The Yale expositor., 1895-09-27
OUR FAIR !!
A Grand Success Finan-
tally and Otherwise.
MANAGERS and Business Men
Give a Good Bill OF Fare.
Receipts at the Gate. $s56. 90. Grand
Stand, $50. 40.

Stand, $50. 40.
The Yale Agricultural Society held
its Fourteenth Annual Fair on their
grounds in Yale, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday this week. 1t was a
grand success and more than redeemed
itself from comparative failures of
other years.
John Wark, the hard-working secre-
tary of the society, had evidently,
amidst his laboriOus duties, not forgot
ten to propitiate the clerk of the
weather, for that functionary made to
order three of his finest specimens and
sent them down, slick and nice, for the
use of the fair, and they were dandies,
sunshiny, cool and breezy, and even
was so obliging as TO sprinkle the track
in good shape while the officials were
sleeping the sleep of the just.
Tuesday, the opening and entering
day, and Wednesday morning the Off
cials and attendants did not have much
time to brush off the flies while they
were getting things entered up and
placed on exhibition. But noon of
Wednesday things were in pretty good
shape and the crowds kept pouring in
i'll larger numbers than for several
years past.
While it may be said the entries were
not so numerous as other years, the
deficiency being largely in stock and
fruit, yet the number was quite re-
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superior quality, especially roots and
vegetables, which can be expressed in
one English ord-"mammoth" The
ladies also, as usual contributed to their
part most generously. The display in
fancy work, which woman's wit and
wisdom, and deft fingers constructed.
was simply marvellous, as well as their
exhibition in the fine arts. This GER
tainly makes always, as it did in this
present case, very attractive feature
of such gatherings, laying aside the
qualification of eXcelling and winning
prize for their handiwOrk.
Another feature that always goes to
help along district fair is the interest
taken by our business firms, some in
giving special prizes, and others in
showing their enterprise by making a
display of their wares OH the grounds,
thus making things attractive, while at
the same time they do themselves good
by presenting themselves and their
goods before the public for their better
acquaintance, and to let people know
that they live, move and have being,
and If a lot of our business firms and
more of our farmers would quit grum-
bling, aud make up their minds to do
something, even if they do not get a
first prize on every big beet and pump
kin they bring we would have fair
that would boom both village and
country beyond calculation.
To those business firms who showed
themselves and lent their aid to the
fairs success, the Expositor feels in
clined, for the common good, to give
them free "ad." which it is hoped will
stimulate others to 60 and do likewise
another year.
Outside of the building on the
grounds VIM. Harris had u good show
in buggies, wagons, and various kinds
of plows. Mr. Harris has always been
a liberal patron of the Yale fairs and
no doubt he has felt in his experience
that it pays well to show himself and
his goods before such crowds.
Entering the building on the west
wing on the north side A. w. Ferguson
made fine exhibit of wares, such as
ranges, stoves of various kinds, sewing
machines, and many other articles toe
numerous to mention, things that
Sandy knows how to buy and how to
handle to the advantage of his custom.
ers, and of course incidentally only to
his own welfare. Sandy can be found
at all hours at his store in Union Block
with full line of hardware to meet
the wants of everyone.
Across the isle on the south Wilson
q Son made good showing of furni
ture and an organ, samples of the kind
of goods he keeps in stock ut his store
north of Dufiie block.
Next on the corner came Mrs. James
Brown with a nobby glass show case
and "Oh, My! What lovely hats and
trimmings" was the usual eXclamations
,of the ladies as they first gazed on the
contents of that glass case. Hats and
feathers and plumes and everything
that goes TO make the ladies happy
Although Mrs. Brown has not very
large body, she has q wonderful lot of
energy and business enterprise, and
keeps i'm stock at her store on the cor.
ner opposite Cavanagh X Parkinson's
the largest and best stock of millinery
goods outside of the large cities, and Is
selling them at rock bottom prices.
Next on the south wing was Goheer
d Co., furniture dealers, successors tC
Brown and Cooper, who have hung out
their shingle i'm the White block JUS
south of George Coughs undertaking
rooms. They had on exhibition some
very fine articles of furniture. A bee
room suite in quartered oak and pol
ished was much admired, as were als'
some very handsome chairs which Mr.
Goheen informed us came from New
York, unique i'm design and uphol