St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-02-08
SHOW WAS A SUCCESS.
u. C. T.. Food Fair Drew Great
Crowds and Everybody Was
Pleased.

y
and gone and every one who attend
ed has only words of commentator
for the way the fair was managed.
The attendance was good through
out and on Friday the capacity of
the hall was taxed to the utmost,
over 1900 admission tickets being
sold. The fair was formally opened
at two O'Clock Thursday afternoon
when the curtain was raised on Is
members of the u. G. IT,, grouped
on the stage, and short but rousing
speech was made by w. A. Kicker.
From that time on everything pro-
gressed without hitch. Every af-
ternoon and evening short program
was given. The star attraction was
BrindamOur, the "handcuff king"
and his acts on the stage and at the
police station were clever and mys-
terious and delighted his audience.
The other attractions were Miss Hell
en- Sylvester in songs and dances, her
mechanical doll act being especially
good; the Euphonic quartet which is
becoming deservedly popular; Frank
0. French whose acts always take in
his home town and his appearance
at the food fair two evenings was no
exception; the Gagnon brothers in
piano duets; and the Academy Man
dolin club.
Fred G. Gibson was in charge of
the program and presented the diff
fefent performers. On Saturday eve
ming he expressed the thanks of ST.
Johnsbury Council to all who had
supported them in their first food fair
and promised even better things for
another year.
Every available bit of floor space
was utilized with the idea of leaving
room between the booths for visit
ors. The arrangement was very
satisfactory and the effect particul-
ar1y good. Another, idea of the COM
mittee was to give visitors to the
Food Fair as wide a variety of ex-
hibition as possible and there surely
was something to interest everybody.
All the booths were carefully and
tastily arranged making the effect of
the whole particularly pleasing.
And there were samples and
souvenirs and literature for all;
sandwiches for the hungry; tea,
coffee and cocoa for the thirsty;
maple sugar, candy, kisses and other
sweets for the young folks; and an
endless variety of souvenirs, useful
and ornamental. The local busi-
ness concerns were well represented
among the exhibitors. A blaze of
light from many electric lamps made
the booth of the st. Johnsbury Elec-
trio Co. center of attraction. Here
a demonstration from Boston ex-
pIa1ned the working of the new cleo.
tr1c range and many smaller appli-
ances. She also cooked rolls, cake
and other things to show the work
done on the range. Another attrac-
tive booth was that of Geo. H. Cross
Co. This was gay with quantities
of bright red crepe and tissue paper
and consisted of a large show case
filled with samples of the different
Kinds OF eatables which are manu-
factured by this company Samples
OF rals1n bread were distributed
here. The log cabin of the Towle
Maple Products Co. is coming to be
recognized as something as dis
t1nctlVely st. Johnsbury's as the
balances of the E. & T. Fairbanks
& Co., and the cabin was at the
fair. Sugar on snow and sugar were
distributed at the cabin itself. On
dark blue background were dis
played collars, cuffs, shirts, articles
OF ladies' and family washing, both
wool and cotton, the whole a fine
showing of the kind of work done
every day by the New Method laun-
dry. 0. V. Hooker & Son exhibited
model iron working planer, and
saw machine in operation, also the
Reeves wood pulley, the American
steel pulley, Hoe and Simonds saws.
valves, lubricators, injectors, and
leather and rubber betting. Consid-
cradle interest was manifested in
the exhibit made by the Pillsbury
Baldwin Co., in which so many st. |
Johnsbury people are stockholders. |
A b. COUNSEL, representing Brack-
EFT, Shaw & Lunt Co., of Somers-
worth, N. H., Royden w. Cheney, |
the New York Mutual |
Life Insurance company, and the
American Chemical Co., occupied a |
booth together. The only automo-
bile exhibitors were Blossom &
Blossom with model 4 Buick. The
f. A. Scott Co., had a booth at |
which they distributed Quimby choc- |
olates and gave away souvenirs One |
thing given away was a needle I
book every sixth one of which con-
tanned coupon emitting the holder
to loaf of Scott's milk bread They |
also exhibited White Satin -four. |
e. & T. Fairbanks & Co., had a fine |
showing of the different kinds of |
scales which they manufacture, and |
as ever, despite the fact that their |
goods are SO well known locally, at
tracted a good deal of attention. A.
L. Bailey showed a beautiful Ivers e. |
Pond piano, F. T. Forsaith demon /
strated his vacuum cleaner, while |
the Atwood kisses made in the hall |
were feature of the fair and liter |
ally in everyone's mouth French |
& Bean, with good showing of the |
goods they carry, shared a booth |
with Dwine11 & Wright who served |
White House tea and coffee to all /
who desired it. The Eagle Roller |
Mill Co., who demonstrate Daniel /
Webster -four and the Worcester |
Salt Co. GrisWoId & Mackinnon
made a showing of the Emerson |
crushed wheat -four which they
carry and bread made from the |