Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-09-14
THE ORLEANS
Large Showing of Stock, Poultry,
Farm Produce and by Oranges
and Boys and Girls.
ONE OF BIGGEST AND BEST

Roaring brook park at Barton
home of Orleans County fair, was the
scene last week of. one of the finest
fairs ever held in the county. The
weather was ideal. exhibits in every
department were large and the peo.
pie came in good old-fashioned
crowds. Every cattle shed, horse
stall, sheep pen, hog sty, and poultry
coop was full, every inch of fora
hall was taken, every foot of ground
concessions sold, every stand rented
and several tents were erected.
A crowd Of 10000 people were
present Wednesday, filling the 5000
| grand-stand seats to capacity anG
crowding the inside Of the track with
a thousand parked automobiles
Thursdays crowd was much smaller
A full racing program, splendid aero.
plane exhibits. stage attractions
demonstrations, pulling contests
band music, premium stock parades
ball games, automobile exhibit ant
a fakirs' row with everything from
A to kept the crowds well enter
tanned. The music of the merry-go.
round, the toot of the Ferris whee
engine, the whirr of the aeroplane
| the shouting of the fakirs. and the
cheering of the crowds made rea
"fair" music, and not an accident was
reported.
The management is to be congrat
ulated upon the success of the 1922
Orleans County fair, special credit
being due H. R. Barron. the new sec.
retary, and President F. S. Whitcher
Instead of the usual list of awards
made at the fair, using many columns
of space, we have decided to give 6
more general story Of the event ant
omit the long list of prize winners
and the amounts won.
! FLORAL HALL
Floral hall bulged with exhibits OF
merit. The grange exhibits were q
new feature which attracted much at
tention and should be continued. The
Oranges of Newport, Albany, Glover
and Barton each had splendid booths
appropriated" decorated and filled
with canned goods and farm prod
ucts. The judges awarded Glove,
Grange the first prize of $40, Barton
the second prize of SIS, Albany the
third prize of $40 and gave the New
port exhibit special mention and re-
commended SIS special prize.
The number of dairy butter and
maple sugar entries was not so large
as should come from Orleans coun-
ty. There were only IL entries OF
butter and sugar and no award was
for less than 81 on any exhibit. Fol
| example, a pail of maple sugar re.
I ceived a premium of So when the
sugar itself is worth about thai
much. A 81 award on a gallon o1
syrup and SIS on box of butter is 8
worthwhile reward for exhibiting
these things. The first prize fo,
maple sugar went to T. M. Uric OF
North Craftsbury and for syrup to
A. w. Ticehurst Of West Glover. Or
stirred sugar c. w. White of North
Craftsbury took first and Mr.. White
also took first prize on print dairy
Glover took first prize on box but.
| ter.
While fruit is not a speciality witt
this part of Vermont creditable var
iety of apples were exhibited. The
largest exhibit was by Mrs. Ezra
| Clark of Glover who had 25 varietie;
of apples. Myrtle Ticehurst of West
Glover brought eight varieties OF
| apples, while E. P Wright of Bar
ton showed four varieties and Alfred
Daniels of Irasburg three. Ward
/ Skinner of West Glover showed boz
of Lombard and box of Burbanb
plums, the only fruit besides apples
exhibited.
The vegetable exhibit was a splen-
did one. the exhibit winning the larg-
est prize being that of F. B. Lacoss
and George Queor of Bloomington
A. R. Wakeman of Barton won the
] second largest award, both these eX-
hibitors having a large variety of
vegetables. Other exhibitors in this
class who won prizes on different en-
tries were John A. Smith, Barton;
Alfred Daniels, Irasburg; Roy Leon
ard, Orleans; A. p. Underwood, Bar
ton; Mrs N. A. Smith, Glover; Leon
Damon, Barton; G. w. Curtis, Der
/ by and B. R. Buchanan of West Glow
er and there were number of small
er exhibits.
| The fancy work department, locat-
ed on the second floor of floral hall,
contained a wonderful display of the
crochet hook, resulting in all kinds
of fancy table coverings, bed linen,
wearing apparel and bric-a-brac so
dear to the heart of a woman. Wis
itors thronged this department
throughout the fair. There were al
so several pictures. To go into in
dividual merits in this department
would mean an endless task. This
department needs some revision in it's
premium list offers and some reno
waiting ought to be done on the room
to bring out the beauty and delicacy
of many articles exhibited here.
The Vermont Forestry department
had small educational exhibit; there
was fish exhibit in charge of Coun-
ty Fish and Game Warden Atkins of
Orleans and George Chaffee of the
Roxbury fish hatchery showing steel
head, brown and square tail trout.
The Vermont tuberculosis association
had booth in charge of Mrs. Eve
lyn Alexander of st. Johnsbury. dis
trict nurse, where children were
weighed, heights taken and chart
of correct weights given to parents.
The Barton branch of the Red Cross
maintained rest booth in charge
of Mrs. H. T. Seaver and Mrs. w. w.
Reirden, and while there were no
emergency cases cared for, many
took advantage of the booth to rest.
A school exhibit in charge of Supt.
Batchelder contained exhibits of
work from the schools in Barton and
Orleans Incorporated districts, Bar