Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-19
A DAY OF SMILES.
Windsor Fair People Much
Pleased at Success.
Granite Wilkes and Grace Lake Win
ners Of Thursdays Races.
Great Interest in Baby Show-Another
List of Awards.

iaD.-Today has been a day of smiles.
Everybody and everything connected
with the fair has worn that facial ex-
preston which is accompanie by an
upward curve of the corners of the
lEouth, and emanates from a feeling of
pleasure or satisfaction throughout the
system, and which is called "a smile.
First of all, the sun smiled. as no al
ways does in pleasant weather. for all.
ana that was the prime reason for such
a general good feeling upon the earth
below. and in the immediate vicinity
OF Windsor. 1t brought a. smile to the
races of those who have been holding
the fair. and to those who wanted to
go to see the program for 1.-THE closing
day, for ii promised clear skies. and
there is nothing so conducive to the
success of a fair as pleasant weather.
And the managers of the fair had an
other reason for smiling, for locked
within the recesses of the strong box of
the society were many hundreds of dol
lars IN the currency of the realm. All
day long. Wednesday, in the cash box,
there was the merry jingle of silver
and the rustic of crisp bank notes. and
il WAS said. uDofficially. when the last
quarter had pumped down upon its
fellows iii the box, that the gate re-
ceipts for the day would figure up over
$1,000.
In the face of this fact. is ii to be
wondered at when the sun burned
through the fog this morning and
showed behind him a clear sky, that
the managers of the fair felt happy?
Nay. nay.
1t was not expected that anything
like Wednesdays crowd would be pres
ent. for the attendance IS never so
large on the closing day of the fair. but
when the gates were opened there were
people on the outside, waiting to come
in. and they kept coming until after
dinner. 1t was the same jolly, good
natured crowd as that which came.
W edneSday, only there was not so
much of it, Perhaps there We're 1000
people on the grounds when the trot-
ting began III the afternoon. Anyway,
ii was an unusually large crowd for
the last day.
Wednesday was cattle day. but today
the attention of all has been given to
the horse-tne Sires, dams and foals
holding court in the morning. and the
races in the afternoon. AS a conse-
quence the air has been redolent with
boss talk all day. and the owners of
prospective world heaters were right in
their element.
The horse show was not numerically
a large one but the stock shown would
seem to indicate that the Maine horse
| Is making Il steady gain in the way of
| breeding. Among the horses shown
were several from the II. Il. Sturgis
farm at Riverside. headed by the inn
ported stallion. Gov. Patterson. With
| the brood mares were several colts of
| his get. which were beauties. every one
of them.
Among others shown was a yearing
| colt by Glencoe. the property of War
rem Ware of Whitefeld, the old cam
paigner. Daisy Rolfe C226). with colt
bv Merrill. owned by Herman Thayer
Of Whitefield. Chas. p. Jones OF Wind
sor. showed two yearings-one by
Scrampton's Electricity out Of mare
~ Sin Nominee. and the other by
Sunrise. H. f. Choate showed colt by
Chapman and his dam, by Constalla-
| tion. Julia A. McGrath of Wnitetield.
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showed brood mares and colts.
4 horse that attracted much atten-
linn was the 4-year-old stallion Nell
/ oo,, Roy. owned and shown by w. +.
Brown. East Palermo. Nelson Boy Is
h,. Nelson. out of Leoni. by Will Clay:
he nv Red Wilkes. he by Geo. Wilkes
| second dam OmeTa. by Tuskegee
grandson of Almont. Third dam
S.risette by Draco. Fourth dam, Bet
~ stone. by Abdallah. Will Clay, the
sire of Leoni. was bought by Mr.. Mel
son i'm Kentucky. and was worked q
mile in 200. Nelson Boy is rich bay
in color. with black points. stands 16A
hands and is a strong made horse in
an noiuts. He is as kind as kitten
IA any one can handle him. He has
tneyer been worked for speed. but Nj
r,,o,yr showed him on the track, to-
d.v and the horse gave good evidence
that he inherits some OF the get there
qualities OF his sire.
U-h;,c III this horse business wa:
coin. on around the track and in the
.tab,as there was something takint
nlace in the exhibition hall that wa:
s,rro,,nded BY the most intense inter
ast md almost every representative Q
+ ,be yentler sex. within the enclosure
II vas nothing less than baby snow
Of the most approved type, and SOM
az The choicest specimens of poke
editions of humanity than could %
found in Windsor and adjoining town'
wore a,raved in their best bib an'
tucker. and competing for the henof'
of the day.
There were seven of the wee bits oil
exhibition. and they were all up II
!, arms. because they had not been on eS
lbibition before and the sight of s.
! tmony peoplc WAS perhaps Il trifle dis
concerning. lsut mothers arms ar
a refuge secure from all possibility o
!. harm. and the candidates. considerin
the circumstances. behaved Beautifully
1t is a very delicate thing. this givin
one baby preference over anothel
AMI friendships have been irreVocabl
severed in just this way. but. today
. il was the opinion of all that III
indges' decisions We're very Impartial
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