St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-09-27
NORTHERN CALEDONIA FAIR.
The Last Show of the Season a Great


The sixth annual meeting of the
Northern Caledonia fair was held at
Lyndonville Tuesday and Wednes-
day of this week and was a notable
success in every way. Nearly 1000
people were there the first day and
about twice as many more the sec
ond day. In all the departments
outside of Floral Hall there were 463
in previous years. In Floral Hall
there were over 800 entries and
about 100 more in the vegetable de-
partment These figures show that
it was the largest fair in the history Of
the association and there were more
entries than usual from out of town.
In the line Of horses quite num-
Der of fine specimens were shown.
Emmett Hill of West Concord exhib-
tied his stations Jesuit, Rexton and
Cardinal Wilkes. R. S. Bailey from
the same place showed Skinnando
and T. E Bennett of Lyndon Star
less, three-year-old stallion. Cor
bett was entered by w. 5. Russell of
East St. Johnsbury and Phil Sheri-
dan by {. D. Fisher. Both these
stations were three vear-oIds. A
stallion by Ivan Speedwell was
shown by E. H. Hoffman and R. ].
Cole of Danville drove handsome
pair of matched roadsters. c. E.
Kirk exhibited Raymond on the track
Tuesday and Will Randall showed
Golden 2nd the next day. Asa Will
liams of this place entered a Morgan
three-year-old aud w. w. Sanborn a
roadster. Among the other entries
in this department were a Morgan
sucker by c. L. Hoyt, two Morgan
stations by J. R. Christie, brood
mare with foal, a gelding and filly
by J. E. Warren of Kirby, a driver,
roadster and a stallion by w. G. Hans
com of Sheffield, mares and colts by
E. H. Hoffman, matched drivers by
George P. Ide, Morgan stations and
colts by !. E. Sim pson and Russell &
Gage, colts by the Ruggles Brothers,
a mare and colt by A. c. Farmer
four Morgans and draft horses by
| c. F. Noyes and a roadster by Con-
gresham GrOut.
Both Lyndon and Kirby had town
strings of oxen and some large ami
mails were shown. There were also
the usual number of fat and work
ing oxen and several yoke of trained
steers. Barnard Hoyt of Lyndon
had three pair of matched steers,
Phineas Houghton, ] A. Hunter, E.
E. Hovey and ]. E. Simpson trained
steers. Some excellent blooded stock
was shown by H. B. Ward of North
Danville, L. A. Darling Of East
Burke, ingalls, Brothers, L. F. Shonyo
& Son, J. E. Simpson, Russell &
Gage, A. T. Evans, E. c. Carpenter,
Charles Folsom, A. c. Farmer of
West Burke and Ruggles Brothers.
The sheep exhibit was fine. L. B.
Harris had his prize winners at the
New England fair, including Merinos
and Shropshi1es Phillips Brothers
of Glover had large exhibit of Cots
wolds. burlington Brothers had a
Fine Wool buck and some fat sheep
and L. F. Shonvo & Son a lot of
grade sheep D. S. Young showed
Cotswolds, A. T. Evans Middle
Wools and c. F. Moves of South
Wheelock grades.
The poultry exhibit was in a small
tent at the rear of Floral Hall. w.
o. Greeley of Waterford showed some
gne light Brahma pullets, T. w.
Parker Brown Leghorns, and E. 6.
Parker Plymouth Rocks. H. c.
Wilson had some handsome White
Plymouth Rocks and A. T. Evans
White Wonders and Light Brahmas.
burlington Brothers had turkeys,
geese and guinea hens.
There were 1S entries of swine,
which is ahead of all other years.
Among those who entered in this de-
partment were c. D. Hubbard, J. A.
Hunter, Geo. P. Ide, A. o. Harris,
Russell & Gage and L. F. Shonyo
& Son.
Floral Hill was crowded with fine
exhibition of ladies fancy work. A
large number of oil paintings were
shown, including some by Mrs. A. J.
Eastman, Mrs. Fred Gorham, R. AL
drich, Mrs. E. c. Carpenter, Jennie
Trefren, Luella Anger. Emma Hol-
ton, Mrs. E. E. Miller, Lila NJ. Buz-
zell, Mrs. G. 6. Wheeler, Maud
Badger and Inez A. Howe. Flower
designs were entered by Mrs. R. c.
Foster, Miss G. Foster, Mrs. D. S.
Young and Evelyn Pierce. J. NJ. Cass
had large display of pianos aud
organs, and A. L. Bailey ofSt. Johns
bury had his usual handsome line of
the same musical instruments. Mr..
Hastings of St. Johnsbury showed
about the same display of photo
graphs that he had at the county
fair and Mr. Chandler of Lyndon
vile made a good exhibit. George
E. Grow exhibited the Detroit cash
register and the Grimms evaporator
interested the sugar makers.
In the vegetable department Nc
| Garland Brothers of ST IOhnsburY