The Republican journal., 1910-08-18
The Waldo County Fair.

Excellent Exhibits in all the Departments.
Beautiful Weather Fine Racing. Gov
ernor's Day Yesterday. Baby Show To-
day.
The Belfast fair opened last Tuesday under
most favorable auspices. Rain the day before
had laid the dust and the weather conditions
were perfect. The attendance was large for
the first day. The grounds and the track were
never in better condition and many improve
ments have been made since last season
These include new building, 14x2O feet, for
the secretary's office, poultry house 14x9O
feet and Ia new stalls for horses. A much ap-
preciated improvement is the ladies' rest room
in the main hall. In the exhibition hall all the
spaces aside from the regular exhibition de-
partments have been rented for the first time
in the history of the society. There were 140
entries in the poultry department, and there
will be no handsomer birds seen on any fair
ground this year. There was large and ex-
cellent display of early vegetables, and a
good exhibit of apples, including 80 varieties
from one exhibitor. The floral department.
was small, but the exhibits were excellent.
The display of fancy work was the largest and
finest in the history of the society and was
well arranged for inspection. There were at
tractive exhibits by local business houses
which will have mention in detail next week.
There was the usual good showing of cattle
and neat stock, of which mention must be de-
ferred until next week. There was an extra
good exhibit of sheep, and the following awards
have been made by Abel F. Stevens of Welles-
ley, Mass, an expert, who is Judging all the
stock and poultry exhibits this year:
John Innes, Searsport, pure bred Pine blood
buck, Hampshire, first; George O. Holmes, Bel
fast, best Southdown buck, second; E. H. Nick
erson, Swanville, Oxford buck, first.
Best flock of pure bred sheep G. o. Holmes,
Belfast, first.
Best flock of grade sheep, S. G. Norton, Bel
fast, first; John Innes, Searsport, second; e. H.
Nickerson, Swanville, third
Best flock of six grade Lambs S. G. Norton.
Belfast, first; John Innes, Searsport, second
Best fat sheep, S. G. Norton, Belfast, first:
John lnnes, Searsport, second; G. o. Holmes,
Belfast. third
The awards in the swine department were as
follows:
Best Chester boar W. E. Harding, Waldo.
first and second; best Berkshire boar, A.
J. Woodbury., Morrill,, first; best English York
shire boar, E. H. Nckerson, Swanville, first.
John Sweet, Knox, third on Chester boar
Best sow and litter Of pigs, W. E. Harding.
Waldo, first; John Sweet, Knox, second
Best three pigs between four and six months.
u. o. Hatch, Belfast, Berkshire, first: E. H. .
Nickerson, Swanville, Yorkshire, first
The midway has been extended to the limit
of the grounds and is filled from end to end
with side shows and stands for the sale of SOU
venirs, confectionery, eatables and soft drinks.
The merry-go-round of the Tracey Brothers of
Hampden was well patronized by the little
folks and some of the older ones, but the fa-
kris complained of poor business Tuesday af-
ternoon. On the north midway W. G. Hill of
Portland did some expert rifle shooting, and
repeated his program at 10 a. m. yesterday,
and will give another exhibition at the same
hour this morning.
THE FIRST DAYS RACES.
2.13 class, trot and pace, purse $3.50.
Lou Foster, br m, Wiggin & Pottle, Lew
istoh ...............1 l
Stanley c., blkg, Howard Small Water
VINE ................ z
Helen Gould, ch m, c. W. Dougan, Wood
stock, N. B. 2 2
Time. 2.164, 2144a, 2.1s4.
PA class, trot purse $780,
Muster Hill, s, C. W. Dougan, Wood