Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-08
GRANGE PICNIC A BIG SHOW
Hupdreds of Baskets OF Produce Dis.
A(played, With the Finest of All |
N Varieties.

| the annual picnic OF the GrangeTS OF
Gloucester County opened with brill
| liant prospects OF eclipsing all prev
] ious displays. Hardly a breeze stirred,
and despite a clear sun, the heat was
not excessive, but just right to proper
! ly enjoy oneself on a picnic occasio9&
And the leisurely attitude of those
present on the first day was evidence
that they were present for good
time. and were i'll no hurry to see it
all at once.
The first day presented no crowded
fair grounds. Indeed, no one expected
such, but it was a crowd who took
advantage of the opportunity to see
! things before the dust raised by the
! huge masses today had softened the
| brightness of the handsome apple or
given the peach a paler blush But
those present, who stayed until a
second day, possibly reasoned that all
/ the exhibits would not be in place
before late on the opening day, ana
| it is a fact that they were quite slow
/ in arriving. Then too, "a great many
come for une sole purpose of meeting
their Gloucester or Salem County
friends" while some are not satisfied
unless they are a part of some great
crowd. If they postponed their COM
| ing till today for the latter reason,
no complaint is heard that there are
! not enough to rub shoulders with.
4 Few would say that greater crowd
/ ever thronged Alcyon Park, and a
| person making that statement would
! doubtless have many of the old-timers
around him urging his membership
! in the Ananias organization But
| larger or smaller than in previous
years, there are enough on hand to
provide two fair sized picnic crowds
at ordinary occasions.
Some made the remarkable state
ment that the exhibits this year are
not SO large as is usually displayed
on this festive event in the Changers
| life. But others will say it is up to
former standards and many maintain
that the best of other years must
step aside for the display of 1912
At any rate, all should be. satisfied
that the best Gloucester County can
produce is on show, and it is a show
that requires apologies of no sort.
Judging from the near-sta tesmen
around the grounds yesterday, one
might be lead to believe that sPoliti-
clans Day had been advanced to the
| first day, instead of being a prominent
part of Big Thursday The county
officers were largely represented,
while other representative of offices
of trust were seen cavorting about the
fair. But possibly, the political lights
of yesterday are but the extremely
adventurous ones, and that today will
witness an hundred-fold increase
Possibly the exhibit of an individual
which most caught the eye was the
display of peaches from the Solomon
Stanger & Sons orchard at Glassboro.
Finer peaches could scarcely be con-
ceived. Clark Shuster, too, had some
beauties.
The best group of apples was in the
display of VIM. c. Evans, from or
chards sprayed by him. There were
| perfect. Elmer Clement, too. had
quite group of nice ones. Clayton
G. Kirby had a heap of beauties which
attracted much attention Among
those contributing to Mr.. Evans dis
! play are Otto Bonin, Samuel Heri-
tage, Joseph Swope and John Eastlack.
/ The Farmers Exchange had a big
! exhibit of all kinds of produce in their
side of the building, it including po-
tatoes, eantaloupes, tomatoes, etc.
The West Jersey .Marl and Trans
portation Company had their tent filled
with an excellent display of-all kinds
of vegetables grown with their fer
/ tilizer. Warren Atkinson had his
building filled with similar display,
| the best produce on the grounds being
shown in these two exhibits.
/ The Clayton Grange had large
portion of the big exhibit building
occupied with products grown by its
members, and all the articles were
fine The New Jersey Agricultural
School had an exhibit, advertising the
1 New Brunswick School and presenting
/ advanced methods of agriculture.
The poultry show was especially
fine. Extra efforts had been made to
lhave it one of the features of the
show, and a look through the poultry
building was proof that expectations
had been more than eaualled. In his
entries, VIM f. Streitz, of Franklin
Vile, new exhibitor in the poultry
/ building, made d clean sweep.
Some of the exhibitors are:
/ Stokes Seed Store. "Pitman
1 Heights, New Jersey Gas Company,
John McCleary, Eyergreens; Gately &
Hurley, Parkes Coffee, Worcester Salt,
Red Heart, Blasills Pianos, Ludwig
Pianos; Reeves Merritt, florist; F, NJ.
Hewitt, magazines; Constitution Com
i pany; Gloucester County Democrat,
/ DeTIart Wagons, w. j. Marl and Trans