Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-09
Breaks All Records with lis
18Th Annual FAN.
Big Crowd Enjoys The Splendid
Exhibits and Fine Attractions.
Plenty Of Field Sports-.The Horses
4 Feaiure..1he Ball.

Winslow, Me-, Oct (SpeciaD.-
With all the hustle and hustle that ae-
companies state fair, including even
the side show and cattle exhibit, the
18th annual Winslow Grange fair set
itself on the history book of the town,
Wednesday. Anyone who came to Win
slow with the idea that he was going
to see little one horse affair was
agreeably surprised 1t was a genuine
fair out and out with exhibits of every
kind, with ball game and a great
splendid grand ban in the evening
OF course it is always the crowd that
makes q fair. In that respect and
every other, the Winslow Grange fair
was great success. Folks, who per-
haps don't go to the big State fair
came to the hall, Wednesday, TO look
things over, meet old friends, and
make new ones. AS soon as the official
opening hour-10 o'clock-had arrived,
the people began to come from all di-
rections and from that time until the
closing hour, the grounds were actual
ly covered with teams and people
Autos. surries, bicycles, motor cycles:
in fact every mode of conveyance as
well as every type of people was rep
resented at the fair. The majority,
naturally, were women, but neverthe-
less there We're several hundred Of the
men folks who had taken a day off
to take in the fair. The morning was
taken up principally in looking over
the exhibits, which We're both excel
lent and in Il great abundance
Behind the Grange hall there was
the exhibition of horses. swine and
ponies and here also were held few
of the sporting events. To the right
of the entrance of the hall was the
typical side show with its gaily and
profusely painted fadens who sing
and dance, and the hideous comedian
who tells you jokes your grandfather
heard when he was a boy.
Somewhat apart from the Grange
hall itself was the Colonial exhibit
The old schcolhouse made an ideal
place to display the antiquities. There
were spinning wheels-and some of the
good ladies spun, Wednesday, beds.
dresses, comforters, lamps, candle
mouds, farming implements, dishes,
doll brought from London in 1777, and
irens, blowers, and almost every com
modify known to the people at that
time. Then there was one of the come
" daughters of Winslow, clad in Colo
NAL costume, seated at the table, serv-
ING tea in that good old=fashioned
way"
The exhibition hall itself was replete
with wonders. There were things there
to tempt dyspeptics beyond endurance
Such delicious preserves such yellow
golden butter, big rosy apples, perfect
heads of cabbage. round plump peaches
beets. carrots, turnips, potatoes, squash
pears. and in fact everything the soil of
Maine could produce. There was nothing
prosaic about the products either. Why
there were some exhibits ut the state
fairs that were not superior. What
caught the eyes of those who like goodies
were the preserves, jelles and cooking
of the Winslow housewives II things
hadn't been under glass, ,the deieacies
would have disappeared little by little
on the "just a sample plan. The por-
traits. the paintings, the pastles and the
art needlework came IN for their share
of attention.
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