Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-14
showed seed, grain, traces of corn,

We can give only a short description
of these departments. The tables
and hanging room we're all filed. The
household manufactures in the lines
Of yarn, feeting, mittens, rugs, scarfs,
spreads, quilts, fancy quilts ETC., were
pretty and in great variety. There
were small pieced quilts in which
months of labor and thousands of
| pieces were put in to show what an
| industrious woman will sometimes
do; and there was ornamental, needle
and crochet work on which a great
deal of time has been expended and
the best taste of woman displayed.
When the matter of giving premiums
is considered, the committee are
obliged from necessity to give from
ten to fifty cents on articles worth
as many dollars. In the ornamental
line there were an unusually large
number of good paintings, some of
them very fine. There were pictures
of various sorts, lace work, knit work,
fancy articles and curio sites of differ
ent sorts.
The photographers had up some
fine work, including faces, groups.
scenery and other views. Mr.. Rich
of Barton had large surface on the
wall filled with his A. 1. pictures; Mr..
jerks made smaller but very credit
able showing. The greatest single
attraction was the show made by @.
S. Phillips of Glover in taxidermy.
This included almost everything in
native birds from the crane and the
loon to the humming bird and the
bird of gaudiest color; animals from
the mouse to fine deer; squirrels,
foxes, ETC. The big longe and the
trout of three to five pounds, had all
been ssstuffed' and were seen. The
excellence of the work and the taste
with which it is put up and displayed
made the sight most pleasing. Mr..
Phillips show, was worth more than
the price of admission. Some of the
local merchants made a display of
goods which was very attractive;
Geo. FL. Davis, s'the shoe man" occu-
pied large space with shoes, more
than 30 kinds being on exhibition.
These ranged all the way from the
smallest baby slipper to numbers
which few women will openly ac-
knowledge; from the finest rubbers to
the sample rubberboot weighing
twenty pounds. Many of his styles
are fine as we'll as fancy. There was
a crowd of people about his stands.
Carl Aldrich had a large space which
he used in the display of watches,
jewelry, clocks, Sterling and plated
wares and everything pertaining to
his line. He showed fifty kinds of
watches, and clocks too numerous to
mention. His display was very pretty
Mr.. Cowles and his agents occupied
his old grounds with some of his
standard pianos and organs. His bus
mess in this county and vicinity is
large and everybody knows him. Mr..
Bailey had his usually good line of
instruments, and his agents were ac-
tive in showing up their merits.
Mr.. Beckwith of this village, who
runs the ssMettalinen shoe store,
showed a large line of his goods with
the mettaline soles, and showed that
they are impervious to water and to
sssqueak,'' two very desirable quail
ties True & Blanchard of Newport
occupied a desirable corner with their
Round Oak stoves, Glenwood ranges,
guns and ammunition. Their Round
n Il coI0 in.
county, and T. B. are hustlers along
all their lines of business. A. P. Bean
occupied place with his separators,
butter workers and sheep power. He
sells the Vermont Machine Co.'S.
goods, which is a good guaranty of
the dairy machinery.
There was some fine specimen work
in blacksmithing by Mr. Turcotte, and
Mr.. Arkley. We noticed a very ex-
cellent two horse wagon, built by S. f. |
Bickford, such as have been sold by
Mr.. Ufford; there were fine buggies
by Taplin & Rowell, and by G. j. Uf- |
ford & Sons; Mr.. Murkland had a
fine show of plows, one of his sugar
arches and evaporators, also one of
his large, church furnaces; True &
Blanchard showed the Monarch arch
and their evaporator with steel tanks,
etc.; g III. Grimne & Co. exhibited
their arches, evaoorators, water heat
ers and water trough; The Leader
Evaporation Go. also had display of
sugar machinery; o. j. Cass showed
the Sharpless milk separators with
boiler attachment which is used to
run the separator, the power being
very simple and easily managed