New Britain herald., 1921-09-15
REMINGTON PREPARES FOR GALA TIME:
 KEEN INTEREST S4OWNLN GRANGE FAIR
Pie Eating COntess-Prizes For Best Cakes, Pies and Bread--Awards For Poultry Exhibits - HOme-dade Candy and Other Goodies-Fair Opens Tonight.

Today is a holiday in Newington. Housewives and their "worser halves arc laboring under a strain of sup pressed excitement. There has been tinge of anticipation pervading the atmosphere of the school all day. Even the weather has on it's holiday clothes. Flags and bunting and signs and banners and red, white and blue mingles with asters and dahlias and colored paper and autumn leaves and greens to decorate and ornament the booths and open aif dancing pavil- ion at Bonnair avenue and Main street. Men and women. husband, wives, mothers, fathers, sisters. broth- CTS, cousins. aunts. uncles and sweet hearts-especially sweethearts - all turn towards the Grange fair and all roads lead 'Grangeward" the balance of the week.
 Tonight. when the mothers of New ington have the supper. or perhaps the more aristocratic dinner dishes washed. the children, dressed in their Sunday clothes and the local speak CTS have their latest supply of verbal pyrotechnics all ready, the Newington fair will be launched officially on its 1921 engagement It will be more than a fair. according to all reports it will be an agricultural fair which will be second only to the Charter Oak fair and is said to supplant the popu- lar Berlin state fair as we'll.
 Much Activity.
 From all parts of Newington for days past. there have been strange scenes of industry, seemingly unlike the routine duties of the towns busy housewives. At the home of Mrs. Elliott, large patches of toothsome and appetizing confectionery. of the kind that only mother makes. and always takes the family prize. have been made. The sounds of machinery, the turning of a crank. cracking of ice. etc. in the cellar of the John Walsh home. have had nothing to do with hooch. as a stranger not know ing the residents of this lively little village might think, but they have represented the manufacture of ice cream and anyone who never ate any ice cream made in a country home, cannot appreciate the kind that MT. Walsh has made. except by going to the fair and tasting it.
 For the thirsty traveller, who desires to walk home as straight as ever he came and not be afraid to meet the minister on the return journey. Eskil has discovered a secret that even Volstead would endorse. And then. if said traveller felt in need of further rest and refreshment John McGee has some lunch which will furnish just enough energy to go around to DeForest Turner's country store, and sit on a cracker barrel. eat prunes and raisins and talk about the weather and crops.
 New Britain anglers can take their rods and bait, if they wish. or go without said equipment if they do not care to burden themselves with unnecessaries and spend a delightful time at Mrs. Helen Mulcahey's fish pond.
 And the usual fair exhibitions will be found there. Somebody in town, no doubt will have the largest pump kin. and it wont. be milk fed either. else is going to take home. the prize for the best canned goods display. and father wont shine here.