St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-14
THE COUNTY FAIR.
A Large List Of Entries and Big Crowd Ex-
pected--0eneraI Notes Of the Fair and
Wednesdays Programme.


opened at St. Johnsbury Tuesday MORN
ing and closes on Thursday afternoon.
If the good weather OF yesterday con-
tinues through the next two days the
attendance today will be the largest for
several years and there will be another
big crowd tomorrow.
The entries in all departments except
horses compare favorably with previous
wears and in some of the departments
the entries exceed last year in number.
Opening the competition TO the world
has brought in some excellent stock and
next year it will be even better.
The exhibit of oxen shows marked
falling off every year and the time is
soon coming when there will be no oxen
raised in this section. In blooded cattle
B. K. Graves has his fine herd Of Holsteins
and E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. have
entered their Jersey herd. Other Jersey
stock is entered by " B. Blodgett, F. c.
Lawrence and French F. Carrick
This has been a poor year for raising
horses and the various exhibits in the
horse department are choice but not
numerous. In the standard class comes
the beautiful French Coach horses from
Speedwell Farms led by the stallion
Ienner and two Others, Lorette and
Fornesse. Mr.. Vail also shows two
mares, two fillies and FIVE Iceland ponies
w. n. RanCall has entered some choice
stock, brood mare and colt SIZED by
Tarco, PIP, and Brown Nellie, who has
two 10 the list. A. F. Hill of Greensboro
enters colt and w. W. .Grout his
stations Henry S. and Goldthorn and
two mares and colts. Emmett Hill has
entered Jesuit and Mr.. Hills Cardinal
Wilkes is entered in the races.
Matched pairs are shown by Congress
man Grout and M. L. Stearns Of Lyndon
vile and gents drivers by c. E. & S. o.
Morse OF Danvile, Ira G. Smith and E.
X. Meader.
The increase in the premiums on swine
has brought out larger lot than usual
of these much-abused animals. In this
department E. P. Allen enters grade
boar and TWO sows; W. ]. Sawtell OF
West Concord, boar pig; U. G. Goss'
two pigs; Edwin Harris, grade pig ;
6. H. Morrill,, Berkshire boar w. o.
Greeley Of Waterford and Barrett
Brothers each White Chester boar pig
A. c. Hunt, Berkshire boar pig; E. E.
Koepka, SOW with pigs.
Poultry hall is well filled, but in point
OF numbers the entries are trife below
last year. There are about ITS entries
and about dozen large exhibitors. H.
B. Daniels has 20 entries, ]. c. and A. c.
Underwood, IL; F. II. Ranney, 8; w. l..
SWEET, 49, j. W. Church, TO- B. K.
Graves, 8; Barrett Brothers, SO; W. N.
Randall, 3; {. F. Boynton, 4 George
W. Farr, A; H. W. Heath Piermont, N
H., 49, Richard Gibson, 3.
The exhibit OF sheep is ahead of last
year and is headed by fine flock OF
Shropshires from Speedwell Farms. G.
H. Hinton of East Charleston sent down
large flock OF Testers and among the
other exhibitors we noticed w. /. Brown
of Lyndon Center and William Lindsay
The outside OF Floral Hall is well sur.
rounded with agricultural implements
and wagons. In the exhibit we saw q
fine lot OF wagons ane sleds made by
Scott M. Farnum & Wife, Barnet, ano
a In or rra6 hy 4 I
Clark.
filled with vegetables. The past season
has been good one for gardens and the
tables tairly groan with exhibits. Mr.
Woodruff has over 100 entries, S
Bandy is close second and Arthur
Pearce is not at all behind the others
The vegetable exhibit is confined almost
entirely TO these three exhibitors.
There are % entries in butter ant
cheese and only one entry for the sweep
stakes creamery exhibit, the Passumpsi,
Creamery showing Tor this prize.
Today's Programme.
The management are expecting a big
crowd today and there will be plenty t.
interest the people all day long. Their
will be no waits between the heats as il
previous years and the platform attrac
tons will supply long-felt want. Fol
lowing is the official programme:
9 80 a. m. Grand cavalcade of all stool
around the track George NJ. Gray superin
tend, mt OF the cavalcade.
1000 a. m. Exhibition Of matched pair
the track.
1915 a. M Exhibition of gents drivers OF
the track
1890 a. m Three minute class, $loC
trot or pace. thirteen entries.
90 a. m. Grand bicycle parade led b.
the st Tohnsbury band and San Francisc
Ministries band. After ing on Mai
street, the parade will follow the principe
streets OF the village and proceed to the Fai
Ground and ride once around the track
IL. 80 a. m. Vaudeville performance o
newly constructed stand in front Of Gran
Stand to fill in between races etc.
100 p. IN. 2.35 o.ass, purse $3.50. eigh
200 p m. Exhibition of Eastman
photograph in front of Grand Stand.
215 p. m. 2.22 class, purse 5000. THU
teen entries.
2.30 p. m. Japanese day frework.
These will be fired near the back of the trac
and when 300 feet in the air will burst int
fantastic shapes and float away.
245 III. Exhibition of Eastman's pho
nograph.
800 p. m. Vaudeville perft rmance i
front OF Grand Stand.
$50 p. m. Balloon ascension wit
parachute drop by c. &. Bonette of st. John
buay.
400 Vaudeville performance
The bicycle parade will form on Mai
street at 10 O'Clock and proceed throug
the principal streets of the village to II
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