Putnam patriot., 1914-08-28
WOODSTOCK FAIR
The Real Old Time Farmers Fair And
 Cattle Show.
The Place to Visit, View Exhibits and be Entertained; September l4, Is, To.


 The date for Woodstock fair, Sep tember IL, Is and i6, will soon be here and the cry of the early morning car riers, "All aboard for the fair grounds will put new life into the citizens of Eastern Windham county as the an- tieipation of old Woodstock fair al- ways gives great pleasute-pleasure only equalled by the realization. The fair has been n success for many years past but in recent years the crowds have been bigger than ever for it Is place that everyone likes to go and a place where everyone likes to take their children and tell them that at Woodstock can he seen one of the only few remaining old time farmers fairs and cattle shows.
 Woodstock fair for many years ! stood for something more than the tawdry, glittering midway of cheap amusements that hts engulfed many of the larger fairs. The aim of the management Is to give the people of the surrounding country the same wholesome entertainment that their forefathers so enjoyed. A big show ing of cattle, poultry, swine, farm products, dranght oxen and draught horses, horse racing and many other outside amusements. But the big attraction for many still remains in the exhibition halls where the whole family takes part and has an interest. The little tots put in their exhibits of sewing, cooking, drawing, fsacywork, etc., and grandma sends some knitting or tatting or an old fashioned bed spread or some piece of work that brings back the long ago; the boys vie their lahors In the soil and also have exhibits in the pens; while the arti- cles that the good housewife displays are varied indeed and include every thing imaginable m the culinefy de- partment, pies, the filling of which does not come in cans, "jeli' that makes one want to sample every tumb- Ter, doughnuts that make one get up early to breakfast, and cake that mother used to make, and many other things that makes the dyspepic city bosIder wish he'd been fortunate enough to have been reared in the real country, on real farm, with a real cook.
 But perhaps A real feature, and one that you seldom hear talked about at other fairs, is the visiting feature. It has always been said that If you wish to see someone of whom you have lost all track for years just 20 to Wood. stock fair. There Is more than mere words to this. Many people, the older people especially, get more out of this feature than any other andsit Is safe to say that Woodstock fair is an annual meeting place for many venerable citi- zens of Windham county, and beyond, who do not see each other at any other time during the year. It Is veritable Windham county old home day--or days. Of course there will iw few wholesome amusements to entertain the lively young people but this does not mean that the fair has grown into a variety show by a long shot. Those who go to Woodstock next month and who is not going-wils hnd 1t the same old Woodstock fair in the same old entertaining way that they have always found IL, and their fathers have found il, and their fathers fathers have found 1t, and, as in all probabil- ity, their children and grand children will find it, for what would the coming generations of Windham County do without Woodstock fsir, il just wouldn't he Windham County al all | without it, thatsall.