The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-03
A SUCCESSFUL FAIR
Display Smaller Than That of Last
Year But Exhibits of High
Standard of Excellence.
Fruits and Vegetables of Especially
Fine Quality and Butter Dis
play Above Average.

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association held it's sixteenth an
nual fair on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of last week-a fort
night later than that upon which
last years exposition was held. The
weather was rather chilly, but pleas
ant, throughout the three days, and
the attendance was fairly up to the
average of preceding years. There
was a very perceptible falling off in
the number of exhibits as compared
with last year. especially in the vege-
table and grain departments. This
was largely due to the late date upon
which the fair was held. The exhibits
in these departments were, however, of
splendid quality, some of the speci-
mems surprising in every respect any
that have ever been shown here. The
fruit display was exceptionally good
apples being largely in the ma
jority.
The total gate receipts we're s327.50,
and the total receipts from all sources,
including S469.61 from the state,
amounted to SS19.11. Last years to-
tai aggregated s1,290.7S, including
gate receipts S505.25 and s49S. 81
from state appropriation. Something
like $500 will be paid out in pre-
miums.
Besides agricultural and horticul-
tural displays, home baking, preserves
and ladies' fancy work department
in the main hall, and the live stock
and poultry exhibitions upon other
parts of the grounds. very good
program of sports had been provided
consisting of horse races, ball games
and foot race by small boys. An
aeronaut who had been engaged to
make balloon ascension fell by the
wayside at the last moment, or rather
his balloon burned up and he was
therefore unable to fill his engage
ment. There we're no sideshows this
year and but two booths of any de-
scription-one conducted by the Dor
cas- society as refreshment stand
and the other occupied by A. E. Grow
with an Omega separator display.
One spindle was operated upon the
grounds, but it's manipulation did not
appear to do very rushing business
VEGETABLES, GRAINS, ETC.
AS stated before, the exhibits in
these departments were comparatively
few, but the specimens were of most
excellent quality, and included fine
displays in potatoes, white turnips,
rutabagas, melons, squashes, pump
kins, celery, mangels, cabbages,
beans, oats, corn, clover, and other
products which demonstrated that a
diversity of crops can be successfully
raised upon the soil in this county.
A few of the displays, selected here
and there, are mentioned as being in
our opinion among the best. Robert
Clark had an excellent collective dis
play of vegetables and house plants
on exhibition. Among the vegeta bles
were celery, tomatoes, cabbage, table
beets, onions, parsnips, sweet corn,
kale, cauli1ower and three new va
rieties of early potatoes-Presldent
Roosevelt, Uncle Sam and Early Sen
sation. Chas. and David Berry IS
collections were also fine and con-
sisted of tomatoes, parsnips, cucum.
bers, nine varieties of potatoes, etc.
Herman Thoma exhibited some excel.
lent specimens of Triumphs and Bur
banks and F. W. Hatcher had dis.
play of fine Hubbard squashes. Chas.
Erickson and Herman Thoma showed
the largest field pumpkins while Henry
Hess melons we're of good size and
quality. Mrs. Beatrice Young exhib.
tied samples of Burbanks, I. Mudgett
a collection of nine varieties of pota.
toes, Louis ROCKFORD white and red
globe onions, Henry Hess a bundle
of sorghum and George Orion five
varieties of potatoes.
In grains Henry Murphy had a nice
display of white cap and yellow dent
corn, wheat and oats, rye and an ex.
cellent quality of timothy seed. F.
A. Lowell had on exhibition fine
grades of oats. beans, timothy and
clover: David Berry white popcorn,
I. Mudgett yellow dent corn, Chas.
Berry white cap dent corn and blue
stem wheat and VIM. Arnett oats, rye,
yellow dent corn and clover. F. W.
Hatcher exhibited a specimen of fod.
der corn 10 feet 6 inches in height. t..
LIVE STOCK.
In this department the animals were
fairly up to those shown in previous
years but the number exhibited was
small. Among the cattle were a Red
Angus bull, 2 years old, the property
of E. P. Grow of Greenbush; grade