News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-08-25
LAMOILLE VALLEY FAIR.
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The mercantile booths were fully up ia
the average, local merchandise being well
represented. Bailey's Music Royms oc'
cnnied their usual stand at the right OF
the south entrance, Il. G. Wilson having
charge, assisted by competent pianists,
including his young son, Harley. This
booth attracted its full share OF attention
| Next in line came Geo. W. Doty's furni
ture display, which included handsome
and complete bed room set and large
showing of rugs. Col Doty's booth was
attractive and much admired. Geo. P.
browne & Co. had a representative show
inc of the celebrated Standard Sewing
Machines, which was in charge OF Nj. T.
| Cutting. The Revere Coffee people,
whose goods have been handled in Morris
Vile for the past twenty years occupied
roomv booth, where they gave a practical
and appreciative demonstration OF their
famous goods. A display thatsdeserVed
all the praise and admiration which was
accorded it by the throng was that OF W.
F. Benson, the up to-date Morrisville shoe
and gents furnishings dealer. HisSpace
in the center of the hall was devoted EN-
tirely to the showing lof Sorosis SHOES
aud Onyx Hosiery and was the best
thing of it's kind ever seen in Floral Hall
At the left of the main entrance the eX'
hibit sof photographs from Bentley's
| Studio shows some of the popular styles
for the fall season. B. j. Kelley 4 Co.
the Portland street furniture dealers,
made an immense showing of rugs taken
from their regular stock. These goods
were shown in grades from So to $4Oand
were much admired. Webster 81 Stone,
Morrisvilles progressive hardware deal
ers, had display of Glenwood goods
| fully up to their usual high standard in
| Guiding ranges, heaters and furnaces.
This booth was in charge of the Glen
| wood representative, r. A. Ram Of st.
Johnsbury, who has been here in the
same capacity for several years. This
booth was one of the most attractive in
the hall. Pages Poultry Food and feTtil
izers occupied their usual booth and
| were i'll charge of W. B. Atwell. Blair,
| the Shoeman, had an attractive show
ing of King and Queen quality shoes, in
Guiding mostly the more substantial
goods from his large stock. Other |
| notable exhibits we're those of John Ker |
of Craftsbury, all kinds of sugar utensils,
for which O. A. Wrisley of this town is |
representative for this section: the De.
Laval, United States and Sharples Sep
arators and the Singer sewing machines,
The Lilley Wagon Company also had a
large showing of their goods.
BALL GAME TUESDAY
The ball game Tuesday afternoon be-
tween West Hill and Jeffersonville drew
good sized crowd and although the
game was loosely played, the spectacular
finish made up for any deficenciesin the
first part. At the end of the first half Of
the nineth, the score was to in favor
of Jacksonville, when West Hill, coming
to bat, with an effort born of desperation
swatted the sphere until the bases were
full, when wild throw to first by Wes.
ton, tied the score. AT this point Jeff
naturally felt like kicking somebody. Sol
time was called for that purpose. After
tiresome wait and fruitless argument,
the game was resumed and quickly end
ed by single which sent in the decisive
score and the agony was over. Weafer and
Weafer were batteay for West Hill, the
former pitching a great game until the
sixth inning when he wrenched his side
and Harry Foss finished the game. Foss
had fine speed and pitched greatgame
having his opponents at his mercy from
the start. "Dom" caught the whole
game without an error Weston and W.
Buker did good work for Jeffersonville,
but were not given first. class support.
The score was as follows:-
Innings 1894 7S9
Jacksonville 0 zoos 4 900
West Hill l 20101 004
THE RACES WEDNESDAY
The races Wednesday were witnessed
by several thousand people, the grand
stand being full at one time in the after
noon. Owing to the illness of w. j.
Utton, Oradell was driven in the 2:1S
class by E. o. Bailey of Boston and viii
Duba of Sheldon drove Scribnough in
the 2:21 class. The latter was horse
race from start to finish and as Serb
naugh trimmed Red Brine lin the last
two heats, it was necessary to postpone
the deciding heat uutil 10 o'clack Thus |
day morning.
T. w. Utton, the veteran horse trainer, |
who has trained horses in MorrisviIe for /
Al years, took hand in the races yesttr
day, driving Chahalis c. in the 2:40 class
and Red Brine in the 2:21 class. Not
withstanding the fact that Tom" was
suffering from a disabled hand, which
was recently bitten by one of his string
he showed that he was still in the game
and was given hearty salute from The
grand stand. |,