Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-09-08

Exhibits were coming thick and fast at
the Somerset Central Agricultural Socie-
E! tvs fair Thursday and all departments
were well filed The new exhibition hall
was an especially busy place and there
was great hustling to find enough show
cases to accommodate the big displays Of
fancy work, among which were embroid-
cry Of Mrs. H. w. George, Spanish work
Holway and Mrs. Nellie Nichols, besides
sofa cushions, sets of hand-painted plates
and cups and a fine display of Wedge
wood ware exhibited by Mrs. Ordway,
| though not for premium, basketry, nit
tens knit by Mrs. Elizabeth Tobey,
lady of 80 years, colored embroidery of
Mrs. Lewis Caswell and several others
Vegetables and apples occupied two CEN
ter tables. these including exhibits Of
w. A. Bailey and John Walker of Madi-
son.
Special displays of canned goods and
Jellies were. shown by Miss Grace f.
Jewett and by Mrs. A. NJ. SWEET, the
latter having also pickles, including 80
cans Of pickles and fruit Oil paintings
by Mrs. Daisy Thurston Richardson oc-
cupied one wall, while patchwork quilts
of silk and worsted, knit bedspreads and
afghans occupied the opposite wall with
some rugs, among which was one espe-
cially worthy Of note made by A. NJ
SWEET of Skowhegan. This rug by 5
feet in size is made of macrame twine
and contains 345 knots to a row across
the rug, requiring a year for the making.
The filing woven in was obtained from a
brussels carpet which had been used 25
years on the floor of Boston school
committee room, raveled out and wash
ed and the coloring is beautiful the de-
sign being somewhat Oriental. At the
southern end Of the hall is the manual
training exhibit also. most excellent
though not large. Strawberries with ber-
ries on them are so enticing that they
have been wired in and Carleton Gamage
shows some peanut plants.
New Exhibition Hall
The Central Maine Power Co. has big
booth in the center of the hall and shows
an electric washer, range, various motors
and pumps, grills flatirons and the lat
est varieties of electric lamps and other
appliances. Other booths are occupied
by ]. \. and l. J. Smith with pianos and
other musical instruments and sewing
machines Bisson & Conant have an en-
hibt of goods of the Goodrich Rubber
!, Co.; c. w. Day of groceries. including
Lays Luxury flour and canned goods :;
New H. Lambert, ice cream; Sampson &
Avore. cameras, thermos bottles, ice
} cream and other goods; F. w Bucknam,
t less Of Boston represents the Whitehouse
Coffee; and Harry Parker of Bangor is
) showing the Superba brand of goods for
Milliken-Tomlinson CO. OF Portland.
The independent Reporter booth
shows AT interesting machine for MAX
ing handmade torchon lace with "a
| or more tiny spools of thread. The
, succession of newspapers in Skowhe-
} gan is shown here, from the Somerset
Journal of 1925 down to the Somerset
Reporter Of 1872. a series of II head
ings of various styles and sizes of pa
pers. Holt G. Hight show an automo-
, bile exhibit consisting of late models
of Buick. Ford and Ford trucks.
: The midway is next in order with
it's big merry -go-round, ferris wheel. a
irc tents so nobody will go hungry,
the ancient hoop games and whip sell
ers. Calway's Cathedral clock is also
; to be seen.
, POULTRY EXHIBIT
| The poultry exhibit this year bids
fair to be the biggest for years with
Harry Hes superintendent, and Clar-
ence B. Hight taking the entries. John
l. Walker of Madison heads the list
with 40 birds, including the Silver
Duckwins Game Bantam, Buff Cochin
Bantam, Silver Spangled Hamburg
, Pearl Guineas and r. G. r. I. Reds.
Russell Landry has &c of about the
same kinds, including Brown Leghorns.
Frank Danforth exhibits White Wyan
dottes, and S. c. r. I. Reds. George
X THOMPSON and Almon H. Blaisdell
of Norridgewock are showing Rose
Comb Rhode Island Reds; Perley D.
witham Columbian Wyandoues;
Floyd G. Nye, handsome Black Orp
ingtons: Mahalon Dane, White Wyan-
dottes and Michael Murray, Black
Cochin Bantams: Albra Adams of
Madison is showing Partridge Wyan-
dottes and White Wyandottes, having
big display; Burr Gamage shows S.
c. and r. c. White Leghorns and Will
lis Bailey, S. c. White Leghorns. Le-
on Mason has some fine Partridge Ply
mouth Rocks and other varieties. Fred
Weston, Toulouse geese Scott Rob-
inson, r. l. Reds, Plymouth Rocks,
White Orpingtons: ]. p Murray, North
Anson, Black Minorcas. Among the
special exhibits We're coon rabbits of
Leon D. Witham of Smithfield and
three-legged pullet of the White wy
andotte breed shown by r. F. Home
sted.
| SHEEP
The sheep are shown this year in the
lower part of the old exhibition hall,
and chief among the exhibitors are
George w. Weeks of Canaan with 13
pure bred Oxford Downs which won
him s1G0 in prizes at the Lewiston fair
this year; Frank Parsons of NOrridge-
wock with Rambullette and Oxfords;
Arthur Railey SuffolkS and Rambul-