The Portland daily press., 1895-09-04


divided equally among the owners of the
oxen.
OK HAULING CONTESTS.
The OK hauling contests in the after
noon were of coure as exciting as town
meeting day.
There were three classes of oxen in
these contests, viz: Those six feet, six
| inches and under in girth; seven feet
and under and seven feet and over.
| In the first class Frank Scamman' s
oxen won first prize pulling 269s pounds
distance of six feet; Fordyce Huff won
second prize.
| In the second class of oxen, seven feet
and under in girth, Frank Scamman's
yoke pulled 1878 pounds such a long
distance that an old croney of his re-
marked: "Why hadn't yer went home
with them stones, Frank? They'd or
made a good underpinnin' for yer barn. :"
Horace Martins big dappled yoke tried
the same load, and walked off with
them so smartly that the referee ESQ to
speak, Mr.. John Martin, awarded them
the victory.
Seaman wanted to try again with a
heavier load. They made the load 5464
pounds, and Sea mman's oxen hauled it
six feet.
The load was hauled around to the
starting point again by several Jokes,
and Martins big dappled yoke were
hitched to it. Foot by foot they jerked
and tugged the great heap of stones, and
in five minutes had moved it eleven feet
and won first prize. They girthed six
feet, seven INCHES and Scamman's girthed
six feet ten inches.
The next class was seven feet and over
in girth. Charles sHanson's yoke girHh
seven feet and two inches. They walked
off with that 1894 pounds for several rods.
Such is the difference. of half foot il
girth.
. Oscar behring's big red yoke were next
hitohed to the big load. They girthed
seven feet, seven inches They hauled the
load sixty feet, while tho first pair hauled
them but fifty-six feet behring's oxen
won. The first prizes were So and the
second 81
IdE hACEo.
There was only one race on the after
noon of this first day. That was for
horses owned within the four towns of
Buxton, Hollis WATERFORD and Dayton,
or within the society that had never
beaten three minutes The starting judge
was A. j. Carl of Saco. The others were
Samuel Haines of Saco and j. F. Haines
of Old Orchard. The marshal v as
William Deering of WATERFORD
There were five starters in the race, and
they drew their positions as follows:
Susie B. Dole Silver, Armo, Egypt Boy
and Fred Weaver. The purse was $50,
and the track was not in condition to
admit of very fast time. Dollie Silver
was not in it at all, and would have been
d1stanced except that they waived
distance. The heats resulted as follows:
Fred Weaver, b S, McCorrison
Susie B. B m, o, G.. Boothby,
Armo, b g, D. j. Foley, saco, aa4 5 81
Egypt Boy, g, Atwood Berry,
Bar Mills, 4. 3 4 4
Dolly Silver, m, Samuel Alex
ander, Hollis Centre, 5 81
Time-s.5O, 2 5211S, ?. 1871, 2.44A.
NOTES.
The Biddeford band furnished music.
There was a dance upstairs in the ex-
hibition hall during the evening.
There are two trots for today, the q "a
class. trotting. purse $3.50, nine entries,
and the $50 trot or pace, purse 500,
eighteen entries nv = s s.ss...--, =
There was an exhibition of gentlemen
driving horses on the track yesterday.
First place was awarded to Fred T.,
owned by Fred Shepherd, Bar Mills.
There are many attractions at the Bux-
ton and Hollis fair. The stock and the
hall exhibits are very excellent, the
racing is exciting and SO are the pulling
contests of the big oxen, there is plenty
of lemonade, ginger ale and peanuts;
there are r. D. pipes to shoot at. stuck
into the top of an old black hat; there are
fascinating fakirs, and there are plenty
of honest men, pleasant faced and horny
handed, who give you cordial greeting
and kindly word, but best of all,
pleasantest at the time and to think
about is the good old fashioned country
dinner, furnished by Messrs. Grant and
Pike in the rear end of the exhibition
hall. Genial. comedy Mrs. Pike declared
that she cooks just as we'll as she would
for company at home. and after you have
enjoyed her culinary handiwork you feel
inclined to go her one better and declare
that she cooks just as we'll as she would
for the parson, himself
The Jeffersonians.
The .Jeffersonians held their first meet