Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-10
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display of grain by D. j. Waggoner
of Jeffersonville, VT, which was grown
in the country west of Winnipeg,
along the line of the Canadian Pacific
r. r. The grain, wheat, barley, and
oats were as good as we ever saw,
very large and perfect heads, strong
clean straw and perfect specimens.
Mr.. Waggoner shows this as an adj
vertisement of the country and de-
sires to call the attention of such as
would seek a new home to desirable
place. His address is given above.
The ladies' depar tment in Floral
Hall felt the influences of the weather
and the number of articles shown was
smaller than usual. The display as
far as it went was very creditable.
We had no means of ascertaining the
names of the exhibitors. The depart
ment was well managed by the super
intendent and we shall expect to see
something next year sufficient to fill
the hall. There were good paintings,
fine pieces of needle work, good
household manufactures, beautiful
silk quilts, the usual variety of quilts
and spreads, one of which should be
mentioned; the pink and white small
checked quilt, made by Nellie Gilman
of Barton, which contained 28,800
pieces-too many. There was another
of similar make. The case of butter
wrought into flowers, ETC., was an at
| 4y.oo Gov Of RarfO71
made large display of his "Barton
Pants' and it was decided that an I'M
heard of low price does not always
mean poor article. 1t is quite
wonder how Mr.. Gay furnishes so
good an article of clothing at SO low
price.
The show of vegetables was small,
but not unworthy. We decided thatwe
could not learn the names of the ex-
hibitors from the cards, but managed
to get away with the big pumpkins
and that is about all we can rehearse
in regard to it. The fruit department
was we'll filled. The Waterbury Cen
tire people, nurserymen, made a beau
tiful show. Mr.. Cheney, L. M. Glenn
ent, w. III. Kelton, Warren Caswell,
A. c. Austin, F. c. Batchelder and
others filed the tables with fruit, chief
ly apples.
In the butter, cheese and sugar de-
partments the tables were we'll filed.
The packages were only numbered
and we will refer the reader to the
premium list for details. The factory,
butter and cheese makers showed
good tubs of butter and fine speci-
mems of cheese. The sugar samples
were good.
Whatever effort is made in other di-
rections, many, If not the most, who
attend fairs find their chief interest in
horse trotting, and this was not an
exception to the rule. So far as we
could discover, the trotting was fair,
every owner and jockey seeking to
win There was a lively interest,
owing to the fact that many of the
horses were owned in the vicinity.
The two-year- old race was very
lively affair. This was by Red Elm, a
colt recently purchased in Boston by
Prouty & Haslett, the E. j. Tinker
colt, Nixon, and the Valley Bros Cob
den. Nixon is as pretty as fox and
as fleet, and while he was somewhat
pushed by Red Elm, he had no diff
Guilty in taking the two heats. Red
Elm is very fine colt and made a
good race. The Valley Bros colt is
very fast, but fell into too fast COM
pany this time.
The three-year- old class race was
something of one sided affair be-
tween Bud Almont, Village Wilkes and
Lambert G. Almont easily led, with
Wilkes second and Lambert third. |
The stallion race was not trotted.
The two-forty class was quite a
sharp contest between six horses. |
Phil w. was an easy winner; but sec
ond place was hotly contested be
tween Belle of Albany and Duane.
The two thirty seven starters were
Eugene, Dartmouth and Joe D. Joe
got the first heat, Eugene the second,
Dartmouth the third and fourth and
Eugene the fifth and sixth. This was
an exciting race. The next race was
between Scion, Phil w and Roadster.
Phil seemed a little the fastest but
had no great time to lose. 1t was "nip
and tuck'' between Roadster and So
lon.
The two twenty nine class race was
the best contested and most interest
ing of all. It was fought out between
Lyndon Boy, driven by his owner,
Harr1r Marror 1QE mounds anai1aCt