Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-26
STATE FAIR PU|
OVER ONE DAY
Rain Prevented Carrying Out of
Program-Baby Contest
Thursdays Features.

White River Junction, Sept. ls.-That
the Vermont state fair is being appre-
cated is found in the fact that nearly
nine thousand persons braved one of the
worst storms of the season to-day and
came and saw the sights, although the
program was practically wiped on the
slate.
The three racing events on the card were
put over TIL tomorrow, owing to the
heavy track and the constant downpour
OF rain, and the races scheduled for to-
morrow will go over till Saturday Three
flights were made by the monoplane
The annual meeting of the Morgan
Horse club was held on the grounds this
afternoon and the following officers were
elected: President. H. s. Wardner of
Windsor; vice-presidents, j. c. Brunk of
Springfield. ILL.,, f. a. Darling Of East
Burke, A. w. Peters Of Bradford, J. r.
Steers Of New York city; secretary and
treasurer, c. c. Stllman of New York
city; governors to serve till 1915, c. G.
Barlow. Wilmington. f. A. Darling, East
Burke. r. H. Hoffman, Lyndonville, r. c.
Smith, st. Adams, c. A. Stone, Boston,
Mass.
A paper was read by President Ward
ner on the ACCESSIBILITY of breeding tho
Morgan horse according to the standards
of the past and not with the idea of
making the Morgan larger and heavier.
Maxwell E,varts told what had been done
at Washington toward securing an APP
preparation for the establishing of a re-
mount station at Norwich University,
where Morgans of three years are to
be trained by the cadets of the univer-
sity and then turned over to Fort Ethan
Allen for cavalry mounts. Senator Car
roll S. Page said that a bill was before
the Seante asking for an appropriation
of 100000 for the purpose set forth by
Mr.. Evarts.
Among the distinguished persons at the
grounds to-day We're Ex-Governor j. G..
Mccullough and Gen. f.. l.. Bates of Ben
ninSton and Governor John y. Mead
with two of his staff.
At eleven O'Clock the Judging on tho
baby contest began. the following acting
as judges: Or. Nj. L. Stanley. White
River Junction, DR.. ]. d. Brewster, and
Mrs. \. b. Cheney of Windsor. The
robustness of the infant, weight age
and general appearance was considered.
The babies were divided into foul
classes, under six months of age, over
infants under one year of age under
three months old. Under the first named
there We're seven entries and five babies
We're present. In this class the prizes were
awarded as follows: First. Charlotte
Flanagan, New York city: second. Nellie
Beatrice Bailey. Brchton, p. O.. third
. II 4.
fourth, ,ilwyn Warren blanchard, White
River Junction; iifth, Rose Mary O'Neil
White River Junction.
Under the second head We're five entries
and three contestants with premiums
given as follows: First, Phillip Alel
SaraSue, White River Junction; second
William Bennett Cobb. Evarts; third
Mary Jennie Wood. Hartani. Bottl,
babies were awarded prizes as follows
/ First, Victor Ro!ln Sargent, Norwich
second, Earl Roy Lacoss, White Rive
Jrnction; third, Bruce Frederick Green
wood Lebanon, y. H.; fourth. Spence
Sargent, Quechee fifth, Hazel ]. Hoskins
| f. rankin.
In the last class there was but on,
present and that was Baby Kidder o
! White River Junction. who of course re
ceived the prize and was deserving Of 1t
owing to some misunderstanding at TIL,
secretary's office some of the babies en-
tered were not brought to the tent unit
Judging had begun, when 1t was to lat,
for them to compete. After the names
of the winning babies had been given.
group photograph of all the babe
present with their mothers and the nurses
at the tent, was taken. The winners wer,
then held up for inspection by the ten
full of people present to witness tn