Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-10-03
A JELLY.CAKR war.

the Wo0ea II Naagamou COSBY.
I'l's'ia, Up IN Arms Asaisst A
Awarding Csumieles.
New xork Teibuasl
Experience il popularly supposed
70 he . good teacher, even it it 10 .
Tar one. But such il not The fact;
experience 10 the poor. st kid Of =
scher. NJ z" on committing the
sme foll'~s that they did At the be-
lining OF tue. Two years ago . !
'oard Of equity fair managers had an
Experience which should have s-sv-d
. lessor" for fair managers for the
next thousand yesrs Il beast; bu, It
'iiin'. At that time the manss ers Of
The Adams Cou' ty {Olio) Far
f. o'ishly offered . premium 70, thu.
ties. loaf Of salt-risine bread. Two
hundred y omen each ent~r.d . losf
Tor the pr,se. Then the men who were
judges announced their decision. One
ut them vac .arly ly"cI.ed. The
other two escaped by hard running
one OF them hid it, . ditch sud the
'''hss went up tree. The Tribune
It that time ctnta.s.ed ~ ACCOUNT Of
he un'osGunse~ occusCence aud drew /,
the obvious conclusion tnst ,air man.
agra must i~t such things alone, con-
timing th+ir attention ~ '.the short
hs'r" 'wo-yesr old. the tub Of cre.ast.,y
butter, aud the three as,nute tro,tinx
rare" Bat our words OF warning
fell on sterile so,l-hese sre the
Sa"xsmon Count, tn } FAIR managers
with truu''l~ "a their hands ov.e .
premium offered for j-,iy-r.ke.
IL the women Ut Adams county.
O'a''. pride tl.~n,srlves on their sat
rising hresd, then are the wone" IT
.Ss"Esmon coa"ty, III almost itols
trous 1T their j.-lly-cake. there were
precisely 6UO cakes entered for the
jelly cake pr'ze, whirh WAS = tine piano,
by 6OO different Sangau,on county
womer. Three n~a acted - Judges
thee 6rn. deter mined m-n. ~,li,ng
to sacrifice Themselves for Ss,,gamon
county # n-oe~s~rv. They ht-v.a sud
20, saf-lv through with 500 of th..
cakes. tasting If each one. by this
time they were exceedingly weak, but
they were still alive. They then came
10 the last cake, . large aud it's
vising looking affA,r made by Mr..
Sam WiIls'tt, Of Spring field. Tie
Judges TAFT. d Ut It ami we're delight j.
il was light s.u moi,t, and the crab-
apple jelly hetwe. n tho lay. r. was q,
\ mo t delicious flavor. They saw
n"thinx wrong about it, aad unani.
mously awarded it the prize Of the
piano. THEFT arose great storm, ard
the committee fed over INTO the next
The ether 500 ~x'ibit"r. +,
arose ~ ore woman and loudly in ,
formed the ignorant Committees that i,
Tho alleged jelly cake to which they +.
had given the prize Was n" jelly cake =,
I'll hut Deceptive combination q, I
AYERS of angels so'M and jelly. Then d
Mrs. Sam Will-tt rose up aud replied l.
;hs' angels foot was cake aud lilly
VAS jelly, aud that when combined
hey produced j-ily-csk-. Tho CON-
ut d-~pen-d. The Awarding Cons Z
aitsee went from tho next count. up q
ITO Wisconsin, leaving the whole d
Ia -stion to the B"srd of Managers Of ;.
he Fair. This hoard has appointed .
p-cili oo,nmist-e to take evidence
md s.vi-w the action of the Awarding ;
This work is now hei. = G
limo. i,+lmo',io.,. Of this city, In. ;,
'ren appealed ~ by telegraph. H~
eplies. al-o h, wire, that = cake like r
hrs Sam Will-'t'. may. i" his opinion, -"
~ prol~ray cass.ed ~ j lly.cal. n
houRh jelly cakes are not usu.ll. !,
made that way. TIE returning hoard
, kerping the wires Trading out OF
in . h,xhly heated condi. =
10" in gathering other expert ,estl Q
nony. Il 10 also holding two 8. ssion. Il
ally ~ hear local '~stim"ny. Wha' q
he dr. cisi. n will he 90 ono a. vet can >.
o'e'ell. Hut me thing ia certain-i.
, Ease there 10 going TO he mere q
T "hl~. Mrs. Sam Wil'-tt ISN'T. a
Imam to b- trifled With. Tn. op d
'"s'nx frces sr- strong ana apg,es- r
i've. Our ad.ice to the original cen.
nittee 10 to move into H.. lsri,isl.
'"ss-ssitns. AZ tor the returning y
ard. It would do vel tn ann. unce
= decisio" from. let Us say. Rio jan !.