Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-09-22
ANOTHER COUNTY FAIR.
Highly Successful Exhibition Given
Last Week.

Highly Successful Exhibition Given
Last Week.
LARGER SHOW THAN EVER OF HORSES
AND CATTLE.-INTEREsTIN CONTESTS,
GOOD WEATHER AND GOOD CROWDS.
The officers of the Oxford County
Society had faces that were
aglow last week, and the glow was due
to two causes; first the fact of the way
was going right at the fair,
and second because of the fervid heat
which everywhere prevailed, and which
painted ruddy hue on the palest coun,
tenance.
Whew! However near to being a
record breaker the fair may have come
in any other respect, in the matter OF
weather the oldest inhabitant can't re-
member anything, in all the years since
the society was organized in 1912, tina,
touched this year. For two days, through
Tuesday and Wednesday, the crowd
sweltered, and wilted their collars, ano
gasped, and endured it. The rain OF
Wednesday night laid the dust in good
shape, and cooled the air little, though
Thursday was still summer day, will
occasional drizzles of warm showers
Taken all in all, in spite of the heat, thu
weather did not keep the crowd away
and was very satisfactory to the fai
managers.
The attendance was fully up to th'
average of the good years. The receipts
from sale of tickets have been larger
but they make total of about $4,000
Of course the big crowd came on We'd
nesday as usual. Tuesday the attend
apce was small, and Thursday less thai
half of Wednesdays crowd.
And right here perhaps it might b.
we'll to comment upon the convenient ar
rangement of the grounds, and the cas-
with which big crowd is handled
The different departments are so distri
buted that, with from seven to tel
thousand people on the grounds, Their
is no jam anywhere, from the tickle
office through to the grand stand. Their
will be good crowd at every turn, bu
plenty of room for everybody.
The following are the officers of tn
society who did the hard work inciden
to this fair:
President. william ]. Wheeler, South Pari
Vice President, Henry d. Hammond, Pari
Secretary and Treasurer, A. c. I. KIM
South Paris.
Trustees, James w. Libby. Hartford, Mort
Turner P. o.; Edward W. Penley, Greeawoot
West Paris z. OF Charles F. Mil!ett, Norway
William o. rockingham, South Paris; Euger
E. Andrews, Norway.
The trustees acted as division superb
tendentS, President Wheeler and Vice
President Hammond having charge {
the grounds and Mr.. Hammond of TIL
hall, Mr.. Penley, Mr.. Libby and Mr.. Mi
lett of the cattle, and Mr.. Frothinghal
and Mr.. Andrews of the horses.
AMONG THE CATTLE.
The woods were full of cattle, an
wherever you moved on Wednesday
the section devoted to them you foun
still more cattle. Not far from 500 hea
were on the grounds, and better lot
would be hard to find. Quite numbt
of them were driven across the countI
twenty and thirty miles to attend tn
fair. 1t is impossible for the Democr;
to give even brief mention of all the To-
of cattle to be seen, and few not,
must suffice.
E. L. Pike, South Waterford, had
long string of cattle on exhibition
thirty-seven animals in all. There W;
a handsome herd of sleek Holsteins, an
several yoke of oxen and steers.
D. p. Curtis, West Paris, exhibite
fourteen head of good cattle, oxen, stee
and heifers. He left six 2-year-o
steers at home.
L. F. Everett of West Paris Shove
six head including yoke of oxen,
yoke of steers, some heifers, and tho
Oughbred Devon bull calf.
D. A. Tuttle of Buckfield, who alwa,
has some good cattle to show, had tv
yoke of big oxen and three of steers {
the grounds.
l.. E. McIntire of Waterford exhibite
a handsome yearling Holstein bull and
l2-year- old HolStein heifer.
One of the first lots of cattle to arri'
was the string Of oxen and steers fro
Hartford, which got in about dark Mo
day night-twenty-one yoke, two
them from Sumner and the rest fro
Hartford. They started at six in Il
morning and had long, hard day in Il
heat. Hartford is noted for its oxe
and this string had a good lot of goo
Representatives of the stock. Six vol
of the cattle belonged to Moses Youn
four to Oscar E. Turner, three to B.
IGlover, two to C. C. Russell, two to We
ley Poland, one to Llewellyn Polan
one to George Brown, and two to Har
Bonney of Sumner.
Harmon Harnden of East Fryebu
made long journey to the fair with
herd of twelve head of Durhams.
II. T. Heath showed three yoke
likely steers.
ii. NJ. Fiske of North Waterford g
hibited bull and good yoke of 2-yea
old steers.
Z. Ingalls, of Denmark had two vol
of good oxen on the grounds.
S. Abbott of Norway exhibited thr
yoke of oxen and steers.
Roy Herrick and G. G. French of Nc
way had each yoke of oxen.
From the farm of L. S. Holmes of Ea
Oxford seventeen head of register'
Herefords were shown-a pretty lot
white faces.
d. S. Bracket of Oxford showed
Sussex bull 2 years old, and sever
other head of Sussex cattle.
E. E. Chapman of Paris, Durha
bull year old, and several grade heifeI
G.. II. Davis of South Paris, some goo
grade cows.
j. S. & j. II. Millett of Norway,
number of grade COWS and heifers.
A. j. & F. Millett of Norway, Gig
head, mainly grade Guernsey heifers.
c. A. Richardson, West Paris, vol
of grade Devon steers years old.
A. A. Noyes of Norway, herd of nil
cows and heifers.
z. W. Mills of Norway Lake, yoke
grade Hereford steers year old.
c. NJ. Merrill, South Paris, GOO
grade Jersey cow.
"Uncle John" Martin of South Par
took the blue ribbon with his big graz
Holstein cow, known of all people in Il
vicinity of this town.
Richard Gates of Paris, five grade Je
sey cows and heifers.
A. o. Wheeler of Paris, 2-year-oI
Ayrshire bull and six cows and heifer
all but one thoroughbred.
w. E. Twitchell of Paris, 2-year-o Of
Devon bull.
c. A. Richardson, West Paris, a yea
ling Devon bull.
w. H. Blake, South Paris, grad
Durham cow which took the blue ribbol
and q Devon COW.
i Tharar Rros Paris ton haad COW