The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-17

\. J.; Hon John w Titcomb, state
fish and game commissioner; H. s.
Wardner president Of the Morgan
Horse club; c. G. Stillman, secretary
of the organizations; Spencer Borden.
an extensive breeder of Arabian
horses, of Fall River, Mass: Everett
l.. Swan, owner of large string of
trotting horses, of Orange, Mass; Gen.
\. q. Williams of Bellows Falls, F.. \
Darling of West Burke, E. \. Bissen
of Shoreham, one of the largest breed
ers of Merino sheep in the country:
James p. Taylor, secretary of the
Greater Vermont association.
The midway presents extensive and
varied amusement features, all of
them having passed the censor and be-
ing pronounced clean and Instructive
There is a motordome where daring
riding on motorcycles is seen, an ocean
Whlrl, merry go-round, diving Girls
and every Imaginable kind of human
and animal freak
All of the vaudeville features are
Of the highest class and furnish much
amusement to the erandstand audi
ences.
| Sheriff Frank H. Tracey of Montpe-
: lier is in charge of police arrange
meuts and he has for his first assistant
Sheriff James H. Allen of Essex June
ton. Orlando L. Martin of Plain
field is chief marshal with an able
corps of assistants.
| The Judging Of cattle. horses. sheep
and hogs began promptly at 9 clock
and by noon the stalls Of many four
footed occupants We're decorated with
bright colors, evidence of the fact that
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some kind.
With the same kind of weather as
that of Yesterday the remaining DAYS
of the fair predictions are made that
the attendance viii be many thousands
in excess of any previous state fair
Seldom has there been assembled in
any one place in Vermont so many
valuable high grade cattle as may he
seen this year at the Vermont state
fair. y careful inspection Of this va
ried and extensive exhibit in itself is
an education to an intelligent breeder.
The exhibit OF Dairy Shorthorns is
said by good judges to be one of the
best ever made in America The en-
tries in the Shorthorn class number
over 125 head coming from Ohio
Pennsylvania, Maine and Vermont
There are about - head of Jerseys
about the same number OF Guernseys
100 head of Holsteins. 80 head of AYR
=, shires. - head of Brown Swiss. -
head of Aberdeen Angus. 10 head OF
: Herefords 20 head of Devons and 81
head of Dutch Belted.
4. F. Pierce of Winchester. n H.
5 exhibits handsome herd of JERSEYS
The EIm-Leigh farm of Putney. Ed
> ward r. Andrews proprietor. and tn,
t IElmdaIe farm of Brattlehoro, Russell
g III. Briggs proprietor, show herds o
f Guernseys. Among the Hosteins ar,
/, herds owned by Mt. Hermon school
- Mt. Hermon, Mass, and Arthur J.
Miller of West Brattleboro.
e The two events on the racing care
yesterday afternoon gave all who wit
messed them much delight. for the
= We're races that for interest and clos
!. contests are rarely witnessed on an
y track The two events were %
" trot, stake for $500, with eight start
L ers, and a 2.20 pace for $500 wit
IL seven starters. In the last heat o
/ the last race the horses were closel
II punched for the full mile and ON tn
last half of the back stretch tw
"a horse blankets would have covered a
!. the horses in the field. Biagio a ba
:, gelding owned by j. H. Sage of Tro
n Y, won three straight heats in tt
:, trot stake and put up scrappy rae
," in well-contested field Honestly,
bay geldng owned and driven by
{ H. Carr of Oxford, n. H., pulled dow
'h first money in the race, but every inc
II of the mile in the three heats was no
OF " contested. The summary:
226 Trot Stake. in 5.
ne Purse, $500.
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