Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-09-17
air Notes.

Fair Notes.
Every lemonade, candy and fruit
stand reports large business.
Everyo one is praising the stage at
fractions. The talent was excellent
and very satisfactory.
The merry .go-round and the ferris
wheel were worked overtime and
overloaded. Did you ride?
There were a plenty of fakirs there
and if you didn't patronize one or
more of them you are different from
US.
9. Winters of Burke, John Keith OF
Troy and Mr. Burbank of st. Johns
bury assisted the Barton band boys
during the fair.
The dining hall had the largest
business in years and no one seem ed
to come away from this building look
ing very gaunt or falnishe d.
If anyone should ask you where the
crowd was during the ball games tell
them watching the game" Proba-
bly, no other single feature of the fair
draws more people than good. ball
games. 8
We surrender the paper to the pre-
MUM awards and fair write-up this
week. Read the general account of
the events on page two and glance
through the premium list. 1t will in
terest you.
1.-The Boston & Maine railroad spe-
cials on fair week were all we'll filled
and some were crowded, others
"jammed.n The new special from
the north this year was much appre-
ciated by fair goers from that part of
the county.
Reports too fattering to print come
from towns outside as to the success
of the fair. AS one correspondent
wrote, "Our people came home with
more than the ordinary praise and we
predict still larger Barton fair dele
cation next year from this town."
If anyone thinks it a small job to
take the judges books and the entry
books and study out the 1900 premium
awards and put them into type let
them work in the MONITOR Office fair
week. The seven columns of awards
as printed on pages six and seven
| represent lot of work,
The fair was honored Thursday
with the presence of Mrs. Betten Van
Meter of Berryville, Va, and Mrs.
Cobb of the same state. Those hav-
ing read the book, "The Unknown
Heroine" relating the incidents con-
nected with the finding wounded on
the battle field, nursing back to
health and final recovery, with the
loss of leg, of Lieutenant H. E. Be-
dell Of Newport will recognize in Mrs.
Van Meter the unknown heroine of
this book. Mrs Van Meters shelter
ing and caring for northern soldier
when her interests were entirely
southern has thrilled the blood of
many a northerner and this noble lady
will find every reader of this book a
J true friend.
The piano exhibits of A. r Cowles,
o. R. Mouiton and E L Bailey were
attractive booths in the floral hall and
the corner occupied by @. s. Phillips.
taxidermist, really 'stook the cake. y
! Mr.. Phillips not only knows how to
mount specimens but how to display
3 them. OF these floral hall exhibits
, we would not fail to mention True &
|, | Blanchard's hardware exhibit and the
exhibit of cseam separators. The
Sharoles Tubular, United States
Omega and other makes were repre-.
, sented. The finest dry goods displays
we're made by Grace NJ. Cutting & Co
b of millinery and Geo. H. Davis of fu,
goods. Of farming implements ant
i sugar tools there wer big exhibits
!, Fred s.. Whitcher probably had tn,
largest display of all round imple
@ ments consisting of gasoline engines
= wagons etc. Many makes of gasolin
e engines were seen in working orde
and certainly were We to pick on
/ out it would be a difficult job. Tn
,. Keir sugar utensils display was lar
a and made good with any of the out
g side exhibits, of which there wer
many.