The Newtown bee., 1900-09-14
New Milford Fair. Opens On Tuesday With
 A Light Attendance. WEDNESDAY A FAILURE
 OWINGTO HURRICANE ANDSAND STORM.
 Ideal Fair Weather: Thursday. and a Good Crowd.
 FAIR TO BE CONTINUED, FRIDAY THE 14TH.
FAIR TO BE CONTINUED, FRIDAY
 THE 14TH.

The New Milford fair opened on Tues day under threatening skies, but no rair fell, although the clouds were dark and lowering at times. The sun occasionally looked through, and at night everything gave promise of the two fine days which followed. The attendance on Tuesday was smaller than last year for the same day, about 500. But this was doubtless due to the dusty and uncomfortable trav- cling and the muggy and midsummer like weather.
 Tuesday was genuine August day, and but for the changing of the foliage one would not suspect that it was Sep tember and that the fair season was at hand.
 That the fair was the success it was, in 8 measure was due to the thorough way it was advertised by posters throughout the adjoining country, by the genial and competent secretary, J. Edwin Hunger ford. In every town the writer has travelled (and he has visited them all hereabouts the last six weeke) he has run across the posters of the New Milford fair, posted on rocks, barns and sign posts. MT Hungerford did his duty, and the people responded in good shape. ln addition THE BEE has lent it's best assist ance, as this paper believes in the faira as a means of healthful recreation and pleasure to the hard-working tillers of the soil. The people in the cities and the villages also take quite as much pleasure in them do their rural friends as the fairs become places of reunion for families and old-time friends.
 Then again the
 J.Le Roy;;Buck ,..the presidents one of the succe ssful farmers and business men of the town, and 8 man who has the con- fidence of the people. In the treasurer's office the fair has the right man, E. ). Emmons, who does lot of thankless of the board of directors. These posi-. tions of the fair officials are not so much to be desired, for there is always cer- tain class who will stand in the stores and on the street corners and hurl bricks of criticism. They would do differently if they managed the concern, you know Bus enough of this. Tuesday was cattle day, and probably about l25 head, COWS, bulls and working oxen were ex. hibited. The drawing contests were the I center of attraction in the afternoon, and tests. Among the crowd of on-lookers could be seen the tall form of that expert and popular cattle man, s. G. Lockwood of Wilton. He was greeted warmly on | all sides, as few cattle men in Connecti- cut have more or warmer friends. That public spirited New Milford woman, Mrs
 W. D. Black, set the farmers good ex. ample by her interest in the fair, sending
 16 head of fine stock from her farm.
 They were in charge of her efficient su.
 perintendent, John Donnelly. Exhibite
 from her farm included one yearling heifer, yearling bull, two heifer calves, two three-year-old cows, three four-year: old COWS and the two-year-Old bull, Queen Princess' Son. Two of the heifers in this group, "Molly" and "Polly Grove,'
 were especially fine animals and valued at $75 per head.
 IN THE MAIN EXHIBITION BUILDING the merchants and the ladies also, were
 rather slow in bringing in their goods
 But by night the hall presented bright appearance as nearly everything was in
 place. This building was in charge o1
 Director Homer L. Wanzer, who had an able assistant in that estimable Lanes.
 vile farmer, Arthur E. Knowles. Be.
 ginning at the south end was the exten.
 sive exhibit of that popular Bank street
 dry goods merchant, W. e. Barton. This I tAulUlt Woo dAA 0AHOA bJ oAO oA uio ooh' ble assistants, P. E. Green, who showed { his accustomed good taste as decorator
 In MT Barton's exhibits were rugs, car J pets, corsets, the famous Sorosis shoes and other goods.
 Right along side of MT Barton, Staub
 S Mallett had an especially fine display
 As they have one of the moet complete
 hardware stores in Litchfield county, il
 is no wonder they had nice exhibit
 For background and canopy the various
 grades of horse blankets sold by the firm
 were used. In the center was a show
 case filled with cutlery and on either sids
 handsome teapots that any housewife
 would be crazy to own. Hanging about
 their booth were the various grades o1
 harness sold by them, while Tn the real
 were guns, which captured the eyes o1
 the boys and men and made them thini
 of the hunting season close at hand. Or
 the same side was the veteran agent
 Thomas Fuller, with the reliable New | ino