Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13
THE COUNTY FAIR.

The County Fair, held at Barton on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of
last week, was well attended and ev-
erybody had a'good time. The wealth
Ter was perfect all three days and the
fair was a success Considerable, prep
aration had been made in getting the
grounds in shape for the different
things, and the first day was spent in
getting the exhibits ready to be seen,
and the booths and stands ready for
Occupancy. There were large num-
4ber of stands and these things must
afford quite source of income to the
association as we'll as to the men who
run the stands. The exhibition of
stock was quite large and very good.
The sheep pens were nearly all filled
and the show was fine; the COWS were
as lot, very fine looking an
imals; the show of swine was rather
small. The poultry house was well
filled but the exhibition in this line
appeared to be made by a few people.
The floral hall display was small COM
pared with the display which has been
made there some times. The ladies'
part was filed with many dainty ar
ticles but the fruit and vegetable
show was very poor, owing, in part,
to the wet season which we have had
which has been bad for the produc-
ton of these things. The business
men here in town did not exhibit their
goods to any great extent, there being
but few who had anything at all.
There were a number of exhibitors
from other places which added much
to the display. The exhibition of sug-
ar tools was large. There were many
things on the ground to draw the at
tention of the crowd; there was a
merry go-round which attracted
large crowd. Peddlers were in abun
dance and they appeared to reap a
rich harvest. The names of the ex-
hibitors are not allowed on any of the
entrance cards so it was often hard
for US to get the names of the owners
where we wished to make a mention
of their exhibitions and we are unable
to give full report for this reason.
HORSES.
Some very good looking horses were
exhibited. The Valley Bros. exhibi-
ted Centello, S. G. Kimball showed
Cyclone, together with six other
horses. VIII. Hanscomb showed Vii
lage Boy, and S. E. King brought out
Star Pointer, both good looking hors
es, Carl Farley showed large brown
horse sired by Centello: o. E. Collins
had his horse, Colonel Upton, which
he bought in Maryland. there. Geo.
Conley exhibited a young stallion,
Rob Walker showed three year old
stallion. II. @. Bruce of Burke had
several horses there which added to
the exhibition. There was quite a
large number of young and good look
ing animals there. George Haslett
showed a yearling stallion and anoth-
er a two-year- old stallion, both good
looking. G.. E. Hinton, Wm and Al.
Leland, o. NJ. DeIano, Rob Walker,
W. @. Baxter, G. H. Root, F. B. Lang,
Frank Kane, j. r. White, R.A. John
son, Frank Barber, A. Whaley, FL. E.
Graves and G.. Fl. Prouty were all
numbered among the exhibitors Six
teen single drivers were shown, some
of them very nice looking ones. They
were owned by John Mathie, D. D.
Bean, Charles Dexter, II. @. Bruce,
M. J. Sherburne, Carl Farley, R. J.
Mcdowell, @. G.. Batchelder, Geo.
Vance, 8. L. Lathe, L. L. Hill, s. Bean
and Harry Merrill. Several good
matched pairs were exhibited; Ed.
White winning first money with his
blacks and @. Fl. Lee of Lyndonville
got second prize, with FL. w. Priest of
Irasburgh third. The prizes on the
driving horses were not awarded sim
ply on their speed as an inferior
horse might, for some reason, be able
to outfoot far more valuable one.
Considerable interest was shown in
the test of draft horses. The trial