The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-15
NORTH GORHAM FAIR.
Exhibition Of the GOrham Farmers
Club.
AN IDEAL AGRICULTURAL EXHI-
BITION 1T WAS.

The Big Pumpkins and Rosy Apples There
in All Their Glory-Exhibition Hall
Walls Lined With Housewives Quilts
The Races and Premiums.
The Gorham Farmers club is holding a
two days fair a Union, park, North Cor
ham. Union park is perched ON high hill
where the breezes are invigorating and from
which one may look over miles and miles of
fertile farming country. There is no high
board fence to obstruct the view of.the track
1T being separated from the surrounding
country by an ordinary woodside fence on
one side and by nothing on the other, but
there is gate and the people who visit the
show pay their quarters to the collector just
as il there was ten foot fence all around
the park. The fair is well worthy visit. vi
course i'll a town fair, and this one draws
most of its display from portions of Gorham
and Standish the exhibits are not many la
number. On top of this Northern Gorham
hill, however, there vas yesterday a coilec-
ton of fine looking cattle. White Rock. a
station on the Mountain division of the
Maine Central which can be seen from Union
park, is great shipping point tor milk
and the cattle at the tar COME from some
of the best milk farms in Cumberland county
and there are such farms in Cumberland
county which will bear comparison with
any in the world. Then there are the hall
displays in the substantial frame buildings
of two stories which serves the club as an
exhibition hall. There are plates of hand
some apples, Notwithstanding the fact that
apples are scarce and poor this season, big,
smooth skinned potatoes, squashes and
pumpkins and beets, while upstairs the
ladies have hung SO many quilts on the
walls that they hide the plaster.
The track is a good one and the races yes
terday were exciting. There is no grand
stand but as people come in carriages and
can sit by the track a stand is not necessary.
In Yesterdays racing there were two
events. the three minute and 2.40 classes
and in each four horses started. Matte, a
chestnut mare, the property of L. M. An
tboine, won the 2.40 class handily in straight
heats trotting like a machine with scarcely
a skip OF a break. Melody was q strong
second. She is owned by George Allen. j.
M. Stevens's Dottie s., and George Sawyer's
Robert Mack were the other contestants.
George R., owned b y George Wescott, won
the three minute class, but Jack, a Deering
horse, the property of H. Colesworthy
captured second money by pushing into first
place in the third heat. Black Prince, the
]sro ~rty of G. W. Jones and Aaron, owned
b. :, Hanson, were also in it. There
W.. of fun at the races The drivers all
had heir friends i'll the crowd and were
cheered on with various remarks as they
swept by. Representative E. NJ. Wilson was
the starter and c. II. Anthoine and I. NJ.
Douglass judges. The summaries
800 GLASS; U iSE $40.
George B., G, (Sawyer)
Black Prince bl G, (Allen) 2 p
Jack, bl g, (Colesworthy- Hawkes) 3 3 / 3
Aaron, b g, (Hanson) DIR
Time-2.59 "a. 2.59 1-2, sol.
2.4o CLASs-PURsE s12.
Matte, oh m, by Gov. Morrill,
Melody. b III. (Allen)
robert Mack, b G, (Sawyer) .
Dottie s., N, (Stevens)
Time-255, 2.5i, $50.
In the early part of the day there was
some pulling by the oxen, and of course it
was one of the interesting things on the pro-
gramme The contest for oxen'seven feet,
two inches and over gave pair owned.by
Richard Willis chance to show their muscle
CARL whose oxen also pulled in this class
had lighter yoke and they moved the drag 81
feet and 1--WE inches. First money was
awarded to Mr. Willis; second to Mr.. Carll
In the class for oxen under seen feet, two
inches, the contest was pretty one and so
even that the money was divided. Daniel
5ohnson's pair pulled seventeen feet five
inches. lust three inches more than the
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Another event of the forenoon was the foot
race, half mile. A. L. Bacon, Bert Chase,
Howard Gilman and Mark Newcomb
finished in the order named. The time was
2.3s IA.
During the day, the committees were bust
" at work. The names of the exhibitors to-
gether with the premium awards are:
Cattle-S. W. Phinney, five mich COWS,
grade AYRSHIRE, Hostein and Durham, first
premium F. Z. Phinney, Holsteins, second
5. W. Phinney, for best cow OF any kind,
A ,1a otis burlington, second; Elmer
Libby, grade, Jersey; A. V. Whitney, six
mich cows, three AYRSHIRE heifers; Charles
jersey yearling: j. H. Douglass, Jersey
cow; N: n. Newcomb, bull, J. =, johnson,
FIVE Tae s rGga eaeh AyrSh nis
George MORGAN, second; Daniel Johnson,
matched cattle, first.
Horses-y. W. CARL, matched pair, first;
George L. johnson, second; d. W. Paine,
colt, first A. IL. Norton, second.
Fruit-Edward II. Norton, first premium
Lewis Libby, second W. Il. Dresser William
Wescott, Fred E. Smith, Mrs. j. n. New
comb, Almon johnson, f. L. Whitney, Mrs.
J. G. Littlefeld, Guy Norton.
PouItry-M. A. Cobb, Plymouth chicks,
first; Mark Wentworth, Buff Cochin chicks,
first stillman Hartford, buff Cochin hens,
first; Clifford Douglass, Guinea hens; g. D.
Elliott Pekin ducks; F. l.. Whitney,
partridge Cochin hens and chicks; e. c.
Paine, silver spangled Hansburg, first; Mrs.
e. L. Walker, partridge Cochins, Rhode