Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-22
MEM PHREMAGOG FAIR.

The Memphremagog fair opened at
! Newport last Wednesday. The first
dav the crowd in attendance was
rather small and the hard shower in
the afternoon caused delay in the
races. The second day was all that
could be desired and there was large
number of people present. The ex-
hibit ion of live stock was largely Of
Canadian fat cattle and they made a
fine showing. D. M. Wilson of Cook
shire showed some fine Hereford cat
tie which were monsters, lone bull, it
is said. weighed ton. Mr.. Wilson's
stalls were all decorated with first and
second prizes which speaks we'll for
his stock. E. P. Davidson of Brook
dale Farm, Stanstead, exhibited some
Avershire cattle which took the prizes
in their line. J. T. Routledge of
Georgeville showed some fine Jerseys.
S. Lake & Son of Cookshire, and A. E.
Wilcox were also prize winners. L.
n. Collier of Derby showed some
Durham cattle, his large Durham bull
winning first prize. Mr.. Collier also
showed some fine steers, showing in
all sixteen head of cattle. L. S. Nye
of Coventry was one of the Orleans
county prize winners in Jersey stock.
G. @. Bean and Mr.. Putney Of Coven-
try showed some good looking Jersey
cattle.
Mr.. Cleveland of Coventry exhib-
tied some. of his prize sheep which
were we'll worth going to see. Fl. FL.
Tracey of Bloomington also had some
fine sheep on exhibition. L. B. Har-
ris of Lyndonville showed some of
his Shropshiredown sheep which were
beauties. B. B. Morrill, of Stanstead
showed lot of long wool Leicesters
and some Oxforddowns, Southdowns
and Cotswold sheep, thirty five in all,
winning several prizes. Mr.. Morrill,
large fairs in New England. Fl. @.
Bailey of Cookshire exhibited some
good sheep on which he took a large
lot of premiums.
B. S. Gallup of Charleston, I'll. Ell.
Tracey of Bloomington, j: D. Ken
dali, and A. P. Niles & Son were the
only exhibitors Of swine which we
noted, and their exhibition, although
not large, was good.
In the poultry line O. Wilson of
Stanstead took the prize for the lar
gest exhibition, while E. FL Norris
took several prizes in his lot; Henry
Pike Of Derby Line, L. Porter of Der
by, and FL. Fl. Day of Coventry, were
among the exhibitors in this line.
Frank Wheelock showed peacock
while B. S. Gallup of Charleston and
B. Bowley of Newport had some dogs
on exhibition.
Floral Hall, although small, was
trimmed and arranged in beautiful
manner. There was large amount of
bunting in evidence and each exhib-
itor apparently took hand in trying
to make the hall as attractive as poss
ible. All the space that could be spared
had been taken by the business
men of Newport and their showing
was very fine; Gilman & Co. made
good display of their goods, and also
exhibited painting, the work of S.
B. Horton, which was sure to catch
the eye Of the passer-by; Davis &
Cook, Of the Central Pharmacy, dis
played tooth powders, carnation
cream and other things from their
store which were arranged in such
style as to add to the beauty of the
surroundings; H. S. Root had the
floor of his booth covered with carpets
and the sides were decorated with wall
paper from his store; he also exhibit
ed some expensive crockery; The
booth occnpied by True & Blanchard
contained good display of fishing
tackle, guns, and many other things
from their stock of goods. In passing
through the hall the eye would immed-
lately be taken by the fine display
made by D. w. -Hildreth of the Eg
press and Standard. Mr.. Hildreth had
decorated his booth with the points
taken from pine boughs and his dis
play Of his work as a taxidermist was
excellent. He exhibited some three
hunded birds and animals. which he
informed us were nearly all to be found
in Vermont. Even those who had no
great love for flowers could not help
but admire the Ytistic display made
by J. r. Farrant. the florist After
viewing his flowers in the hall on could
not help wanting to make visit TO