The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-21

and the full rounded ears of white sweet corn
were good to look at.
,Turnips, potatoes, beets and onions came in
| for their share of notice.
The culinary skill of the ladies was mani
Tested not only in pastry, bread. ETC., but in
the beautiful preserves and jellies displayed.
Mrs. George Twombly and Cora Twombly were
among these exhibitors.
There was good display of beans, peas,
threshed grains and cranberries
In the dairy products Charles Clements ex-
hibited dairy butter in prints and solid, and
home made cheese. J. S. Palmer, Mrs. Leslie
White and E. H. Littlefeld were among his
competitors the latter branding his product as
Maple Terrace Butter, manufactured from
Guernsey and Jersey cream.
| M. S. Leavitt, Addie Tuttle and Ralph Clark
exhibited honey and Messrs. Lttlefield, Leav.
lit and Reed several varieties of grapes. Mrs.
/ B. F. Fish had, among other things, plums and
! table luxuries.
Mrs. Bertha Neatly. Mrs Mary Haley, Mrs. C.
M.Page and Mrs F. M Nickerson were in charge
! of the exhibit in the ladies' hail. The display
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Gus years and contained unusually good work.
/ There were between 300 and 400 entries The
| largest and best amount of embroidery con-
/ tributed by any one person came from Vesta
I u. Higgins of Brooks, who valued her COL
lection at something over $780, Miss Isabel
! CHM of Belfast was another contributor of
fine needlwork. Mrs, Mary Barbour of Brewer
had several pieces in Irish crochet, Mexican
and drawnw ork, which received favorable COM
ment because of their texture and finish.
Space will not admit of description of each
piece, but several dresses, embroidered,
beautiful Irish crochet collar in silk, and sew
eral silk fancy handkerchiefs, were only a
small portion of tie things worthy of mention
Quilts in large numbers and of various ma
terials and designs hung upon the lines, side
by side with towels, sideboard and bureau
| scarfs and other lighter fancy work. Some of
these are particularly noteworthy. Mrs. Tut
tie showed green and white patch quilt with
over 1000 pieces; Mrs. M. A. Putnam, rs wears
old, worsted embroidered quilt. A velvet
quilt with finish of velvet points, entered by
Miss Maud Nealley, was very handsome
! In small show case near the entrance to
the hall were number of curios, among which
were belt and chatelaine of melon seeds beads
made of rose leaves, two chains made of seeds
from Honolulu, and an embroidered silk Chin
ese flag. the property of Mrs. Vesta Davis
Higgins of Brooks. Mrs. Charles F. Shaw of
Belfast showed chain made of rose petals in
bead form. Mrs. Charles Richie had COL
lection which included rattlesnake's skin. six
feet long and ten inches wide, diamond backed
from Florida; three boxes of sea curios from
California; also beautiful she'll from the same
place. Mrs. A. B. Lorng of Belfast exhibited
samples of embroidery made by Chinese lady
which are hand spun and woven and hand
stamped with wooden blocks; it is of blue silk
embroidered with gilt; Chinese cloth of two
patterns an ancient sampler. Mrs. M. A.
Putnam showed cup and saucer of pretty de-
sign over 100 years old
The art department was not large The ex-
hibitors in oil painting were Mrs F. M Nick
son of Monroe, Miss L. L. Eastman of Exeter
and Mrs. W. B. Belches of Ninterport, In
water color Miss Eastman had pretty little
water scene. G. o. kenney of Monroe had a
striking pen and ink drawing and several
cards. Pretty handpantad china pieces were
/ shown by Mrs. Tutte, Mrs Ella Mowry and
Mrs. Bessie Rogers. Clifton Hamm, pupil in
the public schools, exhibited map of New
England. Everett Felker, S. B. and c. L. Lor-
! ing had quite a collection of photographs.
Rugs attracted quite bit of attention Some
were striking, some ornamental and some, like
the braided kind, decidedly useful A pretty
drawn rug with flowers on background of
white was shown by Miss Eastman. knitting,
spinning and weaving are not lost arts in this
section. Mrs. Julia White had display of
stockings and mittens for which she spun the
yarn. Mrs. Tuttle is also an adept at this
work and had good display.
The display of poultry was small, only the
following having been entered: E. E Grant,
Sylvia Hamm, w. E. Harding and Leroy Wat
son. displayed ducks. White Orpington, Co.
lumbar Wyandottes and White Plymouth
Rocks were shown by Miss Maude Kicker,
Meadow Brook farm, Monroe. W. F. Plum
mer, Monroe, showed White Wyandottes;
Ralph Clark, Columbian Wyandotte Geese
were shown by Earl Knight and Sylvia Hamm
In the list of officers serving for the present
year some few changes have been made from
previous years. The officials were as follows:
F. M. Nickerson, Monroe, president; Frank
Littlefeld, Newburgh, vice president; F. H.
Putnam, Monroe, secretary; Franklin Chase,
Monroe, treasurer; Fred Coffin, Monroe, A. P.
Moore, Frankfort, M. H. Haley, Prospect, j.
w. Nickerson, Swanville, F. w. Merrill, New
burgh, E. B. Gould, Dixmont, T. l. Huxford,
Brooks, H. E. Haley, Winterport, c. W. Page,
Hampden, J. E. Putnam, Jackson, trustees;
c. M. Conant, auditor, F. H. Putnam, librarian;
F. M. Nickerson, superintendent of grounds;
E. B. Gould, superintendent of cattle; H. E..
Haley, superintendent of horses; A. P. Moore.
superintendent of fruit and vegetables; W. B.
Goodwin, superintendent of ladies' hall; Mrs.
Bertha E. Nealley, Mrs F. A. Littlefield Mrs.
A. P. Moore, committee of arrangements of
ladies' hall.
WEDNESDAYS RACES.
There were two events on the race card,
September 18th, the PIT and 3minute classes,
both trot or pace, and both were closely con-
tested. Oracle Braden gave Cheerful Charlie
good race in the 2.17, winning the first heat
in 2174, first half in 1.O54. Lady Emperor took
the 3-minute race in straight heats, but the