Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-09-17
THE COUNTY FAIR.

The annual county fair was held at
Roaring Brook Park, Barton, Sept. IL !,
IL, 13. The weather was perfect, the
attendance large and the fair more
than an average in number of articles
and amount of stock, etc., exhibited.
The sporting and racing exercises
were very satisfactory. The grounds
had been put in good order, while
some additions and improvements
had been made. The managers had
made full preparations and every
thing passed off quietly and satisfac-
torily. The number of booths and
catch-penny concerns was very large,
with some side shows.
The custom of withholding the
names of exhibitors from the tags and
cards makes it impossible to report
the fair in detail or satisfactorily. The
reporter is obliged to proceed in the
dark, almost, SO far as names are
concerned, and must make many
omissions.
HORSES.
The number of horses on exhibition
was less than usual, especially IN the
line of mares and colts. No better
lot of single carriage horses has been
seen on these grounds, about twenty
having been entered for premium;
Il showed up on the grounds. Among
this number were several as fine ami
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mention the high bred animal driven
by Salmon Nye, a fine black horse
owned by Chas. E. Slsco the H. D.
Phillips horse, the fine Golden mare
owned by G. FL. Root, a Golden colt
driven by A. NJ Olmstead, another
owned by the Valley Bros, a good
horse owned by ST.. Lathe, another by
10. B. Harding; and horses driven by
S. E. Wiley, Henry Wiley, Martin
Chafey; an Allen Wilkes colt owned
by Nick Morse, and one by H. Merrill
and Mr.. Papeneau. So difficult was
1t to decide on the merits of the
horses that the managers decided to
make two additional premiums with
honorable mention. There were only
hree pairs of matched horses. Among
he general purpose stations we saw
we're Sherman Franklin, the we'll
known horse owned by F. Williams,
Warwick, one of the Bean horses, the
E. King Golden horse, 1 Guess,
wned by the Valley Bros, the j. r.
thristie Morgan horse, old Cyclone
nd some others, some of them stand
rd bred and all of them fine and not
d in this vicinity. The Percherons
ere less than usual Henry H. Le-
md showed his big grey horse, one
the best and handsomest horses in
he draft horse line in this part of the
ate; A. N. Page showed another of
pod form and good breeding.
The number of three year-old stall
bns was not large. We noticed the
B. Lang colt, the R. M. Cowles
brse, the Chrystie colt and few
hers. Mr.. Chrystie has four very
e bred horses and colts. Among
two year-olds was fine bay own
by Frank Chesley, splendid colt
7ned by L. S. Nye, a nice animal be-
hging to the Keltons, an animal
own by Fred Smith. Robt. Walker
owed a yearling from Henry S., as
as silk, and as fat as a pig.
There were few mares and colts:
cius Nye showed his Rex Patchen
re with very fine sucker, together
Ia a two-year old and a yearling;
Z. King had fine mare and colt,
n. G.. Stevens and AT. Hinckley, |
tar Ethan.
he trial of the draft horses excited |
siderable interest. The test was
be on stone drag on which was
d a four horse load of stone. I
lev Drew first tackled it with a /
e pair of horses, but decided that |
he they could swing the load about |
tie and draw it a few inches, the |
was too large for honest horses,
ose who loaded it had no judg-
t. George Livingstone hitched
pair of greys belonging to E. B.
and they pulled handsomely,
ving the load about two feet. Al
hso Lippens tried the test with
gle horse and ATTEMPTED to draw
Eo-horse load, moving it a few