Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — THE COUNTY FATR. [ARTICLE]

THE COUNTY FATR.

A threat Success Considering |lie Weather. , The Jasper County fair has again ,<oeen in hard luck. All indications had . f v>roruise4 a jnost p rosperpus fair, but the exceedingly bad leather of hist . ,veek destroying many of those line .prospects. Even with such disavanta-o-es, however, the fair will pay all-ex-penses, and seventy-live cents on the dollar of the premiums. Of thp exhibits at the fair, we may say. in general, that this year as always the owners of tine stock in the county do not take enough interest in the county' fair, and the exhibition of live stock

f was not neanly so gooit as it should bare been, and some degree to fully represent the excellence of Jasper county liy e- stock. There was much good slock shown, as much, perhaps, or more than.at any previous fair, however, and but few premiuns were Offered but for which entries were made, and }n, some divisions the exhibits were .yery encouraging In the department of poultry of all kinds the exhibition showed a remarkable falling off from what it was last year, owing, gerhaps in some degree to the action of'the directors in cutting off all the premiums for young fowls. Inside of the floral hall the exhibition -was unquestionably the largest and best ever shown on the grounds. The ladies' departments haye, come to be one of the chief features of the fair, and the oncers of the association will do well to treat them with greatly increased liberality in the future. Of the countless beautiful and useful specimens .of ladies' work exhibited it would Lo impossible to speak in detail. Artistic needle-work, paintings and specimens of household art were there in endless profusion. The display of flowers and Jiarai designs was also very large and beautiful. THE ATTENDANCE Owing to the bad weather of Wed nesday and Thursday the directors decided to hold the fair over until Saturday. The paying attendance for the different days, as represented by the number of tickets sold was as follows: Wednesday 68; Thursday, 839; Friday 1,531; Saturday, 536. The aggregate number of tickets sold is probably not Tnore than half what it would have been had the weather been favorable during the whole week. THE SPEED KING. There were no races until Friday afternoon. There was a remarkably large number of good racing horses pres- . «nt hut the heavy condition of the track made fast time impossible. Below we give the names of all the horses taking first, second and third money in the races of both days, with their owners. Friday.- Running, J, B. Givens’ horse “Vulcan,” Ist. Frank Buckley’s “David BA’ 2nd. Geo. Lawrence 1 “Bweet William,” 3rd. Trotting, Ghas. Lathrop’s “David C” Ist; Frank Armstrongs “Dandyßoy” 2ns; Adkinson’s “Charley Boy” 3rd. .7" "‘Running, Givens’ “Vulcan” Ist; ’Lawrence’s “Sweet William” 2nd. C. L. Payne’s “Emma Goodwin” 3rd.