Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-09-14
Valley Fair Committees.

G. w. Pierce, president of the Valley
Fair. has appointed the following COM
mittees:
Press committee-o. L. French, w. e.
Hubbard, Howard c. Rice, e. II. Crane,
]. G. Ullery, Walter A. Gilbert.
Decorating committee-G. L. Durham.
L. F. Adams. c. L. Stickney, c. o. Rob
bins Major Houghton.
Reception commlttee-James F. Hooker,
Capt. Z. w. Gibson, Col. j. G. Estey,
Geo. c. Averill, ]. L. Martin. W. H.
Bracket. e. c. Crosby, Major C. Hough-
ton, c. C. Fits. II. p. wellman. o. NJ.
Lawton, S. o. Miner, II. G. Barber F, r.
Vaughan, Harry Randall. w. H. Corser,
Henry Thompson, E. f. Perry, H. L.
Emerson, f. B. Barrows, E. L. Hildreth,
F. W. Keuch, NJ. ]. Moran, E. ]. Fenton,
John Calvin, w. H. Vinton. E. w.
Blodgett. Col. c. A. Miles, ]. Edgar Mel
len. Dennison Cowles, H. F. Brooks,
Warren l. Walker, ]. L. Stockwell. Col.
II. E. Taylor, L. H. Richardson. Henry
r. Brown. w. H. Proctor. S. w. Edgett.
f. w. Childs, L. w. Hawley, W. e.
Haskell. VIM. T. Haigh. s. A. Smith,
X. w. Sutherland. F. A. Thompson.
seeretary's Notes on the Coming Valley
Fair.
Some people about town seem to think
because the place 1t not thoroughly
going to be any fair, and are letting of
lots OF hot air." 1t was P. T. Barnum
who once said, II don't care what people
say about me and my show, If they only
talk" It was advertising just the same.
Nearly everybody in the town knows
there will be Valley Fair the last week
in September. We think 1t more judi
cious to send most of the advertising out
of town and we predict that one week
from next Sunday, II last year was any
criterion, more than half of the population
of the town will be at the fair grounds:
and that reminds me, on Monday, Sept.
"a, the gates will be closed, and only
those who have business at the grounds
will be admitted.
Horse races are very uncertain fac
tors and oftentimes when a large number
of horses are named in a class II is next to
impossible to secure a good field Of start
ers. Every effort is being put forth to
make the racing a success this year. and
1t will be no fault Of the association II
it is not. Everything is looking very
promising.
The entries in all departments are
coming along finely and are sure to be
fully up to any previous exhibition. Supt.
Handy of Strafford county farm. Dover,
N H., writes today from Concord, N. H,
that they surely win be here with three
herds Of Cracker JACKS" his entries are
| Holsteins, Guernseys and Ayrshires.
The Highlawn farm will ship direct from
from Waterville, Maine, to the Valley
Fair. Henry Dorrance, Plainfeld, Conn,
will. have Ayrshires and Galloways. Mr..
Dodge OF Wilkinsonville. Mass, will be
| here with his celebrated herd Of Dutch
Belted cattle. The Muckross park ex-
hibit of ten ponies and Horned Dorset
sheep will be a good feature.
The poultry department, always good,
will be fully up to former exhibitions
Many old exhibitors and lots OF new ones
have already made entries.
Floral hall will be filled to overfiowing
| in fact the superintendent of this depart
ment is beginning to figure on the limit OF
amount of space available at this early
| date.
Agricultural machinery for the fair Ii
already arriving at the freight depot