The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-10-05

was exhibited by Mrs. Lewis H. Mel
son. Some very interesting articles
were shown by w. C. Fitzgerald which
were: A wooden grog keg, used
formerly for pocket flask, and about
8 inches long; an old iron tea kettle;
a wooden molasses keg about 10
inches high, with heavy wooden hoops
on it; and a tea kettle and camp ket-
tie. The last was big iron pot about
a foot across the top, which had made
the trip to Ohio by OK team with
Samuel Written and family almost
100 years ago, Revolutionary soldier,
great grandfather of Mr.. Fitzgerald
nd ancestor of the Whittens of
Canaan
The baby show at Canaan this year
was as great an attraction as ever,
and twenty-one pretty babies and nice
looking mothers took their places on
the platform before the judges, and
crowd of on-lookers and not a baby
went away unrewarded. Those pres
ept were: Miss Edna Nelson with her
% months old brother, Milo Nelson;
Mrs. Harry Crindall of Winslow with
two pretty babies, Florence Madeline
and Everard B. Crindall; Mrs. l. C
Lancaster with dainty little Frances
Katherine; Mrs. Maud Nelson with
bright-eyed Helen Dorothy Nelson;
Mrs. Mabel Caller with Kenneth n.
q fine black eyed boy; Mrs. Eva Chase
and laughing Mildred; Mrs. Elsie
Kenney and Master Lloyd; Mrs. Eva
Nelson and BABY Nelson; Mrs Har-
ret Fitzgerald and lusty Walter Fitz-
gerald; Mrs Charles Jewell and fair
haired Lee Folsom; Mrs, Eva Rolfe
and Helen, the smallest baby of her
age present, weighing but II pounds
at II months of age; Mrs. Bessie
Jewell with little Doris NJ. Mrs.
Alice Bowman with blue-eyed Evelyn
Alice; Mrs. Sadie Harmon with pretty
Meredith Reta; Mrs. George Williams
with lovely Myrtle; Mrs. Hide Good
rich with pair of fine children, Ruth
Hilda and Walter John Goodrich;
Mrs. Maud Chadbourne and dainty
Phyllis; and Mrs. Eugene Lewis with
sedate Master Arthur Eugene Lewis;
and Mrs. Lette Foster with exquisite
little Doris.
When it comes to raising vegetables
with quality Canaan farmers take the
lead. Henry Manson had some prize
potatoes, and others who figured in
the lead for potato exhibits were
George Steward, Salem Edwards,
Mary FITZGERALD, c E Pettigrew. Some
of those good pie pumpkins were
shown by Fred Rolfe and S w
Fitzgerald showed some nice corn.
Guy Kimball was one of the prize
winners in traced corn, and some of
the best cabbage was shown by
Salisbury. Canaan grown citrons
raised by c E Burrill. A big pumpkin
was shown by SHenry Harris, 1874
pounds; also one by Albert Jewett
that weighed 35 pounds. Henry Man
son showed beans OF every known
variety The only Canaan grown cram
berries were shown by d NJ Foster.
Some of the best corn grown in the
town was shown by Almon Smith and
the sweet corn variety by Steven
Salisbury Sunfowers nearly as big
over as cartwheels were shown by
George Weeks.
The hall exhibit was not the only
good thing at the Canaan fair, for
good dinner at noon time was the de-
light of about 100 people, They had
beans baked in the ground by people
who know how to do it, they being Tom
Gleason, William Fitzgerald, and H C
Cover. The only sheep shown at the
fair were by George Weeks who is
leading sheep raiser of this county.
When a mans old pipe ont draw