Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1915, Page 17

THE PAST YEAR Has been one of the best —y i during our nine years of business in this city, and we take this method to and thank our patron friends for their generous patronage. The only Store in WILLIAM W. BEC ARTHUR TATHROP s tary. Secretary. President. FOR THE BANNER COUNTY FAIR. ‘Officers Will Make it an llgresis.;.ible Magnet in Sep- tember, 1915—Booking the Attractions and Laying the Plans. For ten vears more than & half century one of the tions of the cour County Agricultural society held a thet it has always been held at few at the present day who woul ywhere eise. Thurston B. L remembers but has 2854 held on the New London rounds here. Yot there are 1 that it had been held 2 & the few for he mot only ¥ fair since the first one fair was al - bought e fair grounds property Then and now the p; “to im- inal idea in the of the energetic d the n uiture in this cc and s in the past prove asr Tminds of the organizel men_conducting its Norwich is the natural county the county fair at Norwich next fall is to be made, it is believed, an irresistible megnet for every agriculturalist, every business man, every man n and child in the whole of Fastern Connecticut. A day at the county fair and not enly one day but several indispens in the calendar for every Fastern 1t resident 11 of 191 John P. B in 1870 when the socie s been held by some of the to the present day when A. air, with Charles D. Greenman 1554 and presi- ed, this men of the dent’s c Beckwith, secretary, and Ruth Plz . four men that the planning they declare that the fair e ever been held here. Imost the whole of its existence up is largely on for the coming ©f 1915 wili be’ fi Sgadied with a ahead o bt or two ag society are in & promise. r on September 6th d for stage and track s owning their own trains on and off the water wagon, St his flying machine, doing the s turning a complete tion mere to book this o s free shows in the past tirilie ath-defying < nd moral, yet up-to-date, up- 1o without stin on the the best bunch of T on this track. The are looking act will be ¢l Money is gol and we are worki s and pacers that e next fall is under contra shes will be red, everything about the grounds to be pui in first-clas: hape. llquor will be sold on the and a violation of this rule will be prc ation. There a complet: police system on the grounds. “Boost! Everybody. Boost! body that vistts you to return on Septembe 915, and take in the New London Co . B e A LH: ng after 40.000 for the three days. Perhaps they may run five da For the Ladies of the County. made for the Test s in the following clas mprising cak bread and honey. grain and veg flowers;wClass V. compris riages and harness implements,. cabinet manufacture, etc VI, dom fan work, china painting, paintings in oi idemt in this county, watercolors, crayons, photogra ything that is n this county that would be an attraction. ss_VI should be of special interest. to-the ladies of New g e v made = Norwich which WE EXTEND TO ALL OUR PATRONS AND FRIENDS OUR BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR | Telephone 965 | SCHWARTZ BROS.-- Complete Home Furnishers || 9-11 Water St ~ . THE COMING YEAR We will continue our past policy and aim of giving the best values in household furnishings at the lowest possible prices, - this, in a large measure, being responsible for our successand steady growth. & Furnishes the FHMome Complete could be judged. It is mot the one that win: er. that i= most benefited. It is the one who just hasn’t got there and is ' stimulated to do better the next year that it does the most goodi to. This friendly riv amongst the farmers of a community will always tend to raise the standard of the product and the progressiveness of the farmer himself. Besides the satisfaction of beating vour nelghbor, the man that comes out on top is sure to have & larger demand for his product for seed purposes. Many farmers have built up a_thriving trade in seed corn, potatoes and the like just tarbugh the exhibition that he had at the count tair. { Bring Stock to the Fair, Bring your stock to the fair. It will mean hizher prices for their oftspring. If vou have a good strain of dairy stock bring | sour best individuals and put their records of production up over | the stall which will show what they are doing and attract buyers. i Good dairy stock is scarcer than ever just now and a few ex- | hibits will be sure to bring trade. Besides all the individual profit that wifl come to you as a | farmer, exhibiting your products at the fair will tend to make it i a Uve awake, thriving, and well advertised concern that will go a long way in advertising the community in which you live. Our New London County fair is advertised all over this and the neighboring states, and draws people from ail the surrounding country. Any efforis you as a farmer put forth to make this a success as an agricultural fair will all go towards giving ye county a better name. And after all it is the benefit of the com- munity and not of individuals that we should have in mind wher we place our exhibits before the public. Your New Year's Resolutfon. Today is New Year’s. Let every farmer make a resoive. ons that l=n't going to be forgotten by the end of the month, to make vhat beautiful artivies other needle-work are etter this year than With the new Annex shape, there should “lass IV, the class ion count Ther 1 embroidery. i made in this vicinity ever to induce the to the Exi ion o draw-back to this c bread, cakes, etc, Farmers and the County Fair. sing. Money invested this way t how many farmers are there ing their products would give usin and get them a good repu- ihe consuming public ows what you have to rd to create a demand for vour product. You i h goods that will make you This can be done individual- two of course the latter is the ever ne dered well inves sider that sell it is rather must create a demand, s a reputation Iy or co-operatively, and of t s r what one eastérn Massachusetts this 3 o al tha les were very low ¢ first-class apples boxes that would just d sever: the amount of his business ' some exhibition of his farm produce, stock and other things ai the county fair and in this way help to put New London counts where it belongs—namely, at the head of agricuiture In New England. Boys’ and Giris’ Ciub Woerk. Besides the booth that the Improvement league ‘intends i{o have at the county fair this coming year, which will show ihe lines of work that it is undertaking and the results of experl- ments, it is also intended to have exhibitions of boys’ and girls club work. The New London Day has offered the county agent $50 o, be used in a stock judging contest that will be held at the county fair next September. The prizes will be awarded as follows: Individual making the highest score—A pure-bred heifer calf Team of three boys (girls either), representing one town— Each one $5 guld piece. All will receive a badge that enter into the competition show ing that they were participants. Any group of boys or girls that wish to enter this contest can msake application to the county agent and he will give themw instruction during the coming winter and summer on stock judg ing. Then from each town a team of three will be picked te judge against the other town teams. Four classes of stock wil be picked from that exhibited at the county falr and judged by some disinterested party. Then the team and individuals that ' bolfionas R e o alicgts place the cattle in the order or the nearest to the order that the the and asked them to distribute to others. As a conse- SO Saraet uaa W iStve S S e he was flooded with orders ranging anywhers from pecks to barrels. He sent pecks in the parcel post as far as New York. Then we have the California Fruit and Citrus Growers es ody of growers grouped together handling their nd advertising oranges vnder a name known roducts togethe all over the world. The Waukesha Co breed pure bred dair farm papers. There are other doing an extensive them it is needl eders association, of Wiaconsin, and advertises in all the leading mple A s to mention of farmers dvertising ss and if it did not pay to s that ti ould not do so, Advertising Your Product, side of newspaper advertising and always a v ct to it is taking your produc and competition with the othe should - be ‘the -criterion by which le ad- to the county fair for exhibition the county. The. county fair e Ticulture of the count: Foe M & mw» The Norwioh Bulletin Prize, The Norwich Bulietin has also offered prize money for club work but the details have not been decided upon as yet. Prob- ably this will be divided for prizes in the potato contest. The hoye or ziris that raise the best one-eighth acre of potatces wiil receive the prizes. These will be awarded at the county fair and based on the Total vield Quality (exhibit to be judged at fair.) Cest of raising. * Story of how they were raised. Otber prizes for the corn, poultry and canning cluds WAl de announced later. £ The boys and girls of this county. are going, to show the oM i folks something at the coming September Tmeetinz of the, fair 3 3 - I B e ¥ R * ¥ W e e 3