Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-07
Record Breaker
County Fair
ATTENDANCE WENT TO OVER
1900 MARK.
ON OPENING DAY
Exhibits and Livestock Make Fine Dis-
PIsy-Fast Races on the Track
Many at Firs~or'. DispIsy-eovsr-
nor Coming Today.

President Arthur d, Lathrop got up
at Z O'Clock Monday morning to look
AZ the sky and the sight OF II. dark.
overcast and threatening rain, sent
him back TO bed with a discouraging
prospect for Labor day and the fair.
A good many OF the workers OF the
New London County Agricultural So
ciety felt the same way as the morn
Ing wore on II still looked unpromisinR
and a dismal drfzzle seemed to be not
Tar on to blight their most strenuous
Efforts to make the sixty-frst county
fair the busiest and biggest and best
that Norwich ever had at the fair
grounds at East Great Plain But by
noon they were all smiling. and by
o'clock with the grandstands filled
to overfowing, and 500 automobiles
parked inside the track. and a crowd
OF close to $1,000 people spreading
themselves all over the grounds there
wasn't q vestige Of the mornings
gloom in the air. for the sun was
out. In the blue sky and the folks were
there. and the fair was beink all the
success they had dared to hope for.
Not Hitch.
The programme for the afternoon
went on without the sign OF a hitch,
and the visitors. most Of them, stayed
and enjoyed themselves from early In
the day until the last motorcycle had
stopped chugging long after g. Then
Al TIC evening dnOLQeT CTOMQ, three
thousand, gathered again for the night
fair that has become an established
feature that can't be dispensed with,
at the New London county fair.
Something to See Ever,~hers.
There were so many things to see
at the fair Monday that one didn't
know Just where to begin. But to get
general glimpse of what's doing ana
catch some of the side lights, it's al
n 20
the Midway. This part OF the fair
seemed to have more on II this fall
than ever. II starts with the farm
machinery building on the right OF the
gate where 7. H Eldredge has a big
display and demonstration OF sIIage
cutters. planters and other modern
implements OF farming. Then next
there is q demonstration Of what
seems at nrst sight to be possibly a
little Russian breastworl<s thrown up
against advancing Germans. but it
turns out to be nothing more warlfke
than new kind OF silo, made OF tile
reinforced with steel and quite i'm
perishable. There Is a gasoline mo-
tor exhibit next to this. Then on tho
left of the road are the two big tents
where the Connecticut experiment sta
ton at New Haven and the Connecti-
cut Agricultural college and Storrs
Experiment station have exhibits that
no one who Is interested in scientific
farming and is looking for progres>
and prosperity can AFFORD TO miss
They are a wonderful revelation OF
what the modern farm can be. Then
comes the Bulletin. tent where the So
cial Cornerites will have happy re-
unions during the, fair and where all
selves.
Equal Suffrage TrieoIor.
The Norwich Equal Suffrage league
has its booth in its familiar place at
the west end of exhibitiou hall, with
its familiar .tricolor. too. and the old
workers. and q good many new ones-
as well. Just as enthusiastic as ever
over votes for women In fact the
outlook, they said Monday. Is more
encouraging than IL has been at any
time previous The league has had its
tent at the fair for four years now.
many OF the men don't have to be ar
gued with, they've come around al
ready and are keen TO champion the
cause. Still. there was a large squad
of ladies passing out literature and
buttons and running the voiceless
Monday in the fight for equality. as
suffrage. Mrs. Willis Austin, presz
ident Of the Norwich league. is di-
recting the fair work. and a score
OF the other members will be her
active assistants during the three days.
Soy Scouts Gave First Aid.
The Boy Scouts of Norwich. six
troops of them represented. made a
splendid showing. with a rest tent.
large and airy, where hundreds OF
women stopped to get breath in Mons
days heat and hustle. and a smaller
first aid tent where the boys had q
number of minor ailments came up for
treatment One Of them was for
thumb that a young man cut when he
fell of his motorcycle. and they fixed
up q bruised eye that a second chap.
one OF the help at the grounds. got
when he was hit BY the fist OF another
man-such things will happen, but the
Boy Scouts nK them all right
Man Had convulsions.
The most serious case Of the five
they had Monday was that OF Myron-
Wilcox, who had commissions across
the track near tho stage about the
middle on the afternoon The heat
appeared to have wrought on the at
tack. The Boy Scouts brought him
70 their tent on q streecher and applied
Ice TO the base OF his brain and the
three doctors who RESPONDED 10 the
call for medical men said they had
done Just the right thing and compli=
mented them Scoutmaster william O.
Baker OF Troop No. 4, Greeneville Ia
In general charge % their fair activi-i
ties.
Fer the Hungry. q,
A. D. lzanrislis or Preston had the
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