only
to look to admire.
Turning the corner into the north
wing we noticed good display of
handsome plants, one odd one in par
ticular, rat tail cactus, attracted the
attention of the people. Above these
hung the paintings, which, while three
were not nearly as many as last year,
were very pleasing.
There were also collections of coins
and stamps.
The children's drawings excited a
good deal of attention.
Opposite we came upon the ladies'
department of fancy work which was
we'll filled, and, as always, reflects
great credit upon the ladies. The
crowd was so great at this point that
we can give no description, but we saw
a rope table which struck our fancy.
In the middle of the hall hung many
quilts of many patterns, pieces and
colors, like Joseph's coat, but all USE
| full.
Turning into the west wing we came
upon the staff of life in great duanti-
ties. 1t looked good enough to eat,
and with the toothsome fruits ana jel-
lies above and the butter and great
cheeses below, we felt as if we might
have made a good meal then and there.
However, as nobody offered us any
thing we passed on to the rows of
plates containing apples, pears, peach
es, grapes, ETC., all of the incest and
largest varieties.
Crossing over we stumbled over the
most immense turnips while we were
trying to take in the great size of those
pumpkins and cabbages. The show of
vegetables was splendid. We noticed
a turnip which was quite freak. 1t
had grown out in little rootlets and
tubers nearly all over the turnip itself,
and looked curious enough. A new
variety of vegetable was shown, which
resembled the cabbage somewhat, only
is very much smaller and rather point
ed instead of being round.
The rest of the space in this wing
was taken up by nice display of flour
and different kinds of grain by w. II.
Ballentine of Old Brockway. The dis
play here was good and showed the
farmers labor and reward.
Looking around fairgrounds we saw
small display of poultry. In the stock
pens there was fair showing of sheep
but no swine whatever. The different
breeds. of horses and cattle were we'll
represented.
w. III. Harris, of Brockway, had
fine display of buggies of his own man
ufacture. Mr.. Harris never fails, in
making an exhibit at our fair.
Jas. ii. Moore, our popular agricul-
tural implement dealer, had nice
display.
Our fair was success financially but
we hone that another wear the farmers