Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-04-19
FOOD FAIR.
Interesting New Features Provided
This Year.


| Hancock hall holds many interest
| ing gatherings and exhibitions, but
none will be of more interest or i'm
portance than the Ellsworth food
| fair and carnival. Plans have been
perfected for stagingean event which
| will surpass preceding fairs, bring
| ing to the city new attractions and
| features of unusual interest.
Starting with the May carnival on
Monday, May l, the fair will be open
| throughout the week. The program
is carefully made up so that the six
days will find no dull moments,
every day bringing something new.
riot of color and fun. Music will be
! provided by one of the finest dance
orchestras in this State-Barney'
orchestra of Waterville, which
will play for dancing evenings, and
hold concert every afternoon
One of the attractions to be added
this year IS the radio-telephone, of
which the newspapers are giving so
much publicity. A booth will be
equipped with modern instruments,
and with an audible transmitter the
concerts and news should be heard
by all nearby BroadcastinS stations
in the middle eastern states will be
heard as they are tuned in by the
operator in charge of the booth.
This feature should provide keen en-
joyment, and make all more familiar
IL !,
idly replacing other modes of mes
sage transmission.
Another interesting exhibit will
be the booths of the Bar Harbor &
Union River Power Co., and the Ban
gor Railway & Electric Co., which
will be at the rear of the stage. The
booth of the Bar Harbor & Union
River Power Co., will be tastefully
arranged and decorated, and on dis
play will be found the various labor
saving electrical appliances for use
in the home, which will include
electric irons, coasters, curling irons,
warming pads, coffee percolators,
erills, hot plates and heaters, and in
short complete line of these useful
little servants in the home. There
will also be exhibited and demon
strated by an expert demonstration
throughout the week, the automatic
electric range, various types of wash
ing machines and vacuum cleaners.
The booth of the Bangor Railway
& Electric Co. will be tastefully
decorated, and is intended to convey
an idea of the place that electric
power has in commercial life, and
the necessity of the development of
the water powers of Maine. An at
tendant at this booth will give in
formation regarding the place that
the water powers of Maine are TAX
ing and will take in the industrial
progress and the municipal develop
ment throughout the State.
There will be the usual food ex-
hibits, and the food sale which is
under the direction of women from
the wards represented. These ar
rangements are practically the same
as last year. ~
There will also be bread-baking
contest, in which twelve loaves of
bread are to be baked with no more
fuel than twlve newspapers.
The "Mystery'' booth will be in
evidence again this year. The food
faig committee requests people of
Ellsworth who have contrib ations to
bring them to E. F. RobinsoB's store
They should be wrapped separately
and may consist OF books, toys.
games, records-anything suitable
for this booth.
Arrangements have been made for
six days of clean, interesting, in
structive entertainment. The otlect
of tie fair is, to raise money for the
new high school, and large patron
age is expected.