The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30
The Monroe Fair.

soihethlng DONG, and the pocket peddlers
were so much in evidence that three of them
Tell into the hands of the officers of the law
and were taken to Belfast for trial
The rest room, maintained by the Waldo
county W. c. T. u, proved haven of rest for
nearly 300 people Wednesday. Miss Alice
Kane of Swanville was in charge Mrs. Pru-
dence Putnam of Belfast was among the yisi-
tors at the rest room Wednesday and enter
famed those present with several readings, she
beng well known elocutionist The w. C. T.
u plans to make this room permanent thing
at Monroe fair.
Inc stock exhibit was excellent, and included
some OF the handsome cattle shown at the Bel
rast fair. The towns of Newburg and Sears
port each had six fine looking yokes of heavy
oxen. F. L. Kicker of North Monroe exhibit
ed Belle Clay De Ko pure bred Holstein
COW, nve years old, with a seven-days-old bull
calf by her side; Margaret, year r-old heifer,
registered in the Holstein Frosnian associa-
ton, and Ola, another yearling, bougk.. from P.
M Elwell of Brooks when a week old. F.M.
Nlckerson of Frankfort had herd of six full
piooded Durham cows, headed by Royal Sale,
IND. Crazy Kate, registered, seven years old,
was shown with five and Camelia, six years
old, with two of her progeny. Watchman a
full blooded Durham bull, was raised by Mr.
Nickerson. Herbert Black of Searsport had
81 head of Herefords the grounds, the same
stock that attracted so much attention and
favorable comment at the fair in Belfast T.
II. Curtis of Swanville exhibited a two-years-
old pure bred Durham bull. E. II. Nickerson
OF Swanville showed 25 head of pure bred and
| grade Guernseys. At the head of the herd is
Daisy Hugo. Five cows of extra capacity in
the butter line and five of their calves were
shown. Mr.. Nickerson also had two pens,
eight in each, of grade Hampshire Downs, and
Democrat, thoroughbred buck. George O.
Holmes of Belfast entered the pure bred
yearling Ayrshire bull Great Northern; dam
Hazelwood; sire, Gold Fox. F. H. Quimby of
Brooks exhibited herd of eight full blooded
Ayrshires, headed by Sunnymead, Quebec
bred animal of noted pedigree. Natalie Dorcas
and Xema Bell, two OF his best heifers, are
registered in the Ayrshire Breeders associa-
tion, and with them were pure bred calves
under six months. He also exhibited a pair of
trained steers, four years DID, weighing 5000
pounds.
The c. M. Conant Co. of Bangor, who have
exhibited annually at this fair for many years,
had very large display of agricultural ma
chnery and implements, including everything
needed in potato raising-planters, cutters,
| sorters, sprayers, diggers, etc. Mr.. Conant
operates large farm about one mile from the
fair grounds and tests this machinery thor
oughly before offering it to the public. E. s.
Pitcher of Belfast exhibited Pool and Wade
| pianos and other musical instruments and had
| music on sale.
There was fine showing of fruit, vegetables,
| flowers, bread, cake, jellies, preserves, etc.
and dairy products. Thirty-six varieties of
apples were shown, and there were exhibits of
/ pears, pu.as and grapes. Six bushels of po-
tatoes were shown, each specimen weighing
4 from pound to two pounds. Mrs. Nellie r.
/ Lincoln, who lives the John Strattard
place in Monroe, had an exhibit of some so
odd varieties of farm products. 1t included
cantaloupes, citron and water melons, a to-
bacco plant five feet high, peanuts, and C uban
bean with large feshy pod, nine inches long
/ The seed came from Cuba, as the name would
indicate, and the beans, cooked pod and all, are
said to be delicious. Mrs. Lincoln also made a
fine display of flowers, which included a new
variety of dahlia, green in color, and Princes
feather in brilliant yellow, scarlet and deep
magenta varieties. ]. B. Neatly of Monroe
had fine display of garden produce, and in
his collection noted twin crookneck
squash and bottle gourd. Mrs. J. B. Neatly
had fine collection of flowers, the asters and
sweet peas attracting special attention. John
lnnis exhibited squash weighing IS pounds,
and II. f. Leavitt some mammoth citron melons.
The fair closed Thursday, having been favor
ed with good weather from start to finish. The
first days races were reported last week There
was substituted for the three-year- race
which did not fill. The summary
In the ladies' hall was shown great variety
of fancy work, curios, ETC. As usual there
were quilts in silk, in velvet, in cotton, en-
broidered and plain, patch and knit, and rugs
hooked, embroidered, knit and braided. Mrs
Addie Tuttle exhibited rag carpet of neat
design, and Mrs. S. NJ. Bryant silk portiere
woven with the loom. An afghan made by
Mrs. Susan Towle of Belfast, lady 50 years
| old, attracted attention. 1t is in stripes of
different colors and each stripe is even and
true. Mrs Martha Keating of Belfast ex-
hibited a beautiful battenberg centerpiece
and Miss Bertha Wiley of Belfast an elabor-
ate shirt waist suit. A collection of photo
graphs by Raymond Cole of Winterport was
awarded the blue ribbon.
Mrs. A. M. Clark of Winterport, had on exhi-
bition platter $50 years old; cup and saucer
and Britannia teapot over 100 years old; an old
English flag; a paper weight from Oregon
mottled marble; paper weight from Rome; a
beautiful piece of mosaic work; an Indian shoe
from California; shell souvenir of the James,
town exposition; Chinese shoe prettiy en-
broidereG; a sword made of Chinese coins;
Japanese fan of odd design; wooden spoon and
fork elaborately carved by hand, from Switzer-
land bottles of shells from the Pacific coast,
from Sicily; a bottle of carnelian stones from
! st. Paul; and souvenir from Newport News,
| Va. Miss Esther Mason of Hampden, a Bohe-
mian ware teapot 100 years old and a cocoa nut
/ shell $50 years old, used at one time as a pep
per box. A pumpkin hood 100 years old was
exhibited by Mrs. c. H. Buzzell, Monroe, and an
embroidered flannel skirt 40 years old, by Mrs.
/ Noah Downs, Frankfort. Maud Nealey of