Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-13
= FOUR DAYS. .<
AUGUST 28, 20, 80, 81, THE
DATES.
Big Addison County Fair. The
Managers Busy with the
Arranoe m ents


nual meeting of the Addison County
Agricultural Society, bids fair to eclipse
all previous efforts as the managers are
hard at work with the details and there
are lots of details in carrying out sue.
cessful four days fair. The Register
would suggest to all intending exhibitors,
and especially those desiring to show
farm products, that the time has arrived
be put i'll shape to warrant showing
them in competition. The Addison
County Fair managers wish to impress
upon every citizen Of this county that
while the details of the management of
each annual meeting are left with a few
men living in Middlebury and vicinity
the fair is intended as a peoples fair"
and to make it continued success the
people of each of the twenty three towns
of the county should contribute not only
in attendance but in exhibits and this is
especially desired in the live stock and
horticultural departments
With an outlay of forty thousand dol
lars the Society has an equipment that
is second to none in New England when
the size of our county and the number
of our population is considered.
The grandstand is the largest in Yer
mont and has been remodeled this
season. being fitted with all modern
conveniences, and its seating capacity
has been doubled One of the new de-
partments this year will be that of dogs
and the bench show, which will be
under the direction of Cushing Hill, will
doubtless prove a drawing card. The
doubling of the capacity of the grand
stand and the erection of the building
for dogs are only one of the many bene-
factions of Colonel S. A. Ilsley toward
the Society.
The Inside Inn will be under the
management of Ira Taylor, Middlebury's
well known restauranter, which is a
guarantee that the cuisine will be of the
best and the service such as to make the
place Mecca for those desiring to dine
or lunch on the grounds. Eugene
Twitchell of Middebury will be in
charge of the poultry department and as
Mr.. Twitchell is practical poultryman,
as well as fancer, this department
promises to contain many more birds
than during the past decade. Norman
S. cote, Addison County's well-known
real estate man, will be in command at
Horticultural Hall and with William
Jackson as superintendent of Mechanics
Hall and George A Goyett in charge of
Floral Hall these three Departments re-
quire only exhibits to make them win
ners.
AS usual Z. G. Farnham will be IN
charge of the sheep department and
Watson Sturtevant of live stock. w. B.
Child will be in command of the horses
while that veteran trainer and horse
man, H. I. Cults, will arrange the race
program. These gentlemen will be as
sisted by an ample corp of assistants.
The vaudeville attractions this year are
beyond anything ever attempted by the
Society before and the famous marvel Of
engineering ingenuity, The Ferris Wheel,
will be erected.
Judge John +. Weeks, president of the
Society, who very generously offered
special prize of twenty-five dollars to the
boys of Addison county for the three
best bull calves, bred and raised in this
county, has already received assurances
that his offer has been taken advantage
of and that the exhibit of bull calves will
be beyond all records previously estab-
lished. He has, however, after consider
ing the matter, decided that division
into four prizes would be more equable
distribution of the twenty-five dollars
and accordingly the special prize will be
divided into four parts, $40, 81, 50, and
So, for first, second, third and fourth
respectively.