St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-09-20
SOUTH RYEGATE FAIR.
Opeufne of a successful Exhibition.

were about 1000 people at the open
ing day Of the sixth annual fair Of
the Rvegate and Wells River Dairy
mems Association at South Ryegate
Yesterday The entries in every de-
partment exceeded the record of pre-
vious years and the other attrac-
tions cannot fail to draw a large
crowd today.
The first day is given up to the ex-
hibition of horses, and though there
was not a great number shown the
quality and breeding was good. In
the exhibit of stations w. J. Smith
led with three entries. Harlus, 49,
S47, by Golden, was one of the
finest horses on the grounds and is
the largest Golden we have ever
seen. MI Smith also showed Harry
Golden and Ruric, two-year- old
shown by George Lance of Calais, L.
c. Cole of Cabot, 6. W. Darling of
South Ryegate, George Hardy and
Alex. Nolan. Gentlemeu's drivers
were entered by Cloud Harvey, H.
H Meader, L. Myers, n. A. Park, w.
A. Renfrew, c. w. Scmers and o. H.
Renfrew. Roadsters were shown on
the track by r. n. Norwood, Geo.
Cochran, w. A. Leet and D. Vance.
Three pairs Of matched horses were
entered by NJ. c. Bailey, G. E.
Meader and J. c. Hood.
w. 7. Smith showed two mares
with foal and the same were enter
ed by S. NJ. Hood, H. E. Whitehill,
w. A. Renfrew and Alex. Nolan. Mr..
Hood who lives IN West Topsham,
also entered yearling gelding that
was sired by WestmOnt, the same
sire of his colt. T. A. Meader, the
busy secretary of the fair, and who
has done lots of work to m Ike the
fair success, showed d four year-old
western colt that took first premiu m
over all the others. Colts were also
entered in this class by r. n. Worm
wood, R. D. Sherry and D. Vance,
who made two entries. Three year
old colts were shown by George Co c.
ran. George Lackie, G. 6. Nelson and
J. P Miller. w. J. Smith, George
Cochran, DIR. w. A. Thorn as, w. 7.
Nelson and F. F. Gray entered two
vear-old colts Yearlings were enter
ed by R. N. Norwood, S. M. Hood
and w. J. Smith, the latter making
two entries.
The poultry exhibit though not
large was ahead of all previous
years. S. NJ. Hood easily led, show
ing some fine specimens of Silver
laced WyandOttes, Rose Combed
Brown Leghorns and Barred Ply
mouth Rocks. A. H. Gibson enter
ed Plymouth Rocks aud ducks, w. J.
Smith Houdans; Plymouth Rocks
and Embden geese, W. A. Gibson
Plymouth Rock chicks, George
Crown Jr., Houdans. Plymouth
Rocks were also shown by Mrs. c. !.
Nelson and H. B. Miller.
Possibly the tariff bill affected the
sheep exhibit, as there were only a
few entries. J. w. Stevens had
large exhibit of fine woods, and a
few Shropshires were shown by
George II. Miller.
Only few cattle were on exhibi-
ton Yesterday, but the fat yoke of
oxen of Mr.. Miller of Barnet were
much admired as they paraded
around the track. The pair does
not weigh far from 5000 pounds.
Floral Hall at this fair is a
long tent that is always filled with
specimens of vegetables. There were
al entries in the ladies fancy de-
department. Oil paintings were
shown by Mary Beattie, Lucy Quint
and Mrs. Elma Batchelder. Mrs. A.
McLam displayed a charcoal draw
ing, Mrs Thomas Goodwin of Gro
ton, 80 years old, showed a pieced
quilt and Mrs. O. Boardway entered
rope table that was much admired.
There was large display of useful
articles which cannot be described
here in detail. In the department of
bread and preserves there were &c
entries. The young girls made very
creditable display Of cooking, draw
ing and fancy articles and there were
Al entries here. The boys confined
their exhibit to vegetables. Gn6llan
Brothers had a collection of - va
rieties of vegetables, Walter J. Brock
FIVE and the Farquharson boys four
varieties. Other boys who entered
vegetables were Adna NJ. Terry,
Charles Boardway, Nelson Broth
ers, Fred Exley, Harry Ramsey,
Samuel McAllister, George H. Berry,
Harry ". Crown. Miss Alice Pow
ers showed some luscious watermel-
Ons.