St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-09-16
COUNTY FAIR OVER
Races Attracted Much Attention
Fine Exhibits of Jerseys
and Sheep.

The 6Sth annual Caledonia Coun-
ty fair closed Friday with one of the
classiest harness events seen here in
years. Daisy Queen, Gus Pinard's
mare, was the star in this attraction
and the way in which she came back
after dropping two heats set the fans
wild. Shaw took two and it looked
like a cinch for him until Pinard
began to drive in the third, and then
there was nothing to it but Daisy
Queen. The first half of the fourth
heat was the fastest half mile of the
three days racing card. Daisy's time
for the half was 1907, the first quar-
ter being 35 seconds and second 80.
The weather Wednesday and
Thursday seemed admirably suited
to the Polar bears, which attraction,
by the way, proved to be the most
popular one shown on the stage.
Rain, cold and hard times kept the
attendance down, but the program
was run off according to schedule
and it proved to be an attractive one
There we're three good races Wednes-
day, one of them going five heats.
In the 2:2T Daisy Queen forced Tom
Longboat to his best to land events.
The showing of cattle in the caval-
cade was one of the best seen in
years.
Each day of the fair Harold Gates,
the balloonist, gave daring exhibi-
tions of parachute jumping, using
three parachutes in his act. There
we're plenty of side shows, good
music, chance to part with little
loose change on the midway, good
eating houses, an ostrich farm, best
exhibit of sheep ever on the grounds,
beautiful displays in all parts of
floral hall and in fact everything ex-
cept good weather, the only thing
the management could not order.
The auto racing which included a
slow race for four cylinder cars, an
other for six cylinder cars and time
race furnished much amusement.
Thursdays racing included a six
heat event in which there were three
heat winners, and which kept the
fans guessing until the end. Alley
Wilkes romped home a winner in his
event and 'tKitt" came in for his
share of the applause.
In the cattle department there was
the keenest competition in the Jer-
sey class. Five herds, including 72
animals were shown and each herd
carried off ribbons. e. A. Darling's
herd landed five firsts, two seconds, !
three thirds and also contained the
champion COW. E. & II. Fairbanks q
Co. we're awarded seven firsts, three
seconds and four thirds. B. l.. Cad
ley of Barnet, with eight head, drew
down 10 prizes including four 1rsts, |
two seconds, three thirds and the
champion bull. A. A. Gray of Guild
hall carried off a first, two seconds
and two thirds and George Gray won
six seconds and three thirds. Ac-
cording to cattle fanciers il was the
finest showing of Jerseys ever on the
grounds.
A. J. Higgins herd of Herefords
was unopposed as were the Swiss
Browns from Speedwell Farms. The /
Lyndon School of Agriculture and B.
G. Stevens divided honors in the
Ayreshire class, the former having
the champion bull and landing one
first, two seconds and one third. The
Stevens herd showed the champion
COW and carried off four blue rib
bons, one red and two whites.
Every sheep exhibitor including G.
H. Marshall of Vergennes, Elmer
Comptus of Clarendon, Jackson
Bros. of Vergennes, Watson Lovett
of Quincy, Ohio, Roscoe Friend of
DeGraff, Ohio, Henry S. Hale of
Dixville, NJ H., carried off ribbons
and money enough to pay them for
coming to st. Johnsbury, and also
the knowledge that they contributed
a great deal to the success of the
fair.
1t would be difficult to improve on
the exhibit of vegetables and fruit
seen in floral hall. The Mangelwort-
eel beets and ever bearing straw
berries shown by Il. II. Hallett
caught the eye at once. The NAM
moth beets weights 36 pounds each
and the strawberry plants were in
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