Putnam patriot., 1911-09-15
THE WOODSTOCK FAIR
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An Interesting Agricultural Exhibition

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 President C. H. Child, Secretary l.. H. Healey, and other officials of the Woodstock Agricultural Society, have scored another success in their annual fair and cattle show. The fair of 1911 was all the officials claimed it would be, a clean.cut, old fashioned agricul- tural fair, no gambling, no disorder, nothing immoral, but an exhibition of farm products in the broadest sense, with sprinkling of varied entertain ment to please the young folks. There Is no place like old Woodstock fair if one wishes to renew aequaintances and meet old friends. It seems that no matter whom you want to see you will find them about the grounds somewhere and il is this feature that attracts many, especially the older 1 folks.
 Entry day was Monday and a more l discouraging day was never seen--that is, weatherwise. The rain poured down nearly all day and at night there was little prospect for clear skies on the morrow. Notwithstanding the weather the entries began to pour in and the officials were kept busy all l day making entries and assigning space It was an optimistic set of tired officials that concluded the day $ labors. They had confidence m the weather man who had generally favor ed them in the past, It was this op- timism on the part of the officials that kept the spirits of exhibitors up. Their faith in the weather man was not misplaced. True there was a sprinkle or two during Tuesday but not enough to keep the people away nor to affect any of the events. While the attendance was not a record break CT it was large, nearly 4,000 people pas sing through the gates on this, the big day. Autos, auto trucks, busses, and individual teams served to carry the | crowd to and from the grounds and | this feature was well taken care of.
 
 scene met the gaze. The midway was | in the same spo. as for many years | past and il was here that one naturally first went. The people knew what was in store for them in other parts of the | grounds but the amusement feature al ways provides something in the way of surprise. This year there was the usual side show, freaks and animal show, besides the little games in which something was always returned for money spent. All kinds of edibles and temperate drinks were on sale be! side many useful articles. A real Rhode Island clam bake was served in the eating pavilion.
 l In the exhibition hall the exhibits were many, varied and excellent, | Among the Putnam business houses that had exhibits were Chandler X Morse showing Sterling ranges, Simons saws and U. $. cream separators. Bal. lard X Clark showed an extensive line of Glenwood ranges and heaters, George E. Shaw had line of Victor and Victrola talking machines. Byron D. Bugbee had space given over to a display of ladies' fall suits, tailored ladies' hats and Queen Quality shoes Chester NJ. Elliott showed Haywood shoes in various styles. The Plaut' Gladden. company of Norwich had the corner at the right of the south en' trance and showed Wasserman pianos and piano players. At the opposite side the Metropolitan Insurance com pany, Norwich office, distributed liter ature pertaining to their business. Int rest of the hall was devoted to a dis. play of fruit, vegetables, cake, pastry canned goods, dairy products, ar goods and fancy work, all receiving their share of attention.
 The showing of fruit claimed specia attention. The grape exhibit was es pecially strong. Varieties, all growr in this section, include Niagara, Con cord, Campbell's Early, Worden, Sa lem, Green Mountain, Goetner Moore's Early, Diamond, Blue, Lady Key, Wyoming
 BIG APPLE EXHIBIT
 The apple department is demon stration of what can be done with thi fruit in Connecticut. Everett k Brown of the Westland farm, Pomfret shows 50 varieties, all beautiful, brigh and sound as a silver dollar. This ex' hibit was shown at the state fair in Hartford last week and took 35 frs awards. MT. Brown grows nearly lo varieties of apples in two old orchard -one 100 years old, one 40 years old on his farm and the magnificent frui shown at Woodstock is the result 0 the application of scientific principle of culture of trees that before givel care produced only inferior scaly fruit
 NJ. Angel of Pomfret has anothe , fine collection of apples at the fair
 To the Westland farm displays first were given on a collection of 15 plates a collection of 10 plates and collec ton of 50 plates.
 CATTLE SHOW
 , The cattle show was as good as eve this year, though not quite as large a usual. The animals occupy new shed which the society has had built thi year to replace old ones that have don ! oaxx,fca for a Iopp time
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