Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-09-18


ties interested in the nursery business
have occupied space and absorbed
| moneys to the encouragement, per-
haps, of ordinary fruit growers. This
section ought to be well filled. It is
thing of interest to the county. We
did not get access to the names of
fruit exhibitors in season to give them.
The vegetable side of the hall was
| we'll filed. The best single exhibit
was made by P.Lippens of Derby, who
showed varieties of potatoes,
of squash, three of cabbage and so on
through the list of vegetables. His
pumpkins weighed Sc pounds each, his
| squash 40 to so, his turnips Is and
his cabbage Is lbs. each. He showed
Minnesota early sweet corn, three
ears on stalk, that he grew in hun
dred days from planting. Corn rep
resented to be of excellent quality for
table use. Other exhibitors made a
very creditable showing in many lines.
VIM. Berry of Sutton showed an enor
nous Hubbard squash-the largest on
the table. In the potato line we never
saw as good show. The blind tag
system of tagging these exhibits
makes it impossible for the reporter
to name exhibitors.
When the Fair Ground Co. grow
rich-and they will grow rich faster as
they give exhibitors more room and
better chances-th will be more
money devoted to premiums in this
line and better show, we doubt not.
ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT.
We have stated that the show in the
ladies' department was light, but that
did not mean that it was poor. The
articles shown were creditable. In
the ornamental line there were the
usual pretty pieces of work in lace,
crochet and needlework, handker-
chiefs, tides, etc. Miss Laura Case
had very pretty lot of bead work,
napkin rings, card receivers, etc.
She learned the art of making these
articles in the school for the blind in
Boston. Mrs. M. B. Freeman showed
ed large case of millinery work,
which was a good advertisement of
fine work in the line. There was
little thing in glass case on that side
that is worthy of place in the
Worlds Fair-a model of a stationa-
ry steam engine, which was whitfield
out of wood with an ordinary pocket
knife. This was done by Forrest S.
Carpenter of Eden Mills, formerly of
Lowell, a young man of 10 years. He
has put several months of labor
into it. 1t is made of pine and maple, |
and is in every part, SO far as the eye
can discover, Mechanically perfect.
1t is about s inches long, and every
rivet, bolt, rod, pipe = even to the
whistle pipe and lever is obe seen
That young man has talent which
ought to be put to other use than the
knife, wonderful as is his knife work.
Chester Phillips made fine show
ing with his stuffed birds, a great va
riety of which were shown. Mr.. |
Phillips is a nice taxidermist and
makes the business profitable. He
showed some of his work as gun
smith. We should have mentioned in
another department some fine work
in saddlery and harness making which
H. D. Phillips showed. -
On the side of household and culina
ry goods there were some pieces OF rag
carpeting, rugs, both braided and
drawn, mittens, hose, flannel, linen,
WOODEN yarn, etc. There were a few
pretty silk and other quilts. Mrs.
Pelow exhibited a pieced quilt with I
7040 pieces, and Mrs. Huldah Powell
worsted quilt covered with octagonal
squares, ''on each of which was work
ed with thread Or worsted, in colors,
some sort of figure, bird, animal,
building, etc., a great number. The I
real merit in the thing was the nat
uralness of the figures. So we'll wa
it done that different breeds OF ami
mails, birds, etc., were distinguishable.
Mrs. Powell must have genius for
that sort of work. Henry Gay made
his usual display Of goods, mostly
pants, from his shop and factory Henry
will rig a man out with a new aud
pretty good wearing suit of clothes
for very small sum.
THE BALLOON.
The ballon ascensions, one on We'd
nesday and one on Thursday, were
perfect. The balloon and parachute |
is the best we ever saw.
The parachute is so fixed that it ex-
pands and opens like huge umbrella
before the drop is started and when
the performer cuts loose the descent |
is gradual and not drop like a plum