St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-09-17
WIDE-AWAKE
GRANGE WINS
FIRST PRIZE
Floral Hall Displays Best
Ever Seen at County
Fair

One of the most attractive cXhib-
its ever seen at the Caledonia County
Fair were on display It the various
different booths both in Floral Hall
and either sections OF the big Mid
way this year and i'll spite Of the bad
weather on Thursday, those in charge
of the different stands expressed the
belief that fully As many if not more
people examined and inquired about
the exhibits this season as they did
in 1919.
The most attractive Of all the dis
plays in Floral Hall, that is in their
line, arc the Grange booths. Each
one of these places arc richly dccorat-
ed with green stuff right from the
farm AMI the hills. In their collection
of articles, nothing grown in the
soil or in the orchards is left out. The,
display is indeed very tempting and
makes the mouths Of man" Il visitor
wate,.
The Wide Awake GRANGE, No. GO,
of st. Johnsbulv Center receive |
first prize for havin" the finest and
most artistic display of fruits and
vegetables of all the oranges. This
booth, which was in charge OF MIS-.
Ray Durham. Mrs. Ezra Learned and
Mrs. Fred knowlton, was decorated
in green and yellow, successfully car
lied out with oats, corn, flowers and
a4paramus The exhibit included a
variety OF vegetables, canned fruits,
flowers, eggs, butter, cheese and
maple syrup and sugar.
The second prize went to the Dan
vile Grange No. 325. This booth was
decorated in evergreen, sunflowerS,
spikenard and wild grapes, and was
in charge Of Mrs. George Morse, aid
ed by q corps of assistants. The most
interesting thing in this exhibit was
the bee hive, loaned by Guy Pettin-
gill of Danvillc. There was always a
large audience at this booth watching
the hive of bees making honey. Sew
eral combs were filed by the bees
during the three days. The remainder
OF the exhibit consisted of eggs, but
ter, dutch cheese, strawberries, lasp-
berries, plums, maple syrup, canned
fruits, canned vegetables and fresh
fruit and vegetables.
West Barnet captured third prize.
This booth was in charge of A. d..
Thornton and Andrew Hastie. The
decorations were of green and yel-
low, with pine, Balsam, suntlower and
hops. bcinm strung around the en-
closure. Tne exhibit included va
riety Of apples, cucumbers, cabbages,
caulihower, turnip, carrots, parsnips,
bcets, onions, beans, honey, canned
fruits and vegetables. Among the
culiosities were an 19-inch cucumber,
32-inch Calibash Cord. a lemon Gu
cumber and an 80 pound pumpkin.
Enterprise Grange, No 16 of Lyn-
don came in for fourth nriZe. Among
the variety of articles in this exhibit
were a large assortment of canned
goods and fresh fruit and vegetables.
The decorations were of green and
yellow and the booth was in charge
of Mrs. Charles Bradshaw, Mrs. J.
II. Grady and d. D. Gray.
Among the other oranges, with OK
hibits in Floral Hall, were Passump-
sic Valley, No. 322 in charge of Mrs.
Jim Moore, Mrs. Charles Harvey and
Mrs. Albert Granger of Passumpsic.
The decorations were of hydrangeas
and farm products and mountain ash.
The exhibit consisted of vegetables,
canned fruit and vegetables; McIn-
does, No. BOG in CHARGE of Mrs. c. A.
Chase, Miss Helen Gibson, Mrs. Car
ric Leighton and Mrs. Winnie Dun
can. The decorations were red,
green and gray color color scheme,
cedar, mountain ash and everlasting
The exhibit included a variety of
vegetables and among the curiosities
were snake cucumber, curley cab
bagc, sugar beets, black walnuts, Jap
anese radish and peppers.
The Independent, No. 23 of Shelf
field in charge of Mrs. Jennie Phil
lips, Mrs. Minnie Sheldon and Mrs
A. o. Gray. In this booth was a dis
play of all kinds of vegetables and
canned goods.
The maple sugar display on the mid
way probably drew as much attention
as any other exhibit on the grounds,
hundreds of people visiting the build
ING each day of the fair.
The largest assortment of maple ar
ticles in the building was that of the
Cary Maple Sugar Company. This
concern had on display everything
from the syrup to the sugar with {
large variety of maple candies.
What attracted the most interest ii
this display was the exhibition of the
Brewer Sap Piping System, which
was in charge of Roy E. Davis
sales manager of this branch of the
Cary Company. The exhibition con
sisted of a miniature sugal
house, surrounded by maple trees ane
the Brewer pipes attached to eacl
tree and all connecting with the mair
nipe that runs into the sugar house
This system can be used only where
the gravity system makes it possible
The apparatus is new in this section
of the country but has been success
fully used in the south part of thu
state, ACCORDING to Mr.. Davis
Among the prizes taken by Cary's
were first on maple cream, first o,
maple confectionery, second ant
third on syrup and third on stirred
sugar.
OF unusual interest was the exhib
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