The Newtown bee., 1904-09-23

menu was presided over Dy Mrs simon
 Bradley.
 The booth in the center of the hall
 was beautifully decorated with potted
 ferns and draped with yellow and
 white bunting, the colors of the"Club ,
 Mrs Georgia Banks presided at the
 booth and sold all kinds of fancy ar
 ticles, besides such articles as dust caps, aprons, 'etc.. which could hardly
 be called fancy, but the sweetest corner uf all was where Mrs D. B. Adams and her assistants dispensed swe cts to the sweet and here is where the larg- est crowd was assembled. The bal
 copy contained the art departments, the case of curiOS and antiques in charge of Miss Laura Dowd and Mrs William Hall. Here Mrs Doremus
 had a case of hand-painted china,
 which received medal at the Pan
 also exhibited table, chest, chair.
 book rack and paper basket of pyrog- raphy, all done in red and green. It
 was the work of professional and was beautifully done. Other work in typography and oil painting was we'll executed by Miss Sipperly, Miss Knapp and others.
 IN THE A NTIQUE DEPARTMENT
 were seen a sample of Eye olden time. " A catalogue of the officers and stu dents of Yale college in 1906: Rev
 Timothy Dwight, president; French clock, 15O years old, an oil painting of child executed in New York over 100 years ago; Account book of ITO; Blue
 laws of Connecticut, 163S-16 9; Alma
 nae, 1923; New York Evening Post,
 l783; plate which had been in Hub
 bell family 75 years; instruments used for extracting teeth 125 years ago; old
 fashioned hand made scythe; sword 200 years old and many other interest ing articles too numerous to mention. The D. M. Read Go. presented a number of fine presents to the most successful contestants in the different departments: Bread plate for best
 bread maker, lemonade set for best
 canned fruit, steamer for best Graham The Blue Ribbon Horse and Carriage Co. offered horse blanket for the
 winner of peg race, small travelling
 case to best jumping horse, Paris reins
 to best single pOney with cart. There were many prizes offered the success full contestants.
 THE PHILIPPINE EXHIBIT
 which was gathered by Capt George H. Shelton while on duty in the Phil lipine Islands, was in charge of the captains sister, Mrs A. J. Middle brook. The little room which this eX- hibition occupied was hired by Mrs Middlebrook, who charged 1Oc admis- sion and will devote the proceeds to the St George church. The room was fine linen, pineapple linen, Jusi cloth, such fine work as is seldom seen in
 this country. Space forbids speaking more definitely of this department. But anyone visiting it will be richly
 repaid.
 The different industries represented in the main building were the Wheel
 CT & Wilson sewing machine, Mollan's $ Shoe store and the Wisner Piano Co.,, and others.
 THE FINE WEATHER, WEDNESDAY,
 filed the grounds to see the exhibition of horses, which proved a record break CT for horse shows, and all the blooded
 horses were on hand to get a blue rib
 bon, a thing which coming from the highly prized by horse owners It
 took fine animal in any class to win
 the coveted prize, and so close was the contest that it took the judge quite a
 time to settle the question which was
 the best. The show of fine road and
 family horses, cObS, mares, colts, stall
 lions, ponies and saddle horses, with
 the great variety of equipages, each coming out with their very best to de-
 light the eye, attracted marked atten-
 tiOn. The grand stand was filled with
 people representing the cream of the social life of Bridgeport, Fairfield.
 Iroonfio1d Hin Groon3C and other surrounding towns. The judging of the horses began in the morning,
 but on account of the large number entered in Class 50, when the judges finished their work it had got so cool and had become nearly dark, so that the judging of the other seven classes was postponed until Thursday. The judging started off with Class 39, mares and colts. B. A. Bulkley of Westport took the first prize for four-year-olds and over, and J. K. Robinson, Jr., sec ond prize. In Class 40, J. c. Curre of Westport took first prize for four-year- olds and over. In Class Al, work horses, o. G. Jennings took first prize and Mrs work horses, o. G. Jennings took first prize and Mrs o. B. Jennings second. o. G. Jennings won the first prize on single horse for stationary work and Mrs o. B. Jennings second prize. In Class AZ, best pair of family horses, O. G. Jennings won first prize and Mrs O. B. Jennings second prize. In single family horses, O. E. Jennings took first prise, Wilson Marshall of Bridgeport second priZe In Class 43, pair of long tailed road horses, Charles Wood of Bridgeport took first prize, G. H. lilly of Greens Farms second, Will liam F. Jennings of Greenfield Hill third. In single horses there were eight entries: B. T. Bedford of Greens Farms, 1st prize, Charles Wood of Bridgeport, 2d, R. F; Bulkley of cob, Wilson Marshall of Bridgeport, lst prize, E. T. Bedford of Greens Farms, 2d, Louis Morris of Fairfield, 3d.
 Class 45, best single cob, David Arm strong of Bridgeport, 1st; O. G. Jen- nings of Fairfield, 2d; Charles Wood of Bridgeport, 3d.
 Class 45, best gentlemen's matched pair, J. K. Robinson, 1st; George E. Edwards of Bridgeport, 2d; Homer Sanford of Bridgeport, 3d.
 Glass 47, combination class, shown in harness and saddle, Miss Emily Bed ford of Greens Farms, 1st; Charles F. | Wood of Bridgeport, 2d; Judge John H. Perry, Sd.
 Class AS, best horse shown in a trap Tor lady to drive, attracted a great 1eal of attention nSnecia1lV in the l