Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-09-14
Fair Notes.

Last Thursday was one OF the big
est" davs Butler has ever seen. The
estimate of the crowd in the town and
on the grounds that day was twenty
five thousand, and all the hotels and
restaurants were rushed to their ut
most-and then some while all our
merchants had a nice trade.
Everything went well at the grounds,
and there were no accidents of any ac-
count, nor any unusual incidents, ex-
cepting Navy Bean spree.
That evening after p, m. we noticed
people starting home in their rigs who
had twenty miles to travel. We hope
they all got home safely.
Miss Effie Pierce, of Butler township,
captured the s. premium for the best
display of farm products, (Which in
cluded fruit buffers, lard, butter, etc.
and also s. for the best display of can
ned and preserved fruits, Mrs. {. G.
Huber. of w. Jefferson street, captured
about twenty firsts and seconds on her
preserves, jellies, cakes, etc. Mrs. Cal
vim Logan, of Jefferson Centre, had the
first prize butter and Grant Cruikschank,
of Glade Mills. second. Mrs. Logan and
her sister, Mrs Smith also captured
many premiums of jellies, preserved
and canned fruits, cakes, etc. Mrs.
Thos. E. Smith and Mrs. r. NJ Altman,
of Butler, Mrs Millheim of Butler twp,
Mrs. Jennie A. Miller of Mercer street
and Miss Grammar also captured pre-
miums in this department.
Friday afternoon Daniel Younkin's
horse which was hitched to a surrY and
tied on the hill in the Fair grounds,
broke loose and ran off, demolishing the
surry and injuring itself
August Freehling, of Winfield town
ship, captured three first and three
second premiums on his Cheviot sheep
There was one thief at least in that
crowd and one or two men were touch
ed" for their pocketbooks.
w. T. McCandless, of Mt. Chestnut
secured lot of first premiums on his
exhibits of chickens.
Never before were there so many fine
horses at the Fair. Notable among the
exhibits Of driving horses was W. S.
Douthett's string of seven from the
Highyiew stock farm at Brownsville.
It was headed by the wellknown stud.
Butler Chief 2:25; and included Mary
Russell 2:09l. French Cornet, Lady j,
Rayless (by Darknight, sire of Search
light, Searchtel and Flora d. All the
horses, Rayless in particular. are of
very fast stock. l. n lift of Evans
City got first premium on his English
Shire stud Reigning Monarch and first
on the black Percheron Allhere. Henry
Hesselgesser, of Leasureville, and Will
liam Hesselgesser, of Worthington had
some fine Clydesdales there.
About six o'clock Thursday evening
J. S. Campbells Navy Bean, driven by
Will Morehead ran off in the 2:24 pace,
throwing the driver, and demolishing
the sulky on the fence as it galloped
around the track. A slightly intoxicat-
ed man got in front of the runaway and
was knocked head over heels. He was
badly hurt but got up and walked
away.
During the big day" of the Fair Gill
Moser, who had a restaurant near the
Grand Stand, sold II gallons of soup, 80
gallons of coffee, 30 gallons Of ce-
cream, gallons of oysters, 134O buns
80 loaves of bread in sandwiches, 1876
pies, and several bushels of baked beans.
Gill was complimented by the manage
ment, on the manner he ran his stand.
He gave entire satisfaction and made
some money
The P. & w sold nearly 10, 600 Fair
Grounds tickets or about seven hundred
dollars worth. and several of our hotels
and stores took in over $500 that day.
The association had articled with the
Balloon men for three ascensions-Wed-
nesday, Thursday and Friday-and the
ascention of Wednesday was very
pretty and successful one, but on Thurs
day the balloon was accidently torn, and
had to be mended and on Friday it took
fire from the hot-air arrangement and
was burned
P. H. Ripper took first premium, SO
for having the finest harness horse and
W. II. Milliron second $40.
J. s. Hays of Butler had the first
prize roadster and got $40, DR.. McCurdy
Bricker's bay mare took second, s..
Dan Markell had the best team of road
sters and got SO
John w. Titleys roam horse took first,
$40, among the standard bred horses;
Harry Morehead of Butler had the first
prize general purpose mare and got S..
R. c. Claypool's percheron stud took
second prize.
w H. Grade had the prize graded
Durham cattle.
Jacob Rutzley of Reibold had some
fine Holstein cattle and took some pre-
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