Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-28

most complete Which has been seen
here in a great many years. There is
farm implements of all kinds, rakes
harrows, ploughs, hay tedders, plant
ing machines, weeders, mowers, reep-
ers, cream separators, churns, hay
presses, threshers and gas engines for
use on the farm 1t is, in every way,
most instructive place for one who
would get acquainted with modern
methods of farming.
With each exhibit there is from one
to three men who are more than willing
to explain the workings of the different
machines shown, so that one who cares
to know need not leave the pavilion
without a very good knowledge of what
each thing shown will do AS the men
are kept constantly busy it is fair to
presume that the farmers who are at
the fair are taking advantage of the
opportunity of getting acquainted with
the latest schemes for lessening labor
on the place.
At night the fair grounds present an
attractive appearance, even more so
than by day. Then the hundreds of
electric lights are cleaning and shining
through the darkness giving a certain
tanned by sunlight. The front of the
au 'itorium is decidedly pretty at night,
being decorated with a great number Of
varied colored incandescent lamps,
which, from the nature of their ar
r1ngement, give an effect which is
most pleasing to the eye. The enter
tfinment at night is not up to the mark
of previous years, being smaller and of
different quality.
1t consists entirely of the vaudeville
acts by the Alabama Troubadours. a
troop of colored people, and the fire
dance by Solaret. This last is some
thing startling, and never fails to
please those who witness it. Those
who have seen the act on the summer
theatre circuit know what it is, and
are always anxious to see it again. OF
the troubadours not a great deal can
he said. They do their work we'll, to
be sure, but that kind of stuff is getting
to be very stale sort of entertainment
for crowds at the fair grounds. It's a
good deal like the man who lives on
mush and milk at home and when he
goes visiting has it pushed up to him
as a rarity.
IT'S So
There are no fireworks this year and
that has tendency to lessen the
pleasure of the evening part ofthe show.
The fire works of previous years have
been very good and have always been
enjoyed by The people who have come
to the fair. This has been equally true
of the day fireworks of other years.
This year neither are offered and they
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There has been a report about the
grounds that President Beal had an
nounced that this was the last year in
which he would have anything to do
with the fair. He was seen by the
Journal reporter and asked if there
was any truth in the story. He said
Il have never said anything of the
kind. What I said was this A gentle
man came into the secretarys office
and remarked that he had been coming
to the fair for the past 20 years and he
did not believe he would be here again
next year. I said in joking way
there may be two of us who won't be
here"
Il suppose that was sufficient to
start the report
The arrival of the fat woman is al
ways Il breath holding incident. She
comes down in hack and the prepar-
ations for unloading her are great. 1t
requires the combined efforts of half q
dozen men. including the driver, sever
al pianks and the advice of anywhere
from dozen to a hundred of interested
onlookcrs. As yet there has been no
accident in this important job of the
day, nut 1t is very important one and
great care has to be exercised
she is fat, too, this lady. Wouldn't
thlEk 1t perhaps, to see her in the brief
interval which elapses while she is 60
ing from the hack to the tent, where
you are allowed to look at her at the
rate of 10 cents a look, but the placard
states that she weighs over 500 pounds |
and that means that she is fat.
How much electricity can you take? !
Now that question applies to the genu-
Inc lightning, made by a battery and
not to the stuff which is being pushed |
out of Bangor's back doors and dis
pensed from the pockets and grips of .
sundry peddlers. OF that kind a HUI
man being can stand but little, but go
you will be astonished to find that the
scale registers you as taking more of a
current than has killed many a line
man in the past. Certainly, his scale
is correct
And there's the chance to get your
fortune told. All the girls and women
are anteing up their dime for the pur-
pose Of finding out their future. One
young woman, who has been married
some years, wished to find out if her
future was to be a rosy one, or a path
OF brick-bats and cobble stones She
PAID and received an envelope ccntain-
ing her fortune. Somehow it wasn't
satisfactory, as it told her that her ,
husband was to be light and fair and
nave darling little mustache and
come when she called Roger. The