Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-09
WINDSOR FAIR.
Auspicious Opening Of South
Kennebec Agricultural Show.
The Usual Fine Exhibition and Coco
Sport on the Track
Lucy p. Wins Three minute and Gus
tarmain the IS Pace or SO Trot.

South Windsor, Me-, Sept. D.
(SpeciaD-The 10Th annual exhibition
of the South Kennebec Agricultural
Society opened here, today, at the
society's fair grounds. and will contin-
ne Wednesday and Thursday. OF
course, as is always the case on open
ing days, there have been very few eX-
hibits on the ground, either in stock OF
the other departments, but tomorrow
things will look different
( If you get up early enough tomorrow
morning, you will see the roads leading
to Windsor lined with cattle, for those
who know have been telling, today
that there was going to be the biggest
lot of cattle on the grounds that Wind
sor has ever seen, and there have beer
some pretty good cattle shows here, be.
! fore.
But although Wednesday is "cattlt
day" and the stock is not usually kept
uron the ground more than one day
tdfere were two fine lots OF boode6
aginlals on exhibition, today One was
a drove OF 9 Holsteins from the herd al
theS National Home, headed by the
4-gear-old bull, Sir William De Kol
and including two younger bulls ant
several heifers. The stock are al
heavy, Sir William De Kol weighing
POO, while one of the 3-year-old heifers
weighs lij0
s. w. Lewis also has a choice lot Of
registered Jersey stock, from the Ran
RI nj
headed by the bull, Santos Boy, 5S,S11
and they are Il handsome lot
I'm the exhibition hall the same unset
tied condition of affairs has existed al
day. The exhibits have been coming
in. and Mrs. Coombs and the Other
ladies of the committee have beer
working hard getting things straight
cned out for the morrow.
Aside from this, the fair has been
ready for business since morning. The
speed horses are all here, and if
today's races are any indication there
is going to be some fun out in front
of the grand stand for the next two
days.
Out on the Midway-that indispensi-
BILE adjunct to the modern fair, the
fakirs are gathered in goodly numbers
but they do not seem so VOciferOuS as
usual, or did not today. perhaps on ac-
count of the small attendance. But
somehow the Midway seems to be of a
more persuasive nature than usual, and
the bankers lift up their voices more
to lure the crowd into buying double
jOinted California peanuts than to eX-
patiate upon the terrible "Hi XII" who
eats 'em alive" or to coax the last
ten cent piece from your pocket in ex-
change for q glimpse of Paris by
gaslight."
The only genuine, out and out Won
der upon the grounds is shown by Prof
Perkins of China. The professor is AZ
much n part of Windsor fair as is the
gate money, and he always has some
thing new. This year it is four
months calf. which is blessed witt
several more feet than are really nee
cssary for successful locomotion. The
professor had a COW a few years ago
along the same line of freak, but the
calf is a brand new thing.
Something which is missed from the
Midway, this season. is the merry-go
round This has always been one o.
the features of the fair, and has fur
nished lots of sport for young and old
besides filing the air with airs which
we're popular when the oldest man in
side the fence was boy.
The program for today will include
concert by the Augusta Cadet Band an(
a trapezc performance by Prof. Geo. W
Collins. A trapeze will be erected acros'
the track from the grand stand. Othel