The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-09-28
Exhibition i'm Floral Hall Is
Il Wonder.
FANCY WORK AND FRUITS.
Exhibits BY Local Merchants; Garden
City Ginseng Display; Impure
Foods and Patent Medicines
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Exhibition hall at the fair grounds Is
crowded to the doors with exhibits, and
is a center of attraction. Thousands have
admired the splendid exhibits in all lines,
including the best of each. 1t has been
demonstrated already that the hall Is
too small fer a fair of the size that
the Mankato fair is bound to become an
other year.
The largest space is given over to the
fancy work, yet the space allotted Tor
this purpose is altogether too small, and
the exhibits have been hung from the
roof down, and yet have had to be piled
over each other. Next year the Catholic
Sisters will undoubtedly make an ex-
hibit. and much more room must be pro-
vided in some way. Miss Nellie Pay
was in charge of the fancy work depart
ment Yesterday afternoon. One of the
attractive features is the exhibit of the
manual training department of the state
normal school, consisting of chairs, pot
terry. ETC., all indicating excellence of in
struction. Mrs. w. W. Eberhart has
fine display of hand painted china, and
an exquisite coffee set. Mrs. Lille Bak-
er also has beautiful display of hand
painted china. and Mrs. c. H. Saulpaugh
lovely jewel vase. Mrs. George Atchi-
son and Miss Manderfeld have handsome
exhibits of burned wood work, and Mrs.
J. A. Presley some handsome Havana
mosaic work.
Other exhibits in this department. are
paintings and drawings, soft pillows by
the score, hardanger work, beautiful
drawn work, silk embroidery, eyelet
work, netting and tatting, quilts in silk.
wool and cotton in all styles and shapes,
crocheted and knitted bed spreads, fine
point lace. Eyelet work by Mrs. c. F.
Warner was made in 1857.
The exhibit of fancy work is pro-
nounced by Miss Pay to be the best ever
shown in the state, and much better
than that shown at the state fair.
Miss Wilson was in charge of the
canned fruits and jellies and culinary ex-
hibits. all of which made ones mouth
water and his eyes bulge out to look
upon What treat to be one of the
Judges in that department! The ex-
hibit is large and the quality excep-
tionally good. Many entries We're made
for special prizes, especially of bread and
doushnuts. Many of these exhibits, like
those in the other departments, were
from outside of the city, showing that
all excellence is not centered in Man.
kato by a good deal.
The floral exhibits were in charge of
Mrs. j. B. Crandall, and consisted of
plants. palms. vines, cut flowers worked
into gorgeous bouquets, and all form
ing medley of color such as takes the
attention and pleases the eye.
The apple and grape display is GER
tainly most attractive one. and proves
that Blue Earth county is strictly in
the fruit belt Scores of varieties were
shown, luscious and tempting, in their
rich autumnal coloring. Home grown
peaches pears, and other fruit were also
there c.. T. Geiger, representing the
Clinton Falls MISERY company of Owa-
tonna, who is one of the judges in the
canned fruit department, states that the
fruit display, both canned and uncooked,
exceled the exhibit at the state fair.
feature of the displays that at
tracts the attention of all is that of the
Peterson Ginseng company, growers of
the true American roots and seeds at
Garden City. This is large and shows
all stages of growth of this rare plant
from the stratifed seed, through the
terminated seed and on up until the
plant is six years old The company
has 100000 plants in six beds, and sells
both seeds and roots. 1t went into bust
ness six years ago and has just reached
the point where it will begin to have
large profit. The dried roots sell at
So pound, for medicinal uses. and the
demand comes not only from this cOun-
try but very strongly from China. One
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