Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-10-08
THE WORLDS FAIR.
The Usual Good Display. Large Attends
ance and Enjoyable Occasion.

day. "Wednesday and thursday anu,
like all the exhibitions of this society,
was a success. The weather clerk was
capricious and interfered with the at
tendance somewhat, but he was unable
10 keep the world away from its fair.
Tuesday was business day. No
tickets were taken at the gates, bnt
secretary Swan and his assistants
were so driven with work they were
unable TO finish until past ii p. m.
There was rush of entries. There
were many visitors this day but
amusement had to be gained from the
hucksters and fakirs, who were abund-
ant. These sources of amusement
ihad their outs, it is said. Some of the
fakirs had forgotten the larger num-
her of the commandments.
WEDNESDAY.
Rain fell almost constantly through
the earlier hours of this morning and
did not cease ntil after a. m. This
kept many who lived at ista1ce at
home. In many OF the surrounding
towns rain was falling until Il later
hour and the telephone bell in the sec
retary's office was kept iingling for
some time by those who wished to
know if the fair was to be postponed
and the operator had hard work TO
convince these inquirers that there
was no rain falling upon the Worlds
fair and that the sun was shining
brightly in Tunbridge. Their hereti-
cal notions were ridiculous. The
Worlds fair never has TO be post
poned. Good weather is its right and
the worst clerk in the weather bureau
! has TO get sunny when this fair i
/ held. There was about two-thirds
the usual attendance this day Of the
fair The exhibits in all departments
were large, oxen excepted, and excel
lent. The day was warm and the
program good.
HoRsEs.-The exhibit was large and
excellent, the entries in the matched
horses and driving classes being espe-
cially large \ large and stylish pair
of blacks owned by Charles l.. Howe,
Tunbridge, took first premium in the
give mention to nearly every article
shown. There were many articles that
matched horse class. \. &. Bur-
bank of Chelsea won the Sec
ond premium. Drivers shown by
O. 5. Martin, Williamstown, and by
Frank l.. Jones, Tunbridge, took pre-
miums. Horses entered by Rolla
Pierce and L. A. Woodland, Tun-
| bridge, stood we'll at the front in this
class. G.. w. Downing, Washington,
and G. ;. Hall, Randolph, were given
premiums for brood mares. d. Z.
Smith and &. w. Downing, Washing
ton, II. Z. Riford, Randolph, II.
Smith, Royalton, II. W. Bushway,
Pomfret, exhibited stations. Will
Belknap, South Royalton, showed a
fine four-year-old colt. Other good
colts were shown by G.. w. Downing
and ID. p. Smith, Washington, +. a.
Woodland and Albert Waterman,
Tunbridge, and Ned Conant of Ran
dolph. There were good races in the
$3.50 and 3-minute classes. a sum
mary of the races will be found in
another column.
CArTLE.--The exhibit of oxen and
steers was not so large as in other
years when nearly every farmer had
one or more good pairs, but it was a
meritorious exhibit and was larger
than that found at other inland fair
grounds this season. There was a
large and excellent exhibit of thor
oughbred and grade stock in the
sheds. Luke Parish of Randolph
showed fine herd of Jerseys. A.
b. Preston of Sharon, John p. Fish
~ Son of Washington and NJ. f. Pres
ton of Stanford were exhibitors of
large and tinely-bred herds of Devons.
Worthy of mention was a fat Devon
COW owned by A, b. Preston. Short
horns were exhibited by 5. p. Durkee
of North Tunbridge. ID. q w. Ii.
Robinson of STAFFORD and G. b. |
Dodge of Royalton were exhibitors
of full-blooded Jerseys. Fine grade |
stock was exhibited by Ben Tucker, |
George Perkins, Frank Jones, Charles |
l.. Howe, a. p. Salter n Son, Martin
Ross, George l.. Swan, w. 5. Cush-
man and +. A. Woodland, of Tun-
bridge, &. b. Dodge OF Royalton, Ray |
A. Freeman of Sharon, w. A. Farm
ham of South Royalton, o. Bixby of /
Chelsea, ID. Il w. II. Robinson of
STAFFORD, Fred A. Ross of Tunbridge
and A. b. Preston of Sharon. Tun-
bridge exhibited the only town team
of oxen. Fred Hutchinson of Tun-
bridge exhibited a pair OF working
oxen that easily won the first premium
in their class. A pair of steers exhib.
tied by VIII II. Jones were trappy
and strong. Herley Moses was pre-
MUM winner in this class. f. ID.
Moody of Tunbridge and Charles J.
Sleeper of StraffJrd were exhibitors
of fat oxen. ID. Il w. III. Robinson
of STAFFORD and George Ii. Granger
of Tunbridge showed good four year.
old steers. A pair of fine three YEAR
old steers, twins, were shown by
George L. swan of Tunbridge. Will
Moses of Stanford was an exhibitor
here. G. B. Dodge of Royaiton and
ID. 81 w. IL. Robinson of STAFFORD
were premium winners in the class
. II / I