Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-05
Big Attendance
at County Fair
BUSY OPENING DAY FOR OFF,
GALS AND UNION WORKERS
10000 ON GROUNDS
Exhibits of Unusual Number and
Merit-Much Activity AIong the
Midway-Good Racing and Pleasing
audeviIIe-Fireworlcs a Feature OF
the Night Programme

the Night Programme
! BY the most rigid quarantine orders
from the seat of highest authority
the busy, bustling Office of genial Sec
retary William W. Beckwith-every
thought Of infantiIe and all other
sorts Of paralysis were strictly exclud-
| ed from the grounds of the New Ion
don County Agricultural society on
Monday And so the county fair
| meant everything it ought to mean-a
olg, happy, carefree, informal, sociable
| gathering, a place, where old friends
| meet and new ones are made; where
| You stop in wOnder1nent before your
ne1shbor's big squaslles and you rem
der him speechelss with those yearline,
| steers Of yours; where you wander
| through the midway and MUNICH pop
| corn and look at the girls and listen to
| eats 'ern alive" and sure to wiil:'
| where you wake up and urge and cheer
when the horses race up the stretch
| neck and neck and you stop breathing
! While the young chap in the blue tights
IS Wh1rllrg around in mid-air and you
| hardly dare to look when the man
like bullet. Eventually you go home
as grimy as a day of dust can make
you, as thirsty as camel, as we'll
| satisfied with yourself and your
AlClSLDOIS DIS only a QdV as well spent
can make you. For all these things,
and lot more besides, make up a
real county fair, and that was the kind
that happened yesterday.
over that, were at the day fair. the
best kind of cool and breezy and
snappy weather cooperating with La
Dor day and a lot of hard work and
good advertising to bring about a sat
isfactory and a satisfied crowd The
! night fair. with it's stage attractions,
and the band, and a mighty fine set of
! freWorks and bright and cleaning
midway, and crescent moon, and
grandstand tickets only 10 cents, and
other things, too, brought out perhaps
5000 people in the evening. Altogether
it was busy day for the fair officials
the Labor union workers, the many
i people who were exhibiting, the troll
leymen, the jitney drivers (Who ask a
duarter) and the suffTagists. There
were other people who worked hard
that needn't be mentioned
One of the things that struck the
casual observer at first glance was the
quantity and quality of livestock on
the grounds this year. The splendid
animals from the Connecticut Agricul-
tuIal college, marveIs resulting from
eugenics applied to horses and cattle
the way it ought to be to men were
centers of attention and praise The
Branford Farms stock on the other
side of the exhibition hall, was an
other lot of the finest breeding and the
sterling products of such we'll known
cattle breeders as James B. Palmer of
Lisbon, Charles i. Briggs of Lebanon
and John 4. Avery of North Stoning-
ton, and many others, excited adnnira-
ton from all beholders.
The other exhibits too, in all de-
partments were in keeping with the
standards set through 62 years of
prosperity and progress by this for
ward looking agricultural society.
Along the Midway.
A trip along the Midway, starting
from the Boy Scouts tent and first
aid tents and The Bulletins Social
Corner tent through the lane to the
poultry building, was of course one OF
the essentials. The machinery tents
of T. H. Eldredge and the C. S. Mer-
sick company were hummins and
chugging away all day long, and in
the grange building A D. Zabriskies
familiar face was back and he and his
; corps of helpers were serving their
usual fine dinners. The Brooks tur-
the Midway was something new this
year, but literally patronized. Wheels
of fortune and games of chance, all
of the innocuous variety, fourished,
| with Thermos bottles, and blankets
and Teddy bears and other valuable
articles as goals of achievement. Wild
Rena competed with Amgoza in the
fierce growlings that emanated from
!
very, very recently been brought from
the darkest part of Africa, or Volun-
town, or-somewhere. A motordrome
is a new attraction and so is Luken's
big animal tents, but Joseph A. George
and Bur1ingham's quick lunch, and
the doll-babies and the dodgers are
just as they used to be in days of
yore, and just SO, it is our duty and
! tent flying the colorS of purple, green
and white.
Not quite as of old, for the Cause
spelled with capitals growing and
there are new faces and the quantity
of enthusiasm inevereth, without loss
of quality. For instance, a new lead
er gained during the year is Miss
Daphne selden of Deep River and af-
Mrs. j. Eldred Brown, Miss Mary
Richards and Miss Gladys Fiske,
look out for the fair work
making parade of suffragists in New
. Haven this afternoon. Norwich is
going to be represented in the march
by Mrs. Willis Austin. Mrs. J. Eldred
Mary U: Richards, Mrs. H. R. Branche,
Mrs. w. A. Norton. Those -,lo will
, help in the three days work at the
j fair include most of the foregoing and
Miss Rose Trumbuil Miss Louise
: Mech. Mrs. c. p. K. Burnham, Miss
Carroll Miss Sarah Loring. They
are selling buttons and pictures and
distributing literature and spreading
the suffrage doctrine in all directions
!. First Aid by Boy Scouts.
! After suffrage, very little is left to
write about, except that the Boy
< Scouts are on first aid service, some
; at their red cross tent, others by
l turns around, the grounds. They had
their f1r~t case about $50 o'clock o.
: clock Monday afternoon when a New
81 ofrSqe a.,
nation of heart trouble and sun
stroke. The Scouts administered the
proper remedies, cold water and
: brandy and ammonia, and their pa
= tient recovered. A young lady who
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