The Portland daily press., 1900-09-14
SOUTH PORTLAND.
ScarbOrO Fair an Event of Next
Week.
Social and Personal Items of Interest
Gathered Yesterday,

The following Is the programme for
the 10Th annual exhibition OF the Scar
borO and Cape Elizabeth Farmers Asso-
citation. which viii be held at the fair
grounds at Pleasant Hill. Scarboro, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept IS,
10 ana ~:
FIRST DAY, TUESDAY, SEPT. 10.
1000 a. m.-Examination of neat stock,
sheep and swine.
1870 p. m.-Cavalcade of neat stock
and horses,
90 p. m.-Exhibition of working oxen
ana steers
2 80 p. m.-Best exhibition of strength,
one yoke of oxen, z and under.
300 p. m.-Best exhibition of strength,
one yoke of oxen, and over.
Trotting and Pacing.
100 p. m.-Green horse race, open to
Scarboro, Cape Elizabeth and South Port
land horses. Purse $50, $50 to first, $50 to
second, $40 to third.
2.aO p. m.-2. SO class. Purse $75.
Ladies' bicycle race will take place be-
tween the heats during the afternoon.
SECOND DAY, WEDNESDAY SEPT. 10.
1870 a, IN Examination of farm,
-ACNn~Hf
Free for all.
Best strength of one yoke of oxen.
Purse $40 So 30 first, Sc to second, 81 to
third, 50 to fourth, Four to enter and
three to start. So TO enter.
Best exhibition of strength by one pair
of horses 24OO pounds or less weight.
Purse $40, So TO first. So to second, 50 to
third.
Best exhibition of strength by one pair
OF horses 240O pounds or over weight.
Purse $40, So to nrst, So to second, 50 to
third.
Trotting or Pacing.
1870 p. m.-2 80 class. Purse $50, $25 to
first, $l5 to second, $40 to third. Fourth
horse wins one barrel of flour by Dyer
and Jose.
$50 p. Mas class. Purse 100.
300 p. m.-Ladies' race to sulky.
third.
co p. m.-sack and wheelbarrow
races.
THIRD DAY, THURSDAY, SEPT. 20.
Draft Horses.
Free to all.
II 90 a. m.-Best pair of horses. Purse
$50, So to first, Sc to second, 81 to third,
81 to fourth. Entrance fee s.. Four
to enter, three to start.
loo p, intent driving horses.
4IObbAuH VI 1dC1uks
1.30 p. N -2.33 class. Purse S75.
$50 p. m.-2 % class. Purse $3.50.
300 p. m.-Running race to saddle.
There will be other attractions which
will be announced later. The manage
ment Is putting forth every effort to
make this the best fair the association
has ever held.
Entries to close Saturday, Sept. 10.
If all reports prove true there is to be
an exciting horse race at Narragansett
Park, Gorham, next Saturday, when the
rair is completed. Temple Hal and N.
f. Trefethen's horse are to be the con-
testants and it is understood several large
bets have been made. The racing will be
to the finish.
The heavy gale of Wednesday played
havoc with the orchards all along the line
from Cape Elizabeth to Soarboro, and APP
pies which had hardly ripened took an
early fall to the ground and were being
gathered yesterday by the many barrels
full.
The tent which " as erected on Sawyer
street for the meetings under the auspices
of the Pentecostal church, was blown to.
the ground 1t will not be pitched again
as it was intended, in any event, to sus-
pend meetings by Sunday next.
Dredging is going on opposite to the
South Portland side with satisfactory
progress But one dredge is IN operation
and not before several weeks will the
other dredges, which are at work now at
Cape Porpoise, be brought to this
harbor.
Albert Marshall Spear has been ap-
pointed Inspector of the Sanford street
sewer, in the interest of the city. in place
Of Sumner Smart who resigned
Henry Currier, an employe of the Ber-
lin Mills company, who OF late has lived
in Deering, has taken a tenement on the
corner OF Dyer and Front stress.
Albert Skinner and Robert Chase are
in New Hampshire on diving business.
The Jolly Six are making arrange
ments to resume their dance and hope to
give one by the latter part of this month.
Miss Lottie Skinner is employed in the
ticket Office on board the Elizabeth City.
LAWN PARTY.
A most enjoyable lawn party was given
Wednesday evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. w. S. Small on Stanford street
in honor of then son, Alvah r., who
leaves today for the Maine State college
at Orono. The grounds were profusely
illuminated with japanese lanterns.
There were about % of his classmates and
friends present. besides a large number of
relatives. Ice cream, sherbert, Fcake and
punch were served and the evening was
most delightfully."- spent with games, mu-
sic, etc. During the evening Mr.. Small
was presented by his uncle, w. Fred
spear, with an encyclopedia for use In
his college work.
Walter Stevens, a member of the South
Portland Cycle club, has returned from
a delightful wheeling rip through the
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