The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-01-25
THE VALLEY FAIR
ANNUAL MEETING
Business Transacted at Meeting OF
Stockholders and Advisory Diree'
tors Friday-New Directors.
Tasker Out,

Tasker Out,
Brief mention was made In last
week s Reformer of the annual meeting
Of the Valley Fair association which
took place in the Brooks House Friday
morning beginning at III o'clock. The
officers elected for the ensuing year
were as follows; President, George W,
Pierce; vice president, DIR. n. L. Wood
of Mortified, Mass, and 7. Nelson
Hastings of Walpole, ~ H.; treasurer
Fred c, Adams; general superintendent
j. A. Taylor; executive committee,
George w. Pierce. j. A. Taylor, II. q,
Clark, James +. Hooker and l.. y. Hol'
den. The surprise of the meeting was
the refusal of Dennis +. Tasker to serve
again as secretary Mr. Tasker stated
that II was a physical impossibility for
him TO attend TO the duties of the Office
and absolutely refused the use of his
name. The matter of his successor was
left in the hands of the executive COM
mittee. Walter +. Goddard, who has
been connected with the poultry de-
partment for IS years and superintend'
ent since Mr.. Tasker became secretary
of the association two years ago, de-
clned reelection and +, d. +. Stowe
was chosen in his place. Mr.. Stowe,
however, will be unable to attend to the
work owing to the fact that his position
as county clerk will necessitate his
presence at Newfane during the fall
term of court, and il is probable that
the executive committee will have TINS
office to fill also. The other department
superintendent chosen were as follows;
Horses, f.. NJ. Angler and G. +. Gilman;
cattle. II. C. Clark and +. A. Richard,
son; sheep and swine, G. L. Thomas and
r. II. Sargent; dairy, p. s. Eames and
o. 7. Ware; floral hall, II. W. Sargent;
agricultural hall, A. W. Roel and G. A.
Evans; mechanics hall, L. D. Whitney
and A. w. Rockwell; food show, Miss
Lillian IIigley; pet stock, Rev. l.. NJ
Keneston; school exhibit, f. Burr
Smith. chairman, Miss Marguerite
Tucker Z. F. Howard and Mrs. n. L,
Wood of Mortified, Mass, and Wesley
f. Minis of West Brattleboro. The
matter of choosing bench show super
'intendent was left in the hands Of the
Valley Fair kennel club.
After the regular business had been
transacted the superintendent of the
various departments and the commit,
mittees appointed by the chair met and
discussed various points until dinner
time. Dinner was served shortly at
ter o'clock to an even larger mum.
Der than usual, music being furnished
during the repast by Leitsinger's or
chestra. This was followed by num-
Der of short speeches. Gerald Howatt
of White Plains. N. Y, the wellknown
Judge of livestock, said that the Valley
fair was unique in that its directors
were scattered all over New England
and its successes, in his opinion, were
due in large measure to this system.
Mr.. Howatt offered silver cup to be
awarded at the next fair at the dis
erection of the executive committee
The next speaker was John Anderson
of Shelburne, Mass, who spoke humor-
ouslv on the farmers needs Willard
Bill of Westmoreland, n. H., made
brief remarks as did also G. NJ. Wins
low of Brandon, secretary of the Ayr
shire Breeders association. Mr.. Wins
low renewed his offer of silver cup
for the highest scoring Ayrshire COW
in the dairy test. The. last speaker
was David T. Perry of West Brattle-
boro, the newly appointed county high
way supervisor.
The following new advisory direc-
tors were added to the list: Rollin
Brown f. G. Streeter, F. |. Swift q.
E. Warner and J. E. Mann of Brattle-
boro; H. H. Dunklee, Wesley E. Minis,
Robert Clark. C. R. Prentiss, W. II.
Hescock, z. E. Fisher and Bert Akeley
of West Brattleboro C. D. Barton, c.
Merton Clark, C. F. Coombs, c. A.
Pierce, F. A. Betterley L. z. French,
H. A. Stebbins and M. A. Thomas of
H. C. Hazleton of Dummers-
ton, E. J. Roberts of Jacksonville;
Clarence Truesdell and W. M. Sparks
Of Townshend: Nathan Lawrence of
West Townshend; E. P. Crosier of Hall
fax; r. Howard of Jamaica; Lewis
Higgins of Newfane; Frank Talbot of
White River Junction; |. N. Chase of
Brandon; Harry f. Brown of West Rut-
land: C. w. Gates and A. j. Pomerov of
Asa III. bullock OF hlchHlonu,
N. H.; d. w. Rugg of East Sullivan, N.
H.; H. w. Minis of Keene, N. H.; Ben
iamin Willard of Monadnock, N. H.;
William H. Beers, Clinton Ware and
Walter Neville of Mortified, Mass;
G. H. Dennison of Leyden, Mass;
Frank G. Helyar of Mt. Hermon; B. e.
Potter of Watertown, Mass; George
of Orange, Mass; DR.. NJ.
L. Miner of Greenfield, Mass; J. H.
Dimond of Northampton, Mass; Win
ME G. Newton of Bernardston, Mass;
H. A. Streeter of Waterbury, Conn.