Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-05
Litchfeld Fair
Draws Big Crowd

Litchfield. Oct "A conservative
estimate places the number of people
who visited the Litchfield fair On
Tuesday at between fifteen and eight
cen hundred. If this fair is an agri-
cultural exhibit. it is quite as much
reunion of old friends. and the
hundreds OF people on the grounds
found plenty Of enjoyment in greet
ing former acquaintance, regardless
OF other attractions,
Among the most noticeable ex-
hibits in the hall was a dollhouse
built and furnished by the pupils OF
the Earle school. The oldest pupil
is IL years OF age. and the house
was made during their spare mo-
ments when other lessons were
learned. The outside was shingled
and clapboarded and neatly painted
Much Of the furniture was fashioned
from tiny cornstalks, fastened to-
gether with pins. The rooms were
papered, curtains hung at the wiz
dows. and pictures placed on the
walls. The school also had an ex-
hibit of unusually wen prepared
papers from their daily work. The
teacher this term is Miss Eta White
Another Of the attractions was a
bedspread made by Mrs. Arthur
Hines of Gardiner
The Pine Tree school also had an
exhibit Of work. and in booth on
the grounds they sold candy and ice
cream.
A freak of nature with a pedigree.
Nothing else would adequately de-
scribe the side show which enter
tanned many of the visitors. This
was a freak calf, the property of
w. l.. Trott of Monmouth, and it had
a pedigree, for the animal was from
registered jersey stock and the moth
er was a purebred jersey, one of the
best OF Mr.. Trott's herd.
The creature has been the marvel
Of all the veterinary surgeons who
have ever seen it. 1t weighed 200
pounds at birth. Many who see it
suggest that it somewhat resembles
a moose; certainly it resembles moth
ing else. The shoulders of the mis-
shapen creature are about 30 inches
across. On one side is hump, much
like that on the back of a moose.
The tail is entirely negligible
quantity, again suggesting the moose,
and the oddly shaped head is wide
between the eyes and the nose is
far more like that Of a moose than
Of a COW. The slender legs could
never have torne the unwieldy body.
Mr. Trott had the animal mounted
and occasionally places it on exhi-
bition.
Some people" said he. insist that
the calf was mounted in that fash
ion purposely. but how could any
one stretch an ordinary calf-skin
into that shape? 1T couldn't be
done"
Mr.. Trott says he believes the calf
is the greatest freak animal in the
country, and no one who sees it will
doubt the authenticity of the state
ment
Litchfeld grange served dinners,
and Litchfield Academy, in a booth.
the walls of which We're fashioned
from fir boughS. prepared and served
oyster stew. This was in charge OF
the senior class assisted by the jun
ors. the committee including FLOYD
Ruker Miss Helen Black, Miss Mil
dred Lane, Miss Ieona Fish. Miss
Esther Brown, Miss Margaret Camp
bell and Ernest Danforth. The fro-
ceeds are to be used to defray the
expenses of graduation.
Among the stock exhibited were
ten head of registered shorthorns
from the farm of F. o. Berry and
son. This herd won number of
prizes at the Gardiner fair this year.
Among them was the yearling heif-
er, Heatherbloom. who won the
grand championship over all breeds
a that fair, and the hull calf. Star
Of the East, also, champion at the
same fair coming from the Bien
View stock farm at Barre. Mass.
A ball game was played in the aft
ernoon between Litchfield Academy
and the. Alumni.