Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-30
FLORAL HALL FEATURES
INTERESTING EXHIBITS OF PUB
Lie SCHOOL WORK.
Lace, Embroidery and Sofa Pillows
A Shakers Eshibit-Boys and
Girls Do Their Part-Handsome
Display of Furs and Ranges.

A Shakers Exhbit-Boys and
Girls Do Their Part-Handsome
Display Of Furs and Ranges.
A large proportion of space In floral
hall was this year devoted to the vari-
Gus school exhibits to the fine array
of furs displayed by Houghton ST.
monds and Goodnow, Pearson Il
Hunt and TO the large and handsome
display of stoves and ranges made by
Emerson Il Son and Manley Bros all
local firms. other business exhibits
were made In this department by Mrs
G. IL. Smith, milliner; III. NJ. Wood,
sporting goods; r. L. Manley, sewing
machines; the American Oriental Rug
company; the International Cores
pondence schools, Scranton, Pa; the
Albany Business college and the
Shakers, Enfield, y. II. The latter eX-
hibited heavy knit sweaters, opera
cloaks brooms, dolls and fancy artl-
cles of their own make.
In the line of fancy work We're
shown large number of sofa pillows
of all varieties of handiwork. An es-
pecially handsome example OF this
kind was the bead work pillow shown
by Mrs. George II. Harris, Brattle-
boro. Mrs. George f.. Green OF MIL
lers Falls also exhibited a couple OF
white ones, silk embroidered, that
were marvels of beauty and skill
Mrs. Green showed other pillows also.
and some exquisite work in SILK en-
broidered doiiies. Ethel Edison of
Randolph Center and Eva shepard
son of Newfane had beautiful eXhib-
its of embroidered centerpieces.
There was the usual large and fine
showing of ce-Battenberg. tatting,
crochet. knit, point and Brazilian
point-with drawn work and mount
mellick embroidery and some very
handsome bead work. Mrs. NJ. +.
Lincoln of Rutland had a fine and in
teresting exhibit of curios and brlc-a-
brac, embroidery and drawn work.
In this department were also SHOWN
n collection of burnt wood articles by
Harry Kendall, New York city, hand
painted photo frames and oil paint
ings by Mrs. L. /. Knapp, Brattleboro;
and miniatures in water colors by
Mary C. Smith of Brookline, Mass.
Annie l.. Messer of Randolph exhlp-
tied some beautiful work in hand
painted china and Ernest III. Harris
some excellent oil paintings.
Il, r. Elmer of Shelburne Falls made
large and meritorious display OF OIL
paintings, pastels, charcoals anu
crayons and Mrs. F. NJ. Foss OF
Athol. Mass. tinted photos and anna
teur photo sepia. The pen apd ink
work included some by Earle c. Titus
of Brattleboro and Isabella ). Roull-
lard of North sHinsdale exhibited
painting of a white Angora cat, from
life,-a beauty.
BOYS and girls did their part In
adding interest to this department OF
the fair, The Kurn Hattin homes
boys, of Westminster, had an exhlpit
of baskets; Purle Convey. TO- Al dltter-
ent kinds of wood grown near west
Brattleboro; Clarence Convey, s, col
lection of birds nests and Guy Thayer
a miniature log cabin-an ingenious
and beautiful bit of work.
Miss Lucia Gleason, II, OF Brattle-
boro exhibited a landscape painting IN
oils; Irene A. Plimpton, IA, collec-
ton of local Photographic views; IDA
T.. Weatherhed, Guiford, corn musk
hat; Misses Harriet and Margaret
Mellen. 10 and IL, Brattleboro, some
excellent bead work and Grace
Knoche, H. Brooklyn, a white Moth
err Goose quilt, with verses ana PIC
lures from that famous authority
outlined in red. Other little girls con-
tributed doilies, sofa pillows coiiars
and cuffs to the exhibit.
Some very neat and artistic work
In rugs was submitted, both BRAIDED
and drawn in. There was gooo
showing of bedquilts of several kinds, |
spreads, afghans and shawls.