Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-09-20
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We went to the fair at Boscobel last
Friday and of course had a good time.
Anybody who goes to Boscobel always
does have a good time. DR.. j H.
Reed and Mr.. Pollock, the Teller man,
went with us; all under the chaperon-
age of Gus Posey.
The morning was all that anyone
could ask and there was good deal of
it. Three and half hours brought
us to the Grant House. There were
a good many folks there to receive us.
My what grip those Boscobel folks
have. They give you a shake that
makes you know they are glad to see
you. No guessing at it is necessary.
At the fair grounds the forenoon
was given to athletic exercises in
front of the grand stand. In the foot
race VIII Wurster won easily in III
seconds. He had about half second
in reserve. Putting the shot was in
teresting enough but the puts did
not get very many feet between them
and the spot where the shot would
strike. The hop-step-and-jump made
us think of our school days, but we
made bigger distances then than were
made at Boscobel. Same with the
standing jump The feature of the
exercises was the pole vaulting. Four
young fellows started in but one soon
stepped out Seaman. Schofield and
Wurster made a good many nice
springs, the rod on the standards
going gradually higher and higher
until Seaman gave it up at about 5
feet. Scofield stuck to it like major
until nearly nine feet and the exer-
tion of repeated trials shut him out
and Win Wurster gracefully made
nine feet fly that capped the climax.
The crowd enjoyed this exhibition
very much and we want to say right
here that pole vaulting will be one of
the features of Lancaster field day
exercises next year.
After a good Methodist dinner we
took in exhibition hall where there
was good show of fine potatoes, corn,
wheat and other field grains, apples
and grapes, with good display of
fine fancy work. There was good
poultry show and some little machin-
cry, and good display of farm wag-
ons, sleds, trucks, etc., etc., by the
Ruka Brothers.
Mr. Martin from Richland Center
had very fine herd of red polled
cattle. He had just come from the
La Crosse Interstate fair and had
whole lot of premiums. We asked
him to bring them to Lancaster but
he was already booked for the Vernon
County Fair this week. Besides red
polled cattle were not given place in
our premium list, but they are beau
ties just the same. The bull of the
herd weighed over $500 pounds.
The herd of Holsteins exhibited will
likely be at our fair and you can see
them for yourselves.
Ed. Mccormick of Little Grant had
some elegant sheep in the pens. He
will have them at our fair. Don't
fail to see them. Messrs. Coffland
x Lybrand, from Richland Center
had beautiful Shropshire sheep which
he may arrange to bring here. One
of them took second premium at the
Worlds Fair and is the nearest an
ideal sheep of anything we ever saw,
not excepting Ed. McCormick's Ok
ford Downs.
We never could get up any enthu-
siasm over Merinos. they re too home
". but Theo. Kronshage had some on
exhibition, with good long wool. fine
enough to make silkworm jealous.
He also displayed some Dorset-horned
sheep. which are not as pretty as
Mary's famous little lamb, but prom
ise to be most valuable kind for sew
eral purposes. We hope he viii have
his sheep "a; the fair here.
The display Of horses was good. aud
there was fair showing Of hogs.
We had taken in about everything
except the midway features Of the
fair and were just going over to get
the hang Of the trottiag matches, when
it began IA rain 1t rained easy
enough al first. and deluded the peo-
pie into thinking it was just little
shower about the right thing for um-
brellas and waferproofs 4 good many
tried y look happy hut they weren't.