The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-10
CORINTH FAIR.
Good Crowd in Attendance De-
spite Inclement Weather. Ex-
hibitions Fully Equal Those
of Former Years.

of Former Years.
The Waits River Valley Agricul-
tural Society held its thirteenth an
nual fair on the fair ground at East
Corinth, Vt, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, September 3, 4 and 3. 1t
promised to be one of the best ever
held on the grounds on Wednesday,
the first day, though opening with
small crowd as usual. Every one
hoped for a fine day Thursday, but
in the early morning the rain began
to fall, continuing through the fore
noon, thus keeping great many away
| who would rather have attended on
the second day. In spite of untoward
circumstances, however, it proved a
very good fair. Friday, the third
and last day, commenced very cold
and so continued all day, most people
| wearing overcoats and warm wraps.
! Although so cold there was very
/ large crowd, it is said, the greatest of
any third day in the history of the
fair, there being about 1000 on the
grounds. The usual amusements at
tending country fairs were every
where in evidence, including striking
machines and plenty of opportunity
: TO obtain refreshments in the way of
( food and drink
On the second day the officers were
in attendance. During the forenoon
| the town teams were shown and the
! judges took up the work of examining
| the brood mares, stations and and
3-year- old colts AT two O'Clock the
green race came off. Purse, No l.,
$50. At 2; 80, the 2:35 race. Purse
No. 2, $50 The 2 80 race occurred
on Friday. Purse, $50 Among the
amusing events were the peg race,
the oat race, and the scrub" race,
the last calling forth a great deal of
merrimelt.
The officers of the fair were H. p
Warren of Fairlee, presidents B. +.
Ordway of Topsham, A. P. Worthen
of Bradford, vice presidents B. T.
Holland of East Corinth, treasurer
A. @ Jackman of East Corinth, secre-
tary; W. V. Hood, East Topsham
general superintendent A. p. Worthen
of Bradford marshal
The exhibit of stations, brood mares
and colts was well up to that of pre-
vious years. Among them was one
yearling colt owned by d. p. Smith of
Washington. This colt is called Cob
den S., Junior, and is very fine
/
high and attracted much attention.
Mr.. Smith also had on exhibition a
sucking colt that bids fair to be
equally as good as the yearling S.
M. Hood of West Topsham had
on exhibition a fourteen months old
colt, Morgan, sired by Lambert. Mr..
Hood received on this colt, the second
premium.
There was good showing of cattle,
mich COWS, steers, yearlings, calves
Among these was pair of steers own
ed by u. W. Baldwin-four years old,
weighing 3, 100 pounds. They took
the premium on the sweepstake prize.
OF poultry there was an excellent
display, many different breeds being
! shown This department was in
I charge of j. W. White of East Corinth.
! OF sheep and hogs there was fine
showing though the latter was not so
large in numbers as in former years.
III. p. Warren of Fairlee had on ex-
hibition all kinds of furniture, car
riages of several styles and very fine
line of harnesses which added greatly
to the appearance of Mechanics Hall.
Three different separators were on eX-
/ hibition: the National Cream Separ-
ator, exhibited by j. Dickerman
of East Corinth; the Kneeland Omega
/ Cream Separator exhibited by T. A.
Green, general agent for Vermont and
! New Hampshire, of Newbury, Vt.
and the DeLaval Cream Separator ex-
hibited by L. B. Brack of Barnet, VT.
The vegetable department was very
! good, although not so varied in kind
as we might expect, but still was
well arranged and attractive to the
80 fr,,
appeared, except that which was can
eud but the display of butter was
worth seeing.
Floral Hall was placed under the
efficient supervision of Miss Anna
| Divol who did herself and the fair
much credit by the tasteful manner
in which she had planned the arrange
ments; the number of sofa pillows
was surprising and there were bureau
| scarfs, tides, commode scarfs, crocheted
mats, silk quilts and braided rugs,
galore Sachet bags, lace and hucka-
! back doilies were also there to be
seen and admired
Draft horses were shown by
Charles Martin, of Corinth, and L.
A. Hood, of Topsham. Mr. Martin
won for heavy draft, LIST Hood won
for heavy draft, 2nd l.. A. Hood,
Topsham, on light weight, LIST E. R.
Taplin, Corinth, on light weight, End.
OF draft oxen, William Merrill of
Bradford won, on heavy weight, 1st ,
on heavy weight, 2nd Charles
Thurston of Bradford, on light weight,
LIST; George Baldwin of Bradford, ON
light weight, End.
GENTS DRIVERS.
l. o. Kicker, Groton, lst
r. O. Martin, Bradford, ID
MATCHED HORSES.
G.. w. Dennis, Oxford, n. H, LIST.
l.. Merrill, Bradford, 3D.
The following is a complete sum-
mary of the races:
Thursday.
Green Race.