The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-07
THE BOLTON FAIR.
Postponed From Wednesday and Drew a
Big Crowd.

Bolton, Oct. 6.-The Bolton cattle
show, scheduled for yesterday, was CIV
en- today, and it was a success, 1t
takes more than one days rain to stop
the Bolton cattle show, which has been
given to standing room only for rs
years
"To be sure" said Secretary VIM. F.
Brigham there are not so many cat
tie in the show as there would have
been yesterday" TO which very pref
ty Bolton girl replied:
What I'd like to know is the name
of anybody who ever went to cattle
show to see the cattle, anyway"
There was plenty to interest the 1000
persons who came to the show from
Clinton, Worcester, Leominster and
dozen other towns
Three hundred people sat down to
the big turkey dinner that had been
prepared under the supervision Of Gill
bert II. Wheeler. Ex-Mayor Harring-
ton Of Worcester was expected to open
the dinner with speech. He couldn't
come, and he sent a letter of regret.
The dinner was served by some Of
the best ladies of Bolton, among whom
were Mrs. G. H. Wheeler, Mrs. r. M.
Whitman, Mrs. 0. w. Haynes, Mrs.
Ella Dow, Mrs David Rollins and the
MISSES 1luGl Il eiy I'LL NloSCS O1l34Adllkg
Grace Nourse, Grace Dakin. Cora ia
cobs Cora Sawyer, May Otterman,
Ethel Crossley and Cora Neitzer.
The exhibition in the town hall was
smaller than some, but better than
most.
One of the finest things in it was the
display of dahlias Miss leila Wood
worth took a first premium for display
| Ing eight bouquets. Mrs. L. L. Brig
ham richly deserved the premium she
received for a magnificent collection of
| Sc varieties, including white pompons,
some Dawn of the day, some splendid
specimens of the Striped Banner, and
especially a bouquet Of Guineveres, as
| beautiful as the person of the unfor-
tunate queen from whom they are
named and was brilliantly yellow as
her reputation.
Every cattle show has the largest
squash as well as every fair. The man.
moth squash in this exhibition is not
as mammoth as some squashes as The
Spy has told about this season, but it
| is the stsinteresting.
It is the only largest squash in the
whole world grown by the smallest
man.
Thomas Maloney raised the squash
until it weighed 65 pounds, or one
pound for every pound Thomas Malo-
ney weighs himself. 1t might have
grown larger, but he picked it when it
was Thomas Maloney's wife weighs
as much as himself and the squash
weigh together. Mr. Maloney was once
in the professional way as a dwarf
He was on exhibition at the Bolton
cattle show for nothing, but people
have paid money to see him in half the
cities in this country He is so inches
high; the squash is not so high by 16
inches, but it is as big around thrice
/ Tho r71OxEfiup fol, ~, n
| Chamberlin of Berlin handily against
two competitors. J. Wyman Jones was
| second. Only swivel plows were used
and no land was struck out
| G. A. Stearns of Worcester, Company
| z, I'd regiment, exhibited a Mauser
rifle, machete and other material Of
| war captured from the Spanish before
El Caney. Three portraits painted in
the early part of the century attracted
much attention. They were portraits
| OF Martina Stearns who died in 1923: Of
simon Houghton, who was once rep
fesentatlye from Bolton, who died in
1915 and Of his son. These portraits
were worth frames which they have
not at present. The display of fruit
was fine, and there was a generous ex-
hlDitlon OF other farm products.
me poultry show wasn't half bad. A.
A Noufse showed some White Wyan-
QoCtes; so did Everett W. Woleott. G.
n. Rlcn sent some Spangled Ham
burgs The exhibition Of Lester j. Sar-
gent included wild ducks, two or three
xmas OF rabbits and hares, a game
hawk, and some cranes. Among the
celebrities present was Reuben Burn
ham, Bottoms Oldest citizen He is 9s
years old, but walked two miles to the
show, and got about without any pilot
ing whatever. Also present was Sam
uel hathaway, who correspondent for
me Spy 80 years ago. He made a
speech at the dinner, telling how he re-
membered hiding in a coach that was
once the property Of President John
Quincy Adams, fully half a century
since. But if there was one man more
than another who was pleased at the
magnificent attendance it was H. f.
Haynes, president of the Farmers and
Mechanics Association of Bolton, the
organization under the auspices of
which the fair is given. There were
people in Bolton it seems-not MANY
VINO wished to suspend an institution
that is to the town more of a holiday
than ten Fourth Of Julys rolled into
one. "A well known Bolton merchant
| SAID to reporter of The Spy
| 1T is President Haynes courage that
preserved this splendid day for his
townspeople. When the balance was
about to tip against the show, because
some were afraid no money would be
made, Mr.. Haynes jumped up and
| said: 'We'are going to have the show,
| If it takes my last cow. They had the
show, and there won't be money lost,
even though it was postponed"
Mr.. Haynes is 70 years old. He has
been president 70 years. What remain
ed of the dinner, some turkeys and
things was sold at aIf6tion